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[katyspersonal]

[author-kweenyluv]

... Ghosts pt. 2 ...

pt. 1 || pt.2 || pt.3

[Part 2 babee! also known as known as 'Death isn't as permanent as some might think and reader does not take this well', the ficlet! enjoy!]

Something happened down in the basement, something big. Big enough to have even the more stoic and senior members of the team shaken, to have hushed whispers falling over the psychically-inclined students and staff, and curious glances sent between them.

It had been hours since the lockdown was first announced, and you were doing your best to keep things from falling apart. It wasn’t saving the world or stopping doomsday, but sharing some old stories of the X-Men in their early days seemed to be doing the trick of keeping things calm. The students around you were smiling, or groaning, or chuckling or rolling their eyes or doing anything aside from panicking, so you’d say you were doing a pretty good job keeping things together all things considered.

...Kurt had been better at this, when he’d been here. He could breathe life into stories like no one else, drawing others in like moths to a flame. You did well of course, you’d learned from the best after all, but your skills paled in comparison to your late love, even if the thought sent a spike through your chest.

The lockdown ended not long after that, and you swallowed the ache in your chest as you put on a smile and helped to usher the students back to their dorms. You ignored the looks from the other teachers as you opted to stay back with the students, not quite up to seeing your loved ones in pain the way they always were after a mission. At least, not outside of the medbay. You were still the assistant Nurse after all, seeing to injuries was part of your job.

Most of the students were gone now, either in their rooms or on their way to them, and you were running out of ways to avoid whatever situation was making the other teachers look at you with such pity. You were sure there was some sort of psychic message sent out, but your powers had never played well with other’s telepathy and the chances of a non-specific message getting through were slim. Even now you were told it took a bit more effort to contact you than most, and this certainly didn’t seem like a message specifically for you.

Now though it seemed that your time was up, cause not a moment later Blueberry ‘BAMF’ed onto your shoulder with a loud cry of-

“Bamf!” You stumble a bit in surprise at the sudden appearance of the little creature, it’s wide, excited smile inches from their face as it settles across your shoulders like a rambunctious blue cat. “Bamf! Bamf!” It takes you a moment to regain your footing, adjusting the grip on your crutches as you steady yourself.

“I- jeez Blueberry, give me some heads up!” The little creature simply kept chanting in an increasingly impatient tone as its little hands tugged on the shoulder of your shirt. “Okay, okay- what’s gotten into you? Did something happen? Blueberry-“ You didn’t manage to get much of a response, as in a sudden, familiar puff of brimstone and ash and ozone, you went from the middle of one of the school’s many hallways to somewhere else entirely.

. . .

The first thing you registered when you cleared the smoke from your eyes was that it was cold out. The next was that it was late, late enough that the stars were clearly visible in the now darkened sky, and the fact that you could see the stars at all. You were apparently on the roof of the school now, and you turn your head towards the culprit— Blueberry. You fix the little Bamf lounging across your shoulders with an unimpressed look, balancing your crutches under your biceps as you wrap your arms around yourself for warmth.

“Blueberry, this isn’t funn-“ You’re cut off by a soft call of your name and freeze, the little Bamf jumping off your shoulders to sit by your feet, nearly preening with satisfaction in itself.

Your chest hurts at the sound of the familiar voice, a sharp pain stabbing at your soft tissue, stopping your heart dead in your chest for a solid second before it starts to jackrabbit fast enough to leave Northstar jealous. “Spatzl, is that you?” You turn your head slowly, blood rushing through your ears, breathing gone shallow, and spine frozen stiff.

Your vision is unfocused, your mind not quite grasping the image in front of you as your eyes start to burn with something like liquid grief. You try to take a step back— ears ringing, knees buckling, hands now strangling the handles of your crutches as your nails dig into the plush grips, forcing yourself to stay standing by putting your weight on those rather than their feet —but your back hits the wall of the tower leading out to the roof before you can even lift a heel.

This- oh gods, you really had lost it now, hadn’t you? Your breathing picked up as you looked out at the ghost sitting on the roof not 15 feet in front of you. Your head was spinning. Your eyes were burning. You felt like- your couldn’t feel your-

Your head was pounding, hands numb and shaking as you slide out of your crutches and let them fall, sliding along the wall until you were seated on the floor, arms limp besides you. You couldn’t stop staring at him, at the ghost of the man you loved sitting across from you on the rooftop. Blueberry’s pride had shifted to concern, and in the corner of your eyes you could see the little creature putting its hands on your knee and shaking it, trying to get your attention. You couldn’t feel its touch.

The ghost of Kurt sat a still as a statue, knees drawn up to it’s chest, spaded tail curled around itself, and one foot curled over the other like a nervous child. Shaded blue curls you last saw beneath a white sheet fell over its face, sunset eyes bright with a perfect facsimilie of life. The ghost was looking at you, wearing a shocked, nearly pained expression of concern on its features so like that of the little Bamf beside you that you couldn’t look away from it. Blueberry shook your knee a bit harder.

Your lips trembled as you tore your gaze away, eyes wide with panic as your vision started to blur and you stared down at your knees. You couldn’t... you couldn’t do this again. You couldn’t face the visions again. You couldn’t look at the visage of your dead lover, you couldn’t bare to be haunted by the consequences of your own inadequacies again. Your voice is strained as you nearly beg Blueberry with trembling words and your eyes glued to your knees.

“Take me to my room. Blueberry take me to my roo-“ You go up in a cloud of sulfur just as the ghost starts to move, reaching out a hand with your name falling from it’s lips.

“No, wait-!“

pt. 1 || pt.2 || pt.3

[techav]

Sharing a Computer with More Friends

A few months ago I built an I/O expansion board for my homebrew 68030 project with a 4-port serial card to go with it, and got BASIC running for four simultaneous users. It worked, but not as well as I had hoped. I wanted to be able to run two of those serial cards to support 8 total users, but it had proven unstable enough that with just the one card I had to slow down the whole system to 8MHz.

So I designed a new serial card.

I had previously been running this computer without any issues at 32MHz with a mezzanine card with FPU & IDE as well as a video card. The main board by itself can clear 56MHz. Having to go all the way down to 8MHz just didn't sit well with me. I want this machine to run as fast as possible for its 8 users.

I put extra time into reviewing worst-case timing for all components and graphing out how signals would propagate. The 16C554 quad UARTs I'm designing around are modern parts that can handle pretty fast bus speeds themselves — easily up to 50MHz with no wait states on the 68030 bus — assuming all the glue logic can get out of the way fast enough.

Signal propagation delays add up quickly.

