#also she made over $1000 for one class

[goldennewsun]

Some cis white abled woman grifter misunderstanding mystical concepts and practices for her own gain again.

[greatmothsukk]

I have not been a very happy girl. The last half yeah has just kept feeling worse and worse. I need it to be better. I need to be happy. For those who wanna hear ill talk some below. Otherwise enjoy this chelsey with her little otter

Last summer was the best part of my life. Constant fishing. Dating a woman I was head over heels for. Fully expecting Trump to lose the election. Every thing was going okay. Then all that went away. Even fishing hasn't picked up much. I've been in such a muck this whole time. Politics went from suspense to dread in a instant and now constant fear and paranoia. I try to escape it I fucking can't. I can't just skedaddle over the boarder to somewhere else and leave. And it isn't clearing up anytime soon. Meanwhile the break up was amicable with no hard feelings but Still hit me so hard after imagining always having her by my side. And recently learned she has a gf now. Im happy for her but after spending months wishing and wishing to finally hear her call me her girlfriend and for that day to never come, it did sting my heart a little hearing her call someone Else that title i coveted so dearly. I know many more wonderful people but she was only the 2nd ive ever found so close to me I could really see her. Also the heartbreak made me shy away from other friends I have a crush on cause those feelings reminded me of her too much and didn't wanna have a negative association with them.

And I've felt like I've done so little and keep watching everyone else's lives move forward. I had been struggling to make art for a while and my attempts to make videos has been stunted cause I hate my voice so bad and voice training keeps failing. And its been hard to decide on stuff to make cause I don't care about what I make art of much. I don't really play video games or watch any shoes and don't wanna. I haven't really wanted to play pokemon in ages. I just like making art of these things but trying to play yugioh is a slog. I wish I had Passion. I wish I had interests that actually drove me and made me excited. And the bigger my platform has become the more isolated ive felt. Even here, once I hit like 1000 followers people started acting weird again like im some upper class whos they're either innoying trying to talk to or Assuming im a snobby cunt. It sucks cause I see smaller artists with lovely little communities I always wished for. But instead i have a web of friends who some of which dislike each other they have one another blocked.

And as for my home life it hasn't been fun. My boyfriend is wonderful but justAs depressed if not worse. Too many arguments. And far too many dead pets. All while the house falls apart more every day and im not allowed to fix it.

My only saving grace recently has been knowing that fishing will pick up soon and that I have been able to keep up with the hoenn dex. It helps me prove that I can accomplish something big. And I can stick to something. Its why im more and more confident that ill be able to keep up with having patreon exclusive pieces when that starts. It makes sure this winter wasn't a total waste. It makes sure I live through it all.

If you read all this thank you. Im sorry if my posts have made you fear at all recently for me. Im trying to stop being a loser. I wanna be good. I wanna be happy.

[reflectingiridescent]

since youre taking questions: recently discovered redemption was a thing a few weeks ago after being an avid watcher of the og series. what they've done with sophie, especially her backstory in s2, was a real surprise to me, since it seems a significant retcon from leverage og (not a criticism, really, either, just a surprise). given that the tone of redemption is Wholesome Family Viewing Heavy On The Light Comedy-even more than the og series- the specifics of her background with her former london crew are kept very vague, not a lot more than suggestion. listening to one of the podcast eps i know they drew on oliver twist for broad structure; ramsey as an abusive fagin type, sophie as the oliver figure, and most clearly in wilde, even his name arthur reminiscent of the artful dodger. contrasting how vaguely redemption characterized the dynamics in sophie's origin story even compared to parker, where we don't get concrete details but it's communicated clearly over the seasons that her childhood Was Very Bad-- i wanted to see what people's takes on sophie's time in early days london were, based on the pieces we're given, and what's suggested by the performances in the two part s2 finale.

Oh yes, thank you for asking! This may be a bit long, but if you'll indulge me...

I was scared when I realized we were getting Sophie backstory in s2! I know John Rogers hates giving out backstory, which is why we got so little of it in the og series, and I’m also so nervous when backstory comes out in a revival because we as fans have had so long to come up with our own headcanons. 

That said, I LOVE what they did with Sophie in s2 Redemption. I am just so impressed. I wrote a little bit here about how it was such a natural progression from The King George Job, which was maybe the most Sophie-centric episode we ever got there. We never ever see Sophie get personal about a child the way she does about the one in that job, and knowing what we know about Astrid now, it makes sense.

It’s also not that far off from what I personally had gotten from her backstory. Her thing is performing to belong, and people born into money don’t have to perform to belong. They’re def not motivated to do it to the extent it is suggested she does. They just know how to do it because that’s how they were raised.

We know from Word of God on The Beantown Bailout Job that the accent she uses on the mark in Nate’s apartment is as close to her birth accent as we get — and it’s a lower class accent. We also know that she was Mettier’s muse when she was around barely legal and that her grifting career started after that, so it’s not…hard to see how she would evolve from a street rat into who she is now (with so many stops along the way).

I’ve probably said this before, but I think we can also read her alongside another person who clearly is shown to have grown up working class: Eliot. Eliot and Sophie kind of have some friction in jobs where they go to small American towns. And on one hand, she’s not American and so that’s not going to speak to her. But also Eliot is 1000% more settled into himself than she is even at her most settled during the og series, and so my idea for a long time was not that it was because she grew up upper class but because Eliot embraces his class background in a way that Sophie really never does. She barely even engaged with that until Redemption?  I’m thinking specifically about how she never forgets how to get hit by a car, even though she’s in her 50s when Redemption is going. She has a lot of internalized class shame. Eliot does not. Because Sophie doesn’t think she’s going to be accepted if people know that about her, while Eliot’s basically made it his calling card.

(Also Sophie is a woman and Eliot is not, which is a whole other layer we can talk about re: class intersecting with gender, but I won’t get into that here.)

As far as Parker, it makes sense that we got so much backstory about her (more than anyone else with the flashbacks and such), second to only Nate, because she was going to be Nate’s successor. For Sophie, mystery is so tied in to who she is (and who she is to Nate!) that it made sense that we had so little about her: a woman of many faces and names, who worked with crews (she’s the only one who has worked with other crews before) but never for too long.

(And actually, working with crews is her norm, right? That's how she started out. No one else on the og team is like this.)

Now! Sophie’s time in early days London. I think she grew up with a family at least in the earlier part of her life. I don’t think they were outright abusive, but maybe they were neglectful? Sophie has this clear need to be loved and it would track? If her caretakers were out working all the time and didn’t have much time for her, and she learned that she needed to capture and hold someone’s attention to get what she needed? I’m thinking of The Fairy Godparents Job where she is almost childlike herself when she talks to Widmark. Almost like she has to regress to that to tell the truth, like that’s the last time she told the whole truth. Then she just builds upon that need to capture attention in her grifting career.

I venture to say that her parents are dead based on what she says in The Two Live Crew Job about knowing when her aliases' parents died? I don't think every single one of her aliases has dead parents; it probably just makes things more convenient for her + allows her to gain the mark's sympathy. But still, it just strikes me as oddly specific, and it would make sense as to why she would have had to rely on a street crew. I also think it makes sense for her to have lost her parents as an older child - maybe a young teenager? Because a teenager can take care of themselves in a limited capacity. This is all conjecture though. I also listened to that Oliver Twist background, and I like it for her.

Something clear on the show is that she is MILES ahead of Arthur in grifting and planning ability. She’s also the only one (it seems?) besides Ramsey to know which of the masks is fake? So I’m thinking Sophie was obsessive in the way she approached her job on the crew. She studied that whole trunk of cons until she internalized them. She was studying art in her spare time likely before she knew it was an indicator of wealth and prestige, because Sophie is also a person who just loves stories. She was watching and reading every play she had access to because she would have used fantasy to escape from the way her life was going, right? That's kind of what she does as an adult just on a much larger scale.

