#Legit this one page killed me I don't know if I can do more (no one's forcing me to)

[viliantropy-art]

test. this single page has murdered me

[inkskinned]

hey it's nanowrimo. i have tips bc i've done it about 34 times.

Don't edit. Ever. Stop it. If you just decide to start a new project half thru this one with all new characters, no problem. pick up and keep writing as if you'd already written the first half of that.

"but i spelled it wrong" whatever. "but the grammar" whatever. make it exist first. no time for sense. think like you're working on a typewriter. no backspace. only forward go.

Don't re-read further than a paragraph or two backwards. "did i mention the gun before?" listen - it doesn't matter. if you need there to be a gun there, the gun is there. put it back in once you finish the book.

"i forgot the specifics of X thing i already wrote" whatever. change it, make a note/comment to figure it out later, and just write what makes sense for the moment. "no raquel it's legit the characters name and origin" idc that character is now reborn as Claudius from Elsewhere. it's fine.

only you see your mistakes. nobody else knows. one of the ways writing and dance overlap - only you know the choreography. nobody else will know if you miss a step, so just keep dancing and pretend you meant to do it like that.

it's an illusion that you need to write linearly - from point A to point B to point C. Nah; that's just timeline propaganda. I've written a LOT of books out of order and just reordered them once i've finished. if you have a scene you'd LOVE to write but can't get there yet because of plot, just fuckin write the scene. I've always found its easier to establish "point F" "point J" and "Point A" and then wiggle my way between those scenes.

write what you WANT to write. 230 pages of smut? of well-researched discussion on bread? whatever. the point is to strengthen muscles however you can.

if you miss a day, a week, whatever. not the end of the world. we all have dry days. also time is a myth so u can do this challenge whenever u want.

as soon as you try to write for a specific audience, you kill your voice. you are writing for yourself. stop thinking about how people will take ur book. it don't matter. what matter is u, enjoying writing. i luv u.

play to your strengths. i have characters talk so much because i don't know how to write a plot if it kills me but i'm really good at dialogue so.

i love a flight of fancy. write a poem in there. shift tactics and write in code. keep it fun for yourself.

see what happens if you shift something major about ur main characters - gender, wealth, superpowers. or if you change point-of-view. or if you kill everyone in a big explosion. do NOT edit anything before this or after it. often these little weird one-off exercises teach me what interests me about what i'm working on. it is never what i thought. plus it is a fun way to add like 1k words.

stretch.

it's for fun and for practice. stop doing that project if it's giving you anxiety. once my nano was literally 50k words of half-started stories. just things i tried and tried and tried and wasn't able to flesh out. oops. but i am now 50k words of a better writer.

add dragons?

read books/listen to books on tape/etc. people often make the mistake of "buckling down" to just write. you need inspiration. you need to like. fill up on words. you need to remember how it feels to lose yourself in a story.

i don't have the time or space to really talk about this in this post but a lot of creative people turn to drugs/alcohol because it can help you be more creative. this is harmful, and walking a blade that only cuts deep. if you notice you and your loved ones are turning more to substances, please know i love you and i hope you are able to get help soon. i feel like this almost never gets mentioned because it's kind of a hazy underbelly to art. you are always more important than the work.

on that note. drink your fukin. water.

don't talk about a story until you've finished it. once you tell the story, it exists already, and isn't about discovery. i usually have a very canned "haha we'll see" response.

grapes :) tasty snack.

i love you be free.

[bibibbon]

MHA chapter 419 rant

What the actual hell is this chapter ?!?!?!? What is going on horikoshi?!?!??

So suprise AFO IS BACK👎👎👎 seriously what the hell I knew he was gonna come back but he is so boring and I hate him as a villain like wdym you only pulling up with a plan that failed multiple times cos you have thing for your brother like!?!? The doctor and the hero comission could of been better villains. My point still stands AFO being the main bad guy even though this mf was killed and injured by everyone is lame and stupid 😭. Like can AFO just disappear out of existence already like?!?! Also I really doubt that dfo is true considering this guy just loves to act like a season 1 bakugo and call Izuku useless every breathing moment he gets. Also at this point afo out here using shigaraki like a wet human suit thing and that's it

Shigaraki is dead?!?!!!? Vile. Y'all telling me that shigaraki is basically dead this guy basically killed himself after a little fight (it wasn't little that's a hyperbole it was huge he deserves better than this disservice) sigh so shigaraki died with all his memories and the truth of his own origin which is completely sad and wow the amount of retconning for this is insane. Wdym to tell me that AFO needed someone emotionally weak to take advantage of so he chose kotaro, befriended the guy and manipulated him into having Tenko and then used Tenko as his little thing to make the perfect vessel!?!???!? DAM SHIGARAKI IAM SORRRY HORI DID YOU LIKE THIS

Izuku lost two arms and is getting the worst end of the stick as always. As an izuku Stan this isn't it for me like what are you telling me that HE LOST TWO ARMS AND THEN PEOPLE DO COME BUT I AINT SEEING NONE TRYNA HELP THIS GUY. ALSO IZUKU IS NOW ARMLESS AND QUIRKLESS WHATS GOOD ON HERE??!?????!?!? Also looks like izuku out here being the only one who doesn't actually get a full heart to heart with their villain at least ochako and toga were treated better and got that little sob scene where they called eachothers names out and what not but izuku and shigaraki gotta be sentenced to pure suffering for no reason 🤦‍♀️. Also the whole page is Hella and I mean Hella creepy and off like wth is this it's too gory (I know that's not valid criticism but this is my opinion) Izuku out here being the only one who can't be a proper hero like the guy couldn't even stand up to AFO unlike bk this is just mountains and mountains of disrespect and disservice . SOMEONE CHECK UP ON POOR INKO AND IZUKU

The quirks the backstory the things?!?!. So basically overhaul had the oh quirk or whoever the guy in the picture manga panel thingy which looks like OVERHAUL. This guy had an op quirk like he had the power of destruction and reconstruction but then afo takes that away and then has the doctor somehow somehow genetically modify it ( istg i still dont know how that works or how he could do that) and then TOOK SHIGARAKIS OG QUIRK WHICH (what was his og quirk we arent ever told) and then proceedes to set this child who wanted to be a hero for pure failure. Also what is going on with AFO and kotaros relationship and why does the description of kotaro being mentally/emotionally weak heavily remind me of inko midoriya. Also the RETCON LIKE OH AFO IS LIKE HAVE A KID FOR ME OR SOME BS AND HE HAS A KID AND THEN KOTARO APPARENTLY FULLY LOVES HIS FAMILY HOWEVER IT LOOKS LIKE KOTARO LOVES AFO More THAN HIS FAMILY

Eraserhead making a comeback and finally apologising (or not). I mean at least Eraserhead is back and apologising to his student for failing to be a teacher to him which ok cool cliffhanger I guess. Also where is mic I don't think I can take it if mic is secretly off screened especially cos Eraserhead is crying why is the guy crying like is he crying for izuku which dam as he should your student is dying but he was legit shouting left and right for bakugo 🤷‍♀️. Also Eraserhead has a lot of apologies for izuku considering how he treated the poor dude. ALSO DOES THIS MEAN OBORO IS BACK TO THE PLOT SOMEHOW ( I love oboro) but how does this work how did it happen how did he break free Iam so confused did much due for oboro or something.

Sato, ojirou and sero out here coming in clutch. but none y'all running to see if izuku ain't gonna die from blood loss or something. Cool entry I guess everyone can take a good fight with AFO but Izuku because hori doesn't like izuku and izuku just sucks!!!. I get it 1A is too big so hori out here needing to give everyone their little moments but like?!?! This just makes afo seem so weak it first went from only all might being the one to even fouch and defeat afo and now its everyone thats not the ofa users which great (sarcasm if you couldn't tell). ALSO THIS MOMENT DONT WORK BECAUSE IZUKU LACKS DEVELOPMENT AND SO DOES 1A and their whole dynamic?!?!?!!!!!???!

I Have ALREADY SEEN THE SHIGARAKI MIGHT COMEBEACK COS AFO CAN HEAR HIS ECHO BUT I DONT WANT HIM BACK AND IF HE DOES HE SHOULD DIE WITH IZUKU COS I GENUINELY GIVE UP

In conclusion, I hope both izuku and shigaraki die and izuku to be remembered as the greatest hero and that's it honestly!!

[sayakxmi]

[Magi reread] Night 13: Magician of World Creation

I should, once again, go the fuck to sleep, but, like. One more chapter.

You're a lazy, spoiled piece of shit of a person who believes that just because you're rich or whatever-the-fuck-else, then suddenly the world owes you something.

Oh my sweet summer child. (Also, trying to recognize Aladdin's silhouette).

Rest in pieces.

Ok, but can we, like, fucking talk for a second that ALIBABA FUCKING DODGED MORGIANA'S KICK. Like, how fast was that kick. Was she, like, going a bit slower, because she didn't want to kill him? Because, like, we know she doesn't, but also holy shit. What are these reflexes, Alibaba. Fr tho, she definitely wasn't going all out, but still.