My first draft schematic used discrete 74-series logic for chip selection, signal decoding, timing, etc. At slower bus speeds this wouldn't have been a problem. But I want this thing to run as fast as possible. By the time critical signals had made it through all those logic gates, I was looking at already being well into one wait state by the time the UART would see a 50MHz bus cycle begin.

I needed something faster. I was also running low on space on the board for all the components I needed. The obvious answer was programmable logic. I settled on the ATF22V10 as a good compromise of speed, size, availability, and programmability. It's available in DIP with gate delays down to 7ns. Where discrete gates were necessary, I selected the fastest parts I could. The final design I came up with showed a worst case timing that would only need one wait state at 50MHz and none for anything slower.

It ended up being a tight fit, but I was able to make it work on a 4-layer board within the same footprint of my main board, putting some components on the back side. (It may look like a bunch of empty space, but there's actually a lot going on running full RS232 with handshaking for 8 ports).

New problem. I had blown my budget for the project. As much as I love those stacked DE9 connectors, they're expensive. And there's no getting around the $10 pricetag for each of those quad UARTs. Even using parts on-hand where possible, I was looking at a hefty Mouser order.

[jbevren] suggested using ganged RJ45 connectors with the Cisco pinout instead of stacked DE9, to save space & cut costs. [Chartreuse] suggested buffering the TTL serial TX/RX signals to drive the LEDs that are frequently included on PCB-mount RJ45 connectors. Both great ideas. I was able to cut 20% off my parts order and add some nice diagnostic lights to the design.

Two weeks later, I received five new PCBs straight from China. I of course wasted no time setting into starting to assemble one.

I really set myself up for a challenge on this one. I learned to solder some 25 years ago and have done countless projects in that time. But I think this might be the most compact, most heavily populated, most surface mount board I've ever assembled myself. (There are 56 size 0805 (that's 2x1.2mm) capacitors alone!)

After a few hours soldering, I had enough assembled to test the first serial port. If the first port worked then the other three on that chip should work too, and there's a great chance the other chip would work as well.

And it did work! After some poking around with the oscilloscope to make sure nothing was amiss, I started up the computer and it ran just fine at 8MHz.

And at 16MHz.

And at 25MHz.

And at 32MHz.

And at 40MHz.

And almost at 50MHz!

Remember what I said about my timing graphs showing one wait state for 50MHz? The computer actually booted up and ran just fine at 50MHz. The problem was when I tried typing in a BASIC program certain letters were getting switched around, and try as I might, BASIC just refused to 'RQN' my program. It was pretty consistently losing bit 3, likely from that signal having to travel just a tiny bit farther than the others. A problem that will probably be resolved with an extra wait state.

Good enough for a first test! A few hours more and I finished assembling the card.

I did have some problems with cleaning up flux off the board, and I had to touch up a few weak solder joints, but so far everything seems to be working. I've updated my little multi-user kernel to run all 8 users from this new card and it's running stable at 40MHz.

I need to update my logic on the 22V10 to fix a bug in the wait state generator. I would love to see this thing actually running at 50MHz — a 25% overclock for the 40MHz CPU I am currently running. I also want to expand my little kernel program to add some new features like the ability to configure the console serial ports and maybe even load programs from disk.

I hope to bring this machine with a collection of terminals and modems this June to VCF Southwest 2025 for an interactive exhibit that can be dialed into from other exhibits at the show.

[neverhaveievergiffed]

DEVI & BEN + Kisses

[tamrielic-frog]

I used to ignore Morthal when the game first came out, but now that I’m older it’s literally such a cool place?? It’s criminally underrated

Wide open marshlands with rich flora/fauna diversity, great alchemical ingredients, the place feels semi-spooky but fun and mysterious, beautiful sunset views, an awesome jarl who’s honestly queen shit™…

Plus, Windstad Manor comes with a fish hatchery! A FISH HATCHERY!!!

[space-station-nursery]

🛰️⸝⸝Welcome to the Space Station Nursery 🪐

☆ ・Personal info ! ˖ ˒

🦊Little Dipper︰Hi! im Finn, also Finnegan, finny fox, fishy finn, and more to my closest friends and moots! Im 21 and my pronouns are They/Them! My timezone is CST. I like Bubby, jay, baking and cooking, playing games, reading (by myself and with bubby) making decor stuff and making custom things! Blues clues !!! if you see a blues clues ask from an anon, its probably me.

Dislikes︰I HATE Bugs, bugsbugsbugs. Being confronted(confrontation), purposely being misgendered, having my boundaries disrespected, bubby or jay being purposely misgendered, bugs and uh-…. i think thats it lol

🦌 Big Dipper︰Hi im FD, im 21 (22 in august) and my pronouns are He/Him. My timezone is MST. I LOVE BABI BEAR, our friends, gaming, cars, anything that has moving parts, reading and watching crime stuff, watching movies and playing games with babi and our friends, and really love the flash as well!

Dislikes︰I dont like icky people coming to talk to babi and i (i dont really like talking to people in general), People misgendering babi or my friends or being rude towards them, and i dont like when people disrespect my boundaries I also dont like the idea of sitters because so many people in the community that we have encountered have bad intentions, but there's nothing else i can think of rn

☆ ・Space station boundaries ! ˖ ˒

Combined︰We are engaged and not seeking romantic or platonic littles/cgs! Dms open for anyone +16 or -26. If interested, interact with our posts, as random messages can be uncomfortable. If you would like to be moots/friends, please at least interact with our posts first

🦊Little Dipper︰Please use tonetags when directing asks towards me. Please Ask before DM-ing me on my personal blog @babis-little-corner and i will let you know! If you notice I interact with something not SFW, please let me know! Do not use any nicknames in asks/dms unless we are close/moots. My CG doesn't appreciate people we are not close with trying to call me things like "little one" "cutie" etc, and quite Franky neither do I...

🦌 Big Dipper︰Please Do not ask me to be your cg, I’m Happily caring for Finn and only Finn, I don’t have all that many boundaries just don’t do anything that’s gonna upset Finn and you’re alright with me!

☆ ・Dark Matter DNI ! ˖ ˒

Whats a DNI? These are "Do not interact" boundaries, this means that if your blog meets any of these criteria you may be blocked\banned\removed from a persons socials. Below are my DNI's so make sure to read them!

・Are anti-agere/agedre(or petre/petdre), an NSFW blog/"SFW" kink blogs like Dd!g/abd!/md!b and other variants. Are an 18+ only blog, Terf, etc. Anything that you would not show a child does not belong here ・Bigoted individuals or peoples that believe in Anti-LGBTQIA+, Pro-ana, Pro-SH, Anti-recovery, MIKs or MAPs, Extreme left/right views, Pro-life, Pro-war, transmed, Pro-mia, Anti-Neos/Xenos. ・Bodily 27 years of age or older. While you could be a regression blog, and completely SFW, individuals over the age of 27 can become a trigger due to my PTSD. Minors are always welcome, although we will most likely not follow back ・Are a blank blog. This means no banner, profile pictures, posts or names. Blogs like those tend to become a problem and we don't wish to deal with it.

