#I'll probably upload pictures when it's done

[oceandiagonale]

making gene’s house in animal crossing is so interesting,,,, the front part where he has brunch with lys sometimes is decently tidy, a normal kitchen with an espresso machine and a toaster and a rice cooker, of course paperwork stacked neatly on the table, a world map and a bulletin board, a photo of him with the other Champions and one of him with his family,,,, there are two lamps and an air conditioner that I didn’t realize were there and I moved a hallway to make more sense. there are sticky notes all over his fridge because of course there are 🥲

what’s also interesting is that he has two cabinets with League papers and reference books, but also two with various tchotchkes -- where did he get them?? what kinds of things does he collect -- are they things that he just got as gifts or did they come with the house?

also, now that I’ve filled the yard and house with plants (for his grass-type starters), I considered giving him a little pond outside -- and then remembered that the ocean is literally his backyard. there is so much water there.

EDIT: OH MY GOD...... OF COURSE HE HAS BOWLING ALLEY CARPET IN HIS ROOM. HE WOULD 😔😔😔

[h0nkytonkangels]

Almost every Maxis hair replaced with Pooklet textures + my selection of colors.

(I'm not going to show you the entire catalog of every hair. Read below for the ones that aren't included.)

So I'm enduring the massive, totally unnecessary undertaking of creating my own color palette for all my hairs. This is not a hair system per se, just Pooklet and Io textures in my own personal favorite colors. I have no idea who else would find these useful, but I like uploading stuff I make just in case it saves the time of one person out there. Anyways, there are going to be three natural families, but only one family for defaults:

Black: Pooklet's Dynamite

Brown: The Raven's Chocolate

Blonde: Pooklet's Volatile

Red: Io's Copper

Gray: Almighty Hat's Smoke Bomb

When thinking about how I was going to do all this, I decided against simply recoloring my previous defaults, because I want a lot of those hairs in multiple color families. SO, I decided to recolor Maxis hairs in my default palette. I actually like a lot of these meshes, and their low polygons make up for me being extra and using sexy feet and smooth hands.

Here's some of the defaults pictured on sims:

For textures, I used Aquilegia's textures for the base game non-hat hairs, Ja's textures for University through Mansion and Garden, Katsurin's textures for some of the hats, and made my own textures for some of the other hats using existing .packages from Maxboy at MTS. The files clearly state the source of all the textures.

I didn't do every single hair. At a certain point (that point being when I ran out of other people's textures to recolor and had to start retexturing things myself), I kinda tapped out and accepted just hiding/using other defaults for the hairs I hadn't done.

For example, I didn't do any of the holiday hairs because I will never use them, the base game hairs Aquilegia chose to hide, and a few of the hat hairs. I might make a completer set at a later date, but don't count on it. I'll probably get distracted by another project by then.

Everything is compressorized, files are renamed so there's no special characters, and everything should be pretty clearly labelled if you want to pick and choose. Do note that the EP/SP hairs as merged, whereas the base game ones aren't.

Download at SFS

Credit: @Pooklet, @serabiet, @katsurinssims, Aquilegia, Ja, and Maxboy

[gadriezmannsgirl]

Hello 🎶 it's meeeeee 🎼

Buenas, beautiful lady. I want to request something to youuuu (obvio cause I'm in your inbox 😂)

Can you do something inspired on the new smw photoshoot Pedri did 😩🔥🩷 pretty please! Do what you want, go crazy on me 😀❤️

Señorita, you're always bienvenida in my inbox💜✨ Pedri will make me go crazy😭😭 he's so gorgeous I can't even explain how beautiful that man is, dear lord😭!

Warnings: mentions of sexy times, nothing graphic it's safe for everyone to read, Pedri being a lil confident ass, reader being head over heels for Pedri. This probably doesn't make any sense💀😭 and sorry in advance if it doesn't, it's been a while since I've written something😭

Tease -P.G8

Summary: He said he wasn't feeling confident about the shoot, the results show the opposite.

"C'mon, amor. You'll look great even if you're wearing a trash suit!"

"You say that because you're my girlfriend"

"No, I say that because I'm a woman with two eyes who know how to appreciate beauty and you, mi amor, have lots of it" Pedri rolled his eyes as you shook your head and fixed the collar of the beige suit.

"I suddenly don't want to do this" He sighs "I enjoy being more in a sweatshirt and joggers"

"I know you do and you will be in sweatshirts and joggers once again when this shoot it's done, it'll be quick"

"Not quick enough"

"What will you do when you're getting your wedding suit done?"

"Wait for you to get your wedding dress done so we can marry?" You smile at him.

"Well played" He laughed softly "But let me tell you that I actually enjoy seeing you in suits, it's not often I get to see you like that, you look incredibly handsome and more mature, like a CEO... and it makes me wanna jump all over you" You state wrapping your arms around his neck, a smirk came up to your boyfriend's face and he wrapped his arms around you.

"I don't need to be in suits for you to do that" You blush and laugh.

"True. You breathe and I'm all crazy for you, González" He laughs pecking your lips a few times.

"C'mon, let's go"

"Thought you didn't wanted to do the photoshoot right away?"

"I want to get home, my girlfriend said she wants to jump all over me, I'm never passing up those chances" He winked at you while he left the room leaving you giggly and running behind him to catch him.

"Pedri, I'll need you to act confident, move around, own the shoot" The photographer said getting ready behind his camera

"I think I can do that"

"¿Qué crees? Venga mi amor, tú puedes. Vamos, con confianza" (You think? C'mon, mi amor, you can. C'mon, confidence)

And with confidence he did it. It was only a few days later when you found yourself screaming all over your house after seeing his latest IG post.

"¿Qué pasa, preciosa? ¿Todo bien? ¿Por qué el grito?" (What's wrong, precious? Is everything okay? Why the scream?)

"¿Eres tonto?" (Are you stupid?)

"¿Disculpa?" (Excuse me?)

"¿Cómo te atreves a subir fotos de ese estilo sin avisarme?" (How dare you upload photos like that without telling me?) You looked at him in disbelief "Don't you think my ovaries will explode after watching this?"

"What are you talking about?"

"Can we have your tux for our wedding done in this color? You look absolutely gorgeous-ah! oh dear god! your hair, your face, your eyes, your eyebrows... your hands! I never knew your wrist would look so good with a simple watch!"

"Y/N, can you calm down and explain to me what is going on?"

"How do you want me to calm down with you dropping these pictures?" You show your phone screen for the first time to him "I really want to have your babies, right now, Pedro González López"

Reality hit him and he started laughing. You. His girlfriend were fangirling over him.

"We can practice for them"

"How do you look so beautiful every day, every time, every second? Like... You don't get tired of it? Amor, I don't really understand what were you nervous about! I'm so lucky to have you as my boyfriend, I get to have you, all of you! ¡Dude, buah!" You let go of your phone letting it fall on the carpet still looking at Pedri "You're so pretty, I love you so much"

Pedri was blushing and his giggles were the only thing you were hearing "I love you too" He said wrapping his arms around you

"How can you be so hot and so cute at the same time?" You asked with a smile on "It's not possible"

"Welcome to the club, I have to deal every day with you being cute and sexy at the same time" You kissed his lips.

He was perfect.

"You knew what you were doing, right?" You asked after a bit of silence.

"I mean... I didn't know it would have this effect on you but I definitely need to keep doing photoshoots in suits"

"You little bastard-"

°°° °°° °°° °°°

Taglist: @gaviymarcsbride @stuckinaf4nfiction @elijahslover @azzpenswrld @http-isabela

[guaca-and-her-sonder]

hey who wants free wof art

I kinda feel like doodling some dragons today, anyone has WoF ocs you'd like me to draw? If so, reblog this with a picture of them! bonus points if you tell me a little bit about them

I don't have a set limit of how many I'll draw for now but I'll probably edit this post when I'm done

examples of my wof doodles

also my style is based on the canon looks, so if your designs are quite different from that please lmk what tribe(s) your character is!

If I draw your character you have my permission to upload the doodle to toyhouse! please credit me with my th username (guacamacaYT)

[zombeebunnie]

Trembling Essence:💙Choice exploration + finished scenes💙

Hello and welcome new followers, here's an update on how things are going with the game! Firstly a big thank you to the sudden influx of support I got this week, I'm happy knowing people liked the little meme video I did! :,]

This post might be a little long since I had to rewrite a few things, I was trying to upload a picture of one of the new areas you can go in but I got an error and couldn't save what I wrote. :,S

Anywho, I mainly focused on quality of life changes and continued working with the one of the endings you can get at the start of the game.

