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Friends and Lovers, Part II

(Robert "Bob" Floyd x F!Reader)

CW: Angst; Jake as a good guy; probably typos.

Word Count: 3916

AN: This was requested by the lovely @callsign-frostbite for the April Showers event! It is a sequel to this!

There’s no end, it seems, to how bad Bob can feel.

He feels guilty as hell, a sick wash of shame that courses through him each time he remembers the look on your face—the hope, the dashing of that hope—when he jokingly slid an heirloom engagement ring on your finger.

It doesn’t help that he can barely get ahold of you. You don’t ghost him entirely, but you are avoiding him. His calls go to voicemail, and his texts go unanswered for long hours. When you do answer, your responses are short, terse, and brook no further conversation.

You’ve been friends for years, and you’ve had arguments before. Petty spats, misunderstandings…they all resolved within days with little more than apologies and hugs.

This? This is different.

For one thing, Bob feels different. With the usual friendship frictions of the past, he only felt lightly irritated with himself or you, and it dissipated quickly. This time, he feels worse and worse as each day passes. He obsesses over that last morning with you, tries to understand why in the hell he did what he did. He tries to understand your feelings, both in that moment and now.

For the first time in his life, he struggles to fall asleep each night. He can’t turn off his mind, and his stomach perpetually aches with the shame of hurting you so carelessly.

For another thing, the near silence lasts for days, then weeks. You and Bob are usually a package deal, and it isn’t long before the other Daggers note your continued absence from nights at the Hard Deck.

It doesn’t help that the Daggers generally refer to you as Bob’s girl either, even though Bob has a girlfriend who technically qualifies more.

“Where’s your girl?” Rooster asks one night. “Haven’t seen her around in a while.”

It’s a slow night at the Hard Deck, quieter and sparser than usual, so their collected attention turns to Bob and Rooster’s conversation, and they all learn, in fits and starts, of that last morning together.

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Throughout Bob’s adult life, there has been moments, large and small, where he realizes that his childhood wasn’t the standard. Not that there is a standard, really, but those moments always stun him for a moment and cause him to recalibrate his perspective.

Admittedly, many of those moments are small. Inconsequential things. For example, he grew up in a family that was not particularly religious but still muttered grace over dinner. The first time he ate dinner at a friend’s house who didn’t say grace—it was a realignment of his world view. A reaffirmation that his childhood, his family, wasn’t necessarily the template.

But sometimes it’s a massive moment that shifts his perspective, and it happens on a slow night at the Hard Deck when the Daggers sift through Bob’s falling out with you.

He explains it as best he can. He flushes when he gets to the part about the ring, the dumb joke. He still doesn’t understand why he did it. He feels a fresh wave of shame when he sees his fellow Daggers wince at the story.

Hell, he feels a second wave of shame when he sees how hard Hangman cringes at the story. It’s not a good feeling to think that Hangman would have been kinder than Bob. That for all his smarm and cockiness, Jake would have been less cruel to you than Bob was.

“And you don’t feel any sort of way for her?” Nat asks Bob gently.

He shakes his head. “I mean, she’s my best friend.”

“So, no?” asks Bradley.

He shakes his head again.

“Are you sure you don’t, though?” Nat again. “Because the two of you are pretty damned cozy. You bring her around more than Kenzie.”

Nat is technically correct. Bob does bring you to the Hard Deck more than his girlfriend. Kenzie is more of a homebody—like him—and the few times she met up with the Daggers for a night at the bar, she hated it. You’ve always been more flexible, able to shift in either direction—quiet nights in, raucous nights out—so it was always just easier to bring you along to the Hard Deck.

Bob tries to explain it to them now. Tries to break down how Kenzie is his girlfriend, possibly more in the future, but that you’re his truest friend, his best friend—

“I’m sorry,” Jake cuts in when Bob haltingly tries to explain it again. He pinches the bridge of his nose and takes a deep breath like he’s trying not to lose his cool. “Why do you keep saying she’s your best friend like it’s something mutually exclusive?”

“Huh?”

Another deep breath. “You keep saying that she’s your best friend like that explains anything. I feel like I’m missing something, Baby on Board.”

Bradley chimes in with “Are you not attracted to her?” and Bob shakes his head. Starts to say that he never thought about it because you’re his best friend, but at that phrase—best friend—Hangman throws his hands up in frustration, and even Nat drops her head and shakes it, exasperated.

Their frustration makes Bob frustrated. He looks at each of them, huffs out, “you don’t marry your best friend” as if it’s a given fact everywhere.

All three of them give him the exact same incredulous look, and Bob realizes that he’s in the middle of another perspective shift.

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It’s not that Bob’s parents don’t love each other: they do.

They just aren’t best friends, and they never have been. His father’s best friend is a guy named Glen who he went to high school with. They watch football together and relive their own glory days on their high school team. They engage in a constant, benign one-upmanship revolving around home improvements. Once a year, they go to the same lake in the upper peninsula of Michigan and fish for walleye and pike.

Bob’s mother has two best friends from college. They have an entire secret code system, inside jokes and short-hand phrases that can telegraph entire memories with little said. They have nicknames for each other. They triangulate their petty spats against each other, and they have an annual trip too that revolves through cities and locations each year.

Bob’s parents would never describe each other as the other’s best friend. Their relationship, so far as Bob has observed it—first as a child living in it, then as an adult weighing it against his own dating life—is solid. Practical. They fit together neatly, and their home, their children are testaments to the ease of their partnership.

It works for the Floyds: two of Bob’s sisters are married, and their marriages seem much the same as his parents. Solid, practical, loving in a mild, steady way. But not best friends. If Bob looks backwards to his grandparents, he sees the same sort of pattern. He sees it with his aunts and uncles, and some cousins too.

It never occurred to him that anyone else was different. It never occurred to him that he could be with his best friend because he never saw it modeled for him in his life.

And now Nat, Bradley, and Jake are staring at him like he’s the stupidest man alive, and for once, Bob thinks he just might be.

“Of course you can marry your best friend,” says Nat.

“Isn’t that kind of the goal?” adds Bradley.

He tries to explain it, but in describing the marriage of his parents, he ends up describing them as cold, loveless people. Which they aren’t—there’s plenty of affection between them, they certainly love each other—but how can he accurately explain that his family seems to draw a line between friendship and love, and that it’s never seemed to do them any harm?

“Don’t you think it’s telling,” Jake asks, “that you called her for a late-night airport ride and not Kenzie? Isn’t she the person you rely on when you need something?”

