#also . jolene obviously

[artttho]

life is about the savior/attack dog dynamic

[dykesbites]

straight people write some of the gayest fucking songs ever like seriously got me checking the personal life section of their wikipedia page

[rotisseries]

WHAT WAS THAT THING YOU EXPLAINED TO ME AGES AGO FOR WAITING ROOM ABOUT HOW TO LISTEN TO SONGS THAT ARENT ON SPOTIFY ??? I NEED RED FLANNEL GEORGIA AND I NEED IT NOW

AKAJDFJSKFKS OK THIS IS MY FAVORITE SPOTIFY FEATURE YAY!! relying on people to have uploaded things as a podcast sucks so bad because they get taken down a lot and also it breaks up the vibe because the title and artist are always something random and the little picture is just a sunset or whatever idk IT BREAKS UP THE VIBE

so you can do this from any device, (i prefer to do it from my computer though for reasons that'll be explained later) and if you have spotify premium you'll also be able to listen to it on all devices, but first thing you're going to do is go into your account settings and turn on the local files option

once you do that, it'll access any downloaded audio files you have, and you can listen to them on that device. they'll be stored in a spotify playlist named local files, similar to the liked songs one. (i would also recommend making a separate folder for the songs you want downloaded on spotify, at least on the computer, i know you can change which folder it takes from there. otherwise you might end up with random audio you downloaded for something specific in your spotify library.)

if you have premium, you can also turn on spotify on other devices, and add the song you downloaded to an actual playlist

and it'll sync up on all your devices and you can download the playlist on every device. if you don't have premium though you'll either have to download it on every device or you can only listen to it on the first one you downloaded it on.

now for actually getting the song. this is really simple I tend to go straight to youtube and it's usually pretty easy to find the song I want, and then I just put the link into a youtube to mp3 converter (dodging the hot moms in my area. maybe next time ladies) and then I download it. make sure it's in the right folder and boom! I now have mitski's cover of let's get married to cry to on demand! soundcloud also works though obviously because any audio file will do, and a lot of unreleased songs get uploaded to soundcloud, and there’s a handy little download button right there and you don't need an account! great if you run into a song that isn't on youtube. totally unrelated but I have phoebe bridger's cover of iris downloaded

now. reasons I tend to do it from my computer specifically.

1. most shady websites are just easier to navigate lol. it's twice as hard to deal with pop ups when things are also rotating your phone screen around. so yeah i'd prefer to hit up the mp3 converter from my laptop

2. if you have any songs where the only video for it has an annoying intro or outro, it can be easier to edit it out. like lil nas x's cover of jolene was from the youtube channel for some fucking radio station or whatever so I had to edit that out. and my laptop's native audio file player has a trimming option, so I didn't have to download extra software like I would on my phone

3. and most importantly to me, you can make it aesthetically pleasing. when you just download the audio file it won't have an album picture and it won't have an artist name it'll only have whatever the file name is as a title, which you can change obviously but it doesn't fix the rest of it. on the computer it is so easy to download a metadata editor, and you can edit the file's metadata however you want and it'll have the little artist line and the album if you want and you can put whatever picture goes with the song but this is of course not required it just matters a lot to me personally

anyway have fun!

[ghostofbambifanfiction]

29 for cyoa ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

If you made a playlist, talk about the songs on it and share a link

I did make a playlist, and I listen to it a lot.

So as of today, there are 52 tracks on the playlist, but it’s always growing because I’m always rediscovering songs that suit the fic as I see it. I tend not to focus on lyrics often and rather how the overall mood of the song fits the story, so if a song’s lyrics don’t seem to make sense within the context of the story, it’s because they weren’t taken into consideration. Of course, that’s not always the case, like with Jamelia’s “Something About You” which describes Lily’s awakening to her feelings pretty damn accurately.

There are a healthy number of my favourite artists from the 90s on there because CYOA Lily and James are 90s babies and Lily in particular has a deep, deep love for the 90s aesthetic, as evidenced by her 90s prom fantasy (which is why Maria McKee’s “Show Me Heaven” is on the playlist). So on there we’ve got Lighthouse Family, Simply Red, Britney Spears, Samantha Mumba (Lily’s preferred artist to listen to when Paul and Wendy are having sex in the next room), Backstreet Boys, Celine Dion, Steps, The Corrs and others. Why I haven’t put Peter Andre’s “Mysterious Girl” aka my all time favourite song from the 90s on there is beyond me, I’m going to do that now.

A couple of specifics:

Dario G’s “Sunchyme” is an absolute bop and it’s the song that I picture post-makeover Lily dancing to when she’s getting ready for work in the mornings. James’s get ready song is “I2I” from A Goofy Movie, which is also on the playlist.

Obviously I had to feature Dolly Parton’s “Jolene” because that was James’s first nickname for Lily.

“Therapy” as sung by Andrew Garfield and Vanessa Hudgens is also on the playlist, because @wearingaberetinparis suggested a lyric from that song as a chapter title for chapter 42, when Lily and James have their argument. It was a genius suggestion on her part because of course I had to have Andrew on the playlist, right??

“Good Day” by Nappy Roots is a song that always makes me laugh, and it was the song I played over and over when I was writing chapter 41 aka the chapter where Lily finds out about James and Skylar.

There are a bunch of Sohodolls songs on there because they make very horny music and Lily and James are deeply, deeply horny for one another.

Flo Rida’s “Wild Ones” is on there because you guys voted for it? Why? Find out later.

And I have two Florence + The Machine songs because she’s playing the benefit!

Fic Asks!

[lividria]

Funny Story: The Thousand-Year Door (Part 2)

Yea, remember the time I made a post about how everyone associates me with this game's Vivian because that's also my name, I'm also trans and my OC persona character looks similar? I have now beaten TTYD and I already wasn't opposed because I liked the character but I used Vivian for literally as much time as possible once I got her so uh

Here's some of the highlights of my playthrough, spoilers obviously

In the chapter 8 Shadow Sirens rematch (I know they're the Three Shadows now but I'm used to the old name, fight me), I had Goombella out to get tattles, tried to switch over to Vivian, and the FUCKING GAME CRASHED? Which I interpreted as Beldam getting so pissed it broke the space-time continuum, thankfully I saved right before and Vivian later dealt the final blow to Beldam to win the fight when I tried again

Shadow Queen kicked my FUCKING ASS HOLY SHIT, it took me 3 tries, I feel like if I were to rematch Prince Mush they would be so much easier than SQ it wouldn't even be funny AND THEY'RE A SUPERBOSS, I WIPED THE FLOOR WITH JUST ABOUT EVERY PRE-CHAPTER 8 BOSS BUT THEN THE FINAL BOSS WRECKED MY ASS LIKE SHE WAS TACO BELL

One of my friends hyped up Bonetail as being even harder when I immediately went to do the Pit after the credits, I JUST beat them without using any items (Though I did eat a couple in the earlier levels of the Pit) and it was so much less intense than what I expected, especially because I got really lucky with bingos and Pretty Lucky (badge) so I was never in any danger

Yes I know about Whacka, yes I know what I have to do to fight them, yes I'm gonna try them, but that's for tomorrow

I was actually trying to get 100% tattles this playthrough but only realized far too late I didn't get the tattles for the scripted Shwwonk Fortress encounters (Not the Golden Fuzzy, though, I got them & their Fuzzy horde) and I don't know if those guys respawn or are anywhere else so uh fucking whoops

I laughed my ass off when the Atomic Boo had it's own battle theme, that was the most unnecessary thing ever

Chapter 3 made me absolutely lose my shit because all I did was do all the Trouble Center side quests before that and I was somehow hilariously overpowered (I actually got a Power Plus from was their name Dazzle or Sparkle? So that's probably why) I destroyed everything and everyone, I knew about the poisoned cake but I didn't know leaving it killed that poor Koopa, I was completely floored by Bowser not having his boss theme (It's used in the Chapter 8 fight don't worry), and laughed for like a half hour straight at Grubba actually just dying at the end of the chapter after confessing to murder, can you actually find him anywhere after that because I never saw him ever again and Jolene said he was out of the picture so I choose to interpret that as Mario just straight up killing the guy

I fucking hate Rawk Hawk, I rematched him a couple times, all of them unintentionally besides for one time I was like 2 points off a level up, he goes down so fast it's so cathartic, I got an e-mail at some point from him that looked like he was saying he's a better fighter now, I'm gonna go beat his ass right now to prove he ain't

I somehow got Vivian into that bucket in the hidden part of Rogueport Harbor, she teleported out before I could screenshot it, I open Tumblr and first thing I see is that one post that's art of bucket Vivian, reality is taunting me I swear

For the several years on Discord I've always made it a thing to exaggerate some personality traits whenever it'd lead to funny jokes, so I have this entire gag persona I'll put on sometimes where I'll act like a narcissistic asshole out of nowhere (which is pretty easy because I'm incredibly easy to anger and thus act like a jerk more than I should), and it's some of the same people I do that with that compare me to TTYD Vivian sometimes, so imagine my reaction when I see the dialogue implying Vivian has a crush on Mario when I always switch out the player character with myself in my head, Vivian has a crush on essentially herself

I never used Zess T. once throughout my entire playthrough so imagine my horror when I check the requirements for 100%ing the game and seeing the recipes are there in the Journal menu, yea fuck no lol, I don't even know if I'll get all the Star Pieces & Shine Sprites but I am definitely not catching up

So uh yeah really good game

[dopscratch]

introducing: the Scoutbros

i'm feeling creative, so i'm gonna introduce you all to my headcanons for scout's family, including the basically-ocs that i've designated as his brothers! you're welcome to use them anywhere if you happen to actually like them, with a couple rules

credit me please this is the one scrap of originality i have

if you make any tweaks, headcanons or changes, please do not parade them as fact!