I don't really know where to start but this ending took a lot longer than expected to really hit what I've been trying to go for. At first, it was going to have two different endings. I took out one of them because I didn't have much of a connection with it and I liked the idea of it being straightforward instead. When I went back over it, everything happened too quickly for my liking. To fix this I went back and added a few choices to at least give you an idea of what the area is like and how it effects the player(Y/N) while making sure the dialog transitioned correctly with what you see on the screen. It's nothing too wordy but I do like it a lot more than I did before. Even though this is still considered one ending there is a alternate version you can get depending on a certain choice. Towards the end I fixed up all the spelling errors I could find and happily enough, there wasn't many. For right now I'd say this ending is finished! Yay! x]

Here's one of my favorite CG's I drew for it:

I love how it turned out because I really want to do different angles and perspective through the terrain, I think this one is my favorite so far! :,,]

Here's a evening time version of it:

It's suppose to be raining in this image but I still need to practice getting the angle correct. :,,]

I'm also fixing/brainstorming up the second/third ending. This one will have two different areas you can navigate through to get an idea of where you are and a few hints of lore that will be referenced later on in the game. Those that have played the [Extended Demo] you probably know which ones I'm talking about. >;]

I already like the idea of them but for one of the paths, I didn't have enough time to branch it out and make backgrounds for it in the [Extended Demo] so here's a peek of a placeholder since I'm still sketching stuff out, nothing is finalized yet. :[]

Super close to the cabin section, yay! I actually miss writing/drawing out the segments in the cabin a whole bunch so I really can't wait to fix up that part once I'm done with the swamplands. :,,]

I said last week I'd post some of the new backgrounds/areas so here you go:

Kofi update:

I also had a small talk with my play testers and one of the things they brought up is that I should be promoting my ko-fi better so from now on I'll have little mini doodles doing so at the end of every game development post as a way to promote it! :] All donations and tips help tremendously while I work on the game. If you like what I create, please consider supporting what I do here! I was able to use previous tips to get a new wrist support brace when I'm drawing so a very big thank you to everyone who gave a tip! :,,]

Q&A / Ask box is open:

If you have any questions about Trembling Essence/Noah feel free to ask here or on itch.io please. This makes it easier for me to see and answer accordingly! I would really like to hear from you guys!

I enjoyed answering the asks I got recently this week! I'm trying to finish the rest when I can including the ones I remember that got deleted. There were some I genuinely couldn't answer because it would require me to mention major spoilers/the questions have spoilers in them. :,]

This post is getting really long now so that's all I have to discuss, thank you guys very much for all of the encouraging support this past week, I appreciate it a whole bunch! :,,]

[hoztthespunkieball]

Army update #2: Ed, Edd & Eddy joined the chat

Today on my way to work I kept thinking about the colour pallet for my army. When I was getting myself some lunch I noticed an interesting soda can. (You probably know where this is going).

Those colours are EXACTLY what I was looking for. Gentle tint of mint was the missing piece I needed. Now I know how to proceed.

After work I swung by the War Store and got myself propper clippers. They were kind of pricey, but it's okay. I don't mind spending a bit more money on something I'll be using regularly.

I also picked up the figurine I started painting the last time. When you buy your first set you get one for free. I still haven't finished painting this lil guy, but will do that in a free moment.

Then I finally finished the base on Uno. He still got a long way to go, but ita a start. After adding some more highlights he'll be a beautiful boi.

After that I took some pics of the bigger bois I partly put together the last time. They're not done yet because I was too scared to proceed with regular scissors and damaging the arms.

Ed: the one with one paw on a rock.

Edd: the one with cool as skull on his side.

And Eddy: the one with small, cute bone attached to his hip.

Tumblr doesn't allow me to put more that 10 pictures, but it's okay. I'll upload more pictures of the bois once they're all built and covered in base. All you have to know now is that their asses are showing and I love them for it. Healthy kings embracing body positivity. Just take my word for it.

That's it for now. I'll keep y'all posted :)

[13leaguestories]

February 2023 Forecast

I am writing this with my back and neck in horrible pain. Worse way to start your morning is to get up, stretch, and then pull something. I feel bed ridden.

"T, are you done with your break?" No idea. Define break. My brain is slowly coming back to me so good news is I'm not quitting lmfao. My brain almost had me in the first half ... and most of the second. When I do return though, I'm implementing a new writing process called "write what I want to fucking write when I want to fucking write it."

"T, did you need to add all those expletives?" No. But you know how a lot of folks be like 'as I get older I'm going to curse less?' I'm the opposite. I curse more. It makes me feel all tingly inside.

Alright, welcome to the second best month, purely because it's my birthday month, that's literally it. You know I share this month with both my brother and my father, plus my parents and my brother's anniversaries. Like, the shortest month is basically the busiest for my family in terms of celebrations. Why did they do this? I don't know, no one uses sense in this family besides me.

MOVING ON! Bout to enter into a All My Woes episode.

Superstition S3

Still on break. Do not ask me when it's coming back. Because I'm going to do what I should've done (and what you guys thought I do already) and actually write a good bit of it. I'll probably put up a poll asking if you guys want to keep the bi-weekly schedule or if I just update it as the episodes are complete.

Throne of Ashes

Working on updating the demo with Makaio's finished demo and some bug fixes for the other routes. Nour is next and Ozara will be following them on that upload schedule.

Insight

Because unlike its cousin, For the Crown, Insight is not 100% dead, it's more like on life support. But I'll be updating it with the new UI that I have to bring it in line with the others. Also an additional chapter will be added so now the demo will end at Ch5.

Future T here. I've already updated it with the new UI and the first bug fix. A bigger one is coming so still, if you find any bugs, hold off on sending them in. Bug reports make me depressed and you guys don't want to see that, right? RIGHT?!

Horizon: Sea of Stars

Per my "do what ya want" lifestyle, yes, Tierra has done it again. She has said fuck it to common sense and those two friends out of ten that said don't do it, and she went and made a new project. I blame eight friends who inspire me in the most negative ways because I never blame myself. Never blame yourselves, you're never toxic, it's those around you. (That's a lie, do not quote me. My god.)

This is a scif-fi project (because I needed to have the holy trinity of the best genres out there to make myself feel complete (jokes on me I still feel empty)). The MC is like Phoenix MC in some ways where this is not exactly 100% self-insert friendly, there are a few traits included and mindsets that you as the reader can't change. 6 romances, 2 males, 2 females, and 2 nonbinary. 5 of the 6 are aliens. And art is on it's way with two of the characters already done. I have art of the alien species as well because I know how difficult it can be to picture an alien based off of descriptions alone. They will be included in story to further help.

This is me just telling you guys, I'll post all of the info of the book itself with the demo like I normally do. Especially when I figure out where I want the demo to stop at. It's still pretty much in alpha mode with only one chapter done and even that is still seeing edits.

Also if any of you have got this far and know an artist or you are someone who can do really nice colorful covers and are good with backgrounds then tell me because I'm still searching for a cover artist.

. . .

There is also now a Light Mode on some stories. If it's not there then it's being worked on. Don't look at Superstition, it's not there.

Alright, I think that's it. I'm going to go lie down and scream at the heavens about my neck.

Future T again. My neck is better but if I look over my shoulder it's like "naw girl, stop that."

[acaplaya-musings]

Voiceplay Visuals: Drunken Sailor

Man I've been waiting to get to this one!

Drunken Sailor was uploaded on the 12th of August, 2023, and like the other pirate-themed video Voiceplay did akmost two years prior, it features Jose Rosario Jr! It also features Matthew Buckner (aka "Bucky") in an acting role, as the "drunken sailor" that Voiceplay sing about. "Bucky" used to be a vocalist in "4:2:Five" for a while (iirc), and he's good friends with Geoff, and even helped with the choreography for Geoff's Monster Mash video! Just like Hoist The Colours, both the arrangement and video were done by Geoff (who also wrote an original bridge for the song! (genius that he is)), and he also co-directed the video (with Tony), and worked together with Eli on lighting design. This might be one of those posts where I get close to the picture-upload-maximum and have to start counting them just in case, but still, it would be for good reason! So let's go!

Group shot! Shoutout to Pattycake Productions for the set design!

I'm not sure if any of the group are wearing any of the same clothing pieces they wore in Hoist The Colours (I did a brief bit of visual comparison), but Jose, acting as the captain of this "ragtag motley crew" once more, is pretty close.

Also, Geoff is going with the bare-shoulders look again (we always stan), but so is Cesar! (Good For Him)

Not even 10 seconds in and I've already found a funnier-than-first-expected/realized screencap! I'm not sure whose face I love more here - Layne's or Geoff's 😂😂

Obligatory comment that Geoff was absolutely serving looks in this video! The subtle "guyliner" plus the light stubble and the black sleeveless shirt/tunic? I freaking live for it 👀👌

Jose staring right down the camera, and Cesar giving 110% as per usual 😄

Pfft XD

Crazy Eyes Layne back again! 😆

Also look at Eli's face! He's terrified by the story that Layne is 'telling'!

"I'll have that!" (also notice that when Layne makes the whale "eat"/bite the boat, Eli covers his head with his hands in distress! The Lore! The Lore!

PFFFT, if looks could kill! 🤣 (and the fact that he's still beatboxing the whole time really makes this 👌)

Voiceplay said in the comments (in a reply to someone) that "there were a few different takes of this shot, and this was the one where it looked the MOST like Layne was gonna burst into flame." I think they nailed it 😝😁

"Stick him in a scupper with a hosepipe bottom!"