Jake’s not wrong. It’s dawning on Bob that he’s been wearing blinders for a long time. Anytime something significant happens, good news or bad news, or when he needs support or to celebrate, his knee-jerk reaction is to always call you first.

He’s put a wall between the woman who’s his best friend and the woman who’s his girlfriend, and he’s done it because that’s the relationship model that was demonstrated for him his entire life…and now it’s dawning on him that it’s not a rule at all and never needed to be.

“Do you think…” He starts to ask the question, then licks his lips nervously. He takes a breath and continues. “Do you think she thinks of me as more than her best friend?” He has to think it’s the case—what else could explain that glimmer of hope in your eyes when he joked around and slid that ring on your finger? Yet it seems so preposterous; the thought makes his breath catch in his throat that you’ve been in front of him all this time and just waiting for him, waiting and waiting and waiting while he never even noticed…

Jake scoffs, and Bob glances at him in time to catch his elaborate eye roll.

“No, Bob,” he tells him, his voice laced with sarcasm. “I think she’s just icing you out after the ring debacle for the hell of it.”

He ignores Jake and fixes his gaze on Nat. “I messed up, didn’t I?”

She nods, says nothing.

“You think I can fix it?”

She gnaws at her lower lip, thinks on it. “Maybe. Maybe not. Do you want to fix it?”

“I do.” He misses you more and more with each day that passes, and the realization that he could have had more with you, that people can be with their best friends (it’s so stupid, he’ll realize someday in the future, of course a best friend can be a lover) only makes him miss you more.

“You need to cut Kenzie loose,” Bradley says. “It’s not fair to string her along if you’re all in on another woman.”

He nods in agreement. It probably means something, the way his stomach dips and roils at the thought of giving up Kenzie—safe, reliable Kenzie—to go all in on you. It’s terrifying, but there’s excitement underneath the terror, like he’s in the front car of a rollercoaster that’s clicking steadily up the big first hill. The ride is already in process, there’s no chance of stopping it. All he can do is brace himself, try not to puke, and enjoy the plunge.

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Breaking up with Kenzie isn’t easy.

Bob keeps bumping up against his family history, the knowledge that Kenzie is a solid partner and could have been a solid wife. Bob knows that if he married her, he’d likely have a marriage much like his parents’ marriage. It wouldn’t be the worst thing. He has an engineering degree and is a WSO with the Navy: he likes the rules of physics, the rules of the military. He likes the comfort of a certain thing, so letting Kenzie go is difficult.

He meets up with her at her apartment, he is as gentle as he can be. She takes it as well as she can. They part and promise to stay friends, to stay in touch, but they both know it’s a benign lie.

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Getting ahold of you is not easy either.

Bob knows you haven’t blocked him. You read his messages and reply to every other one. He catches you on the phone once, manages to keep you talking to him for five entire minutes. He doesn’t try to apologize or explain himself—he wants to do that in person. Instead, he asks about how you’ve been, and he cringes at each stilted, quiet answer. Normally you’re so open, and now you’ve been reduced to careful, formal conversation.

He hates it.

He tries to end the call with a promise to meet up. He’ll take anything and offers it all to you. A night at the Hard Deck. A night at another bar. An afternoon to get coffee. An evening in, his place or yours. An evening of video games, board games, movies, mindless reality television. He’ll cook, he’ll order your favorite meal, he’ll bring your favorite wine or favorite cake from that German bakery you love…

“I don’t think so,” you finally reply after a long beat of silence to all his ideas.

Bob sighs. “I miss you.”

There’s another long moment of silence before you tell him that you miss him too.

“I just need time apart, I think,” you add.

“I want to talk to you. I want to tell you—”

“I don’t want that right now.” You cut him off, and he hears the strain in your voice. “I need time to get my head straight.”

“But what if we don’t talk? We could just hang out. We could—”

“No.” This time you sound firmer, more forceful. “I’m embarrassed, Bob. I’m mortified at what happened, and I need time to…. not feel that way anymore.”

He ends the call by apologizing after all. He offers a weak “I’m sorry,” but he doesn’t count it. He still wants to see you, explain everything to you, and offer you a genuine apology…if he can get you to agree to see him ever again.

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In the end, help comes from an unexpected quarter, though while it’s happening, Bob remains in the dark.

Weeks pass. He doesn’t hear from you. You trade careful, short texts with each other, but you don’t talk. Bob’s life narrows down into just work and not-work: he skips most of the nights out with the squad and sits alone in his apartment and goes to bed early. He doesn’t seclude himself exactly, but he leans into the solitude. He uses the time to think about his family, his life so far, the things he wants in the future. He thinks about what his life might be if you never return to him, and he thinks about what it may be if you do.

Weeks pass, and there comes a Saturday night where the Daggers manage to cajole him into going out to the Hard Deck. He settles into his usual seat, ready to watch Nat and Bradley in a round of pool. Nat chalks his cue and starts to bend to the table for the break shot when something over Bob’s shoulder pulls her gaze and stops her. She glances at him, her face confused, so he turns and looks too.

He sees you standing near the entrance of the Hard Deck…and Jake stands right beside you. Worse, it looks like Jake has his hand on you—a hand on the middle of your back, steadying you. For a brief, terrible minute, Bob thinks he’s lost you to Jake: Jake with his good looks and impressive piloting and his understanding that the goal in life should be to marry one’s best friend.

Then Jake catches his eye. He tips Bob a nod, then leans down and says something near your ear that makes you nod as well. You turn to Jake and smile at him, but then you turn and find Bob, and you smile at him too.

Then Jake pushes you gently forward, towards Bob.

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Another shift in perspective for Bob, then.

He always considered Jake as selfish, cocky, and painfully arrogant. He thought his fellow Dagger to be shallow, and he never considered that Jake might care about his teammates and might work on their behalf for good.

Which is exactly what Jake did over the past few weeks: without saying a word to anyone, he slowly worked on Bob’s behalf. Bob always knew that you gamed with the other Daggers here and there—linking up for campaigns when schedules aligned—and Jake was no exception. After Bob laid out the entire pathetic situation with you to his teammates, though, Jake spent the next few evenings afterwards lingering online, waiting to see if you logged on to play.

When you did eventually log on, he did what any Top Gun pilot would do: he engaged with you, a dogfight of sorts, though Jake was so good, you never even realized that you were being carefully, methodically handled.