And she also would have loved the way she watched the audience adore the performer on stage. 

That kind of detail to your work — being that big of a nerd — makes you seem like a loser to other children when you’re young, and so I think most of the kids in the crew found her incredibly annoying at first. Arthur didn't because he grew up with her, and he and Sophie would have grown up watching each other's backs pre-Ramsey. Then Sophie learned to hide how hard she was working so they only saw the fruits of her labor. She would have been a bit of a teacher's pet, able to scam substance-happy rockstars all night and then do museum recon for heists during the day.

She would have also been working like this because she bores easily, but I'll get to that later.

But she would have been such a collaborative person, even back then, and would have understood the importance of "I scratch your back, you scratch mine". And it would have been obvious to everyone how good she was, so they would have all been nice to her face and probably complaining about her behind her back. But being nice to her would have only served them well...until it didn't and people went to prison. Arthur would have foolishly assumed she would have had some kind of loyalty to him...but Sophie didn't. Meanwhile, she got raised into the upper class while Arthur didn't. And then he went to prison.

Sophie is the epitome of "never alone but lonely"? She has so many contacts and has worked with so many, and with extremely limited exceptions, she's had to watch her back around every single one - and also eat them sometimes so she wouldn't be eaten (metaphorically of course - and what a great line to give her).

Okay, so back to Sophie getting bored easily. That's actually part of Gina Bellman's legendary Sophie backstory (she mentions this in one of the aftershow interviews), that Sophie conned her way into the aristocracy and then just started stealing stuff from rich people's houses because she was bored? And then she pulled off riskier and riskier thefts? I think this is one of the reason we see her retiring multiple times. She just gets bored. She's too good at what she does. She worked with different crews to spice it up. She had Nate as an opponent, which made things interesting. When he got out of the game, she retired.

Until he came to her with a new and challenging proposition. Like yeah, she was into him, but she LOVES what she does. She needs to do new and exciting things with her skills, and using them for good was a fun challenge for her before it just became who she was.

Something that also captured my attention (and that I really liked) is that Redemption made it clear that she desires leadership positions despite often playing second-in-command? Which I LOVE, because that was a really nice update from the og series (and a natural progression right?). She was Ramsey’s protégée, but she asserts he was never going to let her be in charge of anything, not really. She was second-in-command to Starke too. (Also Starke considered pulling her in, which is what Chaos balked at…and so Starke proceeded to replace her…WITH NO ONE which says something about her professional reputation.) I think she’s very comfortable polishing drafts of cons as well as pointing out others’ blind spots. I also think that she probably experienced this kind of dynamic quite early on and so just got really good at being a lancer instead of a leader?

Redemption delves into how she's great at part-time leadership, but I also think it’s partially a gender dynamic thing that we don’t see her running a crew full-time until Redemption. All her past associates are shown to be men. She works on the assumption that people are going to underestimate her and holds that in her back pocket as a weapon. And while Nate's control issues were much more front-and-center, Sophie's love of control is more about being the the voice in the wings directing the director. It's a very traditionally feminine way to hold power, and I think part of the reason why she operated this way for so long is because that would have been the easiest way to wield power growing up around so many male criminals with giant egos?

Which is not to say that I don't think she could have led if she really wanted to but I think she craves recognition in a different way than the Nates and the Starkes of the world do? Winning means something different to them than it does for her, which is why we so often hear her referenced as like, the power behind the throne?

And it works for her, right? Chaos isn't scared of Starke; he's scared of her. Every single person we meet from her criminal past is like, wow, you're working with her? You need to watch your back around her. She's nasty. She'll never change.

I think that with Sophie, Ramsey was able to raise the caliber of his entire operation. Unlike Arthur, Sophie dares to dream big and back it up with skill and confidence. I think Ramsey was threatened by just how good she was (and Sophie was just starting out back then, wasn't even as good of a criminal as she is now), which would be why he wasn't going to let her have any real leadership. He belittles her when he talks to her. I think the Charlotte and William situation worked out really well for Ramsey? Because she would have been significantly helping his business but also spending so much time with the family that she wouldn't be around Ramsey as much? Little did he know that Sophie was already planning to get away from him.

I think it's also significant that the way that Sophie defies Ramsey is in a very traditionally feminine way? He tried to make her cold and unfeeling...which is a very stereotypically masculine way of operating? But we know that Sophie's empathy is her superpower and one of her greatest weapons. We know that she doesn't run the sweetheart con anymore because she was so good at it that people got seriously hurt. What he saw as a weakness became her strength.

I like the idea that he's the reason why she's a pathological compartmentalizer. She would have had to compartmentalize all of her emotions to work with him, and she would have had to keep her aliases so partitioned to be able to pull off faking her death with him and to keep him away from every life she lived after that. And she got too good at it.

The last thing I'll say (I've said so many) about her life from before is that I love how she tells the Baby Magiq grifter that she knew she should have felt bad about leaving Astrid but she didn't. And then she follows that up by saying that she just blocked that part of her life out. But also, Sophie didn't completely block her out. She'd kept track of her. She'd helped her out over the years.

It's just such a Sophie way of approaching a situation. There's something there about how she did feel bad but maybe not as much as she thought she probably should have. How she walked away for a lot of reasons, Astrid's ultimate wellbeing being one but not all of them, but also she couldn't completely walk away forever? I love that because we just do not hear that story about women told very often.

[alaskan-wallflower]

Any head cannons of what it would be like if the curtis brothers had a sister??

ooh, that’s tough-i’ve made a few back in the summer but sure, i could think of some!

well for starters, i see everyone saying she’d be the baby of the family but NO. in my heart she’d be the second oldest behind darry.

mama bear streak 1000 miles wide. she frets over what her little brothers are doing and is nervous about how much her big brother is doing

she used to be more rebellious, fitting the “greasy girl” stereotype pretty well, but as soon as her parents died, that part of her died as well

frankly, she’s lucky the equal pay act got passed when it did, because that waitressing job she did full time was not going to be nearly enough to pay for even a week’s worth of groceries if it hadn’t been (i believe it was @hexmari who’s said darry would be a jfk fan..yeah, this is one of the reasons why)

she wants to work hard to get a job and go to college so she’ll be seen as someone’s equal, but she won’t dare bring that up to darry. they are not in the right financial situation to even think about college. but she secretly attends night classes in hopes of being able to go off to college when pony does and when darry’s on his own two feet

she’s definitely more maternal. i feel like that’s a role sodapop took on, and maybe it’s a middle child thing, but she’s the most emotionally nurturing one, and will put down anything if she sees her brothers upset

she’s also pretty popular with the other greasy girls in town-in fact, sandy had told her that she was pregnant and that she had to move in with her grandparents because her bible loving parents were disowning her, but she begged her not to tell soda, so she didn’t

one thing she could not stand was misogyny, and she wouldn’t be caught dead abiding by patriarchal standards. so she’s very headstrong and it gets her into trouble. she worries the he; out of darry

her and darry are certainly the closest. soda and pony have each other, but her and darry are the other’s rock. she gave up everything she worked for as soon as he did, and she did it without hesitation

pony probably felt jealous of entire at some points because her and darry got along so well. he misses his big brother.

hope these suffice :)

[gallusrostromegalus]

Soul Society is top heavy when it comes to power. With rare exceptions (Ikkaku), the gap between captains and rank-and-file troops, let alone normal citizens, is astronomical. How does Soul Society handle the reiryoku classism problem in and out of the Rukongai? Do the lower seats think of themselves as cannon fodder? Are there any major political factions that try to tackle the issue (ethically or not)?

So the gotei-13 is actually kind of a solution to this problem on accident.