Oh, drop that smile, asshole. You did literally nothing.

Also, I lowkey recall something about Ohtaka saying that Morgiana wears no underwear, and I am incapable of not thinking about it seeing this pose.

An attempt is being made.

Ok, Alibaba can pull tricks here and there, but he looks genuine here, and I actually believe that he is. Like, Balbadd was notably that one country (sans Sindria) where slavery was illegal, so for Alibaba slavery wasn't an everyday thing until he had to run from Balbadd. Like, don't get me wrong, he's absolutely trying to appeal to Morgiana, because she's dangerous, but he means it when he says that she should fight for her freedom, and we know he wouldn't use her, period. He tried to use Aladdin, and look what happened - total failure, because he just isn't the type of person that's capable of using others.

You tried, gold star.

Damn, Alibaba is just never living his best life. Also, you ever think how most Households don't like or are a literal danger to their Kings?

Also, now I'm kind of wondering, cuz I don't recall whether Morgiana's ever apologized for it. Like, don't get me wrong, I don't blame her, and I know neither would Alibaba, he's ridiculously forgiving, but, like, I wonder if she felt bad later on. Probably? To both Alibaba and Aladdin, honestly, though Aladdin, too, definitely doesn't blame her. But, like, I just wonder.

Can somebody, please, punch Jamil 2.0.

Man, I could use some Alibaba Angst rn, but, sadly, I'd have to write it myself. But oh well. But also, damn, that's a lot of blood.

Also, no, he doesn't think he can use her, because he has no intention of using her, fuck off.

Is Alibaba's blood literally splattering here

Congrats, you literally kicked a guy who was already down - no thanks to you, might I add.

I really wish Morgiana's trauma had a bit more focus, ngl.

Everybody's lives are sad as shit. But goddammit.

The boy has awoken.

Fuck the both of you, actually - Aladdin, probably.

Alibaba, after being thrown onto a stone pillar by a Fanalis, and then kicked several times by that one asshole, to the point of splattering his blood on the guy's face: I'm ok, you be careful :) (I love him)

Morgiana still processing what happened (fair). And Alibaba, that is the definition of not being ok.

Birbs.

Also, no, seriously, I legit need some fanfic of the three of them kinda processing what happened there, but, like, in hindsight. When it was happening it was all scary and very tense and all that, but once things are calmer, just kinda looking back at the shit that happened there.

More birds, and also Alibaba, you are NOT ok.

Firs of all, Jamil's about to be fucking surprsied. Second of all, damn, Alibaba, you were hit damn hard.

It's been several pages & bro still can't stand up. Which makes perfect sense, but damn.

Hell yeah, fuck his shit up.

What can I say except !!!!!!!!!!

The fuck do you mean photo limit. I had to delete two photos to fit the remaining ones.

Ok, but Aladdin looks like a badass here.

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[lemonhemlock]

What do you think about some of Asoiaf antagonists like Euron , Littlefinger , Varys , bloodraven Tywin , Roose?

some controversial opinions!

i like a lot of these antagonists actually! euron is one of my faves, absolutely unhinged and genuinely scary? one of the few undeniably evil characters george included in the books, like, i don't think euron has one redeeming quality to his name. but he's sort of mesmerizing? his actions make me sick but also leave me wanting more?? also he can be really funny and full of shit, which makes characters more enjoyable for me. love euron!!! hope lord leyton whoops his arse!!!! (fervently praying to the seven) euron is The One villain i couldn't possibly woobify even if i tried, so props to him he truly is *the one by shakira starts playing*

littlefinger & varys i can't really stand. i appreciate them for comic relief (always down for a good joke) but their meddling in westerosi affairs i find very exhausting & pugnacious. like, i realise everyone is out here for themselves, so, in that sense, them being self-serving shouldn't bother me the way it does, but i can't with these two. littlefinger is a naked opportunist and, while i can admire that trait in other characters, his sleaziness and lack of charisma put me off, so into the trash bin he goes.

varys i have an even bigger problem with. generally-speaking sanctimoniousness and moral righteousness are triggers for me and i can't really stand characters that are Like That. i legit fight with people who exhibit those traits in real life, like, i am an aries so i do not back down lol you'll die with me around your neck. there has to be something else in that character to balance out these things that annoy me, i guess, but varys didn't manage to make the cut, bc that is the entirety of his personality, i'm afraid. this may ruffle some feathers but i think that his scheme with young griff, real or not, is essentially morally bankrupt, in that he's out there role-playing the head of a research institute sending out his agents into the world to carry out this political experiment that may or may not work, but will have a huge body count regardless. it's very callously cynical to me, but he expects to be congratulated on how ideologically pure and morally unsullied he is - i think that's what drives me up the wall.

i know that people really want young griff to be real but varys' grand master plan is to destabilize a country, intentionally plunge it into a civil war that'll get a lot of people killed, in order to facilitate what would be another war of conquest undertaken under aegon vi's banners. instead of trying to actively improve the lives of the common people, since he's on the small council. he's still focusing on power plays and on plots with this brainwashed belief that he's doing it for the good of the people. but is he? he doesn't even know young griff. what if he turns out to be some bad apple; how is varys to know? idk i just cannot get behind it. and i don't think the author will eventually condone this message or plot as righteous either bc i don't see how aegon's reign will last. i think varys is the type of person dead-set in their belief that their actions are for The Greater Good in a the-ends-justify-the-means kind of way, but, ultimately what he truly cares more about is being Right TM - i.e. having his hypothesis proven to be true. clinical, cold researcher/mad scientist vibes.

for roose bolton i couldn't possibly mount a defense even if i were so inclined, but i do enjoy him as a character. i think he's very funny? lmao this sounds very obnoxious after i just tore varys a new arsehole but roose is unquestionably a villain, so there's no need to pretend like he's contributing to the good of society or anything. whereas with varys there is that element to him, perhaps why i find him annoying and roose i do not. roose has some great one-liners - he was funny in the show and he's funny on the page. absolutely awful but enjoyable for what he is.

for tywin i will not be writing any significant meta until i wrap up my last phd chapter and do a proper re-read bc i do not have energy to get into that disk horse right now. i know people hate him but yes he is one of my faves. with tywin i find that he generates three types of commentaries - either people hate his guts and see everything he does in a villainous lens or he attracts the sort of dudebro fan who idolizes the ground he walks on in a v silly way. the third way is the few people who might want to attempt to see him as more three-dimensional, but, because they don't want to get attacked, they preface their commentaries with disclaimers and apologies and messages that they absolutely do not condone his actions, so much so that the observations kind of get lost along the way. i'm neither. i want enlightened centrist meta on tywin lannister. i'm a chill tywin enjoyer, an aficionado of Machiavelli deconstructions. i'd lighten up the mood a little with my quirky takes. but anyway i don't really have time for that kind of fight and tywin himself would tell me to stop procrastinating and get my work done so i'll have to listen to Daddy i guess!!!

EDIT: oohhh i forgot about bloodraven. i'm gonna be contrarian about this one bc i really don't like it when george shoves his fave characters down my throat. i can FEEL that he really wants me to like bloodraven and the blackwoods, just like he wants me to like daemon the rogue prince. and it's annoying sorry old man. i don't think bloodraven is supposed to be written as 100% evil (george wouldn't do that to one of his faves) so his human life is supposed to be guided by some moral principles - i believe that he believed he was servicing the realm with his anti-blackfyre stance and surveillance regime and i believe that even the author intends that to be true to some extent. however, i can't say the same thing about his time as a magical tree. that's just some creepy AF shit. his luring of bran, i see that as magical corruption. bran is mostly a victim in all of this, but he is kind of tainted for me as a character now, bc i don't see how anyone could be 'redeemed' after dabbling in dark magicks like that, willingly or unwillingly. it would feel like a betrayal to how magic has been approached in the books so far - like a force you have to pay a high price for if you want to access it & not necessarily a bringer of peace and harmony either. that being said!!! if we ever got a blackfyre timeline show & bloodraven was played by this dark, sylphidine, mysterious, brooding albino twink......................i am not immune!

[dearwysteria]

Good morning! How are you? I'm okay for the most part, I couldn't wait to talk to you though, so excuse if you'll be recieving this silly little ask at like, four in the morning or something, I just HAD TO SHARE THIS THOUGHT/AU! When I remembered you also watched BSD, I knew I needed to gush about it with you:)

So, you know this Fyodor Chinatown card right? Well for some reason I was thinking about it and, since I don't play the game and have only seen the cards on Tiktok and Youtube Shorts, that means I vaguely visualize them in my head, so I LEGIT THOUGHT HE WAS A FUCKING VAMPIRE-

Upon finding out he wasn't, the idea still haunted me, therefore I put two and two together and mixed it with another AU I have!

-So, this could be considered post-cannon, where Sigma and Nikolai join the ADA, and Fyodor's just, there, they also adopted Q and Bram is still very much staying at their shared apartment.

-Also, I've already posted the headcannon on my page that Sigma sees Fyodor as a father, because well, he wrote him, so he regurarly calls him "Papa" and it's not long before Q starts calling him that too!

