#a heartland story

[thedefinitionofendgame]

Will you continue 10 years?

Yes! Sorry I completely forgot I was updating it with edited chapters for a while there 🙈 will get back on that soon!

[artharakka]

🦋 V Spymaster 🥀

[sso-moonchild]

Ok so I'm watching Heartland for the first time (and mind you this is the first ever drama/soap opera I've ever watched, on god) and this is fucking hilarious. I'm only two episodes in and holy fucking shit it's so cheesy, so stupid, so cliche and I love it. The only thing that's missing is the character names being outlandish, and the constant threat of the slaughter/glue factory for the horses if they don't horse well enough (though I'm assuming the latter will be somewhere in the show because is it even a horse drama/soap opera without that??? I wouldn't know as I've never watched any)

All this is to say that I'm taking notes. Watch me rewrite my sso oc's stories to be stupidly dramatic for no reason at all. (it's not a threat but a prommy)

[heartlandians]

Well it's official... season 17 of Heartland has wrapped!! So many new and wonderful memories made! I love our Heartland Family xoxo. Hope to see you next year ❤️ Photo by: Sasha McLauglin

[iijadraws]

So, yeah!

We're much further in the campaign at the moment, but this is where the first "chapter" of our adventure ended. The second chapter's recap will be up as soon as I get it done!! We've now just started playing the third chapter and oh boy it's so good already ,_____,

Anyway a HUGE shout-out to @artist-rat for nourishing us (me and @artharakka) by creating & dming this campaign for us!! <3 I'm living and can't wait to continue again!!!! ;w; <3

Also another HUGE shout-out to both of you for creating so much good art for nourishment in between the sessions ;--;; <3 Here are some pieces for y'all to check out: [x] [x] [x] [x] [x] [x] (There's more out there, just check out their Heartland tags if you want to see more!)

The story & the world are for a big part based on the first fantasy world we made together with Rat in like 2010, but they've now revised it and made a lot of amazing changes to it so it's all new to me now too, with still the nostalgy for our old characters and getting to know them all anew <3

[ambermarshallnews23]

[hazel-janes-books-galore]

1991 edition of Haunted Heartland by Beth Scott and Michael Norman.

[hugsqueeze]

All of this is OLD but I want to post it since I have been struggling to draw lately and I've been THINKING about this. And I still like a lot of these little details I made for this project... heehee... There are MORE characters than just these two but I have yet to draw them. Haha *RIPPING MY KEYBOARD APART WITH MY TEETH*

Ive been kinda trying to figure out how (or if) it would be possible to show the cutsie tootsie outfit that the main character wears because I am very fond of it... And I think maybe MAYBE it would be possible to make the playable character customizable? Through character creation methods... I am afraid though because it seems. Complicated of course. Not to mention custom pronouns if that is needed. (Which it probably will be considering the player is spoken about quite a bit). ARGH >_<

[patahanranting]

Membahas setiap moment yang terlintas

Suatu hari aku pernah memikirkan kehidupan ini berlanjut dengan alur cerita bahagia, karena keluarga yang kumiliki memang sempurna

Makan bersama, tertawa, ceria sampai semua yang aku harapkan dalam hidup lengkap rasanya.

Hingga, suatu saat meniti tahun penuh dengan cobaan, mulai dari sakit, amarah, kesedihan, hingga berujung pada sebuah PERPISAHAN

Rasanya masih seperti mimpi ketika album kebahagiaan terbuka. Namun,

Aku salah

Awal mula kami berlima, tahun demi tahun ternyata kami ber empat, ini bukan soal jumlah dam umur

Pernah menggambil gambar dengan kombinasi tepat, semua lengkap tanpa terkecuali.

Semakin jauh aku membuka lembaranya, memang benar adanya, semua berakhir bahkan dengan cepat.

Sejak saat itu, moment dan gambar menjadi andalan bagiku untuk menabung kemungkinan² tahun berikutnya

Ketika satu persatu dari kami pergi, entah kemana kami harus mencarinya jika merindu.

Tentangmu

[basically-i-write-shit]

Being a 9-1-1 fox fan and a teacher is so interesting and fun bc we took our preschoolers to the local fire station today and one of my only thoughts was about the 118 going offline for a bit just to give local schools and daycares tours. Special interest brain rot.

[roohdaar]

Lamho ki is bheed mein mujhko pal de fursat ke!