The thing is, as powerful as the captains are, there usually only about a dozen of them, and a maximum of 2600 shinigami total. They are VASTLY outnumbered by literally everyone else, and because they need drastically more food than others (everyone in soul society needs to eat, but shinigami are at a drastically higher calorie demand and risk of starvation), they are VERY dependent on the rest of society. Zaraki made a fair fist of being a roaming menace but even he had to bow to the economy and work jobs to eat.

Hence, there IS reiryoku discrimination but it's largely in the other direction- shinigami are extremely exploited as workers, and that's the GOOD job. Other psychics are frequently drafted, kidnapped, enslaved for imprisoned so the rich and politically powerful can exploit their abilities. Even if a captain class individual were to say, take out a whole clan in self-defense, the rest of society would come down on them like a hammer and kill them or let them starve.

Yamamoto didn't found the Gotei-13 all at once. Originally it was just him, Sasakibe, the 200 spiritually aware students in his dojo, and the dojo was there to train the postal workers how to defend themselves against people trying to kill them for the messages they were carrying, but secondarily so spiritually powerful people didn't get press-ganged into serving the noble houses.

The first organization for psychic souls Yamamoto ever made was a... Relatively Safe Haven. He was also up against a wall dealing with the noble houses and other political factions so he needed anyone who could push back to do so, so a psychic would be expected to serve in at least some capacity. But the souls under his care were free to marry who they chose if they wanted or have children or not, or travel if they felt safe doing so, and even to just be weird without major repercussions, which was a vast improvement over the way they'd be treated as livestock by the noble houses. Even 1000 years later, Byakuya had to fight his family to marry who he wanted. Imagine what a psychic born in a random village and no legal protections would be facing.

So everyone with even an ounce of spiritual capacity was joining the postal service for his protection. It was a boon to the non-psychic messengers too- not knowing if a random Mail carrier could set would-be attackers on fire with their mind made all carriers safer.

...and them the Quincy attacked.

Yamamoto was now even more up against a wall because while having a united front had been helping him it was now a problem-the Quincy were attacking psychics specifically, something that endangered his ENTIRE organization.

...so he hired every spiritually powerful person he could find, including thriteen real bastards directly off of death row and organized them into an army to fucking deal with Yhwach.

Once yhwach was gone though, he had an army. And a lot of nobles looking to exploit or destroy that army.

Fortunately, one of the real bastards he'd hired had fallen for his peculiar charms and become his wife, and what Lady Tsubaki lacked in battle prowess, she more than made up for in political shrewdness. Be magnanimous, she explained. Be generous and speak of peace in our lifetimes and extend the olive branch to those who harassed you for so long. They won't realize it's bait.

So with her help, Yamamoto proposed that his army become the COURT GUARD in charge of protecting the very real and definitely alive Soul King, as well as all the people of soul society from the hollows and other misfortunes that may befall them. Finally, *proper* employment for all those spare heirs and potentially dangerous village psychics, doing the noble work of protecting society.

Why, he even helped found the central 46, a council of sages and scholars and general brain trust to work on the greater problems of soul society (a problem later but at the time, a VAST improvement over the eternally warring clans), that Yamamoto himself would be beholden to, just to show how civic-minded he was.

And just to finally, fully bury the hatchet- Yamamoto offered five of the captain's seats to the five remaining great noble houses, to be passed from scion to scion, ensuring each line would have a place in the direction of this army... Not realizing it was a trap to trick them into handing over any psychics they had, but also the high mortality rate of captains would kill scion after scion and gradually weaken the clans to the point of irrelevance.

And it WORKED.

By the time Ichigo turns up, the scion of the Shihouin clan is in exile with no plans of returning, the Shibas are reduced to a roaming band of pyromaniacs, the Tsunyashiro clan has been gone so long they don't even appear in the manga, and while the ISE and Kuchiki clans still both have representation within the captainacy... The Ise clan only has a brother-in-law and the Kuchiki are at a genetic dead end, and both those men are FAR more loyal to Yamamoto than their own clans.

Yamamoto has done what he set out to do- make a safe haven for the spiritually powerful to work the (not great but still best) protected jobs in the afterlife, destroyed his enemies the great noble houses, and largely wrested government control from them.

It's not perfect, but you can't fault the man for his accomplishment.

[satisfactuality]

wait no i thought more about the parentcule adventuring party au and now i have to get it out of my brain

the basic au takes place sophomore/junior year and yes i am taking the creative liberty of making all the parents the same ages for this to work

so the sophomore year party consists of;

sandra lynn- wood elf ranger (beastmaster subclass, but no baxter yet); daughter of two people who aren't divorced but 1000% should be; pre- full punk rock crash out stage but definitely on the way there

sklonda - goblin rogue (mastermind subclass); an only child but also biiiiig eldest daughter energy; defacto leader of the party but not outright saying it; actively suppressing the urge to slap one of her party members at all times

digby - gnome artificer (armorer subclass); isn't really interested in being an adventurer but augefort is the best place to learn artificing in solace; comes 90% of the time with his delightful childhood sweetheart wilma, and yes saying childhood sweethearts about sophomores in high school is insane but hey, if the shoe fits

hallariel - high elf fighter (banneret subclass); literally just enrolls for a year to see if her father will notice she's missing, spoiler alert, he doesn't; tells everyone she's the leader of her party and they all just kind of let her because she might be spoiled but she's the best swordsman at augefort and like, what's the harm; joins the party because she made out with sandra lynn at a party a few days before the year started

arianwen - high elf wizard (conjuration subclass); should have been headed to kei lumennura but pissed off her fallinel government parents enough that as punishment they tasked her with retrieving hallariel; absolute shit at any form of teamwork but can't fully abstain from participating because she wants everyone to know how much better she is than them

mac - human paladin (path of devotion); didn't want to be in this party and they didn't want him either; assigned to them sophomore year because he didn't have a party and the faculty was genuinely worried without a healer they'd end up a tpk by the end of the year; generally off-putting and making it everyone else's problem

sophomore year ends, hallariel and arianwen go back to fallinel, mac transfers to a school in high court, and now the party is down a heavy hitter, a healer and a caster

additionally sklonda and sandra lynn start dating because their relationship is a piece of time quangle canon you can pry from my cold dead hands 🤭

now enter;

lydia - half orc barbarian (ancestral guardian subclass); grew up in a multi-generational home and is probably the most well-adjusted person in her party; track and field star, i just know she kills at whatever the spyre equivalent of shotput is; her passion for actually becoming an adventure is rivaled only by sandra lynn; her and digby switch off hosting duties for the party

jawbone - human cleric (light domain); pre-werewolf jawbone is so Just A Guy coded to me; has an older brother he kinda loves and kinda hates but is leaning more to the later as his brother gets more and more helioic; definitely has a thing for sandra lynn and is trying to be super respectful about it

and also

jawbone - human fighter (champion subclass); i need to be very clear, jawbone is not multi classing, he is actively starting over and retraining those levels like, every semester; just absolutely unmoored and trying to decide what to do, realizing adventuring in the traditional sense might not be for him; unknowingly at first helps sandra lynn cheat on sklonda and then knowingly continues to help her cheat through the end of the year

i think the fall out from the cheating leads to sandra lynn still dropping out her junior year and joining bobby dawn's party, jawbone also leaves school and that point and starts down the path that will eventually get him bit and wolfed, and sklonda shifts her focus onto staying in elmville with her sights set on the justice system. lydia joins the adventuring party that leads to her getting the gem in her chest after she graduates, and digby and wilma get married right out of high school

[gods-favorite-autistic]

Fantasy high headcanons let’s gooooo

Fhjy spoilers, long post so it goes ✨under the cut✨

Weekly sleepovers but that’s a given

Somewhere in one of the rooms in Mordred the Bad Kids all carved their names somewhere

Kristen and Fig have an entire corner of the Mordred living room designated as the ‘Secret Service Corner’