A few days of friendly gaming ceded to texting each other. Low-stakes stuff. How was your day? How was work? Any plans for the evening? Jake kept it friendly but not flirty. After a few weeks of constant-but-cordial chatting, he invited you out for coffee.

He spent the coffee date broaching the subject of Bob. Nothing too deep or introspective—just the history there, how you and Bob met and became friends. Over coffee, Jake gently talked up Bob, talked up his good traits, talked him up while teasing him so it wasn’t so obvious what he was doing.

Then more gaming. Occasional texting. Tiny seedlings planted about what a great guy Bob was. Tiny feelers to gauge your own thoughts. Then another friendly date, this time at a bar far from the Hard Deck.

Over a shared pitcher of beer, Jake made his move. He waited until you were one and a half beers in (and one order of soft pretzels in as well) before he brought up the subject of Bob more seriously. He gave you the details around Bob’s baffling misunderstanding of relationships. He gave you the details, as he understood them, of Bob’s family, of his childhood, and how both gave him preconceived notions that he hadn’t even been aware of.

He then listened to you in turn, listened carefully as you explained how you had loved Bob for nearly as long as you’d known him. Jake listened and nodded as you described how difficult it was to be a friend and nothing more, to watch Bob fall in and out of love with other women.

Then he listened as you described that morning to him from your perspective: how Bob had playfully slid that ring on your finger but how you’d been blinded to the joke of it. How your hopeful little heart had hammered in your chest, how your brain had chanted finally, finally, finally he sees me…and how quickly it was all shattered. How embarrassment barely even captured the feeling afterwards. How the waves of mortification and humiliation were sometimes only broken up by anger—at yourself, at Bob—until you were so deep in a well of bad feelings that you couldn’t even look at Bob again.

Jake heard it all. He let you vent, commiserated with you, shook his head at Bob’s cluelessness. But where you saw malice behind Bob’s poor joke, Jake gently corrected you. Bob could be oblivious to you, but he could never be cruel to you…and what if there was some underlying emotion behind the joke? What if, clueless as Bob was to your feelings, he was just as clueless to his own? Jake stressed that point over and over—how Bob had no clue why he did what he did. What if it was Bob’s subconscious driving him? What if, deep down, he recognized that he loved you too and making a terrible joke was the only way to express it?

The discussion went all night. When the bar lights flickered for last call, Jake gathered you up and took you for a drive to a taco stand by the beach. Over tacos and Mexican Coke, Jake fired his final shot, the kill shot, and he put it as best he could in the terms he understood best.

“What you have to realize,” he had told you. “Is that you and Bob both love each other the same. You just had longer to acclimate to it. He got it all at once in a big dose. It’s like flying. You had the gentle climb to cruising altitude while poor Bob was strapped to solid rocket boosters. But you’re in the same place now, at least.”

You had laughed at that, elbowed Jake in the side and joked that he should employ more poetical language around love rather than spaceflight analogies, but then you went quiet, and Jake didn’t say anything else. The two of you sat and watched the ocean, watched the sky start to lighten behind you, and it was only after a long stretch of silence that you cleared your throat and said, quietly, “maybe I should talk to him.”

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Which is what the two of you do now. You talk.

Bob leads you outside of the Hard Deck. You exchange niceties as you walk down the beach, far enough away from the bar until the noise is drowned out by the waves. It’s darker here, and you both shed your shoes and sit down in the sand to allow the water to lick at your toes. You don’t touch, but you’re close enough to Bob that he can feel you there, the slight gravitational pull of your body against his.

You talk. You rehash all of it: your mortification, Bob’s confusion that ceded to understanding. Bob turns to look at you when you talk, but you keep your face turned towards the Pacific. There’s a storm miles from shore, sheets of rain illuminated by lightning. It’ll probably spend itself before it makes landfall, but it does kick up a breeze that ruffles your hair.

It's the first time he’s really spent time with you since that morning. He can just make you out in the darkness, but he can see enough, and it makes his throat grow tight with how beautiful you are to him.

How did I never see it? He thinks. How did years pass with me so blind?

You must sense him staring because you finally turn and face him. He has the sudden realization that this is the moment of no return, not that awful morning a few months ago. This is the moment where you are both revealed to the other, where you each lay your respective cards on the table and hold nothing back. Bob realizes too that even in this moment, he is experiencing an intimacy that others in his family have not experienced, and he feels so extraordinarily lucky—and grateful, for Jake’s intervention—that he grimaces against the sudden urge he has to cry.

You see the face he makes, but you seem to understand the emotion underneath it. Why wouldn’t you? You’ve always known him so well, and now that you’re at this moment together, you know him even better.

You don’t say anything, though. You’ve both spent the past few hours talking, and words would fail anyway. You only offer him a smile—small, gentle, knowing—and then you reach your hand across the sand to him.

He reaches back, and you thread your fingers through his. Together you sit on the dark shore and watch the storm raging out on the ocean. There will be time in the coming days and weeks and months when you’ll say more, do more. You’ll both stumble through this new reality of loving each other, of learning how to be together.

For now, though, you just sit together, your hand in his, and enjoy this tiny interlude between the old life you had together and the new one that is just starting.

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blackpanda-ts4 · 9 months ago

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literaryvein-reblogs · 9 months ago

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Writing Worksheets: Character

Worksheets & Templates Character Creator; Name; Quirks; Flaws; Motivation

CHARACTER CREATOR

Limitations

Plot Requirements:

Genre Requirements:

Story Requirements:

Interest

Interesting Occupations/Roles:

Interesting Goals/Motivations:

Interesting Backstories:

Definitions

Words they use to define themselves:

Words their friends and family use to define them:

Words their opponents use to define them:

Behaviours

Typical response to conflict:

Skills that help them resolve conflict:

Flaws that hinder them resolving conflict:

NAMING YOUR CHARACTER

What language/s do the characters speak?

How are first names given?

How are secondary names given?

How are names used in the language?

Influences (Cultural, Linguistic, Social):

Notes on pronunciation:

Do names change? If so, how and why?

Titles/honorifics:

Names & occupations:

Names & the law:

Names & the family:

For each character, fill out the following:

First Name:

Its Meaning or Connotation:

Surname:

Its Meaning or Connotation:

Nickname/s:

CHARACTER QUIRKS

Why does the character engage in this quirk?

How did they develop this quirk?

How does this quirk shape their daily life?

When and how does this quirk manifest?

What problem/s does this quirk cause?

Is the character happy with this quirk or do they want to change?

What character traits does this quirk imply?

Who is attracted to this quirk?

Whom does this quirk irritate?