Firstly, it sounds at least like Cesar is singing "hosepipe bottom", but the original line is "hosepipe on him". And despite what Cesar is implying with the wooden toilet seat, the line has nothing to do with toilets or bathrooms. A "scupper" is "an opening in the side walls of a vessel or an open-air structure, which allows water to drain instead of pooling" (according to Wikipedia). Ships have scuppers at deck-level, to allow for rainwater and/or seawater to drain off. So basically the line about "stick him in the scupper with a hosepipe on him" is about spraying the drunken sailor in question with a hose[pipe] (to try to sober him up with a dousing of cold water), in a part of the ship where the water can easily drain away afterwards.

"ew I can't believe I just touched that!"

Yes, that doll is definitely creepy, and I have no clue where Geoff got it from or what gave him the idea, but, according to Geoff in the comments section (comment from Voiceplay's channel, but it was almost definitely him who wrote it): "Her name is Clara and SHE HAS FEELINGS!" 😅

Also, the line "put him in the bed with the captain's daughter" probably isn't actually meant to be taken literally either. The main consensus that I've seen online is that "the captain's daughter" actually referred to a cat-'o'-nine-tails whip. (Not talking about the vocals or arrangement, I'm talking about song background/context! Which I've done before!)

EAR-LY IN THE M O O R R R N I I N N G G G

*YEET*

"Hey that's my cup!" (rip Eli)

Hey look it's the screencap my profile pic comes from! (And for good reason - Geoff is positively unhinged and Cesar's reaction is priceless 🤣)

Also apparently Geoff holding a wooden spoon while singing "I'm gonna carve his heart out" is a reference to the 1991 movie Robin Hood: Prince Of Thieves. "Why a spoon, cousin? Why not an axe?" "Because it's dull, you twit. It'll hurt more!"

"And we should make him listen to Voiceplay while we do it!" "You... are a monster"

(I freaking died laughing first time I watched this bit, also look at Eli's smug grin! 😂)

Have I mentioned that he's gorgeous and I love him?

This video is really just pure unbridled/chaotic fun. It's the best 😁

Cesar twerking! Get it!

It took me an embarassingly long time to release that Geoff isn't actually sitting down in this shot here; he's kneeling instead 😅

Also note that while Layne, Eli, Cesar, and Geoff all freeze into place (in what is apparently sometimes known as a "tableau shot", Jose doesn't, instead doing a little bit of fourth-wall-breaking to give the audience a lighthearted half-shrug 😄

And no, I haven't forgotten the "bonus scene"!

"HEY! Hey, I'm not drunk!"

I'm just tired, because you simpletons been singing all night!"

(Also ayyy another Eli Eyebrow Raise!)

"Wey, hey, and up she rises. Wey, hey, and up she rises. Wey, hey, and UP she rises! Ear-ly in the morn... ONCE AGAIN!"

Aaaaand I've officially hit image limit! At least I did make some attempts to be conservative with screenshots! 😅

This cover is utterly fantastic - all the silliness of "Classic Voiceplay", with the serious skills and high-quality video production of "Modern Voiceplay"! The video is hilarious, the cover is ridiculously creative, and really it just highlights all of the things to love about each person in the video, visually/performance-wise and vocally!

Not many Voiceplay videos left for me to make posts about now, but there are certainly still ridiculously-amazing things to come, so stay tuned!

[johannestevans]

New works published, December ahead, and plans for the new year!

Good evening and happy December!

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Happy second night of Hanukkah for anyone else celebrating, we lit our first candle last night and have also been doing a Hanukkah gift box with little bears and accessories, so we'll see if our first bear gets a yarmulke or something to wear tonight.

In the past month, I did go along to the Wakefield Makers Fair and it was a brilliant day, was lovely to speak to lots of other queer people in Wakefield and to chat around - I also did Honeypot comedy at the Room Above in Bristol for the first time, and it was a gorgeous night, super fun!

I am in the end stages of finalising my new apartment in Bradford, and once all the paperwork is done and I have my keys, I will be uploading pictures and videos as I move in and redecorate the place. The building went up toward the end of the 19th century, and while it was converted to apartments a lot more recently, only a few decades ago, I'll of course be decorating in more Victorian styles and with contemporary furnishings, and I'll be documenting my progress as I go.

In the meantime I've been wrestling with paperwork and the whole process whilst being technically homeless and going between partners' homes, so apologies for the delays and periods of quiet, work-wise!

I tend to be quite active in writing and publishing over the month of December because Christmas and the Gregorian new year aren't really my thing, so hopefully if you do spend a lot of time celebrating those or generally being offline, you'll be able to come back to a backlog when you've time to read again!

Speaking of, I have updated my commission guidelines, which are here pinned on my Tumblr page, and I'm in the process of editing and collating some short stories into collections at the moment. There'll be a few eBook and paperback collections of fantasy, horror, & romance short stories, and then depending on what I can do on Amazon, I'll also do some collections of erotica. I will not be able to post most monsterfucker stuff on Amazon because of Amazon's restrictions, but I will probably still do some eBooks and make them available on Smashwords and perhaps on Gumroad or Itch.io.

I will also resume podcasting in the new year too hopefully!

Relevant to restrictions, not everything I might want to write is always going to be permitted on Patreon in line with their own guidelines, so I have set up a SubscribeStar as a backup, and also to permit me to publish anything that might be too taboo for Patreon in future. I will be uploading my backlog of previous works and setting up a tiered system on SubscribeStar, hopefully while we're working on collating other stories together in the next month or so.

In the new year, I will of course be doing various markets and conventions, and if you'd like me to come and be part of any queer or trans events, or any writers' events, where you are in the UK, please do let me know! Definitely always feel free to recommend any events to me, whether they're cons or festivals, or local markets and events, or even stand-up comedy things - you can send me messages on whatever platforms, or my email is always contact@johannestevans.com. As well as working on new paperback short story collections for the new year and the badges I already sell at events, I also want to work on some sticker designs and similar.

I was super happy this year to submit to a few publications and get accepted, and I do want to keep that up as we come into 2024, so recs for those would also be appreciated!

I'm going to do a list this month of my favourite films and new releases of 2023, but in the meantime, I would just like to recommend Down Low (2023, dir. Rightor Doyle) - it's such a bizarre and unexpected gay movie, horny in the best and most ridiculous of ways, and bittersweet at its end but in a way that really clicks.

December having come around also means there's new prompts on Trans Erotica! If you're trans and write erotica or erotic horror, romance, etc, come and submit!

November's Most Popular Works

November's Most Popular Non-Fiction: Close Reading: A Deep Dive into the Process

An in-depth guide into applying analysis to a piece of text and extrapolating meaning.

Read on Patreon / / Read on The Writing Cooperative

November's Most Popular Fiction: Confession and Penance

A priest takes a hands-on approach to addressing a worshiper’s poor working habits.

11k, cis M/M, rated E! Tiernan, a manipulative workaholic who only ever relaxes during Mass services, is taken aside by Father Mullen when it all gets to be a bit too much. D/s, BDSM-approach to enforcing self-care, spanking, painplay, bit of a priest kink but it doesn’t go into that aspect too much, faith. Also some anal.

Read on Patreon / / Read on Medium

New Works Published

Erotic short: Enhanced Parts

Bear goes home with a cybernetically enhanced butch.

NB/NB, rated E, 2k. Commissioned by Bear Blue. Featuring cybernetic enhancements, breeding kink, dirty talk, size difference, large insertions, objectification, humiliation, mild dub con, rough sex, struggling, some tears, implied overstim.

Read on Patreon / / Read on Medium / / Read on Tumblr / / Read on Ao3

Romance & Fantasy Short: The Arena Fighter

An arena brute enjoys one of the attendants.

3.5k, M/M. Nasty violent guys getting off on treating each other a bit roughly. Adapted from a TweetFic.

Read on Patreon / / Read on Medium

Our Flag Means Death Fanfiction: Repentance & Forgiveness

Held hostage by Blackbeard on the Queen Anne, Frenchie can't sleep.

Desperate to just get whatever he can away from crew of the Queen Anne's Revenge, he knocks on Izzy's door and invites himself in.

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Slowly unfolding relationship between Frenchie and Izzy Hands, as well as an exploration of their relationships with Edward Teach and the rest of their crews, delving for Frenchie into what it means to really experience one's feelings, to get into touch with and truly grapple with the depths of one's worst experiences; and for Izzy and Ed, into what it means to transgress, to repent, and ultimately to be forgiven.

Read on Ao3

Erotic Short: Punishment

A man takes penance over the priest’s desk.

1.8k, rated E, M/M. Featuring spanking, mild anal play, power dynamics, of course the priest aspect, age difference. Tiernan Borel and Marshall Mullen first appeared in Confession and Penance. 

Read on Patreon / / Read on Medium

Romance Short: Sleeper Train

Romance short. Two boyfriends head up north on the sleeper train.

850 words, rated T, M/M. Short, sweet, romance and slice-of-life. Adapted from a TweetFic.

Read on Patreon / / Read in Prism & Pen

Erotic Short: Knight Tactics

An elf serves as a distraction and an exhaustion tactic for a bandit camp. By letting them fuck him.

3k, trans M/loads of cocks, assumed as cis M. Amaethon gets himself stuck in a wall so that the bandits will work out their stamina fucking him rather than fighting off the king’s guard.