Riz is so good at shoplifting to the point that every time they go shopping Sklonda just keeps shooting glances at Riz’s hands to make sure he isn’t taking something or thinking about taking something

She has an entire pocket of her purse dedicated to distraction fidget toys because he can’t shoplifting if he doesn’t have anything to shoplift with

Fig perfected her screamo voice over the summer before freshman year (yknow the one where she was really pissed at her mom. Yeah that summer)

If Fabian ever needs advice on anything his go tos are Riz and Cathilda

Anytime one of the Bad Kids get a call in the middle of the night they just assume it’s Riz

Adaine is the only one allowed to ignore texts and calls and that’s only because she just uses the Message spell to respond to people

Kristen learned Morse code to talk to Fig in class

Fig does not know Morse code but by Cass she can pretend she does

After dropping out Fig will occasionally just shift into different fake students and drop by the others classes

The party always knows its her but nobody else ever does

The freshman thinks it’s a myth (legendary rockstar who dropped out of the school and is being hunted by the school just randomly shows up to classes she has never been enrolled in even when she did go there) but the seniors keep being like “no I swear to god I saw her at lunch earlier she’s gonna be in my class today I know it”

Agent Clark is always hunting her

Kristen Applebees has POTS and Ehlers Danlos Syndrome because I said so she my special girl

Gorgug has made each of the Bad Kids a playlist

And now for a list of things the party has banned Kristen “dex score of 3” Applebees from doing

Playing on Fabian’s DDR machine

Driving

Baking (cooking is fine though)

Skateboarding

Anything involving putting her on wheels

Juggling (you’d think this wouldn’t be a problem but she did try to once. It did not go well)

Any type of stitches that Riz would be capable of

A lot of Wii games

Just Dance

She also sucks at fantasy Mario Kart but nobody can figure out if it’s the low dex or if she’s just bad at the game

The story of the DDR machine is that once Fig and Kristen challenged each other to a DDR battle to the death and Kristen danced so hard she broke an arm

That was a fun call to Jawbone /s

Adaine once gave Gorgug one of those motivational cat posters except she changed the words to say it’s Gorgug keep going

He genuinely loves it it was one of the things he took with him when he went to go live with Fabian

They’re all neurodivergent because I’m neurodivergent and I said so

Adaine weekly has to take another pair of noise cancelling headphones out of her jacket because Kristen keeps losing hers

Kristen and Adaine are the only two who know how to properly cook

Gorgug is decent at it but he mainly just follows recipes

Riz and Fabian are banned from the kitchen

Fig hasn’t even tried to cook ever everyone knows it wouldn’t end well

Kristen swears she figured out how to make cottage cheese ice cream

She just froze cottage cheese and called it a day

Riz is constantly on hire by Fig to find Bobby Dawn

He found him like a day after he was hired (Bobby Dawn really isn’t that smart) and he told Fig exactly where he was but she just keeps vaguely bothering him

Her goal is to make him think he’s haunted

Riz refuses to take free money from Fabian so Fabian just keeps paying him insane amounts to do the easiest things

1000 gold pieces to make him 1 cup of coffee

Adaine figured out how to do the whole eyes rolling back and glowing thing on command so when someone pisses her off she just casts fly on herself does that says random words and then casts scatter on the person who pissed her off

They all love shrimp and they all love cottage cheese but they absolutely resolutely agree that combined they are fucking terrible

Aguefort does an “everyone gets a a familiar” day

Riz picks a fox

Kristen gets 5 snakes. People try to tell her she only gets one familiar but who is going to argue with the most talented cleric like ever wielding 5 snakes

Fabian picks a parrot and gives him a little eyepatch

Gorgug picks a straight up fucking bear

[horrorfilmlesbian]

ds9 dnd au

Inspired by the fact that I accidentally made a very Garak-like character (see post here) entirely on accident which got me thinking more about what these characters would look like in a dnd-style setting.

I will probably never write this but. rattling the ideas around in my head regardless.

Sisko - I feel like it might seem obvious to go with cleric, but I don't see the Vision there. Maybe Celestial Warlock, unintentionally binding himself to a God/Divine Being while on some other very ordinary quest. Did not want to be chosen but has this power thrust upon him anyway through a mysterious deal. 1000% still a human but with some distant celestial heritage that isn't enough to count as an Aasimar. Divine Soul Sorc could also work, but I like the idea of the whole accidental warlock pact of it all with an entity that has chosen him for a higher purpose that may or may not have made him a little bit Jesus to Kira and her people.

Kira - Rogue/Cleric combo , but majority rogue with 1-2 levels of clerical study that got interrupted as she grew up and was forced to adopt different strategies to fight against an occupying force that tried to take over her forest homeland. My heart says Firblog but also Genasi of some kind could work. Race is a little nebulous but I think something non-human for sure.

Odo - VERY obvious as a changeling and I think I don't need to elaborate. Class? Paladin. Oath of the Crown. Extremely rigid in his thinking and protects the lands he lives in with everything he has. Kinda opposite to the Fey of it all which becomes really funny when he finally meets more Changelings who are simply not Like That. Extremely Lawful Neutral, focused only on the Law as the arbiter of truth. Maybe eventually switches up a bit.

Jadzia - this is harder to pick but race wise I'm thinking Kalashtar for the vibes of being a combination type creature made of a 'spirit' (Dax) and the person (Jadzia). Perhaps with some hand-waving homebrew lore that about the Quori spirits they combine with are passed on after each 'host' has lived. Class-wise is sooo tricky but I think maybe Artificer (Alchemist) / Monk (Astral Self) combo which I feel like seems unhinged as hell but fits the two halves of her personality - the curiosity of science officer and the kind of spiritual aspect of understanding the power of one's body.

O'Brien - human as HELL. But, I reckon he's a forge cleric/artificer (either battle smith or armorer) in terms of class - his love for the profession of Making Things I think is almost a faith in and of itself, and he is very much focused on learning as much as possible about crafting. As a cleric it's less about the love of god and more about the love of the art of making/fixing things as a divine act.

Julian - Reborn Human. Something about the angst of coming back wrong in childhood there. Perhaps his parents kinda got into some weird dark magic because they wanted to Improve their son and made some sort of deal with some eldritch entity that changed him as a child. Class-wise this is tricky as HELL but. I guess I have to go with Life Cleric (some irony in that as someone who is technically a little dead), but I think he always secretly kind of admires rogues too, but feels he has a duty to help and heal people wherever he can.

Garak - yuan-ti simply for the Bit (I can appreciate a lizardfolk or dragonborn but I think the yuan-ti are more Cardassian), but I think he'd be the more snake-like kind, not a pure-blood. Inquisitive Rogue for sure, all about the sneaking around and spying of it all. Could also have some Gloomstalker Ranger in there too. Everyone keeps accusing him of being some kind of spy but why would he? he's just a plain and simple merchant on the road (big wet reptile eyes), won't you buy his wares?

Quark - no class he's just the owner of a Tavern who Odo is convinced is smuggling illegal items but he's never quite been able to catch him in the act. Race-wise this is hard but I'm thinking tiefling. He keeps accusing Odo of assuming the worst of him just because he's got some lineage to the hells. He absolutely abuses those connections he has to certain devils and other minor hellish creatures to import his illegal shit.

Worf - Look this is not even a contest but Barbarian, Path of the Zealot. He's got that almost religious fixation with fighting and is absurdly hard to hurt. Race, I know Orc feels obvious but I think I do need to go with Githyanki for the warrior and conquest of it all. Has killed a mindflayer with his bare hands.

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Frieren Timeline/Pacing

(Manga Spoilers at the very bottom)

Rewatching Frieren made me realize just how much thought the writer put into the pacing and timeline.

It feels like a slow-paced anime, but also time passes by really quick? Like the first episode literally shows a 50 year time skip? But is this really true?