SHOW ME, LINK IT TO ME, GIVE ME WHATEVER CONTENT YOU MAY MAKE WITH THEM I LOVE THE SCOUTBROS

obviously these rules only apply to the oc-ones and not the canon characters (except rule 3, give me your tf2 content...)

all images are from that one scene in my Runs in the Family animatic you know the one- and represent fairly young versions of all of them! i think i designed scout to be like 10 there.

anyway, without further ado, my headcanons/ocs:

Starting with Scout's mother, I've headcanoned she really likes J names. Her name is Jolene and Spy's name, whatever it is, probably starts with a J too. Most of her kids come from different fathers, hence their varied appearances. Also her last name is Fitzgerald for the memes. That's pretty much all I have here

Scout himself also remains pretty much unchanged. His childhood nickname was Germ because Jeremy and also he's a little pathogen the kid is obnoxious :)

Josh is 1 year older than Scout and is the resident daredevil. He’s a thrill seeker and holds the record for the most broken bones in the family, both at once and total. Scout may have broken this record during his time as a merc, but since he’s not really supposed to talk about it (and it’d be nearly impossible to keep track of on the battlefield with Medic healing) Josh remains on top. He has darker/deeper brown eyes and hair.

Jay is 2 years older than Scout and a hyper tech nerd who finds it difficult to focus on most things for more than one minute. He loves pranks, often pulling them on his brothers and anyone unlucky enough to be close by. He’s 100% a memelord (Saxton invented the internet early it could happen!!). He’s a blue-eyed redhead.

Jason is 5 years older than Scout. He’s twins with Jake (coming next!). He’s also a criminal. To be fair, he’s not really more of a criminal than his other brothers, he just continued being a bit of a menace into adulthood and is terrible at covering his tracks, resulting in him landing in jail more often than not. If someone in the family is going to get caught for a crime, it’ll most likely be him. He also occasionally takes the fall for his other brothers, be it voluntarily or not. He’s absolutely awful at planning but can often think on his feet well enough in a crisis. He has paler brown eyes and black hair.

Jake is Jason’s twin (so also 5 years older than Scout). He’s a nicer guy, polite, but an adept fighter. He tends to keep a cool head and can get out of a lot of bad situations, the opposite of his twin (he is the younger twin which he used to be a little self-conscious about). He’s also Bidwell. He legally changed his name because the scoutfam is a little notorious what with the many many troublemakers that come from it. I think this is the perfect origin story for him because there’s no way Saxton Hale would hire an assistant without assessing their combat ability.

Jessie is Jack’s (coming next!) right-hand man, 7 years older than Scout. Scoutmom Jolene forgot the masculine way to spell it was ‘Jesse’ so now this tall, buff, intimidating man has to live with a name that many would point and laugh and call a girl’s name (not that ‘Jesse’ would be any better in the spoken word). Though it was a bit of an embarrassment in early childhood, mostly going by his initials, he’s moved past it, growing confident and comfortable with his name. He’s generally stoic and hard to rattle, though he has a more chaotic side and likes helping out with Jay’s pranks. Though he’s slower to anger, he holds a long, lifetime grudge. He has darker brown eyes and black hair.

Jack is 9 years older than Scout and the ruthless leader type. He specializes in organized crime, but in a kind of wholesome way. He’s very protective of anything he’s deemed his territory and will keep his little circle safe. Family comes before anything for him (absent fathers don’t count in his books). He targets overeager gangs, corrupt officials, big businesses challenging smaller local ones, and other threats to his community in various less-than-legal ways. He has blue eyes and black hair.

James is the oldest son, 12 years older than Scout. He filled in as a sort of father figure to the family as it grew and was the leader of the scoutbros’ chaotic outings until adulthood, when he eventually decided to pursue a stable, normal job. Still, he sticks around and occasionally accompanies the group for old time’s sake. He’s generally the most responsible, followed by Jake and Jessie. He has brown eyes and a light brownish hair, a similar shade to Scout’s.

and that’s all of em! hope you enjoyed this wild ride through my brain. i think the tag is free so #scoutbros will from now on be referring to my particular band of silly dudes unless anyone has any objections!

also, feel free to ask me any questions!

[lavendershowcase]

Pink Pony Club: LGBT books with pink covers (that was the whole criteria this month, starting chill)

Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl by Andrea Lawlor

It’s 1993 and Paul Polydoris tends bar at the only gay club in a university town thrumming with politics and partying. He studies queer theory, has a dyke best friend, makes zines, and is a flaneur with a rich dating life. But Paul’s also got a secret: he’s a shapeshifter. Oscillating wildly from Riot Grrrl to leather cub, Paul transforms his body and his gender at will as he crossed the country––a journey and adventure through the deep queer archives of struggle and pleasure.

Of note: 90s queer culture, debut novel, Lawlor received the Whiting award for this novel

Your Driver is Waiting by Priya Guns

Damani is tired. Her father just died on the job at a fast-food joint, and now she lives paycheck to paycheck in a basement, caring for her mom and driving for an app that is constantly cutting her take. The city is roiling in protests–everybody’s in solidarity with somebody–but while she keeps hearing that they’re fighting for change on behalf of people like her, she literally can’t afford to pay attention.     Then she gives a ride to Jolene (five stars, obviously). Jolene seems like she could be the perfect girlfriend–attentive, attractive, an ally–and their chemistry is off the charts. Jolene’s done the reading, she goes to every protest, and she says all the right things. So maybe Damani can look past the one thing that’s holding her back: she’s never dated anyone with money before, not to mention a white girl with money. But just as their romance intensifies and Damani finally lets her guard down, Jolene does something unforgivable, setting off an explosive chain of events.

Of note: satire, "gender-flipped Taxi Driver"

Gwen and Art Are Not in Love by Lex Croucher*

It’s been hundreds of years since King Arthur’s reign. His descendant, Arthur, a future Lord and general gadabout, has been betrothed to Gwendoline, the quick-witted, short-tempered princess of England, since birth. The only thing they can agree on is that they despise each other. They’re forced to spend the summer together at Camelot in the run up to their nuptials, and within 24 hours, Gwen has discovered Arthur kissing a boy and Arthur has gone digging for Gwen's childhood diary and found confessions about her crush on the kingdom's only lady knight, Bridget Leclair. Realizing they might make better allies than enemies, they make a reluctant pact to cover for each other, and as things heat up at the annual royal tournament, Gwen is swept off her feet by her knight and Arthur takes an interest in Gwen's royal brother.

Of note: YA, historical

*I personally recommend this book! There's interesting world building, playing with Arthurian legends. It's fun and tropey but not without genuinely emotional moments. And it's just such a good read. Bonus points for a character having an unnamed medical condition that shares symptoms with endometriosis.

Red, White, and Royal Blue by Casey McQuinston

When his mother became President, Alex Claremont-Diaz was promptly cast as the American equivalent of a young royal. Handsome, charismatic, genius―his image is pure millennial-marketing gold for the White House. There's only one problem: Alex has a beef with the actual prince, Henry, across the pond. And when the tabloids get hold of a photo involving an Alex-Henry altercation, U.S./British relations take a turn for the worse. Heads of family, state, and other handlers devise a plan for damage control: staging a truce between the two rivals. What at first begins as a fake, Instragramable friendship grows deeper, and more dangerous, than either Alex or Henry could have imagined. Soon Alex finds himself hurtling into a secret romance with a surprisingly unstuffy Henry that could derail the campaign and upend two nations and begs the question: Can love save the world after all? Where do we find the courage, and the power, to be the people we are meant to be? And how can we learn to let our true colors shine through?

