#2/3rds of a polycule done

[scrawnytreedemon]

Red Pikmin DONE!!! Her name is Karolina, and she is a FIGHTER ✊✊✊ Keeps losing her damn flower because of it, lol.

Looks puffier on camera than IRL. I'm so, so very happy with her; she's very firm, very sturdy, very cuddleable <333

I'll get around to the Blue eventually... But I need to rest my fucking wrist. And my mind. Crochet takes alot of repetition + concerntration 😭😭

[keeping-up-with-the-sanders]

Y’all I got a long weekend off from school:

Update: due to the fact that this poll won’t reach many people in the span of a day I’ve decided to do the one that’s most picked 8:00 tomorrow (October 3rd) and do that one. Hopefully it will be a shorter one because I really want to do the Drunken Days saga afterward :) + Gravity falls intro

Update 2: and the winner is… Remus getting possessed by Bill

Update 3: The video is here

[insatiablytakenreads]

The Dawn and it's Light by Piper C.J. (And the series as a whole as this is the final book)

First time reading

Have you seen Serenity (Firefly's movie)? You know how [redacted] dies in the ship landing scene and it's incredibly jarring and doesnt feel narratively right? Yeah. Ash's death feels like that. And then Tanith is left flapping in the breeze.

God(dess) appears and fixes everything lol the end.

Malik is kinda just unceremoniously dumped? Relegated to useless? 3rd string dream fuck? "For his own good".

This is the worst polycule ever.

We've got queen, her (dumped) boyfriend she only kinda bangs via dreams now, and her girlfriend the demi-goddess/soulmate. And said soulmate is "owned" (bdsm but done in such a bad way that I legit skipped their deflowering/final sex scene) by the queen's several hundred year older uncle.

So the romance is. Bad. How about the story? Also bad. It feels like so many ideas from other properties mashed together into one but with lots of bad flavors attached. There's a brothel that owns and demands sex from it's workers (slaves. They are owned). There's one poc for most of book 1. She is whipped as public punishment. She is sold to the brothel. She thinks of herself as a dirty whore. She finds out she is a succubus and then after book 1 she never uses that power again. Wild. We spend half of the first 2 books with amaris and then she is severely shoved into the background and is useless outside of sex for book 4. Insane character assassination. Speaking of assassination we adopt the insane religious zealot mage who killed half our army and woobify her hard. And then kill her boyfriend right before the end of the series. For. Some reason.

Plot inconsistent. Lots of this moment is important so lets have sex instead lol. Overall cannot recommend the book or the series. 3/10 life's too short to read something so mediocre.

[buttercupbread06]

for context, it's something ive been drawing/thinking about in class for a couple weeks now. so bear with me. (also, fully based in MY country's school system, so there's a couple things to explain).

I translated New Vegas to IES (Instituto de Educación Secundaria) Nueva Vega. Because it sounds like a genuine highschool name here.

Mr. House was translated to Roberto Casas (Señor Casas, so, Mr. House(s)), and he's the principal. Used to be a math teacher when IESNV had less staff. He spends 99% of time in his office and no one but the head of studies has talked to him in 8 months.

Speaking of, Benny is Benito Salamanquesa (a.k.a El Beni™) and he's head of studies. And economy teacher for 4th of ESO (15-16) students. Chill teacher with HIS class (idk if you guys do this in america but in spain we have a "tutor" which is like. the teacher responsible of our specific class, solves conflicts between students and teachers and helps with grading at the end of the term), but is an obnoxious piece of crap whenever a students shows up to his office. Lowkey praying that Roberto trips on a charger, breaks his hip and retires early.

Elijah is called Elías and he was chief of the technology department until something went terribly wrong in a field trip once... That was years ago and all the( remaining) students graduated (+ he was fired) so it's more of an urban legend than anything. You can ask any teacher you want and they either don't know bc they got there after it happened or won't say too much.

Speaking of, Verónica Santángel is a technology teacher. Usually takes 2-3rd of ESO (13-15 year olds).