50 years, 20 years, 4 years, 2 years, 6 months, about a year, around another year, 6 months,(Story Starts), 6 months, 2 months, 3-4 months.

Notice anything?

These are the timeskips/timelapses in the timeline. And as Frieren learns more about humans and learns to appreciate the present, the gaps get smaller and smaller, with the everyday being elaborated on more.

Now maybe that's not on purpose, but it certainly seems like it is. The thought and care to create such a subtle way to show Frieren's growth and understanding and appreciation of the NOW - all the while still reminding us of how old she is and how these years really aren't all that long to her in the grand scheme of things? Beautiful.

Expanded Timeline Given Below:

The first episode (1st manga chapter) starts with first a 50 year timelapse (Himmel dies at the end of this), and then a 20 year timeskip, before we end with Frieren deciding to stay with Heiter to translate a grimoire even though it could take 5 or 6 years (barely any time at all for Frieren- over a 1000 yr old elf)

The next episode (chapter-2) starts after a 4 year timelapse (24 years after Himmel's death) to reach a point where we see Fern's progress on learning magic and also the deterioration of Heiter's health. Heiter dies and then there is a 2 year timeskip (26 years after Himmel's death) until we come across our first 'quest' (chapter-3) that we see Frieren and Fern undertake - the search for the blue moon weed flowers. There is a 6 month timelapse before Fern decides 'this is taking too long' and tells Frieren that she thinks its time to pack up and move on - they end up finding the blue mood weed right after that conversation.

The third episode (chapters-4 and 5) is set another year later (27 years after Himmel's death), and the 4th episode a year after that (28 years after Himmel's death) We spend 6 months of this year cleaning up a ship wreck (Episode 4, Chapter - 6)

This is where the present day storyline properly starts - 28 years after Himmel's death -with our party finding out about Aureole (Episode 4, Chapter-7) and picking up another member (Stark) (Episode-6, Chapter-10/11) as they head north.

After that its all small timeskips as we join the party on their 'quests' as they head north.

The next biggest one is when they are stuck in a blizzard for 6 months near the Schwer mountain range and so cannot move ahead. This is in the 2nd half of episode 11 (Chapter-24).

After this timeskip we find out it is now 29 years since Himmel died.

Again small timeskips (in days or weeks - normal for an anime) as we get to Ausserst (during which we meet Sein, spend a few weeks in his village, travel a bit, and then get stuck in a village for a month due to a snow storm - no major time skips here by the way), then 2 months timeskip between reaching Ausserst and writing the First Class Mage exam. (Episode 18 and Chapter 37).

The anime ends after the mage exam alongside Chapter- 60 of the manga. Keep in mind this is still 29 years since Himmel's died.

**Manga Spoilers Ahead**

We don't hit 30 years from Himmel's death until Chapter 70, and 31 years until Chapter - 105. There's a timeskip of a few months where they live outside Weiss with Denken, as Frieren analyzes a curse, and they deal with defeating a demon (Macht Arc - Chapter- 81 to 104), but you get the point.

The manga currently is on 31 years after Himmel's death. (Chapter-134 is the latest as of writing this)

-1.9.2024

[justelib]

I heard u need some baku requests so I’m here to place one 🥸

Bakugou x fem reader where she confessed to him in middle school but he rejects her, few years later in U.A she has a major glow up and he starts to catch feelings. (Bonus if he gets a tad jealous from hearing their guy classmates talking abt her)

I thank you for this request! It’s is quite short, but I am planning a part two for this!

Bakugou Katsuki x Fem!Reader

Warnings: bullying, humiliation, Kyoka Jiro is BISEXUAL! Mean Bakugou, as always.

Fear, embarrassment, sadness, it was hard to place the emotions, she stood there, squeezing her hands while she looked down, he was laughing at her, showing his friends the very personal letter she had written for him. She could feel the tears threaten to spill out, she couldn’t even form words.

“I find that you brighten up the room every time you enter it, I honestly don’t know what this feeling is, but if you’d give me a chance, I’d like for us yo get to know eachother.” Bakugou’s friend mocked in a stereotypical high voice, sounding nowhere near like y\n.

She bit her lip, holding back her sobs as Izuku Midoriya escorted her out of the class room. Middle school was hell since then, absolute, living, burning, hell.

•

UA high, the best hero school in Japan, she honestly couldn’t believe she was excepted, not that she didn’t have an amazing quirk, but because of her lack of points. Y\N made her way through the school gates, her large Canvas satchel bag at her side. She was running a bit late so she was quite literally Skidding around every corner to make her way into 1-A, only to stop upon a large door.

“What in all things holy?” Y\N blinked up at the door, it was weird, because the door handle was quite low, no one of that height would have been able to reach it.

The girl just shrugged it off and opened the door, to be faced with an older man, and if she was into older man, she’d probably find him attractive…if he didn’t look like a bright yellow caterpillar.

“Wait.” She blinked rapidly for a second. “Aren’t you the erasure hero, eraser head?” She smiled brightly, “I’m quite a fan, I admire how you try to stay out of the press.”

Aizawa stared.

“Sorry, i’m L\N Y\N, but please, call me Y\N.” She smiled. “I’ll go find a seat now, I’m sorry I’m a bit late, I missed my train (?)”

“It’s fine, sit down.” He replied exhaustedly.

Y\N faced the class, finally realising who else was in the class. Her face harden, seeing as the only seat left was next to him. ‘So cliche.’ She thought, before making her way over the the seat next to Bakugou, placing her bag under the desk. She didn’t look at him, not even a glance, she couldn’t even form the words on how much she despised him.

He, on the other hand…stared at her as if she was unrecognisable, also noticing how Denki kaminari and Kyoka Jiro were staring at her.

“That is the hottest girl I have ever seen.” Denki whispered under his breath.

“You’ve said that about every girl that entered this room.” Jiro rolled her eyes.

“Except you.” Denki snapped back, though, he definitely thought she was good looking.

“Shut up.” Jiro rolled her eyes.

Bakugou watched the conversation, only really picking up Denki’s first sentence, and for some odd reason, he could feel the all to familiar anger bubble in is gut.

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Bro, it actually so short, I am so sorry 😭😭🙏🙏 I fr didn’t mean for it to be so short, I’ve literally written over 1000 words for a single chapter, but it’s nearly 11 and I have to be up early tomorrow <\3

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Wille got to the athletic center early that morning, both nerves and excitement filled him. There was something about Simon that always made him giddy and today was no different. Lily and Ryan were the next to arrive. Setting their bags down by the wall, they joined Wille at one of the small tables in the lobby.

“You’re here early,” Lily comments as she takes a seat.

“Yeah, I just wanted to make sure I wasn’t late.” Wille responds. 

“Bullshit,” she says with a small laugh. “You’re always the last person to show up.”

Wille rolls his eyes and is about to respond when the door opens and more people come in. Among them are August, Alexander, Felice, and Simon. He has to stop himself from jumping up out of his seat and going to say hi to Simon. After a few moments the rest of the team arrives and they all crowd around the few tables scattered about. Eventually their coaches join them and lead them to the bus. 

Simon finds himself slowly moving so that he is right next to Wille. He steals a quick glance at Wille and smiles to himself. The pair were the last two on the bus. Wille, being in front of Simon, chooses the row they sit in. He’s in the seat next to the window and Simon slides into the seat next to them.

“Good morning,” Wille says to Simon, a smile plastered on his face. “Are you ready to swim today?”

“Good morning, Wille. I think I’m ready. I only have the 50 and 100 free today so, it shouldn’t be awful! Are you ready?”

Wille nods. “I have the 500 which is my absolute favorite and then I also have the 1000 which I’m not as excited for but it will still be fun! I’m hoping to drop on at least one of them.”

“You’re crazy,” Simon’s smile now matches Wille’s. “I don’t understand how you do it.”