Of note: adapted into a movie in 2023

We Were the Universe by Kimberly King Parsons

The trip was supposed to be fun. When Kit’s best friend gets dumped by his boyfriend, he begs her to ditch her family responsibilities for an idyllic weekend in the Montana mountains. They’ll soak in hot springs, then sneak a vape into a dive bar and drink too much, like old times. Instead, their getaway only reminds Kit of everything she’s lost lately: her wildness, her independence, and—most heartbreaking of all—her sister, Julie, who died a few years ago. When she returns home to the Dallas suburbs, Kit tries to settle in to her routine—long afternoons spent caring for her irrepressible daughter, going on therapist-advised dates with her concerned husband, and reluctantly taking her mother’s phone calls. But in the secret recesses of Kit’s mind, she’s reminiscing about the band she used to be in—and how they’d go out to the desert after shows and drop acid. She’s imagining an impossible threesome with her kid’s pretty gymnastics teacher and the cool playground mom. Keyed into everything that might distract from her surfacing pain, Kit spirals. As her already thin boundaries between reality and fantasy blur, she begins to wonder: Is Julie really gone?

Of note: considered "a most anticipated novel," released July 2024

[stone-stars]

if you ever wanted to talk about the usage of growing pains, i would be all ears. obviously no pressure or expectation tho

oh boy DO i want to talk about the use of growing pains! (also called drained.) (actually, more often called drained, but i like growing pains as a name better, and if murph's going to credit names inconsistently i'm going to take liberties. sue me, brian.)

so, growing pains is used in two places: the shadowfell arc in bahumia, and sirenloch in eldermourne. no c3 uses yet* (small disclaimer about that under the cut, along with timestamps of the uses)

there's a reason i like "growing pains" as a name. growing pains is this song that comes up for... the pain of change. growth and love can be good, but it also hurts.

growing pains is for trying to find a way to save vampire!hardwon, it's for rosa's urn being broken (and deadeye saying he'll help rebuild the church), it's for deadeye fading away, lydia being missing when scrying on her (and moonshine lying to hardwon about it), and moonshine breaking down after she learns about her father from erdan (and hardwon/bev/paw paw finding her).

it's for henry realizing that he was looking at his past with rose colored glasses, and for zirk cutting stella off with a final goodbye and a rope trick.

growing pains is a song that says love can't change things. y'know, deadeye's help can't bring rosa back. and he was going to die the moment he was freed. moonshine lying to hardwon doesn't make lydia okay. there's nothing moonshine can do to change jolene being turned away by erdan. henry loved izzy, and she loved the idea of him. zirk can care for stella, and know she's bad for him.

but... it also says that the love matters. like. choosing to care, choosing to love, choosing to offer kindness, it matters. hardwon's friends don't give up on him when he's turned. deadeye remembers how to be kind, and then dies feeling more love than he's felt in decades. hardwon knows moonshine cares; moonshine doesn't have to cry alone. izzy and henry didn't work out, but there's hank jr. stella takes to the road, not the scales.

it can't change everything. but it's worth something.

perhaps my favorite use of growing pains (and the one that i think describes the song best) is the one that starts as deadeye fades: "yeah, i know i'm down a hand, and an eye, and a life, but i got a soul, and a family, and i finally know which is worth more."

(as a side note, it's interesting to me that the eldermourne take on growing pains is... more bleak than the bahumia one. like, izzy and henry. stella and zirk. as much love as henry and zirk give, it's a two way street. izzy wasn't forced into divorcing henry, she chose different priorities. and if stella doesn't choose to change, zirk can't force her. but the thing about it with those two is... it still matters to zirk and henry. that they loved. that they tried. so yeah, it's still worth something.)

(a secondary side note is that growing pains has a best friend (song it's often used with) called gutless. which, despite the name, is actually much more optimistic than growing pains. i'm not going to get into all the uses here, but it is used a lot in the shadowfell especially for deadeye and vampire!hardwon when they are letting themselves love and be loved-- like deadeye coming around, or hardwon having a heart to heart with the boobs where moonshine offers to reincarnate him. it's also used for zirk in early eldermourne, as he remembers the kind of person he was around stella and the flashback to that little girl when he knew it needed to change.)

(*c3 disclaimer is that, while there's no credited uses of growing pains/drained in c3, it's possible that there is an uncredited one that i haven't gotten to yet, since i'm not done going through and taking music notes on c3)

growing pains uses:

61 - 1:16:21 - Talking about ways to save Vampire Hardwon

63 - 1:00:56 - Rosa's urn is broken / Deadeye agrees to help rebuild the church

64 - 2:31:08 - Deadeye starts to die / fade

68 - 17:51 - Scrying on Lydia, but not seeing her

68 - 1:22:56 - Moonshine cries after learning about her dad and gets a hug from Erdan and Bubbles

68 - 1:24:07 - Paw Paw, Hardwon, and Bev find Moonshine crying

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28 - 44:23 - Henry remembers his relationship with Izzie (the rose-colored glasses he's been using)

28 - 46:54 - Henry remembers his jean jacket (the rose-colored glasses he's been using) -- (this is a joke use. i'm including it for completion's sake but i want to be so clear this is a joke.)

29 - 43:32 - Zirk says goodbye to Stella

[kiwipineappleparasol]

TTYD Remake — Chapter 3, 4, & 5 Ramblings

I suddenly realized I forgot to post all my rambling here! And then I beat the game haha. But I will post my notes like I did not just Watch the Credits Sequence today . So do not fear! This is only for Chapters 3 4 & 5

I like when they show all the partners out together! Like at the Thousand year door or the blimp cutscene with them all riding together … That one made me unreasonably happy when starting chapter 3 haha.

I was . Literally kicking my feet giggling hysterically when I saw that the photo standee now actually does a little photo op??? I was sooooo happy oh my god . Noone asked for them to make the standee actually interactable to this extent but they did cause they could ! As a kid I would always pretend I was getting photos in it so this literally shot an arrow directly at my Child Self . This game is for meeeeee.

The fact your title screen has your Yoshi color on it! Suuuuuuper neat, I was quite surprised by it -- I just love the title screen in general . How everyone shows up as they join the cast! So fun. Another one of those details just added because they could ! I named my Yoshi Hot Dog by the way . And it was pink! I always wanted the pink one as a kid haha -- but I never got it.

I spent so much time talking to every NPC in chapter 3 it was embarrassing . And I don't think I even saw every piece of NPC dialogue despite my best efforts . Chapter 3 was such fun for me to go through I looooooove Glitzville . One of my favorite chapters for sure

I can appreciate how much foreshadowing there is for everything in this chapter now that I'm older… Bandy Andy and the Seven Wonders are an obvious example -- he directly foreshadows both Grubba's motive and his own demise. NPCs won't stop talking about Prince Mush, especially the juice shop lady -- who is obviously Jolene in disguise… My favorite might be this extremely obscure piece of dialogue if you talk to the freelance cameraman on the second floor, he tells you that Rawk Hawk used to be such a polite guy; he even sent Prince Mush a cake before their match! … Yep. Super Polite Guy! Bet that cake wasn't poisoned.

The way Bandy Andy's disappearance is like. All but unsaid is so cool to me. He just vanishes from the hallway and is silently replaced like nothing happened. But if you talked to him, you'd know exactly what he investigated that caused his disappearance. Loveee chapter 3.

Shellshock eating the cakes will never not be funny to me 🍰 that and him calling Mario "baby" is just inherently amusing to me. Mario is NOT your babygirl.... (End of Chapter 3 Notes)

THEY DID IT THEY CHANGED THE TRANSLATION !!!!! 🏳️‍⚧️ we looooooove you Vivian . I will give her The World . They also changed the translation for Jerry though too! Originally, he said he had to stop Luigi from wearing a dress ever again, but now he says he can't let Luigi fumble around in heels again because he might just kill someone . Jerry Character Development we love to see it .

I love the fact all the NPCs have different little voices it just adds so much … And I still can't get over all their cute little animations.

VIVIAN'S THEME IS SOOOOOOOOOOO GOOD!!! I will be listening to this Again . The spooky battle theme rules too . Such great Spooky Atmosphere they set with this chapters music and visuals .

Doopliss rocking in his little rocking chair was an absolute highlight for me . Look at him . I love his room so much . All he does is sit around, watch TV and curse the townspeople all day. He's bored!

the partner hints can be very silly . I really like how because Goombella DITCHED Mario for his poser in Chapter 4 that Vivian becomes the main partner hint girl for a time ! Love extra Vivian content .

I had the W Emblem badge when I got to chapter 4, but I was thinking that it wouldn't affect how Doopliss looked, let alone random NPC dialogue. But color me shocked when Doopliss stole the Wario Color Palette and the townspeople said he wore purple and yellow! This attention to detail is so cool.