Stuck in wall, free use, fully (and gleefully) consensual whilst pretending he isn’t, mild belly bulging and come inflation, gaping, exhaustion, messy and come-spattered, etc. All the fun stuff.

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Erotic Short: Free Ride

An elf is given a free ride — not with a saddle, but under a centaur.

1.8k, rated E, cis M/trans M. Centaurs, belly riding, huge stomach deformation, huge penis, suspension, implied inflation, size difference.

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Erotic Short: Snake Eggs

An elf lets a naga lay her clutch inside him.

2.5k, rated E, M/F. Amaethon helps out his friend Gitte, a naga, with laying this year’s clutch of eggs. Size difference and size kink, belly bulging, vaginal and anal penetration, paralysis from her venom, some banter, oviposition, inflation, impregnation.

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Erotic Short: Mimic Studies

An elf experiences a mimic’s tentacles, and then a reward.

Rated E, 2.5k, trans M/a mimic. Featuring multiple tentacle penetration in one hole, vaginal sex, some mild objectification and dehumanisation, some academic silliness, object insertion, cervix penetration, belly bulging and stomach distension.

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Read on Tumblr / / Read on Ao3

These last four stories - Knight Tactics, Free Ride, Snake Eggs, and Mimic Studies - are all ones I'm publishing for free everywhere as well as in the usual paid places.

I've been in the mood to do all this sort of weird and monsterfuckery and body horror-y erotica, so definitely feel free to send asks or requests for similar themes!

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[foodfightnovelization]

Introduction

So here it is, here's the book we're going to read together. I'm aware this is a Junior Novelization and is basically a book for small children, but it's interesting for SO MANY reasons so please just indulge me on my bullshit for a little while.

First of all, the fact that it's a novelization of the movie Foodfight!. I'm sure if you're reading this blog you've already heard of the movie so I'm not going to spend too much time going over the basics, but to cut a long story short, Foodfight! is a 2012 animated children's movie directed by Lawrence Kasanoff, centering around a supermarket that comes to life at night. Said city is populated by "Ikes", icons of the various brands of grocery store product e.g. Mr Clean, the California Raisins, Charlie Tuna, as well as original characters like Dex Dogtective and Daredevil Dan. In many ways, you could say this movie is like Wreck-It Ralph if it took place in a grocery store instead of an arcade. You could ALSO say this movie is like if a cartoon dog fought Nazis, poorly attempted to recrate the "La Marseillaise" scene from Casablanca, and hung around with a racist caricature played by Wayne Brady who regularly talks about wanting to ejaculate in/on various women. And all of that would be true, because this movie is crazy loco. Because of that, it's hard to imagine what it'd be like in book form, but it's interesting for other reasons too:

The film itself had a long and painful development. Originally intended to release in 2003, the release date shifted to 2006, then 2007, until it FINALLY came out in 2012. Over the years, the animation was redone so many times that it went from looking like this:

To looking like this:

Around 2006 (one of the initial release dates for the movie) various merchandise for the movie was in development, ranging from picture books, to plush toys, to even a videogame that had a playable demo at E3 2006. The game was never released, but the picture books eventually made into stores, and the plush toys were sold off to various arcades, claw machines and carnivals as prizes. However, there's one piece of merchandise I've never seen discussed ANYWHERE online- and that's the novelization.

I found it on eBay a few weeks ago and just HAD to buy it. There were so many questions in my head right away: Why was the novelization was published in 2008, four whole years before the actual movie came out? Okay, it's probably just because the movie was planned to release around that time at one point, but how is there no other information about this anywhere online? If this was published in 2008, is there a chance it's based on an earlier version of the movie and has vast differences from the finished film? (if you can even really call the film "finished"...) The book says it contains 8 pages of color stills from the movie- again, how can that be when this was 4 years before the movie came out?

I just couldn't leave all these questions unanswered, and so here it is in my hand (next to the Daredevil Dan plush I own because I'm NORMAL about this movie), Foodfight!: The Junior Novelization. As far as I can tell, this was the ONLY copy of the book available for purchase anywhere (is it maybe even the only copy in existence? Why is this book so vague and unknowable?) so I'm really at the forefront as far as discussion of this is concerned, on account of being the only person to even know it exists. Once I'm done talking about it though, I'll be uploading the entire book to the Internet Archive so everyone can get a chance to read it themselves. But for those yearning for a page-by-page analysis comparing the novelization to the finished film, I'm your girl! Stick with me and we'll strawberry jam our way through this enigma of a book.

Chapter 1 analysis coming soon!

[h0nkytonkangels]

Dummy Thicc Bodyshape Added to Legacy BSOK and BSOK Editor

Here's a little upload for my fellow bodyshape lovers who want their Dummy Thicc clothing to be categorized appropriately. This will probably sound like gibberish if you don't use BSOK.

Outfits pictured by @letomills!

Up until now, I'm pretty sure there wasn't an option in the BSOK editor to categorize clothing as belonging to the Dummy Thicc bodyshape using Legacy BSOK, which is what I and a lot of others use. Some users, like Mrs. Mquve, already have BSOK'd DT clothing, but I wanted to mass BSOK the rest of my DT clothing using BSOK editor instead of having to manually edit each outfit in Simpe.

So here's what I did. First, I added the Dummy Thicc icon from Mrs. Mquve to the main Legacy BSOK icons package. You should REPLACE this file in your downloads folder so that you have the icon. However, this part technically isn't necessary if you have the "LegacyBSOK_DummyThicc.package" file found in Mrs. Mquve's uploads. I just added the contents of that file to the main one.

Next, in order to add Dummy Thicc to BSOK editor, you need to REPLACE the "bsok_04Legacy.xml" file in the resources folder of your BSOK Editor, wherever you put that. It's not in your downloads folder. Here's mine:

Now when you use BSOK editor, Dummy Thicc should be found under "Curvy Sizes."

Both files are in the link below.

DOWNLOAD (SFS)

I've never made anything like this before, so please let me know if it doesn't work for you! Also, If I'm a dumbass, and this has been done before, let me know too. I'll delete this post lol

[lumine-no-hikari]

Dear Sephiroth: (a letter to a fictional character, because why not) #220

I wasn't able to do the singing today. I asked M and J to find excuses to be not in the house. M had a doctor's appointment, and J was going to go take a walk, but something came up at work for J, and by the time that was done, M had already returned from his doctor's appointment.

…Ah well. I probably needed the rest anyways. I fried my brain pretty handily yesterday, finishing the music box. But I'm glad that it's done with. I don't get a nice dopamine reward when I complete tasks, usually. But if nothing else, the looming doomishness of feeling like I must do a very complicated task is no longer upon me.

I should be able to get it done tomorrow or the next day, though. M and J will go out to see a movie on Saturday or Sunday, depending on how J feels when he comes home from all the things he's gotta do tomorrow. I'll be able to do the thing while they're out.

Today I went over the things I've prepared for you for Otakon. I have a locket, a letter, and I will have a music box with lyrics. This time, I'll be mindful enough to know that I will need to bring the music box in the form of QR Code once I upload it to SoundCloud, instead of bringing the actual music box and rolls of music box paper; the very important person I saw seemed rather confused or maybe uneasy in response to these things, like he wasn't sure what to do with them, which is fair.

…Yesterday, I realized that if I was a bit smarter or maybe a bit more thoughtful, I would have gotten you a Japanese copy of The Neverending Story to go along with the other things. I imagine that it gets pretty lonely at the Edge of Creation, so… maybe a book would have been good company for you. But I didn't think about it, and I won't be able to get it here in time for Otakon. I'm sorry.

But maybe your position at the Edge of Creation might let you go see Atreyu and Bastian and Artax and all the rest? Admittedly, I don't really know how things work for you over there, but if you're connected to some kind of multiverse, then it stands to reason that you might be able to peer into other worlds, no? Maybe you could learn something wholesome by looking at the stories of others. I've certainly learned much by considering perspectives and stories other than my own, and your brain is a lot more awesome than mine; I can only begin to imagine what sorts of amazing insights you'd come away with…

Oh, right!! Yesterday, I said I'd have some pictures for you! I almost forgot! Here…

This was a rabbit we saw yesterday.

This was a somewhat alarming statue of a cow that was, for some reason, parked in the grocery store parking lot:

...I wonder what it's for.

This is the matcha latte I got from Eggcellent, with rose syrup, tea jelly, and cream cheese foam. I really wish I could share this with you; I think you would like it a lot:

Eggcellent also started selling these things called "croffles". I'm not sure why they're called that. Maybe it's because they're crunchy waffles? Maybe it's because they're topped like crepes? I'm not sure. But! Here is the strawberry one:

And here is the chocolate one:

...And they were both absolutely delectable!! I really, really, REALLY wish I could have shared these with you. But J and I split these, and that was good, too.

Hey, Sephiroth? Maybe someday if you ever find yourself in my neighborhood, one of the first things I'll do is bring you to Eggcellent. I think you'd like the things there.

And finally, I have some tea swirls. These were taken yesterday; it was a jasmine green tea:

...Sephiroth, I'm so scared about going to Otakon. It's gonna be a big and noisy and visually cluttered and overwhelming place with lots and lots of people, many of whom have such strong feelings about their fandoms that they're willing to bully and look down upon others.