We will block liberally

☆ ・Rover Regression info ! ˖ ˒

🦊 Little Dipper︰I am a flip-leaning regressor, regressing from 0-4. I am a sleepy but bubbly regressor, mostly using items like pacifiers. Despite my trauma, I can regress for small periods of time while assisted, but its a great start and hopefully when FD and I live together it'll boost my regression more!

🦌 Big Dipper︰I am Finns CG, and I love my babi bear! I do everything I can to make sure they feel safe and comfy here when regressing, as well as when they aren't

Sitter views︰We do not see sitters as something either of us would want to be apart of unless it was us sitting for/being sat by someone we know very well. My current sitter is @sleeplessjunkie Who generally just regresses with me when bubby is gone while we play games !!!! We will either talk a lot or not at all, and thats ok bc talk is hard! (we're both autistic)

☆ ・Solar System Sillies ! ˖ ˒

Posting schedule ish︰(Finn has a problem with keeping ideas up, so im going to try and reduce the amount of things being posted by me!)

✩⸜⸜ Affirmation Monday ✩⸜⸜ Text post Tuesday ✩⸜⸜ Worksheet Wednesday ✩⸜⸜ Reblog Thursday ✩⸜⸜ Funday Friday ✩⸜⸜ Refresh Saturday ✩⸜⸜ Shoutout Sunday

Our anon list!︰✨, (☀🐝), 🩷, 🍥, 🦭, 🦝

Send us an ask to claim an emoji and show up here! <3

Linkies!︰

Pronouns Page ⸜⸜ Finns pronouns Instagram ⸜⸜ Alphabet Paci's Shop Agere twitch ⸜⸜ Alphabet Soup The Hundred Acre Woods (discord)⸜⸜ Discord.gg/hundredacrewoods Littlewavez (discord)⸜⸜ Discord.gg/Littlewavez

🛰️ ⸜ ⸜ Thank you for reading! - The space station team ! (tags below)

[damagecompilation]

happy new year but more importantly happy birthday to my son hajime hinata

[solifloris]

happy april, i'm the fool 😭🤝 <- fool who couldnt resist the temptation of spending 20 pulls for the crate and it worked .... at the cost of me no longer having guarantee for the next banner ajfksjfh 😭✋

[waytooinvested]

Forgotten, Not Forgiven - Chapter 20

This and previous chapters are also on AO3

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Two weeks had passed since the disastrous dream session, and it felt like everything had subtly shifted from where it had been before that night.

Kara still seemed entirely unphased by her experience – was thriving, if anything. Now she had successfully negotiated better contract terms at Catco and come to a compromise with Andrea about the sort of stories she would be writing she seemed happier at work, and had even managed to wangle a corporate discount membership at the climbing centre so she could go regularly. More troublingly she had also almost immediately thrown herself into some project that she was being unusually cagey about, but Kara had assured her it was nothing to worry about, and she was acting normally enough as long as the conversation stayed on other subjects. Lena was trying her best to trust her and not dwell on the mystery, no matter how tempting it might be to do a little digging.

Beyond that there were still the regular Project Atlantis meetings as always, but although none of them said it outright, they were all aware that progress had stalled. Now they knew exactly what it was keeping Kara from her Supergirl memories, they also knew that they couldn’t just break it down, and so far the best idea they had come up with to armour Kara against the trauma of it was… therapy.

It was a long way from being the silver bullet they needed.

However, after the latest uninspired and frustrating Atlantis meeting, something else had changed. Lena had offered Alex a lift home, as she often did since they lived in the same direction, and Alex had accepted. They had been sitting in the back seat watching the city go by outside the windows, same as always, and then Alex had come out with it.

‘So. I have this idea.’

‘For Project Atlantis?’

‘No, no, not that. It’s just something I hoped you might be up for trying with me...’

Alex shuffled a bit in her seat, and for a moment she looked so much like Kara when she had been about to suggest rock climbing that Lena narrowed her eyes, suspicious.

‘I swear to god Alex, if you’re about to ask me to go skydiving-’

Alex snorted.

‘HAH, no. I do kind of wish I’d thought of that just to see your face when I suggested it, but no. I was actually going to ask if, maybe, you wanted to come with me to a gay bar some time.’

Lena’s eyebrows shot up.

This was new.

She and Alex had spent time together outside Project Atlantis meetings, sure, but it had always been a continuation of them, or at least started out with some kind of pretext of a work thing before they had settled into just hanging out. This was the first time either of them had suggested something purely social, let alone a gay bar.

‘Really? How come? It’s not our usual sort of meet up place.’

‘Exactly. I’ve never actually been to one before, and I don’t know, you might you go all the time, but I thought maybe it would be similar for you, and we could try it out together.’

Alex was… not wrong. Lena had been to a few exclusive VIP only queer events over the years, but an ordinary gay bar in her home city? Never. There had always been the risk that she might be recognised and end up all over the tabloids of course, but it wasn’t just that. She’d never had anyone to go with. Not until now.

‘Wouldn’t you rather go with Kelly?’

‘I mean, yeah, I’d really like us to go together eventually, but… well, when I got together with Maggie so much of the dynamic was her as the worldly wise one, and me as the newly hatched little baby lesbian who had never been with a woman or had any of these experiences. And even though Kelly never makes me feel that way, I kind of want this to be something I do for the first time just as myself, not as part of a couple. So I thought it could be a good friend thing. With you.’

A friend thing.

Alex wanted to discover her community with a friend, and she was asking Lena. Not Kara. Not Nia. Not any of the other friends she had uncomplicated histories with and who would gladly have tagged along with her.

She wanted Lena.

‘I would love to go to a gay bar with you Alex.’

Alex beamed, and the change in the set of her shoulders made Lena realise that she had been nervous about asking. This really mattered to her.

‘Awesome! So I have been looking into options and narrowed it down to three. There’s ‘Velvet’ which is the big one in the city centre that seems like a nice place, but it’s pretty high profile so I thought you might not be comfortable with the visibility – I don’t want you to end up as a story in some gossip magazine because of me.’

Lena nodded, appreciating the consideration. She was not afraid to be out, but she would rather control the narrative around any public announcement, and do it in her own time. Ideally when her life was less complicated than it was right now.

‘Then there’s ‘Liquor Lips’, which is the most private seeming, buuut also looks kind of skeevy. It’s not quite a strip joint, but they have some ‘exotic dance’ nights and a generally more X rated feel, and uh.. I’m not sure the whole thing is quite the vibe I’m looking for.’