-One troublesome night with the full moon, a russian man seems to be having some sort of fever, and tosses and turns in his bed until he falls out of it, startled, he looks in the mirror to see glowing crimson eyes, pointy elf-like years and fangs, and runs to Bram after a few seconds of shock, obviously a little shocked by the sight, he says that he was absolutely not involved in this and calms Fyodor down a little. His eyes return to a fuchsia and with an attempted headpat, he stays to ask Bram whatever comes to mind, and he discovers he's a different kind of vampire, which alerts him, understandably so.

-The next day, he tries to go out with a robe over his head because "no one can see me like this!" Bram says he's overthinking it and orders him to go change, that's how he got the "Chinatown look" minus the celio, Sigma and Nikolai comment on his style change and he drops them off to the Agency and wanders around town. In the evening, he enters a bar to meet two peculiar acquatances, AKA, friends that don't want to kill him, those being Yosano and Chuuya, they had met by coincidence and got drunk, they're besties now, anyway, they also comment on the major changes in his appearance with: "We match!" -Yosano, upon seeing the hairclip, "You look like Kouyou."-Chuuya, seeing his kimono and jacket, such lively friends.

-Few days later, while Sigma and the others were fighting an ability user and Fyodor was sitting on a far away rooftop, hearing his name, crimson eyes were back and he subcounsously aided them and took the monstrous beast down with one hand, eyes going back to normal he seemed confused by this, as was everyone else that witnessed the midnight scene, he had some explaing to do. After hesitantly saying more or less what happened, this brought surprise to everyone's faces, including Dazai's, questions overlapped each other worriedly, yup, he had a long day ahead of him, really long. After discussing with Fukuzawa, the man who welcomed them into the ADA, a decision was made, he would officially become an employee, there were already signs he wanted Dostoevsky under his wing, this was the perfect opportunity to show him the light he lost.

-That same evening, Chuuya got informed of the situation, at first, fast blabbering came, then, worry for Fyodor's uncontrolled strength and then, he offered his full support and help to him, "That's what friends do, Fyo!" needless to say he was very relived and glad, Yosano sheepishly suggested they start experimenting right away, huh, a bell sound was heard in his head at the word, curious, he brushed it off and drank into the night with chatter between the three, and laughs.

-[FYOZAI + MENTIONS OF BITING!] At a meeting with Bram, where Dazai rudely inserted himself in, Fyodor was asked to bite something, by the way the other dectetive was acting, taunting, flirting with him and watnot, he did Bram's request out of spite, Dazai was a silently pink mess, looking at him and then at the ground, speechless, Bram began shouting, "NOT HIM YOU IDIOT!", "YOU TOLD ME TO BITE SOMETHING!", "YEAH, LIKE A FRUIT!" "WELL SAY SO NEXT TIME!". This left the ex-mafia member to question everything and anything like, omg Fedya actually made a comeback? And... why did it feel good..? Wasn't he supposed to feel pain? (Yes, biting has the same weird feels logic as VNC, minus the rose markings.) Has he gone mad? Did Fedya inject some sort of poison into him by doing that?

-Less than twenty-four hours later, Dazai did not hesitate to become more physically clingy to him, perhaps out of spite or for feelings that inevitably came back two years later and were stronger than ever, by being annoyingly insistant, he finds out the existence of his pointy ears, and the dickhead calls everyone out to see, and Fyodor must admit, he felt a little embarrassed at the sudden attention on him, Yosano pulling him away jockingly by the collar of his puffy jacket, the others laughing at the comical display before them, that he was later able to break free of, and the day went by quicker than expected too. At night time, a sleep-deprived Dazai was flabbergasted by the scarlet-eyed figure sitting between an open window and the bandaged man's room, "I knew you weren't a fan of slumber but I didn't think it would be this bad" the creature stated and proceeded to sit on the brunette's back until he finally fell asleep minutes after.

-Attending another meeting, with Fukuzawa this time, he discovered his vampiic reflexes, by stopping a granede that was directed at the man, breaking it effortlessly, ordering everyone to immediately evacuate the building because a bomb was set underneath it, roundhouse kicking the hell out of the enemy's bodyguards, with a ONE PUNCHHH to knock some more out, and rescuing three-four civilians, holding them Noé style and speeding towards a safe place. Afterwards, he was proclaimed the ADA's bodyguard by his co-workers, a task he'd fulfill flawlessly and perfectly on time, one time though, Mori and Fukuzawa were gripping to the roof of the building to avoid immediate death, and he saved the ADA's director but not the Port Mafia boss, sure he didn't enjoy him as a person, though he didn't harbor hatred towards the man, he heard about the trauma he inflicted on both Yosano and Dazai, it didn't directly affect him at all though, it had nothing to do with him whatsoever, he barely knew him, he was obviously a complete stranger to him, right?

-The calm before the storm ended precisely that night, when he had his hands in his hair and was kneeling down in unbearable pain, fangs and scarlet eyes visible yet again, caressed by the moon's blue light, on the roof of whatever house, they were his favorite spot now, there was something terribly wrong, as if something was crushing him. Expirements.... a doctor in a coat extending his hand towards a violette haired kid... screaming children begging for him... the boy immobilized by chains and so much blood... mama giving him a hat... mama bleeding on the floor as the doctor stood over his shoulder... "You killed her Fyodor, you sinning child." and he laughed. Little Fyodor seeing him leave and after some time, escaping the facility and fleeing in snow... they're all DEAD. Nana's(Papa)... no, MORI's looming figure appearing in front of him before his strength left him and he blacked out, laying unconsous on the roof, helplessly hurting.

Lemme know if you want more!

Sorry for a late reply, school ;-; I'm feeling good thanks for asking, though the dread of school work is always there. Usually I would be up at ungodly hours and probably responded earlier, but exhaustion caught up to me T^T

Now that you mentioned it Fyodor does look like a vampire in that card XD It's the hairclip honestly, I almost thought that was his ear. (Always love the Fyodor, Shibusawa, Yosano, Kouyou, and Gin mayoi cards. They always look so pretty in them Q^Q)

Vampire Fyodor Au!! Canonically, his pale and sickly appearance is due to his anemia, which definitely makes this au so much more interesting. Since anemia results from a lack of red blood cells or dysfunctions ones, I would think that he drinks blood to help treat his amemia. Blood transfusions are on of the ways to help treat anemia, so drinking blood would probably help him. I'm not too sure, since I'm not a doctor nor am I well versed in anything to do with diseases and anything medical.

DOA (Minus Fukuchi for obvious reasons) being a family and them having adopted Q makes my heart happy. They're definitely a dysfunctional family, but they love each other so it's alright. Bram is basically acting as the father figure to Fyodor. Fyodor being the dad with Sigma and Q being his children!! Nikolai is that one weird cousin or the "cool" uncle XD Sigma, Fyodor, and Bram are definitely the voices of reason, though in the end it's definitely Sigma, much to his dismay. Nikolai and Q are just gremlin children who always manages to be either a) in trouble, b) is trouble, c) the cause of trouble, or d) all of the above. Bram definitely lets Aya visit, and she would be dragged into whatever ridiculous schemes Nikolai and Q come up with.

Fyodor is now very fancy XD He'll definitely pop out a lot more. Him going grocery shopping in that outfit and other people are like wtf, but at the same time they're used to this weird stuff since Yokohama is full of weird ability users.

Fukazawa has brought in another troubled stray. He wants to help him like with Dazai aw.

THE FYOZAI STUFF- It's giving me seratonin! :D Fyodor biting Dazai as a comeback for pure spite lmaoo. Dazai becoming clingy after that happens is such a mood. AND FYODOR GOING TO DAZAI'S PLACE AND MAKES SURE HE'S SLEEPING 😭

Is that a One Punch man reference 👀

Oof, the end got me, poor Fyodor. :( He needs comfort immediately.

Mori sucks as always, which always makes me think that even if he is a necessary evil, it really does not excuse his past actions before becoming the Port Mafia boss.

This au has made me remember Fyodor's costume party card. With the amount of bats around him, he might as well be an actual vampire XD

[casspurrjoybell-27]

Claimed by the Beast - Chapter 17b

*Warning Adult Content*

Rejection - Part 2

- Everett -

"I'm sorry for what I said," Everett starts.

"I didn't mean to imply anything about your parental skills..."

"It's fine," Josie cuts him off and smiles.

"You're upset. All's forgiven." "I really don't deserve your kindness."

Everett sighs.

"Jackal or not, it's still fucked up knowing someone's getting murdered not far from where you sleep. I get this may have become your norm over time but it isn't mine and it never will be..." he pauses when his mind walks him back to the chaos going on outside.

Is it happening right now, the torture and killing?

Does Knox use his bare hands or tools?

Maybe both?

Everett shakes his head quickly, tossing the twisted thoughts aside.

"It's one thing knowing what Knox is but it's something completely different when you actually witness it firsthand," Everett finishes.

"God, I can still hear that man's screams and then the silence that followed after... Knox did whatever the hell he did to him."

"I've seen and heard things around here that I wish I hadn't," Josie confesses.