CHARACTER FLAWS

What flaws do they see in themselves?

What flaws do friends and family see in them?

What are their defining characteristics?

How can you exaggerate these characteristics into flaws?

What is the goal the character is trying to achieve?

What flaw would make this goal more difficult to attain?

What flaws would the character admit to?

What flaws would the character not admit to?

What problems does this flaw cause the character?

Do they need to overcome this flaw?

What do they need to do in order to overcome this flaw?

How does their attitude toward this character flaw change?

CHARACTER MOTIVATION

Four Categories of Character Motivation:

People: other characters who might have influenced the character (negatively or positively) or provided them with services or resources they needed.

Events: experiences the character has lived through, and the memories and interpretations formed from them.

Environments: places and situations that might support or suppress the character’s actions.

Beliefs: the worldviews and priorities that the character activates during decision-making, whether correct or incorrect, empowering or disempowering.

Character Awareness:

If the character ISN'T aware of their motivation, they may be acting automatically, repeating patterns from their backstory when they need to change and adapt. These hidden motivations are usually revealed in the character’s behaviour or in subtle hints by other characters (or by the author). The character’s ignorance of their true motivation may keep them from making the change they need to make.

If the character IS aware of their motivation, it’s probably the conscious driving factor in their actions, perhaps their goal or dream. They will talk or think about it frequently and feel good about identifying with it, but this identification may also cause problems if it keeps them from making the change they need to make.

Person

What does the character need to be motivated to do?

What character traits/knowledge/skills does this action require?

What values/beliefs does this action require?

Who might have these traits/knowledge/skills/values/beliefs?

Who might lack these traits/knowledge/skills/values/beliefs?

How/where might they have met?

How did this person influence the character?

Why did this person influence the character in the way they did?

Event

What does the character need to be motivated to do?

What character traits/knowledge/skills does this action require?

What values/beliefs does this action require?

What event would bring out these traits/knowledge/skills/values/beliefs?

How did the character come to be invovled in this event?

Why was this event so important/memorable to the character?

Why did the character interpret this event the way they did?

Is the character consciously aware of this motivation?

Environment

What does the character need to be motivated to do?

What character traits/knowledge/skills does this action require?

What values/beliefs does this action require?

What sort of environment might create these traits/knowledge/skills/values/beliefs?

What sort of environment might suppress these traits/knowledge/skills/values/beliefs?

Why was the character in this environment?

Why did this environment have an impact on the character?

Is the character consciously aware of this motivation?

Beliefs/Values

What does the character need to be motivated to do?

What beliefs does this action require?

What empowering beliefs does this action require?

How does the character justify these beliefs to themselves and to others?

What disempowering beliefs does this action require?

How does the character justify these beliefs to themselves and to others?

Rank your Character's Values (from 1-5):

You may use the Value Lists below as a guide, excerpted from Awaken the Giant Within by Anthony Robbins

Moving-Toward Values: Love, Success, Freedom, Intimacy, Security, Adventure, Power, Passion, Comfort, Health

Moving-Away-From Values: Rejection, Anger, Frustration, Loneliness, Depression, Failure, Humiliation, Guilt

Source Writing References: Worldbuilding ⚜ Plot ⚜ Character

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illustratemuse · 1 month ago

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Meet my Twisted Wonderland Yuu OC Mina!!! Kinda-ish a yuusona but more-so her own character cause I like exploring storytelling hehehe

Also expressions!

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Also while I put together this template myself to give more space, I HEAVILY based it off of @/unfinished-projects-galore 's, if anyone is interested in my template though let me know!

Also in case the text in the profile isn't clear, here's it below the cut!

Name: Wilhelmina ‘Mina’ Stígandr

Grade/Class: Freshman / Class 1-A (No.9A) Birthday: December 20th Age: 20 Height: 165cm (5ft 5in) Homeland: ??? Club: Happy Haunted Horror Club (Manages Ramshackle's Haunted House Nights) Best Subject: History of Magic Hobbies: Scaring People, Working on Ramshackle, Reading Likes: Ghost/Horror Stories Dislikes: Dishonesty, Selfish Adults, Crowley, being asked about her 'home' or 'family'

Unique Magic: ???

Description:

"I just want someplace to go home to…"

Ramshackle’s prefect from another world. Observant and tactical, Mina has a high tolerance for the antics occurring around campus, and due to her age often takes on a somewhat protective older sister role for much of the group, though she has a bit of a mischievous streak as seen in her penchant for telling ghost stories. Considered a 'delinquent' growing up, she was frequently passed between foster homes, though in many cases her combativeness was in defense of herself or the younger children. Secretly she has nothing awaiting her back 'home' and is depressed, yet due to her upbringing fully believes her stay being 'temporary' is the defining factor in her relationships, and thus is too wary to correct everyone's assumption that she wants to leave. Her eagerness to help and playful persona are an effort to try and be useful enough to stay longer, yet dreads the day she's told it's time to leave the first place she's felt could be home.

Trivia:

On Friday nights she opens Ramshackle for public visits at a price, where she, Grim, the Ghosts, and later Lilia will put on a show within the parlor as Mina tells one of ‘999 Happy Haunts’, both as a means of extra income, and to try and turn the others’ scorn over Ramshackle into something more positive. The horror stories vary but usually see Mina ‘summoning’ the ghost via spinning the tale. Their roles are as follows:

-Mina: Mistress of the Mansion and 'Ghost Host', appears at the start of the show and is the main storyteller, using tales she recalls from her world. She also lays out the scripts for the others and oversees production. -Grim: Lead Steward, accepts tickets/guides everyone into the parlor. Once the show begins, he either keeps watch or secretly uses magic for effects. -Lilia: Assistant Steward. Works as the cast's 'swing' actor. Floats between assisting the ghosts while using an invisibility spell or Grim with the crowd. Considered a part-time volunteer. Ghosts: Manipulate the room according to the night’s script, and adding effects to various parts of Mina’s story to give the illusion that said ghost or ghosts have appeared.

Ramshackle also plays host to various clubs for a price, allowing them to rent different rooms for events throughout the week.

-Board Game Club - Rents the Master Study for DnD nights -Film Studies - Rents the in-house Theater once Mina repairs the projector. The attic of Ramshackle holds a small collection of old films Vil often likes showing to inspire his club members. -Gargoyle Research Society - ‘Rents’ the in-house library for research. Due to both their friendship and being on his own, Mina requests Malleus' aid in restoring the various gargoyles on site as opposed to currency.