Arcade was translated as Israel Galvan Matamoros, and he's a latin teacher. He could do biology but idk he's definetely giving latin vibes to me. Would never tutor and kinda dry/strict in class but he's pretty chill. I think he'd be nicer/very helpful outside of class, and would NEVER let bullying slide. Kinda petty of him to give 15 year olds sass when they act up in his class but he's also the sweetest most interesting teacher you'll ever have if you let him be. Goes on unnecessary tangents sometimes but still manages to get his teaching done somehow. Totally gets like 4 "recess guarding duties" a week (watching the recess so no one gets hurt or leaves the school) (he hates it). could also maybe teach language & literature as well (we call "spanish" lengua y literatura), but i haven't decided. dresses like a nerd and got his tires slashed more than once. insane one-sided beef with Sr. Casas 😭😭😭. (almost forgor but his enclave past was replaced with his family being franquistas (supporters of the Franco dictatorship))

The think tank is a group of different science teachers that used to teach bachillerato (16-18) and made their students life hell for like 20 years. Retired, and rumors say they have some fucked up polycule going on nowadays. Good for them.

Caesar is César Eduardo Sánchez Calvo (Caesar Edward Sanchez "Bald", actual name that people have). Horrible PE teacher (and department chief)+ trainer of the school's football team (which he affectionately calls La Legión 😭😭😭). Wears these old ass track-suits:

Has no mercy when it comes to failing his students and calls people retarded sometimes. Best thing he ever did in his teaching career was to get brain cancer and take medical leave for a year and a half (during which they couldn't find another teacher and everyone was happy ❤️).

Also he's divorced. from Joshua- I mean José Antonio Garcés, the religion teacher.

I haven't figured out why he'd be burnt YET but my #1 option for now is "ski accident (omnious)". No one likes José either, extremely condescending and a poorly concealed fascist. He spent like 2 years in Guatemala "helping the locals" according to himself and thinks he's the shit. César and him used to go watch bullfights when they were married.

ALSO LAST BUT NOT LEAST i translated Yesman to Simón Casas because haha. Yes is Sí and man sounds like mon. Simón, and his surname is Casas bc he's Sr. Casas' nephew (and the school secretary). He'd have the perfect voice for making phone calls. Sometimes, when a student gets their phone taken away, Beni tells him to watch it until the parents come pick it up but he lets the kid take it back anyways.

(jesus christ that's one wall of text and a half im sorry 😭😭😭)

fnv spanish highschool au save me. ies nueva vega please save me.

[the-lincyclopedia]

* adapted from @librajiminn on twitter

A fun game to celebrate 2020 ending! The rules are simple: recommend your favorite OMGCP fics so everyone can enjoy them, while trying to fill in enough slots to get a bingo!

This is going to get long, so I’ll put it under a cut. Also, I’m too orderly to try to shoehorn my favorite fics into these particular prompts, so I’m just going to go right to left, top to bottom, taking the prompts literally, until it’s bedtime. 

1. first fic you bookmarked: “Here Comes the Sun” by @doggernaut, 19k, G, no warnings, Zimbits

For the past month, the man with the baby and the sad blue eyes has been stopping in for a cup of coffee an hour before closing. He always sits in an overstuffed chair in the corner and drinks his coffee while his baby sleeps next to him in the stroller. Sometimes he pulls a book out from the diaper bag he carries with him; other times he just stares straight ahead as if in a daze. He never asks for a refill, always respectfully gathers his things and leaves ten minutes before the shop officially closes. Eric desperately wants to ask him what his story is. 

My notes: I read Check Please over the course of two days in June of 2019. On the second day, right after catching up, I looked at @peppermintfeminist‘s AO3 bookmarks and found a fic by @doggernaut. Then I read just about everything @doggernaut had ever posted. It was glorious. This fic in particular is so cute. 