"Tonight was undoubtedly a bad night. I wish I had better advice for you but I prefer to be honest rather than sugarcoat shit, so I'll just say it, there's no magic way to process what you've seen and heard. Moving on from it won't be easy but it is possible. As for the how... well, that's something you'll have to figure out on your own. Just remember you're not alone. I'm here for you."

"I think I might've legit gone crazy by this point had we never met," Everett says.

"Thanks for talking me down from the edge again. Feels like I should start paying you for your time." Josie laughs.

"You can pay me back by babysitting."

"Deal." Everett smiles.

"When are you due?"

"Three months from now," Josie answers while rubbing her swollen belly.

"I look bigger than I should because I eat a lot. I thought I'd be self-conscious about the new weight gain but Gavin... I don't know. That man is insatiable. His hands are on me every free chance he gets."

Everett chuckles and goes to respond but then Knox appears at the opened door and it's like all good things immediately gets sucked out of the room.

He glances at Josie and jerks his head to the side, signaling for her to leave.

She gives Everett a call-if-you-need-me stare before standing to go.

She whispers something to Knox in passing, then gently closes the door after herself.

"This your new room?" Knox asks quietly.

"I don't know. I just wanted my own space for tonight," Everett says.

"Sorry if that makes you upset."

"I'm not upset. I'm..." Knox stops himself but Everett wishes he'd kept going.

"Are you afraid of me now?"

"It's complicated."

"In what way?"

"I don't know how to answer that at the moment."

They stare at each other and say nothing more.

A beat passes, then two, then three and it's Knox who decides to swallow his pride and pain to take advantage of what little time he has left with Everett.

"Are you patching me up or am I doing it myself?" Knox asks, referring to his semi-injured arm.

His actions tonight have clearly rubbed Everett the wrong way, so much that they're now sleeping apart.

For a moment, Knox thought they were on the same page.

Obviously, he was wrong.

He had it wrong from the start and now he's paying the price for it.

Everett's rejection hurts more than getting shot.

"My bathroom is pretty bare with supplies, so we'll have to go to your room."

Everett follows Knox out of the door and into their old room, still unable to fully meet his gaze.

He orders the man to sit on the toilet while he sets up the supplies on the sink.

"Is your arm hurting you any?"

"You refusing to look me in the eye hurts a hell of a lot more," Knox answers.

Everett doesn't respond.

He works quickly to wash and sanitize his hands and then he uses a damp rag to clean Knox's arm.

The silence inside the bathroom is deafening.

It makes Everett work twice as fast and in no time, he's throwing a bandage over the wound and tosses the trash into the garbage bin.

"I'm no doctor but it didn't look like you'll need stitches. Just keep a watch on it and try..." Everett pauses when Knox stands to tower over him, both hands cupping his face.

"Don't," Everett whispers with quivering lips, shutting his eyes.

"I can't. I'm sorry."

"You can," Knox coaxes. "Look at me."

Everett loses it at the feeling of Knox kissing his tears away.

He grips the man's wrists and opens his eyes, looking directly at him.

"Knox..."

"I'd choose death quicker than I'd allow myself to hurt you, Everett. I only want to protect you. I'm not out to harm you. I need you to understand that and believe it," Knox says.

"There's no reason for you to fear me and it's killing me that you are right now."

"I saw a man die," Everett whispers. "He took his last breath as I held him. Doesn't matter how many days pass or how deep I bury the memories of that night in my mind. Shaun's death will always be with me and the triggers lying around this place are endless. I  never know what'll set me off. I don't... I just want things to go back to normal. I'm so fucking tired."

Not physically but emotionally.

Knox senses it and acknowledges it.

He keeps his thoughts to himself while walking Everett back to his new room, kissing him on the forehead before departing without another word.

It's more than the lifestyle that he lives, it's Knox's entire existence.

He'll forever be a walking trigger for Everett, yet another reason why they're so unfit for each other.

Why a future with them together is next to impossible.

Knox swallows the hard pill despite it feeling like it's destroying him from the inside out.

And Everett does the same.

[hollyleaf-understander]

compiling some thoughts so far - I started this blog way too late. readmore break if you care to check it out.

I loved the prophecies begin, obviously. who doesn't. pulpy, action packed, violent, gory, extremely transgendered. loved em. I thought fireheart was a total dickhead to cloudpaw the whole time he was an apprentice and for a fair bit of time after. the naming ceremonies made me tear up literally every time. something that a lot of art touches on but never really seems to do more than scratch the surface is the idea of the power held within a name. other trans people will understand why I say these books are extremely transgendered. I cried several times in each book. firestar is a girl to me.

I did not like the new prophecy. the pacing was really inconsistent, most of the characters felt very flat, I don't give a shit about squirrelflight and brambleclaw. it was fun having different protags in each book, especially switching between the questing cats and leafpool back home in the forest. I think they should have committed to the bit though, and given one whole book to each of the six questing cats. I would have loved to read from crowfeather or feathertails pov. overall crowfeather and leafpool are basically the only cats I gave a shit about the whole time, obviously not including cats from the prophecies begin. there were a couple of fucking good ass moments with the old cats. . I like how the Erin's write a few male characters to be totally clueless dipshits. cloudtail is completely oblivious that he's been rizzing up daisy for like three moons. themes from series 1 made a reappearance but never seemed to carry as much weight. the only times I cried were crowfeathers naming ceremony and [REDACTED] death (and I was fucking weeping let me tell you). book 6 was particularly underwhelming.

I'm halfway through book 3 of power of three right now. the gang just left to go back to the mountains to help the tribe. I'm gonna get windy on this since everything is fresh in my mind.

I love jaypaw. I love hollypaw. I feel like lionpaw is going to be killed unceremoniously. I do not care about him. I love breezepaw. I love crowfeather. I love leafpool and I love cinderpaw. I love that dustpelt is a dick to everyone except his wife. this feels like a return to form after the new prophecy.

the reveal like, 60 pages into book one that jaypaw is blind hit me so good I literally put down the book and walked around the room clutching my head lmao. it was heartbreaking watching him try so hard to train as a warrior and you know he can do it, but every time someone is watching him he fucks up so bad. the fight against owlpaw built up my hope and the fallout of it after knocked it down like a very long game of jenga.

I LOVE that jaypaw hates his job. relatable queen.

I was excited to read jaypaw learning how to live and find a place for himself in a world not built for him, but he's got so many psychic powers and shit that it doesn't even matter. I guess the Erin's did brighthearts training arc and decided that was good enough. that's fine whatever.

Hollypaw is really compelling to me so far - she feels the most dynamic of the three. training under leafpool and almost immediately being like, ah no I was wrong fuck that, then having a legit gender crisis about not wanting to fulfill the clans female-only roles is extremely based. she doesn't really know what she wants - but she definitely knows what she doesn't want. she doesn't have many friends, and the friends she does have seem to treat her as second priority to their other friends. she's the loneliest girl in thunderclan for real. I don't even know who her mentor is, cause even her mentor doesn't really like her that much (is it brackenfur? I think it is).

I already said I don't care about lionpaw. he's a character archetype that has never interested me. I'm excited to read more of the dynamic between him and ashfur evolve - I know ashfur is an antagonist in this series, but it hasn't happened yet.

I have read plenty of spoilers for later arcs, I don't know if bramblestar is dead yet. I really do hope hollypaw becomes clan leader after him. I know she would do a good job.

minimal tears shed so far in the power of three. this could be because I haven't changed my hrt dosage in a while and my moods in general are more stable lately.

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[castle-dominion]

c1x5 chill goes thru her veins

I feel bad for the stunt actor. Why are those lights turning on?

Beautiful intro <3 with her ring & gun & stuff. (but she just keeps it in a drawer...? No surely that drawer is locked... gun laws in the usa can't be THAT lax...) Beautiful red coat. We need more of that in later seasons. She should shave her head, but like in a sexy way. For the leabians.

JE: Why can't they find bodies between 9 and 5? KB: Well, early bird gets the collar. *castle running around before beckett can even drink her coffee* JE: He was here before I was.

Poor lanie, she's there just as early as anyone. XD cold case LP claims she's frozen solid, but let's just make a note of that. Captions say mid-40s & i'm assuming that means 40-50 f not negative 40? That's what like 12 degrees c? Nope, 40f is 4c. not quite cold enough to freeze, not solid, even with wind. Lol ruby slippers Ok but bodies float in concrete Maybe the killer is just really flaky like me. Or maybe they killed her & didn't know what to do so they froze her until they came up with a plan.

I'm watching s4 with my family rn & the technology is booming. Reminds me of s2 when the fbi came in. Legit made me laugh out loud when castle made that wilford warfstache face. This seems like a good time to remembe MMIWP; missing & murdered indigenous women/people. It is literally an ongoing genocide, idk much abt the USA but indigenous people are disproportionately represented in cases like this in canada. Indigenous men are actually more at-risk for murders than women, though women are more at-risk for disappearances & sexual abuse. They are even overturning things like ICWA, FNMI kids are already overrepresented in the foster care system, forced genocidal assimilation is happening under our noses Right Now. Everyone is an ally until it is time to do some ally shit.