The reveal at the end of the chapter ! How the paper ripped away to reveal his true form ! How Mario's shadow state was peeled off like a sticker! Finally a good use of stickers in Paper Mario . (Laughtrack)

My mother wasn't pleased that we had to beat Doopliss up because "look at him he's so cute he didn't do anything wrong." But she did say he should give up Mario's identity because his true form looks much better which is true. (End of Chapter 4 Notes)

Arfur saying he wants to talk to Swindell but he can't find him anywhere … You walk over two feet and see Swindell across the bridge. That got to me LMAO. That and Swindell calling some guy hopping into people's chimneys dashing. Happy Pride!

Mario tipping his hat to pay his respects to Scarlette …

FLAVIOS SINGING VOICE IS SO FUNNY. imagine being on a ship forced to listen to that for days on end.

The sequence of them all going overboard was Awesome love seeing everyone drown . But actually just so many of these cutscenes look so good in this remake !!! It's almost hard to appreciate them all because they set such a standard for them all!

Keyhaul Key looks so good actually. I mean I love all the new graphics in general it just really was hammered in here. Like wow. This game looks awesome. I love the battle theme here too.

Flavio and Pa-patch fighting over who's the Bravest Coolest Guy only for them to both quiver behind Mario is both entirely expected and very amusing. I Enjoy whatever is wrong with them.

(not) LORD CRUMP DOING THE FUCKING 👉👈 POSE??? hilarious. Also him Evilly Apologizing all the time. AND WHEN HE PICKED UP MARIO OVER HIS HEAD. why didn't he just drop him over the bridge and get it over with .

Koops saying "here I was feeling depressed … Mario, whack this guy" after they realized Bobbery wasn't dead . LMAO.

"Um. No. Not fair. I hate you all." Has got to be one of my top ten favorite lines from this game now.

The amount of joy Flavio riding on Yoshi with Mario brings is insane it's so funny to me. Two grown men piggybacking on a child . The only downside to the new pipe system is that you can no longer do the Flavio glitch and keep him forever.

Bobbery's partner hints are so full of personality… Also you can interact with the winch with every character and you bet I did that just to see what everyone said. I like how Koops didn't even know what the sluice gate was called, it feels very in line with him growing up in a peaceful village doing Nothing. Me too buddy.

I Can't Believe It Was Lord Crump This Whole Time! … Is what I would say if he hadn't told us earlier. I mean his disguise was flawless. Can you imagine Lord Crump doing this 👉👈? (Joking Statement)

CORTEZ SHAKING WITH RAGE WAS SOOOO FUNNY . He is SEETHING. also him eating the Skull Gem . Yum yum! I love this whole sequence with him and Flavio so much. His cabin is soooo pretty in the remake. They really went all out with the coins and gems here. I had to take so many screenshots !

THE SHIP FIGHTING SEQUENCE is great . I watched it twice just because I could .

I can't get over this dialogue from Pa-Patch after chapter 5 . The only explanations I can think of is 1: this is somehow offensive in Bom-Omb Culture or 2: he realized this sounded like he was flirting with a widower who just barely stopped blaming himself for his late wife's death. Bad look.

[neechees]

I watched Queen's Gambit & really liked it but one of my major criticisms with it is that at points it kind of felt like they were "not like other girls"-ing Beth. She doesn't really have any (non-relative) female friendships outside of Jolene, who is also the person who arguably helps her get addicted to drugs & acts as an ex machina for her later. She mainly has friendships with men, all except 2 of which she also has sex with. I think they were trying to do a reverse on the trope of the male prodigy who sleeps with a lot of women, but it's shown earlier that when Beth TRIES to have friendships with the girls from her school, they write off her interest in chess as just being because she wants the attention of the boys who also play chess: which, obviously isn't true for Beth, but at the same time I still find this annoying that that went this route for her character in a way I cant quite express why I dislike it.

Like at multiple points it kinda seems to only show that the girls Beth went to school with were all catty and mean and it's giving off the "im only friends with guys because girls cause drama" vibe, and then even when she finally makes friends with another woman (Cleo), Cleo herself says women in modeling are all vapid, shallow, and "empty", and then proceeds to help sabotage Beth's chess tournament the following morning before disappearing. Like why couldn't have Beth made more friendships with other women who play chess? Why couldn't have Jolene been present more in the narrative besides when it was convenient for Beth?

[jazzy-art-time]

Vaguely remember you mentioning a belmont monster hunter interacting with jody once, what’s he like exactly?

ILL NOT GO OFF TOO MUCH but listen you asked me about a lizard. Anytime someone asks about a Jody blog thing I’m going to go Beast Mode

ANYWAYS!!!

BELMONT!!! (S)!!

The WIP I showed is Finn Belmont. He is part of the Belmont family (obviously) and is a Professional Monster Hunter.

There are several other members of the Belmont family. Although a fair amount of them choose to try and live normal lives, but Finn is one of the few who still actively Does His Duty.

He is currently training his niece and just does his little Belmont things.

He is very skilled with weapons. As most generic Pokémon moves don’t seem to be enough to take down certain types of monsters. But he is also fairly fit so he can handle his own.

His primary weapons are whips. He has one normal WIP with a silver cross tip and the other whip is… his tail! His tail is extremely long and he uses it as a whip when needed. Because I personally think that’s cool

He knows his worth. He knows that he is good at what he does and can sometimes be a bit cocky about it.

He is very proud of his family line and what they do, his body is covered in various tattoos. He has some blackout tattoos on his hands however, to cover up some embarrassing stuff he had in his youth. Yes those are tattoos and not markings that he has, i know my style doesn’t really differentiate the two very well lmao

He is also!! A middle aged man!! And I believe he technically qualifies as a BabyGirl but I would have to look at a test for that…. Anyways I love a good Ol middle aged man!!!

AS FOR HOW HE CONNECTS TO THE BENNET’S…

They met because the Bennet’s have contact with Dracula, which is Belmont territory. The Belmont’s keep watch over the current iteration of Dracula so when the Bennet’s got close, they met through that.

Finn does not particularly enjoy Jody, he doesn’t hate her but doesn’t look fondly on her. He thinks she is too reckless and in her own head. Thinks that she tends to be too friendly with monsters and bends to the will of them too much (he is mildly correct on this).

Finn and Jody have a bit of a rivalry! But they both technically have the same goal, so sometimes they have to work together. It’s not so much a Good VS evil, as they are both technically on the same “team”. Sometimes they treat it like a game of who gets it first.

Finn will eventually have to teach Jody some things and it’s gonna be so silly so fun (for me). The one man who can whoop Jolene Bennet’s ass and I applaud him for it.

Also anyone who makes Solo drink the ILikeMen Juice™️ is good to me!!!! No Solo!! Don’t look at the middle aged man sweating from battle!!! Don’t do it!!!! SOLO NO-

[1indigoisles]

Chapter 7 - Excerpt 1

The one where, Isles, the author, does not know how to describe fighting techniques so she leaves it all to your imagination.

x

One week had passed.

One fucking week.

And we were still alive. Still.

I didn’t know how much of it I could trust.

None of our things were with us, of course. Lila and I hadn’t exactly had the time to pack a duffel and hide, so we wore the clothes that were provided to us inside the room. There was a bathroom in which there was actual running water, and we could bathe, do our business and brush our teeth. Meals were mostly packaged food, tube lights were the sun, and time was a construct (we did have a clock, but still), but most importantly, we were safe.

And I didn’t know how to trust it.

“Kenneth, are you listening?” Lila asked suddenly.

I perked up, not at all noticing that while I had been busy being paranoid, Lila had been chattering my ear off about god knows what.

“Oh, hello,” she greeted pleasantly when I finally looked back at her.

I muttered an apology. “Just thinking, is all.”

“Was it the ceiling?” she inquired cheerfully. “You were glaring at it like it mortally offended you.”

I stared at her then, not for the first time, in wonder. Out of the two of us, she was adapting to our current circumstances the best. Apparently, unadulterated chaos was Lila’s element. She hadn’t even batted an eye when Jolene explained to us upon arrival that we were now practically convicts in this inescapable (emphasis on inescapable)wretch of a town, and the only place we were safe was here, but that we would have to, at some point, leave, because obviously, the food and water wouldn’t last forever, and yes, that being said, we were also apparently ignoring what I felt was the extremely vital question of what comes after? What if it all fails?

Because nobody had asked it aloud yet, because it was a question nobody liked. As though if we ignored it, it would cease to exist. Like it wasn’t there in every silence that filled the room already.

Or maybe it was just me.

Lila had asked some of her own questions afterwards, and once they were answered, she’d replied with a simple, “Right. Got it.”

I’d wanted to throw a fit.

“Are you all right?” I asked now. I asked her that a lot these days. Just to be sure. Just to always know.

“Alive and kicking,” she answered with a bit of a sigh at the end.

“Are you sure?” This. This was important.

Another sigh. “No.” That. That was important. “Are you fine?”

“It doesn’t matter,” I said, because it didn’t. Really, it didn’t.