‘Agreed, that is not the kind of night I was imagining.’

‘No, so this last one is my favourite – it’s called ‘Violet’s’. It’s a bit more open than Liquor Lips but also kind of far out of town, which I thought might be a good thing for you, and it has more of a community feel. It’s on the smaller side, but it looks friendly, and they have a pretty decent cocktail menu.’

Cocktails and community. Lena could work with that.

‘Violet’s it is.’

They had agreed a date and time, and that was that. They were officially the sort of friends who did things together outside of a work context. It felt a bit strange, but not bad strange. New, and unexpected, and… nice.

Violet’s turned out to be an unassuming building with a small sign hanging above the door and a rainbow sticker on one window. From the outside it didn’t look like much, and certainly wouldn’t raise many eyebrows if anyone saw Lena Luthor going in, at least not unless you knew what the place was.

Inside was a different story entirely.

Beyond the entryway it opened up into a surprisingly spacious room, decked out with purple fluorescents over the bar and string lights criss crossing the dark blue ceiling to give the impression of a starry night, though it was almost lost behind the yards and yards of rainbow bunting that had been strung overhead, and the flags of just about every queer identity one could hope to name hanging from the walls. The whole impression was utterly chaotic and much too busy to be considered entirely good taste, but Alex was right, it felt friendly.

Alex herself was hovering in the doorway, staring round from the flags, to the bunting, to the people gathered around tables. Drinking, laughing, playing darts, holding hands, kissing.

When several more seconds passed and she still didn’t move, Lena gave her a little elbow nudge.

‘You doing okay there Danvers?’

‘Huh?’

Lena raised an eyebrow at her.

‘Oh. Yeah. Yeah, I’m good, sorry. I just realised, I don’t think I’ve ever been in a room with this many other gay people before. It’s kind of blowing my mind.’

She knew what Alex meant. It was different for her of course – she had been in plenty of rooms with at least this many other queer people, but not like this. Those had all been highly curated events with carefully chosen guest lists of the rich and powerful, all of whom knew exactly who Lena was. It had meant that no matter how much she might enjoy herself, she always had to be aware of the impression she was giving, just in case any of it came back to bite her later.

But here there was none of that. This was just a bar that she happened to have walked into with a friend. They didn’t have to be The Lena Luthor and Director Alex Danvers here, and the one or two people who had glanced up when they came in had gone back to their own conversations, clearly seeing nothing noteworthy in their arrival. Right now Lena was just one more woman who loved women in a crowd of others just like her. It made her feel unremarkable. Mundane even.

She was going to like it here.

Once they had their drinks they settled at a table that was slightly out of the thick of things, but not so far back that they felt hidden away. For a little while they sipped in silence, just soaking it all in and allowing themselves to fully experience what it was like to be in the majority. Alex particularly still seemed very slightly in shock, though she was clearly trying not to stare too obviously at anyone in particular.

After a few minutes she let out a long breath and swore softly.

‘I didn’t realise. I fell in love with a woman and I came out to my family and I thought that was it, I never realised how much more there was. I’m not just a woman who happens to love other women. I am a lesbian, and that means I get to be part of something bigger than my own relationships. I feel like I missed out on so much by not working it out sooner.’

‘It’s not too late. Everyone starts the journey at their own pace, and you have plenty of time for yours. Maybe when things have settled back down and Kara... well, maybe one day we could all go to a pride parade together.’

‘Yeah… I’d like that. How come we never talked about this stuff before? It feels like kind of a waste.’

Lena shrugged.

‘We weren’t those sorts of friends. We were both more focused on Kara…’

They still were of course. Kara was their centre and the purpose for their coming together in the first place, but now Lena and Alex had formed a bond that was separate to their relationship with her. And maybe, whatever happened between Lena and Kara once Kara had her Supergirl memories back, even if they found they couldn’t work through the lies and hurt on both sides and decided not to stay friends, maybe this friendship with Alex would be something she would be able to keep this time.

‘I guess so. It’s weird though, I’ve known you for years and I don’t even know anything about what all this is like for you. I mean… have you dated women before? When did you figure out that you were bi?’

‘Boarding school. I was 15, and I realised I had the biggest crush on Andrea Rojas.’

‘Andrea- wait, that Andrea Rojas? Kara’s boss? Kara’s boss that she hates?’

‘The same. She’s more fun if she’s not your boss.’

Though it could be fun when Andrea got bossy too, in the right context.

‘Wow okay. So you two were a couple?’

Lena tilted her hand back and forth in a measuring gesture.

‘I wouldn’t say we were a couple, exactly. We were best friends, and there was definitely… tension. Then one night we snuck down to the common room in the middle of the night – no one else around, just us in the dark with a bottle of scotch Andrea had managed to smuggle in. We drank a bit of it, but just a few sips each, we hadn’t really acquired a taste for it yet, and then we talked – or more accurately, we flirted, though not in a very intentional way. Andrea was playing with the bottle, just for something to do with her hands at first, but watching it turning round and round, I think we both had the idea at the same time. She picked it up very deliberately and put it down between us, then kept eye contact while she set it spinning. We both stared at it so intensely, it was like our entire future depended on whether it stopped pointing at me or not.’

‘And did it?’

Lena laughed.

‘Not even close. But I kissed her anyway.’

‘Wow. That’s a bold move, I can’t imagine having that much confidence at 15.’

‘Well, you have to remember we were raised in families who expected to get what they wanted, and we had been dancing around it for months by that point. I think on some level we both knew it was just a matter of time. Anyway, that night kind of opened the floodgates, and we had a lot more secret make out sessions, and then eventually more than that… but it always felt more like a friends with benefits set up than an actual committed relationship. After a while she started dating someone else and so we stopped our trysts, and then I did too. We would still get together sometimes after we left school, if we were both in the same city and neither of us happened to be dating anyone else at the time, but it was always casual.’

‘And... do you still? Now she’s in National City?’

‘No. We had a… falling out. We’re back on reasonable terms now, but it’s not like it used to be. I couldn’t trust her the same way after that.’

There was a silence following this statement, filled with their shared knowledge of Lena’s more recent ‘falling out’ with someone she had romantic feelings for, and the unspoken implications about trust brought up by the parallels of the two situations.

But Kara and Andrea could hardly be more different, and Lena had never felt about Andrea the way she did for Kara…

Did that make their future prospects better, or worse?

She wasn’t sure, and she couldn’t stand the heaviness that now seemed to be pressing down on their evening of queer discovery, so she shook it off, and tried to get the conversation back on track.

‘How about you? What was your gay awakening like?’