KR: Sure they do. Quantum physics, alien abductions, Schrödinger's cat. One minute, you're getting a hot dog in the park, the next you're fighting off Sleestaks on the far side of a dimensional rift. BRUH??? Reminds me of the alien episode in s2 or s3. Oh woman I remember in Range class we had our turkeys out all weekend & they were still frozen

KB: Okay, I'm on my way KB: Lanie's got an ID. So u don't need to look thru missing persons anymore right? RC, to rysposito: You'll take care of these? *leaves* JE: Hey, Ryan, can you, uh… Thanks. *also leaves poor ryan to go through or put away the files* Poor Ryan, he's just staring at espt leave with such hurt, his eyes just moving all over the table & room, & his mouth slightly open. He's left to deal with this. They really are treating him like the new guy even tho he really is not he's been there long enough in canon.

WOAH FIVE YEARS IS A LONG TIME BABES

Steals his coffee Ofc he's a speedreader. I like how later they use that skill again. ok but she disappears often, she's gone for weeks at a time occasionally, the guy probably wouldn't have called in until seven days after she's gone Flirting with her lol. He probably thought she ran away for the first six months then figured she was gone for good or passed away.

R u using a 5yo file? Oh. Yeah five years. So new york "idc that the previous tenant was murdered, it keeps the rent low"

JE: Well, four years between murders? One's a popsicle, one just got popped? I love castle's shirt texture, I just want to feel it. KR: I don't believe it. RC: Give me 250 pages, I bet I could make you. KR: *chuckles* But he's right. "250 pages is 125 000 words single-spaced or 62 500 words double-spaced. Typical documents that are 250 pages or more include full-length novels."

CASTLE I could call it, "A Chill Runs Through Her Veins." ESPOSITO Ooh. I like that. [Castle and Esposito five-five.] CASTLE "Bam" said the lady, another best-seller for me.

(https://scriptline.livejournal.com/18916.html for my quotes, it's so much faster than typing them out. sometimes.)

You know, ppl ship caskett (obv, & then it eventually eventually finally becomes canon) & ppl ship rysposito (I can see why, plus if caskett is together obv rysposito would be together) but tbh I like castito or casposito or castlesito or estle or espostle or espositle or javick rickvier or whatever their ship name it. Probably casposito.

Hmmm. Homeless, White Plains. Homeless, White Plains. JE: both kinda creepy

I love him with his kids (possibly spoilers) I think I know how it ends, I feel like the parents will end up having done this & the kids will end up parentless & then grandparentless. Or maybe the husband did it & then the grandparents killed the husband bc screw you for robbing my daughter of her life & my grandkids of their mom & I'm not letting my grandbabies be raised by a murderer (unless they become murderers in which case.... you lost your point)

drinkin coffee in a bar. I mean he's right ig but at the same time screw you & acab. Oh war vet? Yeah no hun cops feel more brotherhood with soldiers than they feel responsibility to their jobs. The entire system is crap. I want to say "than they feel responsible for the ppl they are meant to protect" but... they aren't really "meant" to protect them. They are meant to police them.

That's why u like castle. He spins crazy theories instead of making things fit into a box. (except he still says "that's not how I would write it") Castle sherlock holmes moments.

JE: A couple of bucks jogged his memory. Yeah man Already have their little handshake uwu Reminds me of ochoa/herve doing the big handshake. I feel like castle wrote a cool handshake (made it up) for roach & then they put it in the movie but castle didn't actually know how to do the handshake.

Oh gosh this poor man. Only this time, all I find is a freezer plugged into a light outlet -- which, by the way, is totally illegal. So valid bestie. (I love him so much.) One time I had to make a mini model of a house for math class but it was my best friend & me & we were both disabled so we handed in the simplest project we could & got in trouble for it. Then our parents helped us out, they put in the water heater. Paul said "lets use this little pill bottle, we can glue it to the wall here" but then my dad chips in 'That's a Code Violation, man!' as if code violations matter in our little model. Both dads cracked up. It was funnier when it happened... (& whenever we go to tour dream homes dad points out the code violations. & ofc count how many secret rooms we can make. Not that we'd ever live there.) Oh fun fact, if you make a double male extension cord you can power your neighbour's apartment if they forgot to pay their electrical bill, JUST so they can like, keep their fridge running so their food doesn't spoil. Some anarchosocialist cyberpunk for ya. I mean the man's right. I see why he did what he did. People are really good at not seeing homeless people.

Man kept the freezer? ofc it's cash. every six months, plus three months of grace. Two months after the man is dead! So valid bestie, keep the footage of the last two weeks, but who has space for more than that?

If not x, then y. if not her, then him. If not sam, then whoM? Him=whom, he=who. Who did it? He did it. It was whom? It was him.

Mmm leftovers. That's a heck of an empty freezer. Hey self cleaning oven, sort of like that episode in s3! Did you know you can jerry your oven open during self clean mode to make it into a pizza oven? Don't do it tho. AC: Did I stop, or did something stop me? I love her RC: It's family moments like these I will never forget. AC: With a good therapist, hopefully, I will. DSAFHDSJHADSKJH

I like beckett's coat. This Wyler fellow seems neat. I like him. Man remembers the bf's name?

This boy looks like someone I've seen before. Maybe that actor/directer, gary sinus I like his shirt. Seems like a nice prison uniform. This fellow seems neat. Oh. I love & respect this man. I love him sm. This is tragic.

Sometimes I'm very "guy" but other times I am so obviously raised female, but I was also raised catholic. Nice pride flag lol B'y I think it's a bad idea to tell these children what happened to their mom, at least in any detail. They're kids. Or at most tweens.

What if GARY killed sam? He wasn't dead for four years or so, you could have come forward. he WAS dead for the past year, you could have come forward w/o fear.

Ooh this is the coolest & sweetest thing. I love their laser tag gear. RC: Mom! We are totally doing battle on the field of honor. MR: How old are you? RC: Old enough to afford the top-of-the line laser tag. You know that's what they tell addicts. The only fun you had was drinking & now you don't have that hobby? All your friends do drugs so you're out a community? Do what you wanted to do when you were a kid, now that you are an adult with adult money. Buy yourself an easy bake oven, go play laser tag, take that gymnastics class you wanted to do all throughout elementary. RC: I'm dead! MoOm! 

I like how castle doesn't try to make himself look like a presentable adult, he opens the door & shoots his laser gun. Poor beckett. She knocks on his door & then gets laser shot by a novelist she was a fan of who is now shadowing her on crime cases, then his daughter comes out from behind him, also wearing all this laser gear (including the fact that she is a responsible adolescent), & then his mom comes in from the side with a towel on her head & a mask on her face. "Pehtikwe"

Is this the first time she has been in his house? Or did she arrest him here once? She is indeed a comic fan, remember the vampire episode? It's like a murder board. Lol jinx. I like castle's sweater here.

See? Most ppl don't own a car in a city like that. Point for the adhd castle headcanon. Goes on a tangent like that. Plus, he's very childish sometimes, very childlike /pos sometimes, he procrastinates a lot, then he hyperfocuses & bangs out a novel, he can think inside or outside the box but he threw the box away so he doesn't know if he's thinking in or out, he is not very good at following instructions lol (you know i was diagnosed with ODD & recently I found out & thought "that's just what they diagnose you with when you don't understand things & so you ask questions or refuse to do things or you don't like being a child treated like you are not a person; that's why so many ppl grow out of of" & I Was Right, BUT that's only the misdiagnoses, ODD is actually a mood disorder, which might be why I kind of got over it when I went on mood stabilizers. Fun fact for ya)

It's late at night they just went to his house? Or maybe it's the next day.

ROGER They told me he was shot in a mugging. And now you're telling me, he was killed here, in my apartment?

CASTLE Not him. His wife.

ROGER His wife? What kind of family was this?

CASTLE Alright. So, you and I are married.

BECKETT We are not married.

CASTLE Relax. It's just pretend.

BECKETT I don't want to pretend.

CASTLE Scared you'll like it?

BECKETT Okay. If we're married, I want a divorce.

ROGER Are you two like this all the time?

CASTLE and BECKETT Yes.

(usually they give opposing answers. JE: yes; KB: no; RC: I wish; KR: ...??? Ok!)

Castle puts down the pan but beckett still has the pot *closes door on roger* *hands the pot back to roger*

Need to go to the eco station? Call your buddy with a truck.

I still respect this guy to a degree. I love the way his voice is breaking. This poor fellow.

Cap's right. what goes around comes around.

I remember how it ends. Not five years ago. Plainclothes. Melanie's dad. He did his own detective work & I'm proud. I know what you mean castle but you kind of can't do that.

I feel really bad bc he's just trying to be a good grampa, he is raising his grandkids, he solved his daughter's murder & paid justice to sam. Tho he probs could have gone to the police. Also why do those kids look native? Melanie & her parents are white af. IG we've never seen sam's body/picture so maybe he was native or a poc.

Dad, they probs don't have the evidence to convict you. Don't confess & you can get away with it. Ah I see why he did it now. R u allowed to bring back a service weapon? Good on him, he said a father MIGHT be justified. Never said he did it.