Mina and Grim also work part-time for Sam at both the register and for deliveries, and work Monday-Thursday afternoons. Unlike Ramshackle’s earnings which are a group fund, their earnings from Sam are kept by whoever did the task, though Mina helps Grim manage his funds responsibly.

Mina’s an orphan as far as she’s aware-her mother passed when she was 3, and her father was someone she never learned the name of. Due to lacking relatives she was thrown into foster care, yet often found herself the victim of her older foster siblings’ bullying or neglectful foster parent’s ire. Her protectiveness over the younger students and her distrust of Crowley are a hold-over from those times.

Mina is twisted from a mix between the Haunted Mansions’ ‘Ghost Host’, ‘Alice’, and a take on the Brother’s Grimm going off her storytelling nature

Mina’s clothing is often tailored from items she’s found while cleaning Ramshackle, though when she can she also will purchase from second-hand stores

Mina’s original clothing was transformed upon her abduction by the carriage, though her XIII hair clip was the one item on her person which remained unchanged. She almost never takes it off.

Mina’s full name ‘Wilhelmina’ draws from the first name of one of the Brothers’ Grimm, being the younger brother Wilheim, and means ‘will protect’. ‘Stígandr’ in turn is a Old Norse name meaning ‘wanderer’.

Mina’s birthday is the same day the first edition of the Brothers’ Grimm was published

Mina’s often mistaken for being younger than her age, and sometimes plays into it as a means of getting an upper hand.

Mina is good a cooking, and can cook with limited ingredients rather well. She often meal-preps for the week on Sundays.

Mina’s clips spell out XIII-13, the number for the Death tarot. A lot of her personal garments also make references to ghosts and death

As a child, Mina would sometimes use scaring-related pranks as a means of defense against the older kids., and often told lighter ghost stories to the little ones.

Relationships:

Grim: Mina’s dire-beast charge. Caring for him akin to either a younger sibling or a child, she often puts his needs before her own. She loves the little cat dearly, and it was his reappearance that first night and his clear need of a caretaker which kept Mina from simply slipping out from NRC to find a place to vanish.

Ace and Deuce: Two of Mina’s first on-campus friends after Grim. They have a teasing, but caring relationship with her and visit often, with them both jokingly referring to Mina as their big sister due to how she treats them. Though the elder can get frustrated with the two, the familial feeling is mutual.

Ortho, Jack, Epel, Sebek: The other members of the first years group. While not as close as her relationship with Ace and Deuce, Mina still takes on a similar sister-like role for them (to the four’s varying degrees of admittance that they like it), and can be considered the leader of the group. The four often can be seen visiting Ramshackle, or seeking the prefect out when there’s trouble.

Lilia: While their relationship initially began upon Mina forcing Lilia into cooking lessons with her after several cases of being forced to accompany ill Diasomnia students to the nurse during class, where Mina saw Lilia as a well-meaning but troublesome teen and Lilia saw Mina as an amusement, the two gradually formed a more genuine friendship as they discovered having things in common. From being adults in a teenager’s school, to having ‘kids’ to look after, and in both having a penchant for scaring people, the two are now close, with that friendship deepening as they slowly realize the masks the other wears to hide the low self-worth they have underneath. They also have budding crushes, but both are too hesitant of their time limits at NRC especially to try doing anything about them.

Malleus: Befriending Mina during his frequent nightly walks around Ramshackle, the two are close, with Mina showing a more gentle and patient side which sees Malleus more comfortable in asking her questions about humans and seeking out her advice. Though Mina figures out Malleus’ true identity early on she keeps it to herself for his comfort, not wanting to pressure him.

#twst #disney twst #twisted wonderland #twst fanart #disney twisted wonderland #artists on tumblr #twst art #twisted wonderland fanart #twisted wonderland art #twst oc #oc art #twisted wonderland oc #yuusona #my art #oc mina

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terrorcamp · 3 months ago

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Terror Camp is hiring!

We are looking to expand our volunteer staff for this year’s conference.

We have two job listings based on our current needs, but if we receive a lot of great applicants there is the possibility we’ll split up these responsibilities into 3 or even 4 separate positions.

Terror Camp is a fully volunteer, remote, asynchronous workplace (with occasional sync meetings as schedules permit). We communicate over Discord and organize our documentation over Notion and Google Drive.

We are looking for people who can devote up to a few hours a week, depending on the time of year. Commitment increases around the times of Submission Opening (June 1), Submission Closing/Acceptances (September 1-Oct 1) and the conference itself (early December).

Terror Camp looks great on your resume. You can say that you volunteer for a successful community-led online history & heritage conference with an audience in the thousands!

You don’t need to match the job descriptions perfectly in order to apply. If your experience doesn’t match up but you think you’d still be good at the job, please apply anyway!

Here are the positions we're looking to fill:

🎨 Designer 🎨

Terror Camp is seeking a dedicated Designer who will:

Ideate and deliver a new evergreen brand identity for TC that can be revamped and reused each year

Including logo, logotype, color scheme, font families, and other brand assets for use on web, social media, and printed merch

Be an proactive team member with strong communication skills, able to quickly and regularly deliver new graphics for promotional use on social media and in email marketing

Help design an evergreen/permanent collection of merchandise as well as a limited-edition collection for this year’s conference

Assist our Webmaster in revising our website & email marketing templates to fully match new brand identity and meet best practices for UX

Potentially work on print layout for a Terror Camp book or zine (TBD)

This job would be a good fit if you:

Work or have worked professionally or semi-professionally as a graphic designer; or are a hobbyist designer with a standout portfolio

Have experience working with both digital and print assets

Have a working knowledge of web design best practices and HTML/CSS

Have experience with Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Canva (but not ONLY Canva, sorry) and Wix or similar WYSIWYG ESP/site builder

The Designer will report to our Assistant Director/Webmaster, & will also collaborate closely with our Marketing Lead on graphic assets for social media and with our Merch Lead on preparing designs for print.

To apply, please fill out this form.