‘ Oh, well, the big thing was meeting Maggie, obviously. But I’ve been thinking about it a lot since, and realising there were so many things that I missed at the time that make so much more sense now. Like how weird and complicated my feelings got about sleeping over with my best friend Vicky in high school. Or the girl in my freshman college dorm who was obsessed with Norwegian fantasy movies, and I was the only one who would watch them with her. I didn’t understand a word of what was going on, but she would always grab my hand and hold on tight whenever this one guy came on screen, and that was enough to make me keep going back. Then there was the barista I used to try to coincide my coffee shop visits with, even though she made terrible coffee. But she had blue hair and all these amazing tattoos, and she would give me this look and call me Beautiful like it was my name, and she used to slip me free muffins when her manager wasn’t looking.’

‘...And you didn’t read that as her flirting with you?’

‘Well no, not at the time. Why?’

‘No, nothing, I think I’m just seeing where Kara gets it from. It might not be quite an office full of flowers, but that girl did everything but write her number on your cup to tell you she was interested.’

‘Oh. Uh… she actually did write her number on my cup one time.’

‘WHAT?’

‘It wasn’t like that! It was just in case-’

Alex broke off, thinking back over the interaction, and shook her head.

‘Yeah, no, okay it was exactly like that. Self-denial is a hell of a drug.’

It probably wasn't nice to laugh at someone's process of coming to terms with their sexuality, but in this case Lena couldn't help it.

‘God, if we had had this conversation a year ago I would have known I needed to hire a sky writer to get through to Kara. Or just grabbed her by the lapels and stuck my tongue down her throat.’

Alex groaned and swatted her arm.

‘Lena!’

‘Oh you know what I mean. Anyway, it’s probably for the best. If you had picked up on Cute Blue Haired Barista’s flirting you might not be with Kelly now.’

The aggrieved look softened instantly into a dopey smile, like just the mention of Kelly's name was enough to make Alex happy. She looked the way Lena felt when she thought about Kara, and it made her simultaneously happy for her friend and intensely jealous of Alex’s uncomplicated romantic relationship.

‘Yeah, Kelly is pretty great. I guess it was worth waiting for my big realisation if it meant I got to end up where I am with her. I do wish I could talk more to her about what’s happening at the moment though. You know, with Project Atlantis… I mean, she knows in a general sense, but not how personal it is. I hate feeling like I’m keeping something from her.’

‘Kelly doesn’t know about Kara?’

‘No. Things between us were still pretty new when everything happened, and now… I can’t exactly ask Kara’s permission to loop her in, can I?’

‘No, but… for what it’s worth, I think you should tell her anyway. Kelly is your person, and you need to be able to share something this huge with your person. Your sister has essentially had a serious accident that’s left her with amnesia and missing half the context of your life together. That is a lot to deal with on your own on top of trying to keep everything from falling apart in Supergirl’s absence, and you need someone to talk to about it all. Kelly deserves to know what all this means to you, and I really think Kara will understand.’

Alex went quiet for a moment, prodding at a chunk of lime floating in her Caipiroska with a rainbow striped straw, and then asked ‘who do you talk to about it?’

‘What?’

‘Kara’s your person, right? And you can’t tell her how you’re feeling about any of this. I’ve never really thought about that before. I mean, she’s my person too obviously, but in a different way. And like you said, I have Kelly... But you don’t. And it must be hard for you.’

Lena looked away. Somehow she hadn’t been prepared for her comment to get turned around on her, but it was true. She had spent so much of her recent past keeping herself a step removed from everyone around her, safe and solitary, and yet now when she actually wanted to be brave and do the work to open up, she couldn’t let herself.

Honestly, it was shit.

But Lena was in a her first gay bar with an excessively pink drink in front of her and a Tegan and Sara song blasting in the background, and she had no intention of getting maudlin about her unrequitable love right now, so she fell back on an easier answer.

‘Oh, I have my own ways of relieving the stress.’

‘Such as?’

She shrugged.

‘I break things. Wine glasses, mostly. Plates. An electron microscope once, after the Q-wave trial failed. It’s cathartic.’

Alex stared at her, clearly not having been quite ready for this response. Then she snorted.

‘Has anyone ever told you that being a billionaire makes you kind of an insufferable brat? You seriously smashed a piece of equipment that costs at minimum tens of thousands of dollars because “it was cathartic”?’

‘Hey, I fixed it afterwards! I might be obnoxiously rich but I’m not stupid.’

‘You… you fixed it afterwards.’

‘What? I did! I actually added in some upgrades while I was at it, so it was a net positive really-’

Alex shook her head, looking half wondering, half exasperated.

‘Fucking hell Lena. You are by far my weirdest friend. And most of my friends are aliens. One of my friends is a blue guy from another century who is also part computer. But you still win. NONE of that is how normal people deal with their feelings.’

‘Maybe that’s just because normal people don’t have access to electron microscopes, or sufficient knowledge about their inner workings to rebuild them after they get smashed.’

‘Yeah, no that is definitely not it weirdo.’

For the most part Lena didn't appreciate being called out for being odd. It reminded her too much of a childhood spent trying so desperately to fit in with what was expected of her only to fall short again and again, the black sheep in every situation. But somehow, in this context, it didn't feel like a bad thing. She pulled the straw from her drink to point it at Alex, accidentally-on-purpose flicking a drip of pink grapefruit and gin mix in her direction as she did so.

‘Psh, jealous. Keep talking like that and I won’t invite you to come and smash things with me next time we need to vent.’

Alex let the drink splashing go without comment, straightening up from her semi-slouched pose with a suddenly hopeful look.

‘Wait no, invite me! I want to smash things!’

‘Huh, what happened to “that’s not normal”?’

‘Well, not highly delicate and expensive scientific equipment things, but I could absolutely be down for bashing the hell out of a junk yard car or something. I was always kind of jealous that Kara could work out her feelings by pounding an old car into a crushed blob with her bare fists, but I bet it would still be pretty satisfying with a sledge hammer.’

‘You wait until you try a laser.’

Alex’s eyes went wide.

‘You have lasers? Can I play with them??’

‘Sure. As long as you listen to my safety instructions before you touch anything – I don’t want you burning a hole all the way through the side of my building.’

‘Awesome. I take back everything I said, your way of dealing with emotion is totally normal and healthy and not at all bratty-rich-kid.’

‘I should think so.’

Alex hesitated, then added in a more serious tone ‘however, if you ever decide you want to try a different kind of catharsis… you can always talk to me, you know.’

‘Thanks Alex. You can talk to me too.’

‘Oh I was planning on it. But uh… Just do me a favour and don’t tell me any more about how you want to kiss my sister, okay?’