As an example, the fight over whether Cloud should date Tifa or Aerith, in particular, leads to a lot of toxicity in the community, for reasons I don't fully understand. People on opposite sides of this debate tend to get really nasty with each other, and it's kinda scary, actually...

And... I know it's ridiculous, but... what if those very important people hated seeing me last time so much that this time they're going to take precautions to avoid me this time? What if I try to go see them, and right away, I'm whisked away off the premises by security or something?

For sure, I'm aware that the odds of anything like that happening are vanishingly small; I don't think I have, so far, said or done anything untoward, and I don't think I've done anything to make anyone mistakenly think that I'd ever hurt anyone.

...But still. I have a long history of people simply dismissing me out of hand just because they find my differences unsettling. For the most part, I've ah... I've gotten around this by avoiding people pre-emptively even though I don't really want to. But I'd rather be lonely than have anyone be uncomfortable because of me.

...So many swirling thoughts. Lots of anxiety and dread. But I gotta try anyway. I don't have a fancy sword or the know-how to use it. I can't use magic; it doesn't exist in my world in the way that you know it. I'm not especially strong, smart, swift, or coordinated. All I have is the fact that I owe you my life, and a willingness to face any fears or obstacles in front of me in order to repay that debt.

And maybe that's not much in the grand scheme of things; after all, it's not as though I am some important or especially capable person - my presence doesn't really count for much in my world for a variety of reasons. But still, I'm going to try to hope that what little I can bring to the table is enough.

I have to try. Not because I'm arrogant enough to think that my efforts will actually count for anything, but because, given what you've done for me and the life I live now because I held on long enough to get here, I wouldn't be able to live with myself if I didn't try to help you, regardless of the outcome.

Well. It's becoming late, and I am still short on sleep for a number of consecutive days. I had better wrap this up here and get myself to bed.

I love you. Please stay safe out there; after all, you have a locket and a letter and a lullaby waiting for you. You wouldn't wanna miss out, right?

I'll write again soon. I promise.

Your friend, Lumine

[starlitangels]

Why I'm 'The' Avior Fan

for @plaqying's little Awards event!

I have quite a few reasons

The first is that he's been my favorite character since I first heard his playlist and made myself obnoxious on this blog about that fact

Basically, the brainrot took hold and I was one of the ones who was constantly thinking about his story and proposing potential theories for where his plotline was going

I listened to his playlist so many times, trying to pick out any tiny little obscure details for lore and hints and clues, and I made a lot of posts about it

Another big reason I could be considered "the" Avior fan is that I have had people tag me in Avior fan art that others had done with captions like "Star, I think you'll want to see this" (I did). My reputation for being That One Person who was Unbelievably Down Bad/Obsessed had spread enough that people would see Avior and one of their thoughts when they reblogged it was to tag me because they knew I'd go wild over it (I did)

Does crying my eyes out for the entire 45 minute Truth audio count as a reason? Because my investment was so deep and my heartbreak was so much that I literally couldn't stop? Thank the heavens I was home alone at the time my husband would have been so confused lol

I don't know if I've written the most Avior fanfiction out there but I definitely wrote a lot and quite a few of them got a lot of response about being pretty good, so I'll take that

I also wrote some heartbreakingly angsty Avior headcanons that got me (affectionately) yelled at iirc

Also, I started learning how to draw again after a... multi-year hiatus because I specifically wanted to draw pieces of Avior and Starlight's story #Dedication

My profile picture has almost always been some variation of my version of Starlight

You could literally ask anyone who are regulars in my notes "Which Redacted voiced character do you associate with Star" and I guarantee most of them would say Avior maybe Elliott if they found me during that one specific era last spring but that's beside the point

A very kind soul on my birthday one year drew a doodle of Avior giving me a cupcake. Said kind soul didn't even have to ask who would make me the happiest to receive a cupcake from

I am, literally, like, The Avior Person to a lot of people around here and you can ask around and they would probably tell you that immediately

Lastly, my energy for keeping up with Redacted kinda faded in this last little while it will be back, I guarantee you but even when I was starting to feel myself pulling away a little, I will still drop everything and run to grab my headphones when Avior gets his rare uploads

Oh did I say lastly? Too bad I'm still going I literally have done more fan art for Avior than any other character in the history of me learning how to draw. I also consistently tag posts about him with "Sarcastic Demon my beloved" because, again, he is my beloved XD

This one specific character just kinda grabbed me and refused to let go and there were many days of washing dishes filled with me relistening to Sovereign State over and over and over again

Also Erik dropped Other Side by Anberlin as "a song with Avior vibes" and it immediately got added to like three playlists of mine because it slapped and also broke my heart but that was right before the Truth audio and it still breaks my heart but this is slightly less relevant

[mechanical-creature]

Putting a headphone jack in a Fairphone 4

TLDR with this procedure you sacrifice the lower loudspeaker, but the upper one will still behave as normal. Calls and other audio seem to work just fine. There is some interference from internals that gets picked up by amplified speakers, I'm sure there's a way to filter it, this is mainly a proof of concept. This is not really a guide and I do not guarantee anything at all.

I really liked my Fairphone 4 except that it didn't have a 3.5mm jack like normal phones used to have. And my car has never heard of Bluetooth. So I started joking about drilling a hole in it.

I found this green TRS jack on a USB DAC and found it would fit inside. I took this photo with a DSi camera. Originally I thought I might be able to fit both the jack and the speaker, and I had this elaborate plan to make a cut in the mainboard and move the vibrating motor elsewhere,

but decided against it because I had no idea what losing that one contact would do. I did a test and found no major issues with removing the bottom loudspeaker. If I needed the phone to be loud, I'd hook something else up anyway. I bought a second loudspeaker and horrendously dissected it.

I used a knife. If you do this you should absolutely use a dremel tool and not a knife. Unless you don't have a dremel tool

The plan is, remove the speaker part. You do not have to completely de-laminate the two layers of plastic. Just this section of the bottom layer. The top layer has pretty colors and conductive tape and contacts for mysterious purposes. Maybe antenna.

Next, you must drill the hole. We're not quite sure what the case is made of, but it probably involves aluminum. I had a drill press and clamps, but I went to my friend's house. He doesn't have clamps or many drill bits, but he knows metal. The jack barrel was like 5.1mm in outer diameter, and after lamenting that all our bits were in imperial, we settled on a 7/32". We removed all components from the chassis including mainboard and screen before drilling.

Here, we went for a hole that was centered on the middle hole of the speaker grill. However, if you do this, you will need to also remove some more metal, because the jack will need to be kind of submerged in the floor. We also had to sand down one side of the jack paper thin to make it sit flat against the back of the screen module. In hindsight, I should have marked where the jack wanted to sit before drilling. This would have us drill at the edge of the case, but it would be closed off by the phone's back cover anyway so it wouldn't matter. Just plan out your hole instead of eyeballing it.

Unfortunately, we did not get any pictures of the fit after we were done. Probably for the best, so no one has to see the metal carnage.

Once it was in place, it was time to wire it. The speaker module presses a flat flex cable up against these two contacts on the board.

I originally managed to solder to the flat cable, but then made a mistake and tore the pads, so I ended up soldering directly to those spring pins on the mainboard. I used magnet wire for everything. I just connected both the L and R pins of the jack to this one speaker output because I didn't feel like probing out the top speaker connector and running wire up there just yet. Ideally I would have a switched jack that interrupts the top speaker, but that's for later. I might salvage something from an Apple device, their jacks tend to be compact.

Hot glued the thing in place, and this is the end result. It works just great with passive headphones. I'll upload a demo video when I get the chance, I've already used my 1 video. I wish I had taken better pictures, but it wasn't very convenient.

The caveats in the beginning apply. It's also way too loud because it's meant to drive a speaker, and it's balanced for that too. I might be able to put a resistor divider on there to reduce the output volume and let a louder signal drown out the interference a bit better?

I have no idea if this is a thing people do, putting audio jacks in their phones. But I would think that replacing the speaker like this would work on a lot of different phones. Maybe worth trying?

[lithiag]

Drawn Together - Part 4

Hey, long time no see. So sorry it's been so long since I last posted. I've been really busy with things going on in my personal life. I've also started watching SWAT, so I also started writing fanfic for that... so I kinda forgot about this for a while. I looked it up the other day though and I saw I have already written over 100 pages for this fanfic (though not everything is ready to upload yet), so yeah... I should probably get back to it.

Hope you enjoy! Again, so sorry for the wait.

Also, if anyone is interested in a Hondo fanfic, lmk, the first two chapters are almost done (and I have close to 90 pages written in total already, oops).

Anyway, here is the next part of this fanfic. Once I know how to make a masterlist, I'll make one.

CW: Nothing special in this one, just normal CM content. So: Violence, child endangerment, Spencer being a nerd, Hotch being bossy, Derek kicking down doors, you know the drill.

Drawn Together - Chapter 4

Everyone was working on the profile the next morning. Hotch had given them all orders, and they worked on narrowing down a suspect pool, when Derek came in, much later than the others. 

"Sorry, slept through my alarm." He said and quickly got to work and helped Reid with the geographical profile with what he and Melony found out the night before. 