Lila hummed neutrally. “Maybe not,” she said, “but I want to know.”

I arched an eyebrow, and lowered it again when I thought about it. The question, that was. Are you fine? Was I fine? I was a teenager, so normally the answer would be hell to the no. Now, I was a teenager in a gloomy and eerily sinister town with the ability to shoot light out of my chest like a fucking CFL, stuck in a little burrow right under the government’s nose because going out meant jail-time, and all around suffering because that was just my life and my life was fucked up. Genuinely. I was sincerely not trying to be emo, I was sure I was justified in calling my life a mess.

Haha, very funny, Kenneth. So are you fine?

“No,” I said, letting out a short, sharp laugh that made Desiree, who was arranging supplies on the other side of the room, look up from her work. “I’m not fine, thanks for asking.” I stopped there, because if I said anymore I’d spiral into a full-on rant.

Right now, in the room, Lila and I were alone with Desiree. The other three heathens had, rather stupidly, decided to go back up today to test the waters and check out the current state of the Chambers in general, much to Desiree’s objection towards the idea. She had vehemently tried to stop them, but she was only one girl against three idiots and too much caffeine and stress, so she’d eventually switched cannons to suggesting she go up with them instead (“What if you get hurt? I’m a Healer, I can help you!”) but they’d dismissed that idea as well, claiming that someone needed to stay behind and ‘take care’ of Lila and I, which I’d personally thought was a little pointless. It wasn’t like they needed to worry about whether we escaped, since this really was the only safe place for us and niether of us would ever voluntarily leave, or as if we were unsafe here without someone constantly babysitting us. I also couldn’t help but think that Scarlett, Jolene and Rowan took Desiree a bit too much for granted, slash underestimated her, be it because she was younger or simply not as ‘powerful’ as they seemed to be. But it wasn’t my place to say anything, and I had enough of my own shit to deal with. I also got the sense that Desiree wouldn’t really thank me for pointing any of these truths aloud, so I kept my mouth shut and let the chips fall where they did.

This past week had been a wanton test, an examination of my strenght, courage, and tolerance in general. I was high-strung throughout, never fully believing that we were really safe, never fully trusting in people whom I’d known, what? Two weeks? Three, if we were making a stretch? It was stressful, and scary, and a series of what-the-fucks spiraling down to the moment we fell through the floor and had been declared safe. And I’d felt relieved, because around these parts, ‘safe’ wasn’t a word you could just throw around. It meant something, here in Knightville.

But before that, in the minutes before the fall, the only thing I’d known was that if I stopped running, we would die. I would die. It had been like a primal instinct within me, to run. To run from those people because they didn’t mean any good for me and wouldn’t have even if I followed their rules. It was a little animal of me, I’d realised upon later reflection; I hadn’t even thought about the legitimacy of the things Jolene had told me about the Chambers beforehand, or the supposed cruelty that seemed to exist like a thin veil over all the people.

That said, getting plunged face-first and abruptly into supposed ‘safety’ was a bit... jarring. I hadn’t been able to believe it at first, always ready to bolt at any and every sound that came from the ceiling above.

But a week had passed now and there had been no danger. As a result, I’d felt myself grow a little complacent. Still paranoid, but a little complacent. This was helped by the routine we’d made for ourselves. We had meals, we showered, we brushed our teeth, Lila and I wore the clothes they provided for us (they really did have everything here), we talked and bickered, and in addition, Jolene and Rowan had taken to training both Lila and I in mixed martial arts.

“You’ll need it, trust me,” Jolene had said.

“I find the part about trusting you a bit difficult, not gonna lie,” I’d replied.

Rowan tried and failed to hide his snort.

“No one asked you for your opinion, Teigen,” Jolene snarked.

“No one asked you to teach us jiu jitsu either but here we are, no?” I said dryly.

Jolene huffed. “It’s mixed martial arts and you know that damn well- Rowan, why are you laughing?” She pinned a glare on her brother so sharp it could be used as a murder weapon.

Rowan straightened himself up and tucked his grin away, trying to maintain a semblance of seriousness. “Okay, okay, sorry,” he said, not looking sorry in the slightest but ultimately managing to sober up anyway, “you’re right, we’re here for the serious stuff. Now, can either of you throw a punch?” He directed this question at the both of us. “A proper punch, I mean. The kind that can actually disarm your opponent.”

I wasn’t so sure about that, but it was Lila who had taught me how to throw a punch in the first place and she’d said “yes” rather confidently, so I nodded too.

“Good, because MMA is a lot more complicated than that,” Jolene had said.

One of the first things we learned when it came to MMA was that fighting would always hurt, even when you were winning. Getting punched in the face hurt, but punching someone hurt too. You needed to get over the fear of hurt and injury if you wanted to be an effective fighter. Strength came from courage, survival of the fittest, blah, blah, the whole shebang.

Then came the actual fighting. There was a lot of discipline involved, it turned out. You had to be precise with every move you made, and you needed to train yourself strictly to attain that level of skill. Because of this, most forms of martial arts had so many rules you could practically break your spine in half trying to follow them all at once at the same time (yes, Jolene had painted a very vivid description about the various ways one could break their spine in half that none of us—not even Rowan—wanted to hear). MMA was easier in that respect, which was why we were starting off with that.

It was still hard, however. The training was gruelling, and we were constantly forced to eat more during meals to ‘help build stamina’. At first we failed so many times while sparring with Jolene and Rowan (Jolene was with Lila, Rowan with me) that Scarlett had to loudly interrupt one of our self-defence sessions to point out that they should slow down with their teaching, because obviously we weren’t being able to catch up and teaching us new concepts on top of that would only throw us back even farther. It had been hard to tell if she was actually concerned with our progress or whether it was all a backhanded insult to our fighting prowess, but judging strictly from what I knew about her, it could very well be the latter.

All in all, it was difficult. Jolene and Rowan were both impatient people, Jolene especially, and that didn’t exactly make them the most ideal teachers. Most days, we retired for the night with more than one bruise blooming on our skin.

On one of these days, Rowan had managed to throw me completely off-balance (his skinny figure was deceptively strong, let me tell you), and I’d grit my teeth and thought, why are we even doing this?

It wasn’t until the room had gotten abruptly silent that I realised I’d said that out loud.

Whoops.

Rowan got to his feet and regarded me blankly, if not a bit coldly. “You didn’t think we could stay here forever, did you?”

“Obviously not,” I said. “But I don’t see what that has to do with beating my mother and I to a pulp on a regular basis.”

“Yes,” Jolene conceded, “but when you’re out in the real world and fighting the bad guys, you can’t exactly rely on just your powers to get you out, especially since one of us is human and we’d have to keep a constant eye on her as it is.”

“Need I remind you that you were the ones who put this in this position in the first place?” I arched a brow. “We wouldn’t even be here if you’d played your cards better.”

“When will we stop having this discussion?” Rowan demanded. “Jolene and I did what we could think of on the fly, and we managed to keep all of us safe too. ‘Played your cards better’, you say? How would you have done it then? What could you have possibly done differently?”

“I wouldn’t have run the moment they started talking about Shadow activity, for one thing,” I snapped back. “I would have at least waited to see if Raynott was mentioned at all. Also-”

“Fuck’s sake, when will we stop having this discussion?” Jolene demanded. “It doesn’t matter whether Scarlett got called out or not. We were already compromised, do you understand? We were compromised the moment the Shadow activity from our scuffle in the basement was mentioned, just like how we were compromised when you stepped into this town, fell knee-deep into our mess and essentially became our problem. We would have ended up here either way. It was always the plan. But the fact of the matter is, we just can’t stay here forever, and you need to be prepared to fight when all hell breaks loose, hence this.” She gestured expansively to indicate our little group.

“So that’s your great solution? To train Lila and me in MMA?” I summarized.

Jolene nodded. “Yes, because this will not last, you understand?” She gestured around the room again and spoke with force. “And we also do realise we should be having an infallible plan to get us out of this mess, despite what you may think, because it’s our lives on the line too, but the ugly truth is we don’t. So will you get back up and train, please?”

I looked at Jolene, genuinely, terrifyingly. There were so many things she hadn’t mentioned, so many ways in which everything could go wrong after we left this safe place. Some of us could fucking die, and I didn’t even know how to begin with unpacking the implications of all that (dying, that was).

The possibilities were written all over Jolene, Rowan, Lila and the silence in the room.

But that’s why we were all here, right? To survive.

Will you get back up? Please?

I got up.

x

I love Kenneth, can you tell?

Also, I do realise that I left it hanging at the end because I never got back to the present moment where Scarlett, Rowan and Jolene, Chaos Triplets™, decided to, against their better judgement (Desiree), go back up and see how things are going with the stragglers.