Well, saying that was basically handing Lena the advantage on a silver platter. An evil grin twitched at the corners of her mouth, and she leaned confidingly closer across the table.

‘Oh, I don’t just want to kiss your sister. I am an adult woman with adult needs, and I want to-’

‘Aaargh oh my god shutupshutupshutup you absolute GREMLIN!’

Lena licked her lips, schooling her expression into something downright lascivious as she doubled down on her baiting.

‘Have you seen her biceps? And her abs are just- mmmm.’

‘Lena Luthor I am so serious right now, if you don’t stop that this second I will tip this drink over your head and ass-plant you right off your stool. That is so gross.’

It was tempting to keep torturing her, but Lena was laughing too hard by this point to think of anything else to say. Besides, it honestly felt pretty weird for her to talk about Kara like that to anyone, let alone her own sister.

Worth it though, given how much it had made Alex squirm.

‘Okay, okay, I’m done. Consider that payback for all the cotton candy jibes.’

‘Urgh. Paid back in full and then some. And you owe me about five more drinks to help block out the memories of what you just said.’

Alex knocked the rest of her drink back, and whether her shudder was for the sudden rush of alcohol or the mental images Lena had managed to evoke was anyone’s guess.

‘Aw, poor little delicate flower. Alright, my round. They actually do a shot here called ‘Supergirl’, shall I get you one of those?’

‘ABSOLUTELY NOT.’

There were several other temptingly named shots that would have served to send Alex into further paroxysms of horror (a Slippery Nipple, a Screaming Orgasm, a Quick Fuck, and of course the classic Sex on the Beach would all have done it after the conversation they had just had), but in the end she had mercy and bought her a perfectly respectable New York Sour shot and another passion fruit Caipiroska; and when she returned to the table she allowed the conversation to move on to less contentious subjects.

She had that one in her back pocket now though, just in case she needed future retaliation material. It would not be difficult to wax lyrical about Kara’s strong shoulders and tantalising shy lip-bite if she needed to.

[millidank]

During my first run, I was admiring P's combat animation with the Proof of Humanity weapon. And then, of course, the cutscenes, cuz why not, haha. It's really badass that P can dual blade, but I wish there were more weapons that he can diverse in besides one-handed weapons.

Imagine P using crossbows. Maybe bows? But I don't know if bows would fit in this time period. Crossbows might fit, but maybe that could lead towards a legion arm idea (similar animation style to the Puppet String and the Falcon Eyes, but with arrows, no strings, and bullets obviously lol). A silent killer tee hee!

[urlocalmultigroupfan]

Love your new pfp Pookie

AHH SLAY <3

tysmmm just a random blog change ngl

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[sundry-whovengerslocked]

free userboxes!

free to use! likes and reblogs very much appreciated, please don't repost without credit.

some of these are kinda ugly but I'm very proud of the Sherlock, Merlin, and Good Omens ones.

the idea is this is for people who are in multiple fandoms but also maybe have a favorite.

I considered halfway through of adding different text options but by then it was too late to go back and adjust the previous ones. also, tumblr's image limit. (although I think it's up to 30 instead of 10 now? so maybe I can add more if I make a part 2.)

feel free to ask questions or send requests (no guarantees, but I'll try to get around to it!)

[nerozane]

I'm already thinking about an idea for my next DnD character but um. Idk how to translate them (not sure about what gender they will be) to the 5e system because its so specific to a particular lore that it doesn't exist in dnd5e.

[omegawolverine]

if making hit posts and gaining zero followers from it was a talent then it'd be my fucking ultimate

[itsgerges]

Best regards Planet Is Created In Its Orbit And From Its Orbit Energy https://app.box.com/s/zobl01wjvskm57p61jq2st3kroox1y42 or https://app.box.com/s/3jcfupnoei8esu5nercrffg8xnjispnu or https://gerges2022.livejournal.com/254267.html

Paper Abstract Contents

1- Paper Discovery (light can move into the past) 2- Paper hypotheses (6 hypotheses) 3- Paper discovery discussions 4- Planet nature definition 5- The moon orbital motion Description

I- Major Problems In The Physics Book II- The Gravitational Waves Creation, Motion And Reflection III- The Gravitational Waves Reflection Effects On The Planets Data (The Data Comparison) IV- The Paper Main Hypothesis Proof (The Sun Rays Creation Theory) V- The Planets Motions Use Different Rates Of Time VI- The Proof Of Planet Nature Definition (Matter Nature Analysis) VII -The Physicist Wrong Vision Proves VIII- My Theory (There's A Light Beam Moves By Speed 1.16 Million Km Per Second) IX- The Solar System Description Refutation X -The Refutations Of Many Theories In The Physics Book XI- Space Creation Needs A Motion By Speed 1.16 Million Km Per Second (The Proves) XII- Can Two Planets Diameters Be Equal? Paper Definitions Are In Page No.405 Questions And Answers Are In Page No.436 An article (Mars Will Collide With The Earth And Push The Atmosphere Gases Into It page 447)

1- Paper Discovery (Light Can Move Into The Past) (The Time Machine Can Be Created Only Based On Light Motion) The solar system design proves this fact tells (Light Can Move Into The Past) Actually–the solar system design is created depending on a light beam motion into the past- means- this light beam moved on time axis- But the solar system geometrical design can't be understood if this light motion on time-axis isn't understood and analyzed- means- the solar system geometrical design proves the time axis motion is a fact and possible (for light beams)-for that- we can answer this old question What's The Time Definition? The time is a feature of matter- means- the creation of matter necessitates to create the time with it- that's why we study the time-axis motion with Planet formation. But we should notice- Light can move on time-axis -means- light can move into the future or into the past- but the matter can NOT move on time-axis Means-No human body can travel on time-axis- neither creature nor any matter-why? Because- the matter is created by a motion in a defined direction- if the matter moves in the opposite direction for this motion, this matter will be perished- let's explain clearly- the space is similar to the sea of water and the matter is similar to whirlpool or vortex found on the sea page- the whirlpool is found depending on the sea water motion- means- because the water moves in some direction the whirlpool is created- and if the water motion direction is reversed the whirlpool will be perished –means - Matter creation needs a motion in a defined direction and that caused to restrict the matter motion in this direction- and if the matter moves in the opposite direction this matter will be perished- That's why the matter can't move on time-axis- Notice (1) The time machine can be a light beam is sent into the past to get pictures and videos from the past events Notice (2) (the matter is created depending on a motion) this is proved with 1st hypothesis Notice (3) The paper discovery is proved with 6th hypothesis in page no. (14) 2- Paper hypotheses The paper provides 6 hypotheses –and- the 3rd hypothesis is The Main One