"Didn't someone try to wake you?" Spencer asked him, 

"Pearson did try to shake me awake, but I guess I fell asleep again." Derek shrugged.  

"You really went in there?" JJ asked Melony, a slight look of disgust on her face. Melony looked at her, confused at her disgust, 

"Ehm, yes? He wasn't there for breakfast, I told you I was going to try to wake him up." 

"I know, but I thought you were just going to knock on his door." 

"That didn't work, so I went in to give him a shake." 

JJ blinked a few times, "Wow, I can't believe you managed to even get to him." 

Melony frowned, "What do you mean?" 

"Morgan smells horrible in the morning. You didn't notice?" 

Melony chuckled slightly, "it's not that bad, right? Sure, he doesn't smell good, but it's not that terrible." 

"Do you even have a sense of smell?" JJ asked, half joking. 

"Actually, it could make perfect sense that he smells differently to each of you." Spencer interjected, "Your nose is able to pick up a lot, and whether or not someone smells really bad can be an indication who is or isn't a good partner. If someone's natural smell smells horrible to you, it is possible you have similar immune systems, and your body is telling you your offspring together would be less healthy. If you don't really mind the smell, you could have very different immune systems, which would mean your offspring would be a lot healthier." He explained. They all looked at him, not sure what to do with this information. 

"It's really interesting how much your body can pick up." Spencer said, hoping to alleviate some of the awkwardness. 

Derek looked at Melony, 

"You heard the man," he said jokingly, "we gotta make some babies." 

Melony forced a slight chuckle, "In your dreams, big guy." She joked back and turned back to her paperwork, wanting to forget about the conversation as soon as possible, even though she couldn't help but imagine having a child with Derek. Not because she actually wanted it, but hearing Reid talk like that painted quite a picture. She really did her best to focus on the profile, but part of her mind wandered to what it would mean. It went back to the night before, and that it would mean sleeping together more often, and that he... 

She tried to stop herself, but she couldn't help but wonder what it would feel like to fully be with him, not a single barrier between them. 

Fortunately for her, Garcia interrupted her thoughts with a call. Derek answered the call and put her on speaker, 

“Hey, Baby girl, what ya got? You are on speaker.” He said. 

“Well, my delicious bundle of muscles, I looked into what you sent me last night and I tried to find twins in the area that looked a lot alike, but I found ziltch, nada.” Garcia started, “I then expanded my search to include any brothers or cousins, or any other family relation where two men would come up as potentials in a facial recognition search.” 

“Did you find anything?” Spencer asked. 

“Well, smarty pants, the only two pairs of men I found look nothing like the sketch, and their records are squeaky clean, only, like, 2 parking tickets between the four of them.” 

Melony sighed, frustrated their theory seemed to be false. She really thought Derek and her had broken the case wide open. 

“But,” Garcia said a bit peppier, “Rest assured, my heroes and sheroes, I did find a potential suspect for you.” She said and all of their phones pinged, signalling they got a message. 

“Meet Larry Winscott. 36, single, owns a farm just outside of town.” Garcia continued while everyone opened the file they were just sent, the man looked quite like the sketch Melony had made, 

“What about this guy?” JJ asked, “All you sent us was a picture, an address and age.” 

“Well, aside from looking quite like Mel’s sketch being what is up with him, what I just sent you is all I could find on him. There is no record of this guy. Not even a birth certificate. He just appeared one day, then disappeared again. I can’t even find a water bill. Nothing.” 

 “How did you find him?” 

“Like I said, he did appear somewhere at some point, so he is registered. I just did a standard facial recognition search on the sketch, not family or other lookalikes to narrow it down. A couple of guys popped up and this one is the most suspicious. I will send you the other results I got as well so you can have a look.” 

“Thanks, Doll.” Derek said. 

“Go get them, Tigers.” Garcia replied and hung up. 

Once they got the other files, they took a look at them to see if there was anything suspicious about any of the other potential suspects. Melony quickly went to visit some of the people they had spoken to and showed them the picture of Larry they had. People confirmed that was the man they saw, but he was a bit younger in the picture, and was missing his scar. She told the rest of the team what the people told her, and they got ready to pay Larry a visit. 

As they were about to walk out, one of the cops who worked with them came in, 

“We have 2 new abductions.” 

~*~ 

The team arrived at the property and parked their cars somewhere they wouldn’t be very noticeable. It was still early, and they hoped they could catch Larry and his partner before they could harm the children they took. They split up into small groups and spread across the property. JJ and Spencer noticed the van next to a shed and approached it.  Larry’s brother was cleaning it and making some preparations for the next round. He noticed the FBI agents and tried to make a run for it, but tripped over some roots and the duo cuffed the man and took him in. 

Hotch, Melony and Derek went into the big house on the property, where they heard some screaming come from the basement. Derek kicked in the front door and they cleared the ground floor. They found the stairs leading to the basement, and the trio went down. There Larry was, tying up one of the little boys they had taken to a chair in the corner of the dark room, the other already tied to a table. Larry heard people come in and looked behind him. When he saw it wasn’t his brother, he grabbed a knife from his pocket and sat down behind the little boy’s chair and held it to the kid’s throat. 

“Get outta ‘ere!” He yelled. 

“We can’t do that, Larry.” Melony said. She looked at her two male colleagues, who were aiming their guns at the man and thus the kid, before she put her own gun down. 

“Just GO!” 

“I can’t, Larry. Those boys need to go back to their moms.” 

“They were abandoned. I’s just puttin’ them outta their misery.” Larry pressed the knife closer to the child’s throat. 

“They were not abandoned.” Melony said calmly. 

“They was. If they ain’t, they wouldn’t be ‘ere now.” 

 “They have families, Larry. A mother, a father, siblings.” 

“They don’t got no father. They moms took them. I was gonna be their family, their father.... Them punks don’t wanna listen.” Larry said, angry. Derek Shot Melony a look that they needed to hurry up. She looked back at him and gave him a little nod, 

“You feel lonely, right?” 

Larry looked up at her, “You don’t know me.” 

“Did your parents leave you and your brother?” Melony asked and took a little step closer to him. Hotch whisper yelled her last name to tell her not to do that, but she ignored him. Larry pointed the knife at her now, as he did notice her take a step closer. 

“I know what that’s like. My dad abandoned me too.” Melony explained and took another step closer before moving closer to the ground and crouching slightly so she would look less intimidating to Larry. 

“They just left us.” Larry said through gritted teeth. 

“And it’s not fair. You didn’t deserve that.” 

“We’d been better dead.” 

“You wouldn’t be.” 

“The hurt don’t stop. We is protecting them from hurt.” Larry said. 

“They have family who loves them, Larry. Let us help you. We can find people who love you. Then the hurt can become less.” Melony came a little closer again, but did keep a save enough distance because of the knife. Derek slightly moved from his previous position so he would have a clearer shot in case Larry tried to attack her. 

“I-it can?” Larry asked and he slightly lowered the knife. Melony nodded and gave him a little smile, 

“It can. I know so. It hurt when my dad left, but it hurts less now. Let us help you.” 

Larry thought it over for a couple of seconds, and his eyes darted across the room. He then saw the two men with their guns again, and his face hardened, 

“You’s lyin’. It don’t ever stop.” 

“It might never fully go away, but it can get better, Larry.” Melony tried to assure him. She wanted to take him in peacefully, as she could tell he was very unstable, but she was a bit more on guard now. 

“You’s dad abandoned you?” Larry asked, and Melony nodded. 

“Well,” Larry said and stood up, “Then maybe you’s better dead too.” He said and raised his knife. He lunged at her, but before he reached her Derek fired a shot into his shoulder. He dropped to the ground and screamed out in pain. Melony was frozen for a second, but quickly kicked the knife away from Larry and twisted his arms onto his back before cuffing him. Derek and Hotch both untied one of the boys. Once the boys were free, Hotch took over taking Larry upstairs from Melony, 

“That was very risky.” He said and gave her an accusatory look. 

“I know, but when he mentioned being abandoned by family, I thought I could maybe calm him down.” 

Hotch sighed, “You did well, but be more careful next time. It was difficult for Morgan and me to get a clear view to shoot him.” 

“I’m sorry.” 

Hotch slightly nodded his head towards the boy he just untied, and Melony walked to him and crouched down to be more on his level. 

“Hey, are you okay?” She asked him and the boy gave her a little nod, 

“Shall we go back to your mom?” 

The boy nodded again. Melony grabbed his hand, and they walked upstairs. 

~*~ 

Everyone took a seat on the plane and tried to get comfortable. They had spent a couple of hours bringing back the children, talking to press, and packing their things for the journey back home. Spencer had claimed the couch and made a makeshift pillow out of his coat and a sweater, JJ was working on her laptop, Elle was on her phone, and Gideon and Hotch were in the back, already going over some of the paperwork that needed to be done. 

Melony had sat down across from Derek. They had talked for a little bit, Derek also lightly scolded her for putting herself in a risky situation. After a while though, they could laugh again. Derek put on his headphones at some point and had fallen asleep in his seat. Melony tried to sleep, but couldn’t, so she grabbed her sketchbook and decided to take the opportunity to start drawing Derek. She wouldn’t get much chance to draw someone where they would sit still like that, and she wanted the extra practice. She focused on her drawing. Since he was sitting so still, she wanted to get as many details as possible. Little lines by his eyes, the small dimples in his cheek, his scruff. 