“You’re the crazy one. I could never swim sprint events. I’ve been doing distance for years. I don’t even think I know how to sprint anymore.”

Wille laughs after he finishes his sentence. Simon can’t help but notice how his eyes seem to sparkle when he’s happy, how his laugh becomes the best sound Simon has ever heard, and how every word he said seemed to draw Simon in more and more. 

Their conversation continues as they talk about everything they can think of. School, family, friends. They’re on the topic of friends when Wille decides to ask if Simon has made any since moving. 

“Well besides you and the rest of the team, not really.” Simon tells Wille. 

“I’m sure you’ll meet people. Everyone here is really nice.”

“There actually is one other person. His name is Marcus and he’s in one of my classes.” Simon explains. “He’s been really sweet so far. He’s probably my best friend at this school right now. He was the first one to talk to me and he’s made this place feel like home.”

“Marcus?”

“Yeah. Marcus.” Simon was already regretting mentioning Marcus because it was clear that the dislike between the two was mutual. “You know him?”

“Yeah.” Wille answers shortly before turning his head and looking out the window.

He wasn’t quite sure why, but all of the positive stuff that Simon had just said about Marcus made him feel sick to his stomach. All of the stories that Henry told, moments that Wille witnesses make their way into his brain. A part of him is mad at Simon for trusting Marcus and another part wants to protect him. 

Wille’s eyes stay fixated on the passing landscape where they are safe from accidentally stealing a glance over at Simon. 

“Wille?” Simon says after a long silence. Wille can hear the hesitation in his voice. 

“Yes?”

“Did I say something?” Simon asks, his eyes meet Wille’s for the first time as Wille turns towards him once again. 

“Not on purpose.” He lets out a breath that he didn’t even realize he was holding in. “It just sucks having to hear nice things about Marcus. He’s not a good person and I’m not on good terms with him. You wouldn’t know that. I’m sorry.”

“You seriously got upset over that?” Simon asks, the hesitation that was in his voice has been replaced with anger. “Really, Wilhelm? Are you five? That is so childish.”

“You don’t even know half of it.” Wille answers coolly.

“I might not know what happened between you two, but Marcus is a good person. He is the kindest and most welcoming person I have ever met.” he responds. “Much more kind and welcoming then you’re being right now, Wilhelm.”

“Fuck you, Simon.” is all that Wille says. There are so many more words running through his head, so much he could say. So much he could tell Simon. But they aren’t his secrets to share. It’s not his story to tell. 

He turns back away from Simon, not wanting to even been looking at him. Something Inside him felt as though it had broken. 

Henry and Wille had settled on going back to Henry’s dorm once they made it back to school. Wille didn’t utter a single word the entire ride back. He was so lost in his head, going over what everything meant for him and what he even wanted to say to Henry. The entire walk from the bus to Henry’s was quiet which was unusual for the pair.

Once they’re in the comfort of the room with Henry sitting on the chair at his desk and Wille was on his bed. Occasionally, Henry looks up at Wille but never says anything, not wanting to push him into saying anything before he’s ready. 

“I don’t like my name,” he says finally. “I don’t know why or how to describe it but I hate it.”

“Is it just your full name or is it Wille too?” Henry asks, not sure how to jump into this conversation. 

“I like Wille.” he says simply. “I don’t know why but I told Simon this the other day. But then we kind of got into a fight on the bus and he called me Wilhelm. It felt like a punch in the stomach, Henry.”

“Yeah,” Henry admits. “We all noticed that something definitely happened between the two of you. Why do you think it bothered you so much?”

Wille is quiet for a moment. He isn’t sure why it bothered him, truly. Maybe it was because Simon was the first person he had trusted with how he felt about his name. Or it could’ve been because it came from Simon. In reality, he thought he was just overreacting to the whole situation.

“Can you say my name?” Wille asks Henry after a moment, knowing that if it was just because Simon said it or if he was overreacting then he wouldn’t have an issue with Henry saying it.

“Of course, Wilhelm. Now, talk to me. How did that feel?” Henry asks.

“Awful.”

It was the truth. Hearing Henry say it was just as bad, if not worse, than hearing Simon say it earlier. It was the word version of hearing nails on a chalkboard. He hated everything about it. 

“Okay, not more of that then,” Henry says with a small nod. “Wille.”

“Wille is okay. Wille is good,” Wille says, he feels his body relax, realizing that Henry was being okay with this and that he wasn’t making it a big deal. “Henry?”

“Yes?”

“Can you…would you mind using ‘they’ pronouns for me?” he asks, avoiding Henry’s eyes not wanting to see his reaction. 

“Yeah, of course.” Henry says. Wille can tell by his voice that he is smiling as he speaks. “I love Wille so much. They’re my best friend and they are one of the best people I have ever met. I am very grateful to have them in my life.”

A smile spreads across Wille’s face, growing wider with each sentence that Henry says. It seems to fit like nothing else has before. 

“Henry,” Wille says, finally looking up. “Thank you so much.”

“Did that feel better?” Henry asks. “It looks like it did based on your smile.”

“That felt…good,” they admit. 

“Do you want me to use those from now on?”

“I don’t know.”

“I could use both for now and you could let me know how it feels,” Henry suggest which gets a nod from Wille. “Okay. That’s what we’ll do then.”

Wille gets off of the bed and they walk over to where Henry is sitting. They wrap their arms around their best friend, pulling him into a hug.  

“Thank you, Henry.”

synopsis: After he and his sister move schools, Simon finds himself joining the swim team - the only place he found for himself at his old school. Meanwhile, Wilhelm is the best distance swimmer on the team. They immediately take a liking to Simon from the moment they first see him. Through tough practices, long bus rides, and meets the two grow closer together. Pushing each other to new limits and being more than they could’ve ever imagined.

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So, I do not believe the Comic Goldenheart boys would have children. First of all, I don't personally headcanon either of them to be able to give birth to or carry children, and second, within the canon of the Comicverse, them reproducing would be a horrendous fucking idea.

However, I am not immune to the desire to create fankids. So. Allow me to introduce my their imaginary son from an AU where them having a baby wouldn't be the World's Worst Decision, Gregor Blackheart.

The colors came out kinda ugly(er) than they looked in Krita and please ignore the skin swatches I just fucking forgot to erase lmao. But yeah, this is a quick sketch of him 💕 headcanons below the cut if anyone is interested

He was named "Gregor" because when Nimona transformed into a little boy and called herself by the same name, it was the first time Ballister ever considered one day being a father, so they named their little guy for that moment

Nimona entered his/the Blackheart's lives when he was about three years old. Ambrosius was very nervous of her at first, especially with his most precious baby, but he quickly saw how good she was with him and that they loved playing together (and she could protect and keep up with him easily)

Ambrosius regards him as literally the most perfect thing to have ever come from him and the only good thing he ever played a part in, and was definitely at least a bit overbearing as a dad

When he was a baby/firstborn he was bald (specifically had that Old Man hairstyle that babies have where they only have fuzz on the sides of their head) and Ambrosius would always be like "Aww he looks just like his papa (Ballister)" and before Ballister could be like "that's sweet" he'd go "he got a big ol' bald head. Forehead for days." This would ruin it but it was also cute

He struggles with regulating his emotions like his dad and is highly intelligent and analytical like his papa. This caused mental health issues especially in his pre/teen years but his parents had thankfully done enough healing that they could support him and so he had a better outcome than they did

Both Ballister and Ambrosius went from "we read all the books and attended all the classes so we know EXACTLY what we're doing" to being too scared to hold him immediately once he was born

As a little kid/baby, Ballister was better at calming him down when he cried/got sad, scared, or hurt, while Ambrosius was better when he got angry, tantrums, or an attitude (Him crying would subconsciously trigger and upset Ambrosius, who would be easily overwhelmed, and him acting bratty/like a normal toddler frustrated Ballister who generally just would want to leave the situation)

He sees Nimona as an aunt and liked to play with her the most as a kid. This made Ambrosius extremely fucking jealous, but he got over it when he realized he was Gregor's favorite person to cuddle. Ballister is low-key jealous of both of them, but he is the main one that Gregor info-dumps to about all his special interests so he knows that he loves each of them in his own way

He was 1000 percent an accident. They knew they had no business reproducing given how fucked up their relationship was. I imagine he would come not terribly long after they got back together, too. Keeping him would have been a very hard choice but ultimately neither of them could bear the idea of losing the only biological family they'd ever have.