2. most recent fic you bookmarked: “Flight Check” by @edgarallanrose, 15k, E, no warnings (though there is a creepy/handsy guy at a club to watch out for), primarily Zimbits with most of the other popular pairings in the background

Flight attendant Eric “Bitty” Bittle has been working his way up at Samwell Airlines for the past four years, and his new promotion has provided him the opportunity to work with a brand-new crew. Unfortunately for Bitty, that crew includes an incredibly handsome but equally grumpy pilot, Captain Jack Zimmermann, who seems to want nothing to do with Bitty. Even worse, Jack refuses to eat any of Bitty's baked goods. Will Bitty be able to win the captain over? Or is there another reason Jack has been avoiding Bitty?

My notes: There are a lot of great things about this fic--Jack’s character arc, Lardo’s dialogue, that scene in Seattle--but the reason I bookmarked it is the scene where Bitty’s basically slut-shaming himself and Jack gently but firmly tells Bitty not to do that and that it was the creep’s fault. 

3. a fic that made you cry actual tears: “a little bit more” by @ivecarvedawoodenheart, 14k, T, no warnings, Holsom

“I just wanted,” he says, “a perfect day. With you. Because it’s our last day together and our last day being here as undergrads and we’re kissing the ice tonight, and the weather’s supposed to be beautiful, and you’re moving tomorrow and Holtzy I just — I don’t want to be missing you already.” Holster wipes his eyes before he even realizes he’s crying. Behind him, Ransom sighs. “One more day where everything’s the same,” he says, feeling around blindly for Rans’ fingers. He feels Rans nod as he laces their fingers together. “Yeah. Yeah, Rans. I’d like that a lot.” __________________________

Holsom after graduation and throughout the subsequent six months after Holster signs to an expansion team in Oregon, and realizes his feelings for Ransom too late. Holster's POV :) kinda angsty, but there's a happy ending :)

Inspired by shitty-check-please-aus: "Holster moves to Oregon while Ransom stays on the east coast. The time difference makes it difficult to talk and one day they wake up and realize they aren’t best bros anymore."

My notes: I almost never cry at fics. I searched “tears” in my fandom email account and only a handful of my fic comments came up, but Syd is a literal master of Holsom angst, always. 

4. longest fic you’ve read: “Like Real People Do” by @xiaq, 153k, M, No Warnings, Kent Parson x OC

Parson gestures with his spoon toward Hawke. “So am I allowed to ask about the service dog or is that not PC?”

“My medical history is more of a 3rd date conversation," Eli says.

“Oh? Why’s that?”

“Because. No one sticks around afterward and I like to live in glorious denial for a short period beforehand.”

It comes out more self-deprecating than he intended.

Parson looks…thoughtful. “Well, does this count as one or two?

“Pardon?”

“This. Ice cream. I mean, technically it’s a second location, but still the same night. So is this one date or two?”

“One,” Eli says firmly. “If it’s happening within the same three-hour period.”

“You’re the expert,” Parson says, which, he’s really, really, not, but ok.

“So still two dates to go then?” Parson continues.

“I—what?”

“We’ve got a roadie coming up but then we’re home for almost two weeks. When does your semester start?”

“You want to do this again?” Eli asks.

Parson stops idly twirling his spoon.

“You don’t?”

He does, Eli realizes. He really does. Because apparently he actually likes Kent fucking Parson.

My notes: Okay, this fic has my whole entire heart. I’ve read it multiple times in its entirety, and it’s almost twice as long as the full-length novel I’m querying. Eli is one of my favorite OCs I’ve ever seen in a fic (probably tied with Damian Navarro and Ari Paxton, both brainchildren of @fozmeadows). Anyway, this is probably going to be the next thing @themeaningoflifeischeese and I read out loud to each other. 

5. a fic you almost didn’t read: “when all else fails (i’ll still be right here)” by @whoacanada, 6k, T, Creator Chose Not to Use Archive Warnings (and I don’t remember if I think there’s stuff to warn for, sorry), Zimbits

The National Hockey League is resurrecting the Quebec City Nordiques, and the expansion draft hits the Falconers much harder than expected.

My notes: Given that this was for @omgcpheartbreakfest, I was worried this would be all angst--all hurt and no comfort. Which made me sad, because I love @whoacanada‘s writing but I wasn’t up for reading unresolved angst. But @doggernaut reblogged the fic, so I asked if the ending was sad, and it’s NOT! There is quite a bit of angst but the ending isn’t sad. 