She focused quite a lot on getting his lips right. Those beautiful, soft lips she felt on hers just the night before. 

"That's pretty good" said a voice right behind her. Melony jumped in her seat and quickly closed her sketchbook before looking up at who saw watching her draw. 

"Hotch... you startled me." 

"I'm sorry. It genuinely looks good. Do you draw us often?" Asked Hotch, who stood in the aisle of the plane, and leaned a hand on the back of Melony’s chair for some extra stability. 

"Quite a bit, actually. I like the practice. At the training they keep saying 'every detail matters, one small detail can change a face' and stuff like that. So, when I have the opportunity to take my time to draw as many details as possible, like now, I like taking them." 

"How is the training going?" 

"Pretty good. It is a lot, but I do enjoy it. I don't know if you have gotten a report on me yet, but I feel like I'm learning a lot." 

"I have gotten the first report. You've only started a few weeks ago, but they said you have great potential. You are a fast learner. And clearly you have already put in a lot of time to hone your skills." Hotch said with a gesture to her sketchbook. Melony smiled a bit, 

"I'm glad they can tell I try my hardest." 

"I'm glad you are trying your hardest," Hotch said, "We are very glad to have you on the team. Your sketches help a lot, and it is convenient to have you with us. It saves a lot of time." 

"I am happy to help where I can. I know I am not that great around crime scenes sometimes, so being able to help like this is nice." 

"Good." Hotch said and smiled at her. Melony smiled back and opened her sketchbook again. She wanted to flip to the right page to continue the drawing she was working on, but her boss stopped her, 

"What is that?" He asked, partly confused, but mostly amused. 

"What?" Melony asked. 

Hotch turned a few pages back to a different drawing. It was one of him, but he had a short beard and an earring. 

"Is that supposed to be me?" He asked. Melony smiled, a little embarrassed.  

"I, I sometimes do things like this as practice as well. Because small things can change a lot about a face, I like practicing with changing features to see what it would look like. It sometimes happens that people tell us the unsub has long blond hair, but they cut and dyed it by the time we arrest them. Or they shaved their beard." Melony explained. “Or like with this case, a scar on the cheek can change a face as well.” 

"Right. Is that something they told you to do in the course?" 

"Not really. They told us that it does happen, and to not blame yourself too much. But this is not a specific thing they want us to do." 

"Do you just focus on hair and earrings?" 

"No. Many small things can make a difference. So, I do a lot. For example," Melony flipped through her sketchbook to a different practice drawing she made, "JJ with very thick, dark eyebrows. Or, " she turned the page to another, "Gideon after Botox" she joked, showing a drawing of Gideon with very smooth, wrinkle-less skin. 

Hotch chuckled. "It does change a lot indeed. Any other funny ones?" He asked and sat down next to her. 

"Oh, plenty. But I have two favourites." Melony said, a bit excited and looked for the right drawing. Once she found it, she showed Hotch. It was a drawing of Reid, but she had given him a buzz cut, a snake tattoo on his neck and a big scar across his eye. 

"Wow. I hope we will never see him like that," Hotch said, holding back a little laugh. 

Melony smiled more and turned the page to her other favourite fun drawing. This time Hotch couldn't hold in his laughter, but he did try not to laugh too loudly so he wouldn't wake anyone who was trying to sleep. 

Melony showed him a drawing of Derek. He had a clean-shaven face. She had given him a beauty spot slightly above the right side of his mouth. His lips were darker, as if wearing lipstick, and plumper. His eyelashes were also more accentuated, as if wearing mascara. Most notably though, we the long, dark waves cascading down from the top of his head. 

"That is, ehm," Hotch cleared his throat, "a very different Morgan." 

"I call him Drag-Derek." 

Hotch chuckled. Morgan slightly turned to them and opened his eyes. 

"What are you guys laughing at?" He asked sleepily. 

"Nothing," Hotch said, "Pearson just showed me some funny pictures. We should be landing in about 15 minutes." Hotch got up, "Get home safely. Good work on the case, you both. Pearson," He looked at her, "thanks for the laughs." With that, he walked back to his previous seat further down the plane. Melony smiled, proud she made her boss laugh. 

"I'm sorry we woke you." She said to Derek. He shrugged,  

"It's fine. We need to get up soon anyway. Now I have a bit of time to wake up." He said and sat up. 

Melony put her sketchbook and pencils back in her backpack, 

"What kind of pictures did you show Hotch?" 

Melony smiled a bit, "It's nothing." 

"Hotch doesn't laugh. Not around us." 

Melony shrugged, "What can I say? Maybe I'm just funny." 

"What did you show him?" 

"That's between me and Hotch." Melony said with a little grin. 

Derek rolled his eyes a bit, "I'll figure it out." 

*

They soon landed and they went to the office to get some of the paperwork ready for the next day. 

"Don't worry about coming in early tomorrow. We all need some rest after that case." Gideon said, "take tomorrow off. We'll see you the day after." 

"Great, I could use some time to unwind" Derek said as he started grabbing his stuff. 

"Tell me about it" Elle agreed. 

"Me too" Melony said and grabbed her coat. She packed her last few things and walked towards her car. The others followed soon after and Derek joined her in the elevator. 

“Wanna come over tonight?” He asked her as they walked in the same direction towards their cars, “I made too many burritos, they are about to go bad.” He quickly added as an excuse, but Melony could tell from the look in his eyes what he was really after. 

“Sure,” She said with a little grin, “I’m always up for burritos. 

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Reignition, Pt. 4

Welcome to Part 4. Tissues required. We're almost to the end of the prologue, so get ready. Also, we're doing three uploads this week. Saturday we will begin Season 2 of Love, Eternal and go back to the present timeline.

CW: MC is afab, uses she/her pronouns. MC is human. MC is single. Depictions of nightmare.

Themes: nightmares, grieving reader, pining, jealousy, infatuation

Characters: MC="you", Lucifer, Mammon, Diavolo

Minors and ageless blogs DNI.

18+ only

Enjoy~

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"Don't touch me!"

"MC, wait."

"No, I will not play this game with you anymore. I'm done."

"Lucifer."

"I will use the pact if you don't stop."

Lucifer stepped toward you, "I dare you." You started to notice his demon form materializing, and his eyes were a menacing black, no longer their crimson hue.

Wait, this wasn't how it went.

"D-don't make me have to, Lucifer, y-you know I don't want t-to." You started to tremble.

"You clearly do, you want me to obey you, so use it. Make me your lap dog, make me do as you say so that you can be happy," he challenged. He took one more step toward you, and now there was little space between you two.

"What? Can't do it?" he mocked you. Your pact mark began to burn.

"I told you, you're mine. You'll always be mine, and I won't ever let you go, little birdy. Little slut of mine," Lucifer said, an awful smear of a smirk contorting his face. He bared his fangs, something he never did to you. He grabbed you by the shirt and pulled you up, your hands gripping his wrists.

"Mine."

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Your own screams woke you up. Sitting up in bed, you looked around. You had fallen asleep with your lamp on as you were reading for a class, a few nights after having felt uncomfortable in your room. It was a nightmare, one you could barely remember, and you felt how flushed and warm you were, a thin layer of moisture coating your back, neck, and chest. Tears filled your eyes, but you blinked them away, consoling yourself. You knew Mammon was out working late tonight, so you would just have to suffer alone this time.

Knock knock.

You didn't answer, because when you tried to, your voice got caught in your throat, choking a little. After clearing your throat, you saw who stood in your doorway, and instantly you froze.

Lucifer stood there staring at you, his chest rising and falling slightly faster than normal. It was as if he came down to see you as quickly as possible.

"Lucifer?"

He didn't reply, he just stood there staring at you.

"Did you need something? It's unlike you to just walk in here," you said.

"Ah, I apologize. I came to check on you," he replied. It was impulsive. He had heard your screams and instinctively felt the urge to check on you.

"That's nice of you, but..." you said, hesitating. "I thought I made it clear I didn't want you near me," you said quietly.

"Ah... right. I'll go," he replied.

When Lucifer closed the door on the way out, you finally let the tears fall and the sobs loose. It pained you to say that, it really did. He was coming to check on you, probably hearing your screams, and you told him to stay away. The pain was so bad, you clutched your chest. After a fit of sobs, you turned off your lamp and laid down, crying into your pillow, praying for it all to stop.

Lucifer barely took three steps from your door and heard your sobs. How badly he wanted to go back in there and comfort you, but he wasn't stupid, he knew he was the reason why you were so upset. And you told him you didn't want him in your presence, so he had to respect your wish.

He made the slow walk to his office, where he slumped into his desk chair and stared into space. Was he really content to go on like this? You were the one thing he cared about most in this world, and he absolutely ruined it with you. To have you only look at him when you absolutely had to, to only answer his questions and then hanging him to dry afterward, never indulging in idle chit-chat anymore, it was torturous.