Paper 1st hypothesis 1 Planet Is Created In Its Orbit And From Its Orbit Energy 2 The matter is created as intersection point between two energies- for that- one energy is insufficient to produce any matter- shortly- Planet is an intersection point between two energies- and- Planet orbit energy is one of these two energies- for that planet creation data is defined depending on its orbit data- by that we can discover the original orbit of any planet by analysis this planet creation data (Planet is similar to a tree planted in a ground and its orbit is this ground- means- the orbit is found before its planet creation and this planet is created depending on its orbit energy) 3 The matter is created in pairs and no single matter can be created- (as electron and positron are created from Gamma ray 1.2 Mev) and also (as male and female)- shortly- the planets are created in pairs and no single planet can be created The fact tells (Matter Is Created In Pairs) disproves the physicist vision in his search for the building unit- where the physicist divided the matter and found the particles and the particle is divided into Molecules and the Molecule is divided into atoms and the atom is divided into nucleus and electron moves around and the nucleus is divided into proton and Neutron- and the proton is divided into quarks …etc The physicist is searching for the building unit- But- in fact–no building unit- because the matter is created in pairs and no single matter can be created (as electron and positron are created together)- means- the creation is done to enable the integration between the two particles- the integration tells the matter motion is defined before this matter creation- means – the motion is the reason for the matter creation- but the physicist believed (the matter is found regardless any motion)

The Explanation of the 1st hypothesis The hypothesis tells (Planet is created in its orbit and from its orbit energy)- we see the logical thinking here-because- Planet matter is created of energy (E=mc^2) and the space is energy- for that-I suppose- matter and space are created from the same energy- by that- I suppose- the space is similar to the sea of water and the matter is similar to a whirlpool or vortex is found on the sea page- the whirlpool (vortex) is created from the sea water but it has a distinguished picture from the sea waves and it moves by different velocity from the sea waves motion velocity- Now-we have a whirlpool (vortex) its diameter is 2 meters- why does this whirlpool diameter = 2 meters? The whirlpool diameter is defined based on the water motion features (the water velocity, pressure, amount ..etc)- and if these features are changed that will cause to change the whirlpool diameter or may cause to perish it completely- this theory tells the matter motion is defined before this matter creation- but can we prove this fact? my planet diameter equation proves it My Planet Diameter Equation (v1/v2)= (s/r)= I v = Planet Velocity r = Planet Diameter I= Planet Orbital Inclination s= Planet Rotation Periods Number In Its Orbital Period v2, s, r and I are belonged to one planet and v1 is belonged to another planet The planet (v1) is defined by test the minimum error Earth Equation uses Neptune velocity Mars Equation uses Pluto velocity Jupiter Equation uses the Earth moon velocity Saturn Equation uses Mars velocity Uranus Equation uses Neptune velocity (As Earth) Neptune Equation uses Saturn velocity Pluto Equation uses the Earth moon velocity (As Jupiter) Example Neptune Equation (89143 /49528) = 9.7/ 5.4 =1.8 89143 = Neptune rotation periods number in Neptune orbital period 49528 km = Neptune diameter 9.7 km/s = Saturn velocity 5.4 km/s = Neptune velocity 1.8 degrees= Neptune Orbital Inclination 59800 days = Neptune orbital period (and Neptune rotation period =16.1 hours) The equation shortly tells Neptune diameter is 495285 km because Neptune velocity is 5.4 km/s – the equation discussion explains this idea clearly – But let's refer to the summarized idea in following We understand, matter and space are created from the same energy- and they move with this same energy motion- the energy defines the matter motion before the matter creation and by that the matter is created depending on the energy motion features and after the creation the matter moves with the energy- that explains how the matter motion can be defined before this matter creation- The important news here is that Because planet is created in its orbit- and from its orbit energy- that makes planet creation data to be created depending on its orbit data- means- if a planet left its original orbit and migrated to another orbit we can discover that by this planet creation data analysis because this data refers to the original orbit in which this planet is created

Paper 2nd hypothesis The Gravitational Waves Are Created By The Planets Motions Energies And Not By The Gravitational Field- Moreover There's No Gravitational Field- And The Sun Has No Massive Gravity And No Planet Moves By The Sun Gravity (Newton is wrong) Also- The gravitational waves are reflected three times in the solar system- the waves reflection causes effects on the planets data and causes to square the wave velocity Shortly- the space is similar to the sea of water and any motion energy in space creates waves- based on that- Planet motion produces energy (1/2 mv^2) and this energy creates waves in the space- and each planet waves move by its planet velocity- for example- Mercury (47.4 km/s) moves and its motion energy creates waves in the space and these waves move by (47.4 km/s)- all waves move toward Pluto orbit (Perpendicular On The Revolution Direction)- and in Pluto orbit these waves are unified into one unified wave moves by velocity 205.8 km/s (the planets velocities total)- this unified wave is the gravitational wave- means- the gravitational waves are produced by the planets motions energies total The Explanation of the 2nd hypothesis The explanation and proves are in items no. (II and III)

Paper 3rd hypothesis (The Paper Main Hypothesis) The Sun Is Not Doing Nuclear Fusion To Produce Its Rays- Instead- The Sun Rays Are Produced By The Gravitational Waves Motions Energies-Let's Explain Shortly- This Is Extraordinary: Gravity Can Create Light, All on Its Own https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/this-is-extraordinary-gravity-can-create-light-all-on-its-own/ar-AA19YL5d?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=620db4352aa943e2b454919a7b724604&ei=83 This new article tells the gravitational waves can move by speed of light and can produce a light beam- I claim The Sun Rays are produced based on this method by the gravitational waves motions and not by the sun nuclear fusion process- means- The sun rays are created by the gravitational waves motions and the gravitational waves are produced by the planets motions energies- means- The Sun Is Created By The Planets Motions Energies -Shortly- the planets were found and revolving in their orbits before the sun creation and the planets motions energies total is stored and accumulated (as waves in space) and when this energy be sufficient to produce light beam the sun rays are created from this energy- shortly- The Sun Is A Phenomenon Created By The Planets Motions- that means- the sun life and death depends on a cycle – for that- after this current sun death another sun will be created for the solar system The Explanation of the 3rd hypothesis (The main hypothesis) The Sun Rays Creation Process This Is Extraordinary: Gravity Can Create Light, All on Its Own https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/this-is-extraordinary-gravity-can-create-light-all-on-its-own/ar-AA19YL5d?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=620db4352aa943e2b454919a7b724604&ei=83 This new article tells the gravitational waves can move by speed of light and can produce a light beam- I claim The Sun Rays are produced based on this method by the gravitational waves motions and not by the sun nuclear fusion process- also –No star rays is produced by the nuclear fusion process but all rays are created by the gravitational waves motions energies as the article states. Here we have four questions to answer

How can the gravitational waves be produced by the planets motions energies?