💬 Communications Coordinator 💬

Terror Camp is seeking an enthusiastic Communications Coordinator who will:

Own Terror Camp’s main email inbox and oversee all direct communication with attendees and interested parties

Respond promptly to inquiries including:

Requests for past recordings

Requests to join the Discord

Questions about schedule, programming, submissions, guests, and other conference topics

Catch inbounds to social media inboxes (Tumblr, X, Bluesky, Insta) & answer or redirect to email as appropriate

Act as coordinator/assistant for Marketing Lead, with responsibilities including:

Scheduling pre-written content

Assisting with ideating and drafting content, proposing content ideas

Cross-posting content to multiple platforms

Consistently and frequently engaging with social audiences (finding content to repost, replying to people, etc)

This job would be a good fit if you:

Work or have worked in any digital customer-facing environment; have experience with support tickets and/or ongoing user communications; have run social media for brands or institutions; are an efficient and clear writer able to work creatively within brand voice guidelines

Have successfully and sustainably moderated Discord servers, Tumblr communities, social media for other fandom projects like fests, zines, and charity events

Can spare the time and attention to respond to inquiries and turn around new social media posts in a timely manner

Are prepared to represent the Terror Camp brand professionally and maturely in digital public spaces

The Communications Coordinator will report directly to our Marketing Lead.

To apply, please fill out this form.

If you have any questions about these positions, please email us at command [at] terror [dot] camp!

#the terror #terror camp

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borderlands-oc-hq · 4 months ago

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GREETINGS, TRAVELERS!

What is this blog?

This is a place to share borderlands OCs!

We know not where you come from - let it be scorched deserts, neon-lit cities, or frozen wastelands - we are here to hear YOUR story!

This blog was created in order to celebrate amazing fan characters of the Borderlands community and help them see more light. There is not a lot to see YET, but with YOUR help, this place can thrive!

Submit posts with your OC's bios following the template below, and they will be shared here!

All sorts of Original Characters are welcomed - fankids, sonas, characters who weren't originally borderlands but are borderlands AU versions

Characters from the bio submissions will be added to the blog's banner in the form of little chibi goobers (if the authors want to, of course)

The template:

(feel free to remove/change points, it's just a guide to make it easier for you to share basics about your character! Feel free to tell more, too! Everyone will love it)

<DON'T FORGET TO ADD YOUR CHARACTER'S REFERENCE!>

Name:

Gender:

Pronouns:

Sexuality:

Allegiances:

MBTI: (Can change to a short personality desc)

Occupation:

Residence:

Time period:

Summary:

Toyhouse/artfight/info post link:

Tags to use: (Any additional tags you want me to use, they are listed below)

Want to be featured on the banner: (yes or no)

Below is a completed example of a submission, of one of the first two goobers to appear on the banner. They are feeling lonely here, so give them some company!

Name: Tom “Tommy” Lawrence

Gender: Male

Pronouns: he/him

Sexuality: Aro/Ace

Allegiances: Atlas

MBTI: intj 1w2

Occupation: Crimson Lance corporal, Pilot in training

Residence: Promethea, Meridian

Time period: Somewhere in the future after events of BL3

Summary:

The youngest son of the CEO and the General, the Little Prince of Promethea, all of this legacy and responsibility is crushing for him. Tommy fears he will forever live in his fathers' shadows, unable to keep up. He is an overachiever, and tries to be like them both, constantly overworking himself and falling into hysteria of not being able to meet his own expectations, ignoring achievements he already made. Often wondering if he was even worth the money spent on his creation, worried about becoming a wasted investment.

Toyhouse link: https://toyhou.se/23355799.tommy-lawrence

Tags to use: Fankid: Rhysothy, Cyborg, Corporate: Atlas, Time period: Post-BL3

Want to be featured on the banner: Yes

WHAT ELSE THIS BLOG DOES?

>If you want to share your OC, follow the template to submit a post!

>If you want this blog to share a post with your OC, send a link to the post via DMs

>If you have any ideas and suggestions, the ask box is open!

FUTURE PLANS:

>Week challenges (Aka art prompts for an OC-week)

>Sharing people looking for art trades/RP mates/friends/BnB groups (send an ask if you are looking for any of these!)

>Borderlands-Specific OC question sets (answers will be shared here!)

>Activity ideas (such as ”Draw your OC doing this and that” or writing prompts)

>Hosting massive collabs

>Hyping up ArtFight cards featuring Borderlands OCs

TAGS FOR THIS BLOG:

List of tags for this blog:

OCLandsINFO

Animal: (species name)

BnB character: (class)

Corporate: (insert corporation name)

Crimson lance

Crimson raider

Doppelganger

Eridian

Fankid: (pairing/character name)

OCxCanon

OCxOC

Sanctuary

Selfship

Siren

Sona

Vaulthunter

Robot AUofOC

(more tags will be added based on suggestions)

Have fun and thank you for coming!

#borderlands #borderlands OC #BorderlandsOCs #Borderlands Original Character #OC #original character #borderlandsoc #borderlands 2 #borderlands3 #borderlands2 #borderlands 3 #BL3 #OCLands #OCLandsINFO

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alex51324 · 4 months ago

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Got a response from my Republican senator's office to my messages about DOGE. I took the time to write up a detailed reply; sharing it here in case others find it helpful.

(Please note that, in this letter, I have chosen the rhetorical strategy of addressing the reader as though they are a reasonable individual acting in good faith, and we are working together to solve a problem. You probably will not find it a useful template if you have chosen a different rhetorical strategy.)

Hello Senator NAME,

Thank you for your thoughtful response to my concerns surrounding the Department of Government Efficiency. I have two follow-up questions.

First, I was glad to see you state that members of this entity are subject to the same privacy laws as other federal employees. Would you consider making a public statement to that effect, and emphasize that violating these laws is a bright red line, and that, should agents or affiliates of DOGE be found to be violating these laws, you would immediately call for & support immediate corrective action, including both employment actions (e.g., firing) and criminal actions if appropriate? I feel that it would be reassuring to the public to hear several senators, specifically Republicans, making this kind of commitment. It's fair to give this new administration some time to find its feet, but from the perspective of the general public, in a month that's been as busy as this one, that doesn't look a lot different from completely abnegating your oversight responsibilities. Making some public statements, about when you would step in, would go a long way toward allaying those concerns.

Secondly, I agree that a thorough audit of the federal government is a good idea! However, what DOGE is doing does not look like any audit I've ever seen. My father was an Auditor for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania; in my observation, an audit involves careful examination of records and practices to determine where funds are being used incorrectly. Auditors do not make law, they do not walk in the door and immediately start ordering cuts, and they do not fire people.

What Musk's team appear to be conducting is a scream test of the entire Federal government. In IT, a scream test is when you unplug or otherwise disable something, and then wait to see if anyone notices, and screams about it. It's typically done as a last resort, after other attempts to determine the role and necessity of the system in question have failed to turn up any evidence that the system is doing anything important. Even more crucially, when a scream test is done, there should be a way to immediately restore that system if somebody does scream.