[thedefinitionofendgame]

THE COUNTDOWN IS ON... STORY UPDATE LIST:

T-MINUS 2 WEEKS UNTIL I'M BACK!

This list contains nearly all of my unfinished works. Some will not be updated this fall, or at least don't have a set date.

Begin Again will update FIRST on September 7! More about this later!

miss you like this will update on September 14.

10 Years, A Heartland Story will update bi-monthly starting on September 16 until all the old chapters have been edited.

And there is one final fic that I have yet to talk about. It will be released sometime this fall and will be crowned my 50th fic posted to ao3! I'm so excited to share more when I can.

Code Red & Love Is Enough are mine and @greys-for-days "neglected" babies...and we have no idea when we'll be back to work on them

It's Hard To Be A Hero's Kid has potential for an update before 2023, but I don't want to make a promise I can't necessarily keep

even when forever falls apart should also get an update in the winter, as long as I'm motivated enough lol

don't see the story you're looking for? send @thedefinitionofendgame an 'ask' about it!

[artharakka]

🌾 XVI River Spirit 🌊

[thisaintascenereviews]

Fireworks - Higher Lonely Power

For the first new album released in 2023, we got a nice surprise in the form of Higher Lonely Power from Fireworks, a band that hasn't been around since 2014. Let me back up a little bit, because Fireworks was never a super popular band in the pop-punk scene. They had a few great albums in the early 2010s, but they called it quits after awhile. The band went their separate ways, and since then, they've teased their return. They released a song in 2019, but that song didn't appear on the album, as the band stated that they wanted to put new songs on this record and not have a song people already heard. This album has been teased for the last three years, only now seeing the light of day, and it was a welcome surprise to see the announcement on New Year's Eve. I wanted to wait a few days after its release to talk about it, because I wanted to listen to it a fair bit to get into it. Fireworks is a band that I remember very well, and very much enjoyed them back in the day, so this album is sort of nostalgic, but not in the way you may think. Their sound is a lot more grown-up on this record, but it's the fact they exist at all that feels nostalgic to me. Listening to this band is something I haven't done in years, almost a decade now, and it's really cool to have them back. It's always a great feeling to have a band come back that you really liked back in the day, and it's almost like an old friend coming back into your life.

What is most important, however, is whether or not the music is good. I'm here to say that Higher Lonely Power is a very good album, and it may be an album of the year contender already. I do think this record needs more time to sit with me, because I wouldn't say it's an amazing record that is worth hearing, regardless of who you are, but I will say that it's worth hearing if you haven't listened to these guys in years and your tastes have changed along with them. This album, for those unaware, is more or less an indie-rock album with some electronic and heartland rock inspiration. Like a lot of other bands, they've grown and changed their sound. They're not Neck Deep, State Champs, or The Story So Far, who are admittedly legacy bands that can put out the same things and people love it. Fireworks are different, but they're also different people now. This record is different, too, and in all the best ways. It spans a lot of styles, but that is the one issue I have with this LP is that it's a bit disjointed in spots. I mean, the opening track is a heavy post-hardcore song and then it randomly goes to an indie-rock song. It's very jarring the first time you listen to it, because you don't expect a post-hardcore song with screamed vocals to open up a Fireworks record, but it works well for them.

The wait for this album was worth it. At 44 minutes, it's a bit lengthy, but the length is mostly justified. The songs are interesting, the lyrics are well-written, their vocalist sounds great, and the songwriting is really solid, incorporating more styles this time around, and feeling more grown-up. This isn't a "fun" album, but it is rather catchy and upbeat in spots, but it's not meant to be a fun pop-punk album. I can see some fans that love their early stuff going into this thinking it's 2014 again when that's not the point, or who they are anymore. Bands change, and people just need to deal with it. They don't sound the same here, but in the best ways. I've always loved this band for how off the wall and strange they are. They never quite fit in with the crop of pop-punk bands that were big at the time, but they still had a familiar sound. It was very weird, but Fireworks were always the underdogs to me, but here's hoping they can have their moment to shine. I'm really curious to keep listening to this throughout the year, because it might just get better and better, ultimately resulting in one of the best albums released this year. We're only a few days in, and there's at least already one great album that came out, much less as a complete surprise.

[heartlandians]

Misc props from the Heartland Auction

[celebritynewss]