Now, I don't know if you've realised yet, but the Frost and Raynott siblings do a lot of illegal things, like building private property over public property (the room) and harbouring a possessed Diaforian (Scarlett), so they're not criminals because of Kenneth, they were criminals MUCH before that.

Also, this chapter is multi-POV, so you won't be seeing the inner workings of Kenneth's mind until Chapter 8. Instead, you'll see Jolene and Lila, including new POVs, like Rowan, Desiree and Scarlett. I'm super excited for how things will go.

Also, this chapter is a very much calm-before-the-storm chapter, the entire chapter is just wave after wave of calm, despite how it may seem. Chapter 8, on the other hand... *evil laughing*

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[bratshaws]

through the hourglass 55. brb x oc

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pairing: plus size!oc x rooster

warnings: light smut uwu

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Rooster walks in the house with his eyes immediately moving around to find Bea and Nikki somewhere in their house. The dogs greeted him first, obviously, and then he turned his head left and right, trying to catch a glimpse of his girls “Baby?” He calls, putting his sunglasses up to his scalp “Gorgeous?” 

 

Jolene wags her tail at him, barking quietly to call his attention, then gently nibbles his middle finger to take him away from the front door and back to the staircase. “Are they up there?” the dog obviously didn’t answer, but he knew that was the reason why she took him there. So he petted her head and slowly - and quietly - made his way up the stairs.   

He checked Nicole’s room first, seeing that his daughter was sleeping soundly inside her crib with the baby monitor directed towards her. He stood by the door watching her sleep with his eyes soft and smile enamored, until he heard the softest snore coming from the master bedroom.   

Rooster slowly turned around to where he could see the sliver from the inside of the room by the crack on the door. He saw Beatrice curled up on the bed, lying on his side with her body in fetal position, hair covering most of her face as she snoozed. If he had to choose which one of them looked cuter sleeping he had no answer.   

Beatrice’s hands were tucked under her chin, knees up to her chest, she looked so much smaller than she actually was, it was adorable. Rooster toed out his shoes by the door, wincing when it landed on the floor a bit too loud, shifting his eyes to Beatrice and sighing when he saw she was still asleep.   

He was even vagarous while climbing on the bed, flicking his eyes to Beatrice to check if she was aware of his presence and smiling when she just snuggled his pillow even more. As he lowered himself onto the bed, he noticed how she had her phone clutched tight in her hand, something she never did before.   

Bradley furrowed his brows but kept that information in the back of his mind, scooting closer to Beatrice until their chests were almost touching, his hand gently caressing the side of her face.    

The brunette inhaled sharply, her eyes still closed as she groaned quietly, rubbing her face in the pillow and curling onto herself even more. “Fuck,she’s so cute.” he whispered to himself, twirling a strand of hair on his index finger, rubbing it’s length with his thumb and watching it bounce back in it’s wavy shape.   

He noticed how her hair was getting more wavy, no longer sleek straight as it was before Nicole was born. It was really pretty, honestly it fit her really well and from what he remembered her hair when she was younger was pretty much like that. Beatrice hums again in her sleep, a mutter of his name breaking out of her lips as her nose buries itself into his pillow and a tiny smile could be seen from her profile.   

Rooster just bit his lower lip, almost in disbelief at how adorable she still was. Honestly, he’d let her sleep more, but when he looked down at his watch he noticed it was time for her to start her shower so she could go to the bar later.   

He kisses her forehead first, then under her eyes and then finally the tip of her nose, “Gorgeous.” he calls gently, “Baby.” Beatrice just moaned tiredly, more of her hair falling over her face as she moved, “Pretty girl…it’s time to wake up.”   

“Mmmmm….five m’re minutes….please…” but he could see she was slowly waking up, her eyes no longer shaking with dreams and her body moving a bit more than before.   

“Baby, you have to get ready.” he mutters, “And so do I.” he runs the back of his finger against the bare skin of her thigh, the one that those black runner shorts hid nothing of, “We have to take Nikki to your parents,remember?”   

Beatrice moans again, louder this time and her eyes move under the eyelids as if she’s trying to see in the dark. Once she figures out that makes no sense, she blinks them open, slowly, pupil enlarging and shrinking when she focuses on him and no one else but him. He’s a blob of colors at first, but once her vision sharpens she smiles tiredly, “Roos…”   

“Hey,gorgeous.” he grins, “Good nap?”   

“Mmmmmmhm…” she smiles even more, resting her chin on his arm, “Did you just get home?”   

“Just walked past the door, gorgeous. Have you been sleeping long?”   

Beatrice smacks her lips, then runs her hand through her hair to comb it back and away off her face, squinting as she looks down at her phone, “...about…thirty minutes I think.” she whispers, rubbing her eyes with her fingertips, “Nikki fell asleep and I was watching her…I think I passed out because of that too.”   

“It can be very contagious.” he adds with a small grin, still caressing her thigh, “You looked so peaceful but I had to wake you up, gorgeous.”   

“I know,I appreciate it Roos.” but she does snuggle closer to him, burying her face on his neck, “Hmmm, you are smelling really nice,Lieutenant.” he could feel the smile on his skin as he immediately stiffened, pupils blown wide and eyes darker than the night sky as soon as she said it.   

“Bea…” he warns with a soft laugh, “Don’t start.”   

“Start what?” she replies innocently, kissing right on his jugular, right where she found out was another weak spot for him, one she had to take advantage of more often. Rooster groans quietly, digging his fingers on the plush flesh of her thigh and immediately letting out a sound of disappointment when she backs away from him, “I have to shower,Rooster.”   

And she bit her lower lip, sleep gone, green eyes twinkling with mirth. Rooster just watched her stand up slowly, adjusting the fabric of her shorts against her ass - the movement also caught the elastic of her underwear, snapping it against her skin but he wasn’t sure if it was on purpose or not - and her head tilted back towards him, “...you are evil.”   

Beatrice smiles more, pulling the shorts up so it’d make the curve of her buttcheeks more defined, “I don’t know what you mean.”   

But he smirked back at her, watching as she walked away from the bed - those hips swaying and beckoning him like a snakecharmer does to a snake - holding his head up with an arm, “Maybe we should shower together?”   

“Mmmm,tempting.” comes her reply from the closet, the ruffling of clothes adding to the sound, “But we both know it’ll take longer than a normal shower for me…besides,” she peeks her head out, shrugging at him, “You can be a bit patient, can’t you?”   

“...why,do you have something planned?” 

“I didn’t say I had.”   

“You didn’t say you hadn’t.”   

She was driving him crazy, that cute little grin and her cheeks flushing were his actual weak point, hell,Beatrice herself was the weak point. She could be doing nothing and he’d still feel like a puddle next to her, “Baby.” he tries, crawling off the bed to follow her into the bathroom, “What are you planning?”   

“Nothing.” she says sweetly, “I’m just…saying you can be patient.”   

He is going to die because of her cheekiness.   

Beatrice squeaks out in surprise when his arms wrap around her from behind, his lips touching the curve of her jaw with the fuzz of his mustache tickling her skin. The clothes she planned to wear that night were held tightly against her chest as he devoured her neck, “Rooster!”   

“Tell me.” he whispers against her skin, “Let me in on your secrets, pretty girl.”   

“There’s no secret,Brad.” she giggles, trying to break free from him, “I have to shower! You gotta let me go.”   

“Tell me what your plan is and I will~”   

“No!” she laughs, “I can’t!”   

And then he lifts his head from her neck, “Ah…so there is a plan.” she just giggled again, wriggling in his grasp, “Tell me.” and he’s about to kiss her neck again when they both hear the doorbell ringing. Bradley sighs heavily, dropping his head on her shoulder with a little smile, “I think I better see who it is,huh?”   

“Well,yeah,I’m going to shower, Brad.” she says, turning her head to kiss the corner of his mouth,”And maybe if you hurry you can join me. And…shower quickly.”   

Rooster immediately let go of her waist, stepping away from her but then stopping and leaning closer just enough to slap her ass. The cracking sound was loud enough to echo around the bathroom, followed by Beatrice’s little scream of surprise, “Brad!”   

“I’m going! I’m going!” but he does sneak one last peek at her before he leaves the room. As he grabs his phone to check who it was in the camera app, he is surprised to see it was a well dressed young man, holding at least three large boxes in his hands with choppy blue hair and round glasses.   

Bradley stops at the top of the stairs, while Eleanor surrounds the front door with a low growling leaving her throat, “Can I help you?”   

The young man jumps in surprise when he hears the disembodied voice, until he sees the camera “Oh, I’m sorry,I uh- I’m Caleb,I’m one of Mr.Beverly’s assistants?” he sounds extremely hesitant, maybe Rooster’s tone and Eleanor growling were to blame, “He uh, he asked me to deliver these? For Ms.Beatrice and her family? Is this the right house?”   

Wait for her family?   