Oh beckett sharing her story!

We were supposed to go to dinner together - my mom, my Dad, and I, and she was gonna meet us at the restaurant, but she never showed. Two hours later, we went home, and there was a detective waiting for us. Detective Raglin. They found her body. She had been stabbed. She still had her money and purse and jewelry. And it wasn't a sexual assault, either. They attributed it to gang violence. Random wayward event. So, just like in Melanie's case, they couldn't think outside the box. So, they just tries to package it up nicely. And the killer was never caught.

CASTLE Why do you wear the watch?

BECKETT My Dad took her death hard. He's sober now. Five years. So, this is for the life that I saved. And...

[She reaches in her shirt and pulls out the necklace with the ring on it.]

BECKETT (CONT'D) this is for the life that I lost.

Oof, so good. So good. I love them.

CASTLE Until tomorrow, Detective.

BECKETT You can't just say "night?"

CASTLE I'm a writer. "Night" is boring. "Until tomorrow" is more hopeful.

The second cree word of this post: Wapaki. It means "tomorrow" but cree words are long. It means more like "if the sun rises tomorrow" & it implies that we have FAITH that the sun will rise tomorrow, we can't actually tell the future. We are just doing what we can. If, if the sun rises tomorrow.

& she doesn't lock her gun in her drawer.

Esposito & castle & getting the file & how did he convince espt to do this.

[41:50, INT. PRECINCT, RECORDS ROOM - NIGHT] Esposito enters, followed by Castle.

[Esposito leads him past rack after rack of file boxes, until he comes to one and opens it. He pulls out a file and hands it to Castle.]

ESPOSITO Remember, this never happened. I was never here.

CASTLE You have my word. Thanks.

[Esposito clears his throat]

ESPOSITO If you tell her I did this, I'll make you bleed.

CASTLE Understood.

ESPOSITO Good luck.

[The name on the file: Johanna Beckett. Castle takes a seat at a table and turns on the desk light as Esposito leaves, dousing the overheads. Lit by the light of the lamp, Castle looks down at the case file. He takes a breath, and opens it.]

I should do some chores.

[barnes-brain]

Giants anon here - I have no idea how you are cranking out these chapters so fast because I couldn't find time to sit down a write a response for chapter 23 before chapter 24 was up!

Chapter 23

I am loving getting to know more about Jake through his family. I think it's great that he is able to use his newfound baseball knowledge (oh and professional baseball boyfriend) to bond with Jade. You can tell John truly is an amazing dad who has done everything he can for those kids.

Bradley may have started the water fight, but Cyclone and Bob sure ended it, which was fantastic.

Go team for shutting down Bradley's insecurities, especially with at least Phoenix and Bob (and I'm assuming Javy) knowing that Jake is literally waiting for him back at the hotel.

THE SURPRISE HAPPENED

Idk why but I just didn't see Jake in this universe as someone who really takes control but damn you proved me wrong with this and it was HOT until....Mav. However, him apologizing to Jake in person was needed and Bradley got to find out that he orchestrated getting Jake there early which was sweet.

Chapter 24

Starting off, baseball house anons you are killing me. Please don't take it away! We love it lol - I laugh at a later chapter where they arrive in San Diego and the baseball house has burnt down due to Tumblr antics.

Mav coming in clutch again getting Bradley a day off to go meet the family! He really is using that guilt in a positive way and we love to see it.

Bob is in for some amazing in-laws with Mariam and Richard. They were lovely and you totally caught me off guard with them being Javy's parents.

Screw homophobe Mitch and that's all I have to say on the matter.

Bradley is meeting the Seresin's and it is already amazing! Cannot wait to see where you take the rest of the introduction. Also, I almost forgot that we have another sibling to meet (and I believe some nieces?)!

As always, you amaze me as a writer and I cannot wait for the next update. Good luck with your final project!!

Hey giants!

Thank you so much! I told y’all I don’t have a life!

DO NOT ENCOURAGE THEM STAHP

so I was kind of nervous about Jake taking charge, but I feel like that’s a conversation they might have either on or off page I haven’t decided yet. Essentially, everyone *expects* bradley to be to…. Pitch… because he’s the “athlete” but remember Jake was in the navy, he’s not (at least I don’t picture him) to only…. Catch… Sure they both have their preferences but 🤷🏼‍♀️ sometimes it’s nice to shake it up, and sometimes Bradley’s just going to be too tired to take control…

I love Mariam and Richard I have a FULLL backstory about that family, It didn’t end up getting used as much but it’s beautiful and just know Bobs mom and Javys mom will have a great time talking about grandbabies

Can someone point to where I said nieces? (Like did I say that? Honestly! ) cause I know I hinted at Jade, but I didn’t remember bringing nieces (I mean I can add nieces, that won’t be hard… but… I don’t remember that 😩) I have the memory of a squirrel I swear. (Legit one of my betas is exclusively my “have I said this before?” Person). But yes I have… plans…. For Josh 😏. I’ve got big plans…..

Anyway, thanks for reading giants!

[dontwantthenextcommanderiwantyou]

Scylla basically said she regrets what she did for the Spree so she knew being evil was wrong.

I don't think she "regrets" what she did, I think she feels "remorse" for what she did. We may be on two different pages, so before I go into my reasoning I'll start by saying I’m not referring to anything dealing with Raelle... it's obvious she regrets hurting Raelle but that's not grounds for being considered "evil"... so I'm referring to her becoming a Spree agent and committing the mall attack that killed 1,600 people. It was Willa who said she regrets joining the Spree because in the end it just left Raelle open to the Camarilla. Scylla however, when she goes back to the mall on the 1 year anniversary of the attack, is so overwhelmed with remorse that even Anacostia notices it.

To the best of my knowledge Scylla's never said she regrets what she did, and I don't think she should does because she had her reasons for committing the attack back then. What changed in S2 (aside from the whole Raylla relationship) was that she was forced to face the pain that her actions caused, and that's when the guilt finally set in with acknowledging all of the lives she took & destroyed in the attack. She had to own that shit... which I take as remorse, not regret.

But even if she regretted the mall attack... there's no way she regrets killing Porter because she's never given the guy a second thought 😂 I mean, I can understand her doing the mall attack (I had a discussion with an anon about how civilians started & continue the massacres on MFS) but she legit murdered her ex-boyfriend just because he was on to her. Honestly, THAT'S more cold-blooded than killing 1,600 humans because Porter was a witch... he was one of her kind... and she still made his ass do a nosedive off the roof of the barracks.

Scylla has done some fcked up shit, but in spite of that... or because of that... I love my lil murderous necro 😍 TV would be boring as hell if all woman were of good moral character 🙄 I'd take an interesting complex "evil" character over a "holier than thou" character any day.

Give me more women who can confess to murders right in front of the enemy's salad...

And still be worried if her father-in-law knows about what she did...

[sometimesrosy]

hi! can i ask advice on ghostwriting/freelancing? where should i start? what do i need on my portfolio? which platforms do you best recommend for promotion?

if you don't wanna answer, it is totally fine!!! have a good day! ☺️

I'm not sure I'm a good person to ask. I'm not very good at it. lol.

The writing part, sure I can do, but the business part is not really my thing. Any business, frankly. I am a terrible capitalist. Also I found a company to provide jobs, got a steady client and stuck with it.

I did however quit recently and went off on my own with a client or two. I am not looking for more clients because it takes a lot of time and energy and I am trying to write and work on selling my own stuff. Ideally, I'll be earning money under my own name.

But how did I start? Well, I looked on the freelance boards for jobs, and found a few. Then I researched those companies-- ALWAYS double check to make sure those companies are reliable, actually pay, have consistent work, treat freelancers well, aren't scams to begin with.

I worked for Hotghostwriters, and there were plusses and minuses.

Plus, they were reliable with payment, they were established, once I got a regular client I didn't have to worry about it. It might be a good place to start ghostwriting because they don't ask for a lot of experience. They didn't even ask for my education or work history, even though I have a BA in writing and was a teacher, so if you don't have any experience, that's good. I was hired based on my writing samples, and that's it.

.Minus, I felt like I was a machine not a writer, the pay is not good, the deadlines are far too tight, there weren't enough novel writing gigs until I got the regular. In fact they came back for ME, not the company. It's on the super low end of the pay scale which makes it a bit of an assembly line factory feel. Quality is only important to keep a client. More important is output.

I have heard that TheUrbanWriters is a similar company, and they seem to have more fiction work (I think) and are easier to work with but the pay is actually a little bit less. People say it's a good way to break in. It might be. To get your feet wet. But neither HGW or TUW seem to make you enough for a living wage. I could do it because I have an extremely low cost of living. But I couldn't pay rent with it.

The portfolio that was required when I was first hired was different varieties of romance genres. I believe I used parts of my science fiction novels as well as various fanfic. Occasionally after I was hired they would ask for new samples in new genres or just the genre that a client was looking for. Or perhaps a type of heat, clean, sensual, spicy, etc.