So far, we've had two very loud screams: about the firing of nuclear security personnel, and teams working on the avian flu crisis. It seems like even a cursory examination by vaguely competent people would have very quickly revealed that these teams were performing essential functions. Secondly, subsequent events have proven that there was no plan or preparation to be able to reverse the firings now that the screams have started.

In addition to these two things, I am also wondering how many other screams have started, that will take longer than a few days to become loud enough to be heard in Washington, or to make it to the front page of major newspapers.

To call what is happening an "audit" is deeply disingenuous. It's a scream test, and even by the standards of the field in which this type of test is carried out (and where Musk and his employees come from), it is being carried out with gross incompetence. It's more like a bunch of toddles running amok in the server room, unplugging whatever catches their eye.

You can do better. We can do better. As a senator, I'm sure you've worked with auditors & reviewed the results of audits--you know what an audit is. Demand one.

Your Fellow American,

YOUR NAME HERE

#us politics #the trumpelon #it should be noted that I got his “thoughtful” response twice in the same minute #in response to different concerns about DOGE #but again #it's a rhetorical strategy #my thinking is that if he or anyone in his office has some lingering sense of shame #over their complete abrogation of their oaths and duty to the public trust #then I might draw that out by speaking to the person they were before they turned into this

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metalheadsagainstfascism · 2 years ago

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For people in the United States

If you are over the age of 18 and you do not have a good relationship with your parents (especially if you're gay, trans, queer, etc and your family doesn't support you). I want you to go to this site really quick.

Basically advanced directive is assigning who is allowed to make medical decisions for you in three event you are unable to talk or otherwise unable to make decisions for yourself (such as a coma).

So if you're no contact with you family and now living with your partner whom you're not married to? Maybe you'll want to put that your partner is the one that can make medical decisions for you.

If your family always gaslit you about your allergies or health issues? Maybe you might want to put your found family in there to make medical decisions for you.

If for ANY REASON you do not trust your family to make medical decisions for you in the event that you can't, and you prefer someone else be making medical decisions for you, please fill out this form.

And whomever you name as responsible for your health in the event that you can't make medical decisions should have a copy of this form in a secure location after its filed so they can wave it around when they're trying to show doctors that they're the one that's legally allowed to make the decisions.

(This form is also good for listing out decisions that would be hard for your family to make like how long you want to be in a coma, when to pull the plug if you're in a vegetative state, etc. Especially if you're concerned about medical bills.)

-fae

#lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtq+#lgbtqia #trans rights #gay rights #love is love

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canonicallyplural · 4 months ago

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Welcome to canonically plural.

This is a blog that is dedicated to your favorite characters who are canonically plural in some way.

Defining plurality

When I say canonically plural, what I mean is that the characters are depicted with multiple self-conscious agents of some kind sharing a single body.

It should also be long-term rather than characters who just share a body for a few moments. This time limit is relative. If a character is plural for all of their existence, but only exists for a couple hours, they've been plural their whole life. For characters with normal lifespans, I would say their plurality needs to be demonstrated to exist at least over a period of multiple days. But discretion is allowed.

This can take many forms. Venom from Spider-Man has a form of biological plurality where the alien symbiote fuses with a host. Blue Beetle is technological plurality. Moon Knight is both psychological and spiritual.

The Checklist

By my criteria, a character is canonically plural if...

The character has multiple agents in their mind/body. ✅

These agents share a body for a decent length of time. ✅

These other agents possess at least some rudimentary level of self-awareness and memory, and could reflect on past events. ✅

You used your best judgement and the submission is in good faith. ✅

If the above criteria are met in canon, the character is canonically plural!

The Good Faith Rule: On the last criterion, note that I won't be researching a lot of these before posting. So please be reasonable and remember the goal of the blog is introducing people to plural characters in different media. I realize that maybe something like the Power Rangers spending a few days in a Megazord can technically fulfill the criteria of multiple people sharing a body if you stretch it enough. So please don't go on a mission to find loopholes to the criteria.

Nothing is metaphorical

Assume for the sake of this that unless something is explicitly stated to be metaphor in the work, it is literally happening within the context of the narrative.

Perhaps the writers of Inside Out wrote the emotions as a metaphor for the emotions of singlets. But within the Inside Out universe, the emotions are actual distinct characters with their own distinct personalities. They have their own memories, their own wants and desires, their own agency. Within the fiction of the Inside Out universe, people are just naturally plural through these self-conscious emotions in their head.

All the characters in Inside Out are canonically plural.

Canonically plural character guidelines

When submitting a character that is canonically plural, please include a description of why you think that they are plural. There's no maximum length but at least a few sentences would be ideal. It doesn't need to be a huge essay. But it at least needs to convey what is plural about the characters.

Please state both the name of the character or characters who are plural, as well as the piece of media they originate from.

Ideally, submissions should use the following template:

[Character Name(s)] from [media name] is canonically plural. [Description of their plurality.]

For example...

Pearl from Steven Universe is canonically plural. In one episode, Steven enters into Pearl's mind through her gem. Inside, she has a layered inner world, each with its own compartmentalized version of her. Each Pearl has its own memories and there are even dissociative barriers between the inner Pearls, where some are just not aware of what other Pearls are doing. There's the main Pearl with control of the body on the outside. There's a Pearl on the surface level of her mind responsible for organizing thing and keeping them neat. And then each layer beneath that holds a different trauma Pearl suffered from her past. One Pearl holds onto the death of the person she loved. And another from her trauma over the deaths of her friends in the war. And another holds onto a trauma from losing who she used to be.

Fanfiction Contributions Guidelines

For those looking to share fanfics, formatting is slightly different!

[Character Name] from [fanfiction name], a(n) [original media name] fanfiction is canonically plural. [Description of their plurality.] [Link to the fanfiction]

The link and the media name help make it easier to locate the fanfic and share fan works about plurality with others. It also helps me what tags to use for the post. Additionally, you can optionally post links to FREE original fiction such as free webcomics or stories that involve plurality.

Self Promotion

If you've written any plural works, you're welcome to share those here too! But please mention if you're the author in the description! Thank you!

And thank you all for your contributions!

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yes-no-maybe-soo · 4 months ago

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Please don't forget to fill in the survey, fellas!

As consumers — and as people who care about the longevity of this game — it is vital that we make ourselves heard whenever possible. And surveys like this one is one of the best ways of voicing our concerns and/or complaints.