Bradley blinks out of surprise, speeding down the steps, “Yeah hold on, let me just-Ellie back, to the kitchen with your mom and brother, go.” The white pittie mix hesitates for a minute, then turns around and trots away to the kitchen…while still keeping her head on the threshold to watch whatever was about to happen.   

Rooster unlocks the door after a few seconds, only seeing the immense boxes and not the young man, that is until he craned his neck and saw the top of Caleb’s head, “Hey,” he begins, “I’m Beatrice’s husband,Bradley.”   

“O-Oh,hello,” he struggles a bit but managed to hold out a hand while keeping the boxes still in his grasp, “I’m so sorry,I just started working with Mr.Beverly,” he explains as Rooster cautiously shakes his hand, “And he isn’t here now, so he uh, he asked me to deliver these?”   

“Oh,okay, here. Let me help.” he knew the young man didn’t want to say yes but he did let out a very relieved sigh when Rooster slowly got the boxes out of his hand, holding them all with one of his own before putting them on the floor. “Any idea what’s in there?”   

Caleb wiped his forehead, adjusting his glasses soon after, “Not a clue, the other assistants were asked to make these,I’m just the errand boy,” and he laughed awkwardly, “Well,um,I’m going to go now so…see you,thanks again!’   

“No worries,kid.” Bradley waves him off, seeing a much relieved Caleb walking to a sleek black car and then driving away. Before he closes the door he feels a huge head pressing against his leg, looking down to see Eleanor looking to where Caleb drove off, “Ellie, come on, inside.” she just growls, “Don’t talk back to me,missy.”   

She does have the last quiet ‘boof’ after he closes the door.   

As he gathers everything in his arms, he hears the shower is still running, which meant Beatrice wasn’t done yet….and that meant he had to walk faster back to their room.   

He almost throws the boxes in his haste to go into the bathroom, but he chooses to place them all on the bed. As soon as he does though, he starts removing his top and undershirt, unbuckling his belt and tossing it unceremoniously on the floor, “Roos?” he hears her calling, just as he’s pulling down his briefs, “Who was it?”   

“One of Marcus’ assistants.” He has his eyes on her silhouette through the dark foggy glass, following the curves of her body, almost tripping over himself to get inside the shower as quickly as he could, “Brought some stuff over.”   

“Oh, really?” She sounded so calm, a complete opposite of the feverish speed her husband was undressing himself, “That’s so sweet of him,I’ll have to send him a message later.”   

“Yeah,later.” and he pulls the door open, barely giving Beatrice a chance to breathe before he slammed their lips together. She just laughed into his mouth, wrapping her arms around his neck as he pushed her backwards to the wall, where the cold tiles sent a shock all over her warm skin. “I think I was fast enough.”   

“I think so too.��� she squeaks into his mouth as he picks her up by the back of the legs, pressing her against the wall with her thighs wrapped tightly around his waist. Beatrice sighs softly, trying to keep her voice as quiet as she could, “We can’t spend too long here.”   

“I know,gorgeous.” his hand is already moving between them, his middle finger brushing over her clit was enough to make a gentle cry break out of her, “I can make you cum twice in…maybe ten minutes?”   

“T-Ten? W-We can’t–”   

“Is that a nine I hear?”   

“God, Brad,W-We–!”   

“...hmmm…eight minutes and thirty seconds, got it.” and he has that annoyingly adorable smirk on his face when two of his fingers slide inside, making Beatrice dig her nails in his shoulders with her head thrown back in a gentle moan. He’s not going to waste too much time, like she said, they had things to do and if they spent too long people would get suspicious.   

But there was something so beautiful about seeing her flushed, wet - in all senses -and trying her best to keep her voice quiet all the while bruising the upper layer of skin on his shoulders with her short nails. She sounds out of breath, almost gulping for air, trying her best to keep her moans to a minimum as he angles his wrist to hit that special spot inside of her…which she should’ve expected, so she could prevent the loud sharp yelp that broke out of her mouth, immediately biting her lips after to keep any other sound inside.   

Bradley’s whisky colored eyes were on her mossy green ones, his smirk widening just as his hand moved faster. He flicked his gaze down to where her breast was just at mouth level with him, “Don’t mind if I do.” he was gentle as soon he took one in his mouth because she often complained of how sore it was,making sure to kiss the soft and heavy flesh with his fingers still moving in and out of her.   

“B-Brad..” she gasps out, moving her hips in hopes to match with his own velocity, but she could barely keep up, “A-Ah! Brad,please! I need to c-cum!!”   

“Oh I know.” and his hand speeds up even more, Beatrice’s soft shrieks of pleasure were his only response, her hips moving in hopes she could meet his thrusts, “I promised I would make you cum twice in less than eight minutes right?”   

“Y-Yes…God…Brad!!”   

“What is it,gorgeous? Hm?” his hand keeps its steady yet feverish movement, his lips on her ear, “I don’t even know what’s wetter, you or this shower.” Beatrice’s soft moan in response only ama cool made him chuckle almost darkly, he loved how vocal she was. Beatrice could barely see straight with how good he made her feel, with how much her body just ached and begged just for his fingers alone.   

Beatrice’s hands slipped on his shoulders because of the water, “Brad,” it comes out in gulps of air, her body nearing the point of combustion, voice shaky and eyes trying their hardest to be open, ‘Brad…God…I’m–” her body immediately stilled, it just took a firm swipe over her clit for her orgasm to hit with full force.   

The hands that slipped from his shoulders now dug into his muscles like he was a lifeline, her gentle satisfactory cry only made his grin wider, his nose buried into her wet hair as she shook with aftershocks, “Mmmm,baby?”   

“J-just a second.” her voice was jittery and her hands trembled, “Just a s-second Roos.”   

And he allows that, kissing her wet scalp and avoiding his own obvious predicament just so she could breathe. Beatrice hums against his skin, slowly lifting her head as if it weighed one hundred pounds, albeit she’s weakly smiling at him, “Good?”   

“...great…” she whispers, cupping his cheeks so they could kiss, sliding her hands up his scalp only to earn that delicious deep groan she loved so much. It was like they were discovering each other’s bodies again with the way they were groping and touching each other, which neither of them were complaining about.   

Rooster had his lips on her neck, licking and biting the skin when Beatrice suddenly stilled, “Did you hear that?”   

“Mmm…what?”   

“Shh,Roos.” she tilts her head up so her ear is directed to the sound, “I think it’s Nikki.”   

The mention of Nicole immediately makes him lift his head and stare at her, “What?” He turns quiet after hearing the faint sound of his daughter’s mumbling and cooing as she wakes up, “...oh.” While disappointed, he shouldn’t be too surprised, Nicole did wake up during this time after all.   

Beatrice smiles sweetly, “It’s okay,Roos.” she whispers, kissing his lips gently, “I can go check on her really quick and…take care of everything with you?”   

Honestly he’d be up to it, but he thought better about it and just chuckled,”No,gorgeous…I’ll just have a cold shower for right now.”   

“...but–”   

“Pretty girl,I’m fine.” he coos, kissing her temple, “Go check on Nikki and I’ll finish it here.”   

As much as she didn’t want to, ‘leave him hanging’ so to speak, she knew he had already decided and the only thing she could do was nod and walk out of the shower, grabbing her robe  before giving him an apologetic look, “I’ll make it up to you.”   

“Oh I know,” he smirks, swatting his hand on the buttcheeks before she could cover it, “I’m counting on it,gorgeous.”   

Beatrice yelped with a laugh, narrowing her eyes at him before she pulled her hair up in a towel, walking out of the bathroom tugging the robe’s knot tight around her middle. Nicole’s little sounds were constant now, which meant she was fully awake and demanded attention, and as soon as she stepped past the threshold, her daughter’s light eyes were on her.   

“Hi sweetie,” she coos down at Nicole as she leans over the crib’s gate, “Hi! You just woke up, yes I know!” Nicole was getting very talkative and for a child that just turned a month old it was quite amazing! During one of her doctor appointments,Beatrice was told that Nicole was just eager to talk to her parents, hence why she was so vocal at such an early stage of her life.   

It was adorable, really, seeing how much Nikki loved both of them, “C’mere, you.” Beatrice gently picks her up, placing her daughter’s cheek on her shoulder, Nicole’s soft brown hair tickling her lips as she kisses her head, “Are you excited about staying with Nonna and Nonno? They are both so excited to see you,Nikki.”   

Nicole made a little soft noise on her mother’s shoulder, nibbling the soft cloth of her robe, “Oh you are probably hungry.” she whispers, “Let’s get you ready really quick.” and since she had her robe it was a much easier access for her daughter to latch, “Ow, okay, you are hungry.”   