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Your Valentine (Veneer x Reader) [Headcanons]

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Summary: General Valentines headcanons for Veneer

Extra Info: Happy Valentines!! Hyperfixation on Veneer so why not lmao,, Takes place pre-canon! Since Veneer is such a difficult character to write for with reader inserts and whatnot, I tried to keep the reader's occupation and all up to interpretation. I'll work some stuff out if someone requests meeting and crushing headcanons!!

Believe me when I say that Veneer is an absolute sucker for Valentine's Day. As a kid, he adored making his own letterbox for the holiday in class, and even as he grew older, he loved giving Valentines gifts to his friends, and especially Velvet! Velvet never really participated in the holiday other than wearing pink, but he didn't mind.

As you probably know, he also loved being the center of attention. Being absolutely spoiled growing up, receiving at least five valentines every year, then upping the rate of valentines he received as a pop star by at least 1000%, Veneer wasn't taken out of the spotlight often. This caused him to become a bit of a brat when it came to receiving gifts.

However, Valentine's Day quickly became a bit of a bore without a real "valentine". The letters he received began to repeat themselves, repeating the same phrases over and over.. couldn't his fans be a bit more creative than just "be mine"? Veneer would rather just buy gifts for himself at this point.. which wouldn't be too bad of an idea. Ooh, maybe he could get those new pair of shoes he's been seeing everywhere!

His perspective on the holiday quickly changed, though, as soon as he found himself a valentine. Well--a future one, he supposed. Who could turn the Veneer down, anyway?

And so, we introduce you to the scenario. You were the one to change his point of view, you were the one he wanted to spend Valentine's with. Of course, he denied his feelings at first. Why would he even think about romance? He had a job to do! Which was to be famous! And sing! And.. other things-! Veneer didn't have the time to date--especially if he had to present himself as taken to the public.. Ugh, that was way too much work. Not like he was nervous about being rejected or anything, he wasn't allowed to be..

As of the week before Valentine's Day, the two of you were "just friends". That's what you thought you two would ever be. He's.. Well, you're sure he's got better options than you. He was famous, for god's sake! And you were.. you were sure he didn't like you back. And how wrong you were.

Veneer definitely got a lot more fidgety as the holiday was approaching. It started out with the simple tapping of fingers, to bouncing his legs, then to wrapping his arms around eachother (via stretchy limbs). This nervous behavior wasn't going to just pass over Velvet.

Velvet was used to Veneer being nervous sometimes--especially before a big show. It got annoying for her to deal with all the time, but this jittery side of him was extremely new, and suspicious. He wasn't his usual sassy self, and the thought made Velvet even more irritated than usual.

When Veneer was confronted by this behavior by his sister, he immediately shrugged it off. Stage performances definitely helped with his acting for this scenario. Outright denying his sister of his strange behavior--despite the video evidence of him fidgeting during interviews--he quickly changed the subject, drowning out Velvet's interjecting voice. Okay, now she was pissed.

Not for long, though. Considering their upcoming performance in five minutes, Velvet took a deep breath and acted rationally for once. Even throughout the performance, Velvet could still tell something was off about her brother. Whatever--she had better things to worry about than her lame brother. Velvet could care less, as long as Veneer didn't mess up their image or anything.

And with that, Veneer was in the clear. But still extremely nervous. It was now only the day before Valentine's, so he had to ask you today or never. Why was he even nervous? He was confident about himself in every way, the thousands of gifts sent to him throughout the week proved that he deserved to be adored, why wouldn't you think the same?

Well.. thinking of it more now, you treated him more than just a celebrity. You saw him as a person--someone with feelings, someone that deserved to be treated with kindness. You always brought that point up to him when Velvet would treat him poorly. The fact that he deserved more. He never really got your point--after all, Velvet was his sister! That's what siblings do, they fight, they tease, and they have to do everything together. If he wasn't what Velvet wanted him to be, who was he? Veneer didn't get your point until now.

So--that was the main reason he was nervous. You saw him as his true self, accepted him as his true self, and.. you were aware of his flaws. That's what he was afraid of.

Either way, he persevered. Veneer isn't one to back down from something, especially when he's already committed with money and all. That's right--he went classic! A rose of your favorite color, a box of your favorite chocolates, and the nicest accessory he could find in the most expensive-brand store in the city. Unfortunately, shopping for Valentine's items in public as a famous celebrity drags a lot of attention to him. He normally loved the attention, but going shopping without his sister wasn't a great look on the news. Especially when it would eventually track back to Velvet herself, who didn't give Veneer permission to leave. But that was the least of his concerns at the moment.

News spread fast in the city, so it didn't take long for it to reach you aswell. Hearing that Veneer was out shopping for a Valentine's gift for his valentine made your heart drop slightly. You shouldn't have been disappointed, it wasn't like you were expecting anything. Nevertheless, the thought.. upset you. Clicking your phone off of the news website, you put it away, sighing outside of his door.

It took a bit of searching, but Veneer eventually found you outside of the door to his room. Why would you be here, of all places? You also seemed to be pretty deep in thought, not noticing him at first. He tapped your shoulder, and you immediately jumped, snapping out of your daze.

Honestly, Veneer was the last person you expected to see at the time. You figured he would be off to meet his valentine, busy with someone else to confess and--.. and suddenly the pieces started to come into place in your mind. His hands twisted behind his back, the rosy color that covered his cheeks, and the way he avoided eye contact. With that realization, your face flushed the same color as his did.

Saying that Veneer was anxious would be an understatement. When he gets nervous, he tends to overuse words like a middle school girl, confessing with multiple "like"s and "literally"s. It's funny, don't worry.

And if you accept? Well, he knew that you would. Totally. That doesn't stop him from overreacting, though. At the simplistic words of "Of course", he immediately loops his arms around you multiple times. Again, via stretchy limbs. Overjoyed, you embraced him in return. Veneer couldn't be happier at the fact that he was your Valentine.

He'll deal with Velvet's fury later.

[the-wip-project]

Day 9, one week done

Hello writerly friends!

I'm late with this post because I spent Sunday at the beach, sleeping, reading and even writing. Almost got my 1000 words done for the day right there in the shade. It pays off that I made sure that I can always write on the road, with the hardware always ready in a bag to grab on the way out. But when I got home, I was beat.

So, one week over. How are we doing?

I see a lot of great progress on the mywriteclub page, you're all excellent! Keep doing what you're doing!

As I was thinking about how to write something for you that is supportive, motivating, and reassuring, Rachael Herron's newsletter flew into my inbox (and if you're not subscribed to her newsletter, you totally should do that https://rachaelherron.com/write/).

And she said everything I wanted to say, so I'm quoting here here:

So I read all the craft books. Took all the classes. They told me HOW to do a lot of things. But none of them told me the biggest truth: Writing a book is just hard fucking work. It’s wonderful, yes. Totally worth it. But no one (NO ONE) finds it easy. (Read that again.) NOT ONE person who makes a living writing books will look you in the eye and say, “I love my job because it’s so flipping easy. I just make stuff up and people buy it.” It’s such hard work. The Great News: That truth is exactly what makes me feel better. It’s precisely what I need to hear (all the time, because I forget this over and over). Rachael, it’s just hard because it’s hard. Let it be tricky. Allow yourself to be frustrated. You’re not doing it wrong. This is just how it goes. If you’re struggling to write? That’s okay. That’s normal. The struggle means you’re a real writer. (Doesn’t that feel amazing to realize? For perhaps the umpteenth time?)