In order to get started freelancing or Ghostwriting, you could also go to one of the established freelancing sites, like Fiverr or Upwork, ProBlogger or MediaBistro. There are others. Google for more information. Go to the sites, look at reviews of the sites, look at the kinds of jobs available and the costs, search companies, search clients. Make sure they're paying their freelancers a fair wage, because many will try to lowball.

Mostly there's a lot of research to make sure it all works out well-- because not all of it will be legit. And as a freelancer you have to protect yourself. I once got hired to write a post apocalyptic book-- or to FINISH a book that someone else started. They wanted something that the old ghostwriter wasn't providing. I think they wanted a tough masculine kill em all kind of story but didn't know well enough to ask for what they wanted. I didn't figure it out until later when I also was fired. But they DID pay me in stages. So I was paid to review the last book. I was paid for the ten sample pages and then for the next three chapters.... they just didn't want me to finish the book. TBH the outline was terrible and made no sense, and I didn't mind getting cut, especially since shortly after, HGW found me a client who I wrote for for years. At the height I was getting a novel every six weeks. Like I said. A bit of a machine thing going on. I don't actually WANT to be writing ten books a year, especially when they're not mine.

I hope I've helped you know where to start and how to consider breaking into ghostwriting.

When you get experience, you can actually make a LOT more. Like 30k-60k a book, but when I was starting out, I was making 600-1000 a book. Short books (30-60k words) but still.

And none of this is actually talking about non fiction or blog ghostwriting or technical writing or any of that. I think there's a lot more work for that and the projects are smaller.

Good luck. Remember, research, research, research.

[piduai]

Top 5 chapters/parts/moments of GK that surprised you. I'm not talking 'oh gave me a wee little startle' kind of shit, I mean the best 'wtf am I reading wtf is happening' moments

5. the whole of henmi honestly... i think he's the first genuine taste and the face of what this manga actually is. the first hint was nihei but it was easy to consider him an outrageous joke. i started off with watching the anime to be sure, but when this moment happened

i gasped irl i was like... huh... is this allowed? how did they get away with this? how was he allowed to write that? how were they allowed to air it on tv? as i was laughing my ass off. god i love henmi so fucking much it's unreal

4. this moment, again in the anime

the exact moment i fell in love with tsurumi which sent me into a spiral of insanity. like i liked him since his introduction but before that he was just some guy, the villain, quirky and extra and eccentric and likeable but nothing special really, but this moment specifically was a jaw drop for me. like he's talked to edogai-kun for what, 5 minutes? he didn't know anything about him. and yet it was enough to figure out exactly what kind of person he is, what kind of struggles he has, and what's the best strategy to manipulate his way into his heart. it happened in a heartbeat and he was right on the money, of course. it's more subtle than outright WTF but it did have a deep emotional impact on me lol. something similar happened when i was reading the koito kidnapping arc, when he appeared being like I Will Save Your Son i was like do not fucking tell me that he orchestrated this whole thing... this is fucking demonic omg. pure serotonin

3. this page

i liked usami since he was introduced because he was funny and a tsurumi simp but when this page happened my jaw fucking dropped lol. this creature is fucking rabid. not that i didn't expect him to kill his bestie but i def wasn't expecting him to do it like THAT, by brute force in seething rage with his veins popping and his pupils dilated... genuinely one of the best moments in the manga

2.

no words. first this chapter dropped in kr and with it, my jaw, my wig, etc then it dropped in jpn then it en and all 3 times i was just :o this can't be happening. like i just kept going back to those 2 pages for 3 weeks i shit you not and i was like. no. this can't be. this can't be. this is... no this can't be. what the fuck... what the fuck man what the fuck. absolutely brain chemistry altering moments

1.

the most WTF gk moment for me personally. i legit had to put my phone down for a full 5 minutes after seeing this cover. i don't even mean this positively btw i just felt genuinely shocked and was like how the FUCK was this allowed... how did it go in print? i'm losing my mind? the whole detective arc was a genuine shock to me, in a neither negative nor positive way it was just pure o_o it also got me desensitized to anything tbh like if this happened sure anything else can happen go noda

[no-soul-required]

S1 X E12 - Prophecy Girl - First time watching(?)

Okay, okay, okay. So.

I know mostly what happens in Buffy (read the synopsis online), and sometime like 12-15 years ago, I saw some episodes from Seasons 1 and 2, but I never kept up with it and I don't believe I actually watched this one. I've been starting a full watch through, taking notes as I do. I took two pages of notes this episode and I didn't take all of them that I could. This is just going to be word vomit, even if just to document my general thoughts for future me.

I love Buffy. I love her so much. She projects this really surfacey face to the world, but she's always thinking and processing more about what's going on around her than she lets on. I legit cried so hard during the, "Read me my fortune," scene wherein Buffy learns that she will die and tries to quit, all the while caring so much she doesn't believe herself when she says it, though she's trying to convince herself she does. My heart utterly broke as she's essentially saying goodbye to people without ever letting on that that's what it is. Joyce would never believe her, so she can't know. Willow is having a hard time, so Buffy urges her to be safe. She punches out Giles so he won't go to the Master, considers telling Jenny to pass along that she loves him, but stops herself at the last second (that was my read). She's also so, so alone. I think it was emphasized these last couple episodes that even surrounded by people, she ultimately just has herself because they have other, stronger connections with people around them. She goes to the Master, accepting that she's going to die and not see 17. God, she's so fucking good. So freaking brave. I love Buffy.

Now we get into the stuff that doesn't make a lick of gods damned sense to me.

Setting the stage: Buffy tries to kill the Master, but falls victim to the Master's thrall and drowns. Angel just picks her up, looks at Xander, and is like, "IDK, man. She's dead." Thank goodness Xander comes through with the CPR.

Small thing: it was odd that when she comes back to life, it seemed like it was when Xander had already stopped CPR? But, sure, fine, whatever.

Bigger thing: she is somehow stronger (she says it) after dYiNG than she was before. She says she feels different, and she can suddenly resist the thrall from the Master. What the hell? Where did this come from? I don't feel like anything in the episode even acknowledged that this was weird. It screamed Deus Ex Machina to me, because she dies, then has all this power she didn't before! Okay, fine, whatever.

Biggest thing: then we get into the library scene where everyone's together looking down at the bones of the Master (which, like, why do those stick around when all other vamps dust completely?? Fine, fine. This is fine.), but Giles catches her sort of disassociating and crying, looking at the bones. People find out that she died and they react like the very opposite of compassionate or human at all. She's putting on airs, yes, but not well, yet none of them push her on this and make sure she's okay / take care of her. Angel acting weird, fine, he's not human. The others?? So fucking bizarre, besides Giles who just doesn't seem to know how to broach the subject, but is clearly concerned in some capacity more than any of the others. Willow and Jenny are especially nonchalant about it.

WHEW! So, with that, season 1 is complete. Here I go with season 2!

[transsexualhamlet]

sherlock holmes reactions part 4 (?) ive lost count already but unsurprisingly ive grown even more attached to him

using this as the cover image because i made him a playlist. cause im awful

no legit this is gonna need a read more because it's SO LONG SHIHEWIESHEFSHIEWHF

Had three mental breakdowns this week and realized i do in fact kin sherlock motherfucking holmes. this does not bode well for anything in my life mentally I've diagnosed him with so many things

Oh boy lol you want the list I think hes autistic (undisputed honestly) plus also adhd but on top of that there's the manic depression and uhhh the bpd lmao I dont even think that's it those are just. the obvious ones

But yeah man's a fucking mess and a shit person but in the same way as me so 👍

Some highlights I thought were very funny:

watson: we are in fact going to be waltzing into a place where people are Shooting People you do not have your gun. this is a problem

sherlock: don't worry watson I have my trusty stick!

watson: visible pain

This clearly happens like every day or so with them

but yeah there were some really honestly sweet scenes with them at the apartment and why am i getting soft over the crusty man being gay

have you considered tho. have you considered them

have you considered sherlock, who usually only plays absolute garbage on his violin serenading watson to sleep when he was tired and in pain and watson being so fucking in love with the man and waxing poetic about falling asleep to his music and waking up to see him fallen asleep on the couch next to him and oh my god them

They're just really sweet together for such a completely dysfunctional couple so much of the time lol I just. Sherlock being like.

Sherlock half of the time: watson you're fucking stupid. no i won't take care of my personal needs stfu. watson get a goddamn life. watson shut up. watson no one cares about your goddamn opinion. no i need to disturb you in the middle of the night it's for science. hey watson mind if i manipulate mansplain malewife

Sherlock the other half of the time: HELLO SIR YOU ARE MY FAVORITE MAN TO EVER MAN HELLO MAY I SPEND THE REST OF MY DAYS WITH YOU HELLO I WILL DO ANYTHING FOR YOU WE ARE PERFECT MATCHES I LOVE YOU AND I NEED YOU YOURE SO MUCH BETTER THAN ME PLEASE MARRY ME

They're... they certainly are.

ALSO OH MY GOD.