How can the gravitational waves move by speed of light?

How can the gravitational waves motions produce a light beam?

Can The Planets Motions Energies Total Be Sufficient To Produce The Sun Rays? Let's answer in following 1st Question How Can The Gravitational Waves Be Produced By The Planets Motions Energies? Planet motion produces energy (1/2 mv^2) but where's this motion energy? Planet can NOT store its motion energy inside its body because It would raise its temperature- and no planet temperature is raised by its motion- logically- planet motion energy is stored in the space in moving waves –Means- planet motion in space is similar to a fish swimming in the sea- the fish swimming creates waves in the sea and similar to that - planet motion energy creates waves in the space- and - fish swims because it hits the water by its body and that creates waves in the water- and these waves move by a velocity equal the fish velocity because of the reaction force- similar to that- Planet moves in the space and its motion energy creates waves in the space and these waves move by velocity equal this planet velocity- for example- Mercury (47.4 km/s) moves and its motion energy creates waves in the space and these waves move by equal velocity (47.4 km/s) Shortly- the planets move and their motions create waves in the space and each wave moves by velocity equal its planet velocity AND the planets revolve around the sun in the same one direction and for that their motions energies create waves in the space and these waves move perpendicular on the revolution direction (Toward Pluto orbit) AND in Pluto orbit these waves are unified together into one unified wave- this wave moves by a velocity= 205.8 km/s where The 9 planets velocities total=176 km/s but I add the Earth moon velocity (29.8 km/s) that makes the total to be 205.8 km/s – I add the moon velocity because the energy is stored finally in the moon orbit- Note- The moon and the Earth revolve around the sun together for that the moon velocity is considered equal the Earth velocity relative to (the sun) –

NOW the unified wave moves by (205.8 km/s) is the gravitational wave- The scientists discovered these waves in the space and they called them (gravitational waves) supposing these waves are produced by the sun gravitational field- BUT Planet motion energy must be stored in the space as moving waves – as proved by the previous analysis -means- even if There's NO Gravitational field at all there's a strong reason to find waves in the space because these waves are created by the planets motions energies Note- I refute the sun gravitational field theory- and prove the sun has no massive gravity and also No Planet Moves By The Sun Gravity (Newton Is Wrong) The Conclusion The Unified Wave Its Velocity 205.8 Km/S Is The Gravitational Wave Notice - the new article still believes that the gravitational waves are produced by the gravitational field- I refuse this idea and prove the gravitational waves are produced by the planets motions energies but I need the article because it tells the waves can move by speed of light and can produce the light beam where I suppose the sun rays are created by this method (CONT) Gerges Francis Tawdrous +201022532292 Physics Department- Physics & Mathematics Faculty Peoples' Friendship university of Russia – Moscow

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[celestelunisea16]

I had a thought moment of thought today, and I had done a take on a Pokémon Team for Starlo and how he would have got them. So with that I give you my thoughts on what Pokémon he would have in Pokétale Yellow if there was one.

I feel like he'd probably have these Pokémon for some reason. I dunno why, but these Pokémon were the first to come to mind for him.

So here's how I think he would get them all:

Starlo got his Minior, Wistern, when he was young. The poor thing was was barely glowing due to its poor health and condition and Starlo was absolutely terrified for the little thing. He nursed it back to health with help from his parents and his older brother. After it was fully bought to good health, he was going to release it into the Underground so that it could thrive, but it refused to go anywhere and stayed by his side, so he basically adopted it and became it's trainer.

He got Revolver after he found a Remoraid in the Dunes. The Remoraid was beached, (or in this case Duned) as it somehow traveled out of water. He took it in, took it home, filled up a bowl of water and put the Remoraid in that bowl so that he could take care of it easily. As it turns out, a group of rude monsters had taken a Remoraid from Waterfall and did it for "fun." After that, he did try to go look for the Remoraid's home so that he could get him home, but it turns out the bullies were near Remoraid's home and when they saw Starlo holding a bowl with the Remoraid in it, they immediately started picking on him for helping it and even going to the point they started trying to hurt him and the Remoraid. Starlo quickly ran to the water to let the Remoraid get away, but when it was in the water, the small gun fish Pokémon got defensive and tried to save Starlo, before it then evolved into an Octillery and chased off the bullies by shooting at them with a Water Gun. After that, Octillery was happy and stuck with him. He named it Revolver after one of the weapons that Cowboys would use in his movies after that situation.

Bullet was gotten as a Squirtle as a gift from his father. At first, it was very timid and didn't seem opened up to him at all, which reminded Starlo of himself before he met Ceroba. He named her Bullet after the ammo in guns and started to try to get along with it, to which he did and they became close. Over time, he did get along with it and soon she evolved into a Wartortle, then after another while she became a Blastoise, and he was gifted a Mega Stone for Bullet from his mother after she saw the friendship he had with Bullet, so that he could be able to Mega Evolve her. Though he rarely uses it, as he realizes that with great power, comes harsh consequence and backlash.

Bandit was found in The Dunes as a normal encounter as a Sandile. Although, the only thing that differed it from other Sandiles was that it was almost like a puppy. After he fed it some beef jerky, it just followed him and wouldn't leave, so he kept it. Even after it evolved, it still acts like a puppy, even sometimes crawling onto his lap just because it can. It does have an issue with stealing things though, so he does have to return most of the items to whoever it stole the items from...

Shotgun was found as a Dreepy. One day as he was walking around the Wild East (before it was a tourist attraction) at night, he encountered the Dreepy looking around for something. After he walked up to it, the Dreepy seemed to float up to him, before staring at his hands. He was confused but then it made motions for him to throw it and when he threw it, it came back to him with an excited burst of emotion basically wanting him to throw it again. To which he did and it went on for a while until he had to go home. He was shocked though when she hopped into his bag and looked for a Pokéball, only to find a Nest Ball and encapsulate herself in it. When he fully evolved her, it was sad because she couldn't be picked up and tossed by him anymore, but she instead returns the favor by flying him around sometimes.

Horse was gotten as a Mudbray. After he saw it looked like the baby Pokémon that Cowboys and Sheriffs rode in his movies, he caught it and tried to train it to be a really tough Pokémon. The only issue with that is that it's really lazy. It would rather just carry him around like a ride Pokémon than fight, so he mostly brings it out as just that.

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I made a Ceroba team as well, but I didn’t come up with how she got them, so I'm still thinkin' on her team while also working on a Martlet and Dalv team, so maybe when I come up with those stories on how she got her Pokémon I'll post those next.