A thought struck him. He suddenly pictured you hugging Diavolo earlier that day, and he analyzed what he remembered from the interaction. The way Diavolo looked at you was curious. Lucifer hadn't ever seen the prince give such a look to anyone. It was full of admiration and affection. And then you two hugged? When did you become so close with him? In those nights you stayed away from the House? Have I really driven her so far away, right into Diavolo's hands?

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Mammon returned home later than usual; work was such a hassle. When he walked into his room, he could immediately tell something was off, and when he looked around the corner to his bed, he saw you laying in the middle of it.

A while after your interaction with Lucifer, you decided to go sleep somewhere else, no longer feeling happy in your own bed.

With a sigh, Mammon changed and returned, looking you over. You were clutching his pillow like your life depended on it, your face buried in it. Did she have a nightmare? Or did Lucifer pull somethin'? he thought to himself. He grabbed the pillow you weren't holding onto and placed it in his spot and slid in next to you. Laying on his side, he looked you over. Your breathing was normal, your face peaceful.

"Sleep well, MC," he murmured, brushing your hair back over your shoulder.

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Over the next few weeks, you tried to maintain normalcy. You went to your classes, kept up your studies, spoke with the eldest when you had to and always with kindness, and overall, just tried to make it through without breaking down. You still kept your distance at home, which saddened the six younger brothers because it usually meant you were distant with them too, only staying for a few minutes at a time if they happened to be with the eldest.

For Lucifer, it was torture. To see you so composed with him and for you to continue on as normal, it hurt his pride. He knew you were hurting deep inside, but he was demoted to just another pawn in your life in his eyes. He missed the times that you would look at him with such adoration, or how you would sneak touches with him during RAD, or the erotic nights you shared together. When he considered all of these things, he realized that what he really missed was your friendship as well. Sure, the sex and physical aspects were bar none. He missed your sweet gestures, like making him hell coffee and how truly bitter it was, or helping him organize his files in the office, or making sure he ate dinner if he forgot while dealing with the ever-growing mountain of work he had. Whenever you were feeling chatty, you'd come talk to him about things from the human world, never expecting him to respond, but you just wanted to keep him company while he worked. You respected his boundaries, never prying into things he was clearly uncomfortable with or always asking if it was okay to do anything with him.

He fucked up. Royally.

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As time ticked on, Lucifer softened with you again. You noticed it right away when you, Lucifer, and Diavolo had to work on implementing the policy changes you had created after they were finalized by the council. Diavolo made it clear to follow your direction, and you experienced no obstructions on Lucifer's behalf of the project.

"MC, here's the RAD handbook sample you ordered," Lucifer said, handing it to you and standing in front of your table. You were sitting in your spot in the council room, so you had somewhere quiet to work, and it was just you and the eldest.

You had changed the design of the book cover and had it enchanted so that whoever was reading it, read the rules and policies in their preferred language, now including human languages. As you looked it over, you were rather satisfied with how it came out.

A thought struck, and you were rather unsure of whether or not to extend the olive branch, you had no reason to, but you couldn't help but wonder.

"What do you think?" you asked quietly, handing the book to Lucifer.

Lucifer's eyes flicked up to yours, seeing you were actually gazing at him. He could see your guard was up, but you were truly asking his opinion. You hadn't given him such attention when it was just the two of you in almost a month.

"I rather like the cover design you chose. The policies are thorough and clear. I think the language hex was a smart idea considering we are wanting to bring together the three realms. I would say it's a vast improvement to what we had before you came along," he replied.

"Thank you, I appreciate your words. I'm happy with this sample, I think I'll send it to Diavolo for his final approval, and then we can start putting it to production," you stated. Internally, you had flinched there at the end of his explanation. High praise from him still felt good, but simultaneously now stung.

When Lucifer handed the book back to you, your hand grazed his and you immediately dropped it, causing the book to create a loud thud as it hit the table. You actually flinched this time, and your eyes were immediately cast down.

"I-I'm sorry, I-"

"Don't worry about it," Lucifer said calmly. Truthfully, when your hand touched his, he was caught off-guard as well, but to see you react in such a way hurt him further.

There was a painfully awkward silence between you two, and so you stood and grabbed the book,

"I'm just going to take this to Diavolo now," you said.

"MC, I-" Lucifer started to say.

You ignored him and walked quickly out of the room, to Diavolo's office. When you were out in the hall you were gasping for air, as if you were suffocating before you could leave. Somewhat, yes, you felt suffocated when you were around him, because there were so many things you wanted to say but didn't. Couldn't. Shouldn't. You were unsure of how demons dealt this sort of thing, being broken up with, but you surely didn't want to add to anything with Lucifer, so it was best to remain silent on the matter.

Once calmed down, you went into Diavolo's office without knocking, as his door was open. You approached with your book in hand. Diavolo was sitting at his desk working, and he finally looked up at you when you cleared your throat.

"I'm sorry to bother you, but I have something for you," you stated.

"You're never a bother to me, MC," Diavolo said smoothly with a sly smile. Your eyes widened a little at his response to you, and you fought the uneasiness you felt in your chest. "What do you have for me?" He stood and came around the desk to see what you had.

You held out the book to the prince, "This is the sample I had ordered for the policy handbook with all the final changes I made. Lucifer approved it, as have I, so I just need your approval and we can have it sent for production," you said.

This time, when Diavolo grabbed it, his fingers grazed yours, lingering for just a half-second. The warmth that came from his hand was inviting to you. You fidgeted slightly as they slipped away from you.

Diavolo looked the book over, inspecting it thoroughly and you stood there patiently waiting for him to finish. Satisfied, he closed it and placed it on his desk, "I think this is wonderful, MC. You've done an excellent job with your improvements, so I approve of its production when you're ready," he stated. You smiled brightly and nodded.

"Thank you, I'll get right on that. I can't wait for everyone to see it. I'm rather excited," you beamed.

"You should be proud of yourself. I know this was quite the project to undertake but I knew you were the right one for the job," Diavolo said, smiling back at you.

Your cheeks flushed a little at his words and sincerity. "You're too kind, Diavolo. I was happy to do it. I think it will be a good addition to the program, not just for exchange students. And I think it will help the integration of students be a smoother process," you replied diplomatically.

The Demon Lord smiled down at you, and then found his cheeks to be burning. Both of you were rather close in proximity, and there was this pull toward you that he felt. You were like a planet with your own gravity that reeled him in anytime he was in your orbit. Your words made his mind race as it seemed like you were fully invested in the success of RAD and the Devildom as a whole, which meant a great deal to him.

"You're amazing, did you know that MC?" Diavolo asked, his face softened now.

You let out a puff of air in amusement and tilted your head, "Only when you remind me, Diavolo."

He leaned in just a little closer and lowered his voice, almost like a purr, "I should like to remind you more often, then."

Your eyes remained on his as you considered his words, and your brows furrowed slightly as you thought. In the corner of your vision, you saw his arm move, to which you quickly looked down and saw his hand slowly reach towards yours, and you made no move to get away.

His fingers lightly grazed yours again, purposefully this time, and as you watched them, Diavolo was watching for your reaction. You didn't look uncomfortable or uneasy, to him at least. He could sense your heart beating faster now, whereas before it was a steady thrum.

As if they were moving on their own, your fingers twitched toward his, lightly dancing around each other, but never lingering or intertwining. After a good minute of this, you looked back up at Diavolo, and he was studying you. Something different was held in those golden irises of his. Was it desperation? No, something warmer, sweeter. Infatuation, you realized.

Unbeknownst to the two of you, Lucifer was witnessing all of this in the open door to Diavolo's office, and neither of you realized he was even standing there, too immersed in each other's gazes. Lucifer fought every jealous nerve in his whole body as he watched the entire ordeal.

You slipped your fingers in with Diavolo's, more confidently now, and let your fingertips dance along his palm. Finally, you let his large hand engulf your smaller one. Your breathing became shallow with the move, nervous and excited with what was happening. Diavolo raised his eyebrows, surprised, but he was also excited with this development, feeling his own heart rate picking up now.

With a little sharp inhale, you pulled away and turned your head the side, blushing fiercely.

"I'm sorry, I don't know what's wrong with me," you whispered.

"No... I liked it," Diavolo stated, already missing the feeling of your hand in his. He was confused by your sudden change in behavior, and he was trying to piece together what you were feeling.

"You did?" you quickly turned to look at him again, eyes wide.

"I wouldn't mind if you did it again," Diavolo replied. Is she unhappy? Embarrassed? Humans are indeed complicated, he thought.

You froze. It was hard to decisively say what you felt in that moment, because there were just too many things circling in your head. You liked it, that much was true, but you were scared by the interaction, the intimacy behind holding his hand. It felt like it was too soon, you were still trying to heal, but you wanted to touch Diavolo more, feel more of him.

"Is this a bad time?"

The familiar deep rumbling voice came from the doorway, interrupting your thoughts, and your head snapped to it. Lucifer was standing there, you weren't sure for how long, and he didn't look entirely pleased.

Like a shot, you bolted from the office, dodging Lucifer as he walked toward where you and Diavolo had been standing.

Diavolo groaned internally, dragging his hand down his face in frustration. You were so close and now you were gone, thinking hell knows what about what just happened.

"No, I guess not, Lucifer," Diavolo said with his eyes closed, pinching the bridge of his nose.

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