6. a fic that convinced you on a ship you didn’t ship before: “it drops with the gravity of rain” by @geniusorinsanity, 16k, T, Creator Chose Not to Use Archive Warnings (attempted sexual assault by an OC), Nurseydex

It happens like this:

“I don’t--this is a bad idea,” Dex says, his lips still tingling, his hands shaking on Nursey’s hips where he’s shoved him away. “This is a really bad idea, Nurse. I can’t--We can’t do this.”

And there’s hurt in Nursey’s eyes and his bottom lip is swollen from Dex’s teeth, but he says, “Okay.” And then, “It’s chill, Dex. Just friends, then.”

It happens like this:

“Actually,” Nursey says, talking more to his granola than to them, “I kind of have a date.”

It happens like this:

When Nursey calls, Dex almost doesn’t pick up the phone.

My notes: So I was really confused and a little disturbed when I first found out people shipped Nursey and Dex. Like, Dex just wasn’t someone I trusted. But then I was moving out of the house I’d been living in, and I needed stuff to listen to as I packed and cleaned, and @khashanakalashtar‘s podfics came in clutch. I gave this one a try even though I didn’t like Dex, and @geniusorinsanity blew. My. Mind.

7. a fic from an unusual POV: “Excuse Me While I Kiss This Guy” by @porcupine-girl, 8k, G, no warnings, Zimbits

Jesse Snowden knows all the best restaurants and gourmet food shops in Providence, so when Jack Zimmermann starts bringing in incredible baked goods, he's eager to find out where the new bakery is. When he meets the man behind the pies, he decides that there's no way Jack could really appreciate this guy's talent the way he does, even if they are friends. He starts hiring Jack's chef on the side, in the hopes that maybe once Bitty's done with college he'll come work for Jesse.

Good thing there is absolutely no way whatsoever that Jesse could possibly be misinterpreting this situation.

My notes: Oh my gosh this is so funny. The secondhand embarrassment factor is huge, but like, the hilarity. 

8. a comfort fic: “Don’t Need to Compromise” by @khashanakalashtar, 11k, E, no warnings, PB&J

“Hey,” said Kent, unknowingly setting off a chain of events that would change his entire life, “you said that like you know from experience. Have you done this before?”

Jack and Bitty have not done polyamory before, but they do know Ransom and Holster’s polycule, which contains March.

And March?

March is trans.

My notes: I’m in love with @khashanakalashtar‘s entire Directionverse series (and honestly a lot of their other writing), but “Don’t Need to Compromise,” which is the second fic in the series, just makes my heart swell especially much. The gender feels are so good, and all the characters are so good to each other, and when I listen to this on walks I have to actively try not to arm-flap. 

9. a fic you wish could be a movie: “Ice Crew Please!” by @petals42, 61k, T, no warnings, Zimbits

Jack Zimmermann was drafted first by the Providence Falconers when he was eighteen years old. He is good at hockey. Very good. His team won the Cup his second year and now, in his third year, they are looking good. Jack should be on top of the world. And some days, he manages to convince himself he is.

He’s not, of course.

Enter the Ice Crew.

AKA: The Ice Crew AU

My notes: This fic has its tender moments, but what I love most about it is the sheer goofiness. Ransom and Holster and Shitty are HILARIOUS in this one. I’d love to see their shenanigans in movie form. 

10. a WIP you read as it was updated: “Something Borrowed” by @fozmeadows, 48k, M, no warnings, Kent x OC

All things considered, Ari did his best to prepare himself for the advent of Kent Parson, Potentially Difficult Housemate and New Star Liney. The problem was that his best was an idiot.

My notes: So technically I didn’t start reading this until the first 19 chapters were posted. But there was still plenty of anticipation for the final few chapters. And like, @fozmeadows (as mentioned above) makes EXCELLENT OCs. And I love how their fics consistently convey that having bad things happen to you does not mark the end of your story. 

Okay, it’s bedtime, so have 10 excellent fics. I got bingo twice, because I went straight across on the top two rows.