And she latched on so quickly that Beatrice let out a sigh of relief. She was usually so fussy, refusing to eat, it was a literal breath of fresh air once she did. But her daughter’s eyes were still on her mom, light green with speckles of gold almost, the more she grew, the more Beatrice could see her characteristics clearer, “You are just unreal, just like your dad.” Beatrice whispers, brushing her daughter’s cheek with the pad of her thumb, “Unreal and perfect.”   

“Unreal and perfect?” she turns her head when she hears his deep voice, like molasses, speak from the door. He’s only wearing his jeans, with his white tee balled in one of his hands as he folds his arms over his chest, “Elaborate on that.”   

Beatrice laughs softly, looking back down at Nikki, “I won’t.” she smiles, “Not yet.”   

“She’s eating fine?”   

“Yep,” Nicole’s eyes move from Beatrice to Rooster, “Latched as soon as possible, a record time to be honest with you.”   

Rooster smiled back, pushing himself from the doorframe to approach the two, “When you are done I can stay with her so you can change,” he tells Beatrice,leaning down to peck her head, “You don’t have to worry about it.”   

“I know.” she replies, brushing her thumb on Nicole’s soft hand, “I won’t take too long.”   

“By the way,” he says, crouching down to Nicole’s level, brushing his knuckle against her soft foot, “I placed Marcus’ gifts inside the closet, so you can check what they are later.”   

“Oh, so you didn’t huh?”   

“Me?” he smirks, “Of course not. You know I love surprises.” 

Her cheeks flushed over his words but she just laughed, gently swatting his arm after a few seconds. Considering that time was ticking by and they had to move, Beatrice handed Nicole over to Rooster as soon as she was finished and rushed to their bedroom to change. Honestly she still had the moments from minutes before still in her mind, something that sent jolts of pleasure all over her body and she feared that it’d be the only thing in her mind the whole night.   

And when she looked back at him before leaving, seeing those brown eyes twinkling with mirth and that smirk on his face…she was pretty sure it would. 

[duckapus]

Idea: You know that one arena from the Yiga's sword tournament trap and Super Meme Fighterzzz? Well, it hasn't really gotten much use since (KS-2 tried doing a concert there once. apparently the acoustics aren't very good) and Peach isn't really sure what to do with it... at least until Jolene (from TTYD) shows up wanting to expand the Glitz Pit's business with a second fighting league (with a different name for branding reasons, of course. The Glitz Pit is kind of intrinsically tied to Glitzville, after all). Repurposing the existing arena would save a lot of time, money and bureaucratic bullshit on both their parts, o it just makes sense.

We as the audience find out about this because she visits Mario to tell him about it, partly because he's the one person in town she actually personally knows and partly because she has a proposal for him; seeing as he's both the third champion of the Glitz Pit and the Mushroom Kingdom's greatest hero, it seems thematically appropriate that the Great Gonzales be the Champion of this new league's starting lineup. It'll obviously be a few months before everything's set up so he doesn't really need to give an answer right then, though he does seem interested.

During that conversation she also catches him up on a few of the goings-on in Glitzville, with one very notable thing being that King K's shell got smashed during a match. It's technically repairable, but it'll never again have the structural integrity it once had, and that on top of the injuries he sustained in the process means he'll most likely have to retire for good this time. But he'll still be around in a different capacity. See, he's been in the Pit for a long time and knows the ins and outs of it better than any current fighter besides maybe Rawk Hawk. So, Jolene's offered him her current position as the Pit's manager, freeing her up to manage the new Mushroom Kingdom version while it's getting fully established. So she'll be sticking around for a while.

Also this scene happens at the Showgrounds, so SMG3 overhears them, realizes that if he sponsors a fighter he can get a bunch of fame and money while advertising his shop, and "borrows" some of 4's Leggys from the Meme Factory so he can whip them into fighting shape in time for whenever the signups are. Because SMG3. They also run into Toad who's been caught up in whatever chaos the kids are causing today, and there seems to be Some Kind of spark between him and Jolene during their brief encounter but nothing's going to come of that for a while.

[hannahhook7744]

Family Relationships in the Stormbringer Crew;

Note: This will affect the future of my Hannah Hook fics because I made some edits to the characters.

Also this does not include the younger kids' relationship with the older ones because they obviously see each other as siblings—except when it comes to Hannah and Haul who most of the younger kids see as parents.

Hope this guide is helpful.

Siblings:

Kailani 'Clever' Athanasiou and Jonathan 'John' Facilier= Full siblings via Ursula and Dr. Facilier.

Francesca Delgado, Jośe 'Josh' de la Cruz, and Evelyn de la Cruz= Half-siblings via their shared mother, Morgana la Fay.

Eduardo Frollo and Luís Barbossa= Half-siblings via their shared mother.

Darcy Aoratos, Treycor Fae Aoratos, Noah Aoratos, Skia Aoratos, and Alexander ‘Alex’ Aoratos-Sinclair= Everyone but Noah and Skia are half-siblings via Hades (Noah and Skia are full siblings).

Parker McLeach, Isaac of Maldonia, and James Rourke= Half-siblings via Lady Waltham.

Moxford ‘Moxie’ Frankenstein-Van Helsing and Rian Frankenstein-Van Helsing= Full siblings.

Atticus Hook, Ian Hook, Hannah Hook, Greyson Hook, Nevin Hook, and Morgan Hook= Atticus, Ian, Greyson, Nevin, and Morgan Hook (siblings). They are Hannah's cousins.

Anastasia ‘Anna’ Bog, Aaron Bog, Ike Bog, Jolene Bog, and Craven Bog= Anna and Aaron are full siblings, Craven and Jolene are full siblings, and Ike is everyone's half sibling via Chernabog.

Noor and Nadia Foundling= full blooded siblings via the

Suspected Relations:

Lysander Foundling, D.E Anonymous, and Marcus Foundling= Thought to be half-siblings via their human half.

Skelebar Foundling and Chernabog's children= Thought to be half-siblings via Chernabog.

Romantic Relationships:

Hannah Hook and Haul Bjorgman= Husband and Wife (eventually).

Lucas ‘Luke’  Tremaine-Westergaard and Darcy Aoratos= Husband and Wife (eventually).

Anastasia ‘Anna’ Bog and Howard ‘Howiee’ Wolf= Husband and Wife (eventually).

Herlando Dancer and Liberty Titan= Husband and Wife (eventually).

Aaron Bog and Gunner Harp= Husband and Husband (eventually).

Moxford ‘Moxie’ Frankenstein-Van Helsing and Hope Sid= Husband and Wife (eventually).

Shan Bri and Treycor Aoratos= Husband and Wife (eventually).

Rian Frankenstein-Van Helsing and Michelle 'Misty' Del Rey-Silver= Husband and Wife (eventually).

Fiona Foundling and Noah Aoratos= Husband and Wife (eventually).

Other:

Phoebe 'Peachy' Gothel and Hannah Hook= Bio Aunt and Niece.

Hades' kids, John Facilier, Clever Olympian, and Remington 'Remi' de Vil= Distant Relatives via godly relations.

[kindleaf]

Just finished the crick arc!

The end was such a high point! And Melora showing up at the end????? I really wasn't expecting the gods to get involved this soon tbh. Loved the whole thing in the spirit realm, though I think I would have liked it better as a sort of checkovs gun they can use when the time comes instead of it being specificly for the marabelle fight though ig they wouldn't have much of a reason to get the blessings in that case, the titan charecter were also fun themselves! LOOOOOVE luna and I am very sad to report that I have the same taste in women as hardwon and moonshine😔 I obviously loved the crick and honestly hoped to get to spend a bit more time there since so much of this arc wasn't actually in the crick but the npcs there were great and hardwons situation (?) With maw maw was super fun, hardwon is really growing on me in general, I love him so dearly my beautiful baby girl. I see that the next arc has Siobhan as a guest pc so I'm excited for that. ALSO good to see the whole thing with osmodius and the necromancer (forgot his name) tying into this storyline, the whole thing with moonshine casting the spell on marabelle to let her pass on easy instead of the burning and making it so she can't decompose with it like she planned as GREAT I'm so glad Emily mentioned it bc it really adds a lot. Idk I'm having trouble putting my thoughts into words rn but I REALLY ENJOYED IT AS USUAL!!!

DAMN YOU ARE MOVING FAST!!!! i . LOVE the crick arc so so much. getting a look at the way moonie interacts with her home and meemaw (meemaw is one of Theeeee characters ever of all time..... jolene cybin........) and then also her pretending to be jolene to give marabelle some peace as she moves on... AUGH. also it's very small but bev's "you were a bad scoutmaster" to hardwon while under marabelle's spores is. it hits me. it hits me in my face and i fall over and die. i love the marabelle fight so much. it made me cry. second time naddpod ever made me cry, actually (first was moonie's friend not foe..) AND ALSO MELORA WITH SHADES OF GREEN AT THE END.. "you're not cursed. you were born like this." AUGH.....