(For anyone looking for a template, @/simp4liferz on Twitter has one that you are free to use and build upon as you wish)

Below are the requests I plan to put in my own survey, for anyone interested:

1. Release the rest of Sylus' standard content, increase his affinity cap, and update his orbits.

2. Give us roadmaps for future updates/additions to the game

3. Add more permanent ways to farm Diamonds and other resources.

-As currently is, it is incredibly difficult for end-gamers and F2Players to earn Diamonds outside of dailies and SHC, the latter of which requires a high number of high level 5 stars and protocores, and a variety of stellactrums. For Sylus mains, Caleb mains, low spenders, and F2Players it is near impossible to adequately meet these requirements.

4. Increase event rewards.

5. Increase droprates for bounty hunts.

6. Increase the rewards for awakening memories.

7. Lower the mats needed to level up memories.

8. We need better and clearer communication from the company.

- the total lack of response or communication from the company regarding the concerns we — your consumers — have repeatedly brought up through emails and social media during these last couple of months has been incredibly disheartening and disappointing. As customers, we deserve the bare minimum of communication from you. The lack of it causes uncertainty, as well as in some cases the spread of rumors and misinformation.

9. Add more regular updates to the main story.

10. Add more permanent and substantial features to the game, such as additional playtime minigames or new battle modes

11. Announce new banners at least a week before they are released so that every player has a chance to somewhat prepare for them.

12. Release reruns of past banners, particularly solar myths.

13. Fix the lighting for low light kindled scenes. At present, the lightning issues in said scenes make it difficult to see MCs with darker skin tones in them. We want this game to be equally inclusive for every player

14. Do not separate the outfits and hair/cosmetics in limited banners. Put them all in the same crate.

15. Do not put event outfits or hairstyles/cosmetics behind paywalls.

16. Do not put any of MCs non-combat outfits behind paywalls.

17. Make curly hair for MC an option in cutscenes and etc. Not just in glint photobooth.

18. Allow us the option to hear MCs voice during kindleds and Tender Moments.

19. Slow down the speed of MCs subtitles. They go by so fast that they are impossible to read without pausing the game and using the dialogue log, which breaks the immersion.

20. Sell LADS merch globally.

21. (during battle) Don't start the timer until the player has reached the checkpoint.

22. Release at least one 4 star with an illustration of Sylus and MC together. Every other LI has at least one each with MC. Fair treatment amongst all 5 LIs is important

#justice for sylus #and lads as a whole #lads #love and deepspace #sylus #lads sylus #love and deepspace sylus #sylus lads #sylus love and deepspace #lads zayne #lads rafayel #lads xavier #lads caleb

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sgiandubh · 4 months ago

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Shippers lose all credibility every time they send messages to places like Deuxmoi, with claims like CB is hiding her rings and hasn’t been seen with her husband for months—like, implying her divorce is imminent. It’s so obvious! It’s been ages since your friend SHwifey blogger announced with such excitement the news about a supposed Decree Nisi and nothing happened yet?🤥 let’s be real T&C are here to stay and a divorce ain’t happening.

Come on, we're not stupid, next time shippers are sending such nonsense to blind items sites at least try to cover it up a bit! And then they say the antis are the desperate ones...

By the way, how’s everything in Puffiland?"

Dear Deux Moi Anon,

Not my circus, not my monkeys, darling, and you know it. I don't know, nor care about what exactly happened, who dunnit and why. It still doesn't change anything to the fact McGill has been MIA for months now, and that yes, the very fact that you rushed in here to screech tells me it bothers you greatly.

Short, but firm reminder I shall not speak for any other blogger than myself, nor take responsibility for any content other than what I sign, seal and deliver on this page. However, you might want to brush up your expertise in British family law and see what the difference is between a decree nisi and a decree absolute. Even if the law changed in the meanwhile (2020 and enforced in 2022), the procedure I am about to describe and comment has not, assuming it started as stated, in 2020. Sidenote: the 2022 law does not change much to its essence, either. It just simplifies the grounds for divorce and leaves some unwanted uncertainty on the ways financial separation is dealt with by the applicants (formerly called 'petitioners').

Here, pumpkin, educate yourself. By the way, you should stop imagining that the entire world has the same rules and regulations on things: divorce is something that is dealt with very differently in the US, as compared to the UK, for example. But anyways, this is the most comprehensive and clear explanation I could immediately find online and it should be enough for you. Also, dutifully highlighted, just to piss you off, darling:

[Source: https://www.aticuslaw.co.uk/what-is-the-difference-between-a-decree-nisi-and-decree-absolute/]

In British legal practice, there is, in reality, no time limit for the decree nisi to remain on the court file, simply because, as the paper above strives to explain, the legislator is fully aware of the fact that it is not always quick, nor easy to deal with the consequences of a separation, such as a change of personal status or financial situation. The 12-months term is, in effect, deemed reasonable to get all the practicalities sorted out. But people are strange, like that: some may just linger complacently in a limbo, some take their time to go their separate ways, others are held by external pressure vectors that are entirely independent of their own will (*coughs*). However, there is no reason to deny the belated petitioners the right for a decree absolute and all it takes is a written Letter to Court, explaining the reasons of the delay. You just need to pay a good specialized solicitor and there are even templates galore to download and fill in, on the Internet. An example:

[Source: https://www.lexisnexis.co.uk/legal/precedents/letter-to-court-applying-for-decree-absolute-more-than-12-months-after-decree-nisi - you can imagine I won't be arsed to pay for the sake of someone like you asking. But you can also imagine the above letter primarily deals with exposing/justifying the reasons for the delay and any new events that may or may not have complicated the issue at stake, such as the birth of a child. ]

I trust this is straightforward enough, or do you need me to draw it to you?

So, there goes your completely false allegation that divorce was automatically implied as 'imminent'. Chop chop, to the scrapheap, with all the rest of you. Not my problem either, that (as always) you have no idea of what you are talking about. See, I am just analyzing some useful legislation, here. I don't read tea leaves, I am definitely not into that Lady of the Rings kremlinology club and I very rarely speculate on social media drama-drama. These being exactly the reasons why you guys seem to hate me with a passion. I don't, darling: I pity and despise you, in equal measure.

As for the current situation in Puffland, you can fuck right off and ask that woman yourself. I don't think she likes me and I can't say many nice things about her, either.

But funny how I, along with a couple of other shippers, seem to live rent free in your empty brains. Given the mentioned company, I feel honored.

#anon #fandom #shitshow #legal #IFTA Awards 2025 #trolls

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