THIS ONE TIME WHEN SHERLOCK WAS JUST PACING AROUND THE ROOM AT 3 AM GOING "IT DOESNT MAKE SENSE >:(((" AND HUDSON LIKE BARGED IN TO COMPLAIN AND THEN WATSON WAS LIKE DUDE YOU GOTTA STOP DOING THIS AND PROCEEDS TO SAY THE LINE "YOU ARE KNOCKING YOURSELF UP, OLD MAN"

BAHGHSFHGRHEWHEWHIFEW

BRB SOBBING

CALLING HIM AN OLD MAN???? KNOCKING HIMSELF UP?? I DONT KNOW WHATS FUNNIER

The main highlight of this part was I have now gotten to see him have a great time watching his homo homie get married

Its so fucking funny.......

I was prepared for a funny reaction by yuumori sherlock's face when he said it lol but. Damn i was really not prepared tbh

watson: I'm engaged!

sherlock: *pained groaning*

watson: do you... not like her?

sherlock: no she's fine she's great you'll be wonderful together bUT I HATE IT WHEN PEOPLE ARE HETEROSEXUAL WATSON DO I HAVE TO MARRY MYSELF THEN WATSON? ARE YOU GOING TO MAKE ME MARRY MYSELF.

watson: yeah... yeah... fair, I feel really bad because you did this whole case and I got a girlfriend out of it and all you got was me leaving you alone fuck man im sorry what are you gonna do without me

sherlock, highly sarcastic: dont worry watson I've always got my handy cocaine! *pulls it out and gets high in front of watson just as he's about to leave*

watson: *in fucking agony*

sherlock: good for you!

I DONT EVEN- THIS SCENE KILLED ME MULTIPLE TIMES OVER WHAT

ITS SO GODDAMN NONCHELANT ABOUT IT SHERLOCK IS JUST LIKE YEAH I WILL IN FACT NOT BE MENTALLY HEALTHY IF YOU ARE NOT WITH ME 24/7 BUT WHATEVER YOU DO YOU /S

I'd like to apologize to watson on sherlock's behalf lmao. man is being a bit too codependent on main

The last thing about sign of four I do need to address is yeah, there's the Horrific Amounts Of Racism in that one and the whiplash hearing it is just ridiculous because they seem to be so knowledgeable in all other areas and fairly... politically correct, taking sherlock's original misogyny as a purposeful character flaw, but then they just mention someone indigenous once and suddenly its all parrotting racist propaganda and just... really awful shit. There's no way I'm gonna speak for the group that just got absolutely hate crimed here but anyone can tell the author just has no clue what he's fucking talking about and it's physically painful.

And I don't know, it's just so bad it seems out of character? Doyle's making these motherfuckers say shit that honestly, Sherlock would know better about. And especially Watson. Come on, you cannot tell me watson is mentally capable of being prejudiced against someone. Please do not make him that way.

I'm not sure how to handle it specifically, or what's the proper way I should handle something like that in a media I otherwise like. Is it ok to say Doyle was clearly a piece of shit on the matter and separate those characters from his bias or is that insensitive?

I don't know, I was Not a fan of it and I'm glad to see they've at least finally shut up about the guy

But anyway yeah, uhhhh onto the short stories because I'm trying to read those before I get to the final problem

Scandal in Bohemia was a fucking ride, first of all, before we even get to Sherlock's girlboss arc we have to discuss how gay the whole situation was and how Doyle's attempt at making them less gay failed spectacularly

Like he's all "ah yes I need to marry off watson and uhhh make sherlock ummmm interact with a woman so they dont look gay" but he does it SO BADLY that it makes them look EVEN GAYER

cause i mean, even the conversation they had about watson getting married back in sign of four was gay af, but how Doyle handled things afterward was in no way straighter.

Cause you know, the man kind of wrote himself into a corner with the fact of Watson narrating these stories. So Watson has to be around to witness them, and to witness Sherlock's own thought process rather privately, so he has to be around sherlock at night, a lot. But trying to come up with a reason for that happening just... it didn't occur to Doyle. He just went. Ah yes this makes sense. And it's Watson just like Sleeping Over At Sherlock's like every other goddamn day and every time his wife leaves town and having them basically still live that cute domestic home life but they have absolutely no excuses for doing it anymore. It's quite funny

Like it was gay already the way they interacted when they officially lived together but it was like, a necessity for them. Now it's not, Watson just comes over because he goddamn wants to, and it's hilarious to me.

LIKE IDK I THINK THEY KIND OF BROKE UP FOR A YEAR OR SO BC OF WATSON GETTING MARRIED AND THEY LIKE DONT HAVE CONTACT WITH ONE ANOTHER BUT ONE DAY WATSON JUST INEXPLICABLY HAS THE URGE TO COME VISIT SHERLOCK ON NO NOTICE AND THEN SUDDENLY THEY ARE TOGETHER NEAR 24/7 AGAIN LIKE BARELY ANYTHING CHANGED AHIEHOEWH

SIT DOWN AND TRY TO TELL ME THOSE ARE NOT HOMOSEXUALS

Watson walks in on no fucking notice after a full year and Sherlock is just. In the middle of some experiment obviously but hes like

Sherlock, carrying around unidenfiable chemical mixtures: W A T S O N you look good you look good! i see you've gained seven pounds!!

watson: uh. thanks??? Hey lol *awkwardly waves* Uh um Wanted to Uhm sEe you

Sherlock: ABOUT gODDAMN TIME AND YES WONDERFUL LOOK LOOK SIT DOWN I HAVE THINGS TO INFODUMP ABOUT

watson: :) ok :) *turns to camera* and we were back to the old days

sherlock: makes a deduction

watson: wowwwwwwwwwwww !! so true bestie !!

sherlock: !!!!!!!!! :))) !!!!! :))) uh fuck im supposed to be smooth Its Elementary Lol

watson: *turns to camera* when i stroke his ego like this and compliment him he blushes like a girl like i just complimented his dress so i do it more because he likes it. this is a homie trait

watson: well i should probably get going! my wife will notice that i am gone my dear buddy bro homie!

sherlock: NO DONT LEAVE IM LOST WITHOUT YOU (pretty much a direct quote lol) your. wife doesn't. get back home until monday. I know this because I am smart and definitely have not been stalking you.

watson: alright :)))))

AND THEN HE FUCKING SLEEPS OVER LMAO FUCKING HOMOS

So yeah they're right back where they were before pretty much and there's a case bc of course there is

And honestly I think this short story specifically was so insane mostly just because of how absolutely fast it all went. Yuumori kind of made me believe the original Irene Adler was more of an important character than she really is? And I think that's. Honestly so funny. Motherfucker shows up for ten pages, girlbosses her way around town, and changes sherlock's entire opinion of the female gender while still keeping him gay?

LIKE NO LOL SHES NOT IN ANY WAY A LOVE INTEREST AND WATSON GOES OUT OF HIS WAY TO SPECIFY THE FACT THAT IN NO WORLD WOULD THEY HAVE BEEN ROMANTICALLY INVOLVED BECAUSE. SHERLOCK. DIDN'T DATE WOMEN.

HE WAS JUST??? SO IMPRESSED AND SHELL SHOCKED BY HER EXISTENCE HE DECIDED IT WAS TIME FOR GIRLBOSS APPRECIATION DAY TODAY AND ALL DAYS HENCEFORTH???

AND THEY HAVE LIKE O N E INTERACTION?? God, the power this woman(?) has. Watson looks at her once like. damb shawty 😳 and she's like "no<3" and he's like FUCK

Like yeah it's pretty much just the king walking up like "help girl the whore is blackmailing me" and sherlock being like "ok lol this will be easy" and then it proceeded to not in fact be easy or even possible

sherlock like... posed as a dead body and tried to get her to give up the location of the photo but she out-acted him and skipped the town the next day after doing the 'good night mr. sherlock holmes' thing with sherlock completely tricked

and she just. sends a letter like "dear sherlock holmes. you're a fucking idiot and i think it's funny that you lost. nice job tho mad respect" and sherlock just SHORT CIRCUITS

the king comes back a bit later like "hey Dude where's my Photo" and sherlock's like oh yeah uhhhhhhhhhhh about that and the king is like HOW COULD IT POSSIBLY HAVE BEEN THAT GODDAMN HARD i would have dated someone more noble if she wasn't so pretty i swear im on a whole different level from her

and then. GIRLBOSSIFIED SHERLOCK HOLMES RESPONDS "from what I have seen of the lady, she seems indeed to be on a very different level from your majesty" ABSEHHESHEFHHFES ROASTED

and the dude just LEAVES

After that I read a few more of the short stories and well the highlights I got from that pretty much were these conversations

Watson: sherlock. honey. have you. eaten anything today

Sherlock: IT DIDNT OCCUR TO ME DEAR WATSON

Watson: ITS FIVE PM

and:

Sherlock: *having one of his Moment Moments at three in the goddamn mornig* GRRRR CRIME ISNT WHAT IT USED TO BE

Watson: MY DEAR SHERCOCK WHAT IS CRIME S U P P O S E D TO BE LIKE ACCORDING TO YOU

Sherlock: no one's original anymore fucking copycats

Watson: so you want the criminals to make things harder for you specifically.

Sherlock, exasperated: yes!

I love them your honor.