Read her whole newsletter here: https://buttondown.com/RachaelHerron/archive/youre-the-hero-in-your-writers-journey-you-have/

If you feel like you're struggling with your writing, if you wonder if you're a failure because writing is so freaking hard — you're actually doing everything right. Writing is hard. It's rewarding, sure, but it's also really freaking difficult and not one of us knows how to do it right and finds it easy.

Persistence makes the writer. You just have to keep doing it. Allow your writing to be messy and difficult. It's fine, it's meant to be like that.

Happy writing!

[twisted-turtels]

Crossed Paths (Pt.1)

Farleigh Start x black!fem!oc

Author’s note: this is so random of me. Welcome to my new fixation, Farleigh Start from Saltburn. I wonder how long this story will last lol.

969 words is crazy i dont even write this much for my classes lol. it takes me days to get to 1000 words.

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4

Crossed Paths

“Mama, there is no need to worry about me. You don’t trust me?” Jordan says. “It’s not that I don’t trust you. I don't trust the rest of the world. You're my baby, and you’re leaving me. Going all the way across the world!” Monica, Jordan’s mom, exclaims.

“Ma, you know this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. I have never left this country, and I get the chance to study at one of the oldest and most prestigious universities for free! There’s nothing to worry about,” Jordan explains, “Listen, I’m about to pull up to my apartment, or shall I say ‘flat’ as the Englishmen describe it. I’ll talk to you later. Goodnighhhht.”

“Goodnight, baby, I love you. Don’t go crazy over there now!” Monica hangs up.

Jordan gets out of her taxi and takes in her surroundings. University of Oxford, I can’t believe I made it. Jordan clumsily gathers her luggage from the taxi (It’s a lot of stuff) and walks towards the entrance to her accommodation. As she struggles to make sure none of her luggage falls, she accidentally bumps into a tall figure. 

“Fuck.”

“Oh shit, I am so sorry!” Jordan looks up and exclaims. She sees a tall, pretty, light-skinned man staring down at his now-stained shirt. He’s black, she thinks. “Yes, and so is my shirt,” the man says sarcastically. “Oh, I did not realize I said that out loud. I’m sorry again. I’m kind of struggling, and I guess I wasn't paying-” she tries to explain, “You’re American?” the man interrupts. “Um, yeah, I just got in today, if you can’t tell. I’m here for an exchange program,” she continued. “Not many of us here. Listen, don’t worry about the shirt. I hope to see you around, but I gotta be somewhere soon,” the man quickly says and walks off. 

“For sure,” Jordan trails off, saying before she looks at her bags, I guess I will take this up myself. “Ugh!” she groans.

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Jordan sits in her flat and looks at the now unpacked space. I did a great job. I think I'm gonna put a Texas flag on my wall, too. She slumps down on the couch and looks at the flyer on her coffee table. ‘Undergraduate Social! 5 PM,’ it reads. “I guess I can attempt to socialize,” Jordan looks down at her watch, “One hour to get ready, but I don’t have to be there at exactly 5 pm though,” Jordan thinks aloud. I wonder if I’ll see the man from earlier? 

After freshening up, Jordan gathered her keys and wallet and went to the social. She entered the student union and noticed it bustling with students and professors. While looking around, she subconsciously looks for the man she met earlier.  Not many black students, she notes. She takes the time to go up to different organization tables and gather information. As she moves from table to table, she feels a delicate hand tap her shoulder. Jordan turns around and notices a blonde girl standing in front of her. 

“Hello!” the blonde girl exclaims.

“Hello?” Jordan questions.

“Sorry for the abruptness, but I just wanted to introduce myself. You seemed lost. My name is Venetia, and I wanted to ask, are you American?”

“Uh yeah, I am. I’m from Texas, actually.” Jordan explains.

“That’s really cool. There aren't many Americans here. I do know another one, though, who just happens to be my cousin. Would you like to meet him?”

I do need friends, so it wouldn't hurt.

“I don’t mind that at all. Lead the way. Also, my name is Jordan, by the way.”

“What a lovely name. Follow me!” Venetia instructs. 

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“Boys, I would like you to meet Jordan! She’s American just like you, Farleigh!” Venetia exclaims

Jordan stares at the tall man. “Oh, we’ve met Vee. She’s the one who spilled tea on my shirt.” Farleigh explains with a stoic look on his face.

Jordan stares at her feet sheepishly, “Yeah, really sorry about that.”

Farleigh stared the girl down until he smirked, “I’m just playing; it wasn’t a big deal. It's nice to put a pretty name to a pretty face, though.”

He just called me pretty.

“Ignore Farleigh, he’s a little jokester. Aren’t you cousin?” Venetia teasingly asks as Farleigh rolls his eyes. “Anyway, this is my brother, Felix,” Venetia gestures to another tall, handsome man. Are all British men above 6 feet and handsome?

“Hello. Sorry for my sister practically dragging you over here,” Felix jokes.

“I did not drag her over here!” Venetia exclaims

“Haha, it’s okay. I need to put myself out there more honestly, don’t want to be alone during my time here.” Jordan reassures.

“How about I get your phone number?” Farleigh blurts out, he then corrects himself, “ How about we all get your number so we can continue hanging out more? Obviously, I don’t want to be the only American in the group.”

“I thought you would never ask,” Jordan pulls out her phone to notice it’s dead, “Oops, phone is dead. Let me just write it down.” There is no paper. “Can I see your hand?” Jordan asks Farleigh while taking out a pen. Jordan softly holds Farleigh’s hand and writes down her number, “You can pass this on to the rest of them,” Jordan smiles at Farleigh. 

“It was really nice meeting y'all, but I have to get ready for the first day, so I’ll see y'all later,” Jordan waves and walks off.

Oh my god, when did I get so bold?

The group looks at each other in astonishment as Jordan walks away. “Ooh, Farleigh, she gave you her number,” Venetia teases. “She gave it to all of us,” Farleigh defends himself. 

“She says y’all,” Felix points out. “That’s so Texas of her.” He jokes. 

[yippeeometer]

Idk if these are considered rare pairs, but here are some of my fav rare pair ships :D

FlouiSconsin (FL/LA/WI)

FloYork

TexYork

Texas/Wyoming/Montana

*you don't have to answer any of these, please do not feel forced to :D*

gonna answer all of them try that on for size

FLOUISCONSIN:

u just know theyre the ones throwing the new years party and its literally insane. typa guys to craft a massive stone boulder so they can actually say the ball dropped on the new year. typa guys to be researching haunted things on ebay to make halloween parties realistic.

their nights out should be classed as an olympic sport. Yeah you may have won a gold medal for sprinting but 1000% 3 drunk guys being chased by a zoo animal they accidentally let escape are faster than you.

something tells me they'd be the scariest people to sit near. theyre always giggling. always watching. what can they possibly be talking about.

they own like 2 pairs of real shoes between all of them and then just various non matching crocs

since sconsin has to be soooo far from the other two they just constantly have him on facetime. all day. theyre joining in on midwest arguments they know nothing about. theyre tattling to the south as soon as any drama goes down.

FLOYORK:

they serve couple-that-isnt-divorced-but-should-be vibes. theyre SICKENING omg two of the most insane people youve ever met.

we dont play around enough w the true extent of flo's madness he'd probably fill york's room w rats bc he heard that he likes them and york, matching his freak perfectly, would find it romantic. everyone else looks on in horror.

flo turns up at northeast meetings like an in-law at family gatherings to watch the drama. he definitely has a twitter account called 'weird shit my husband's family has fought over'

two strange guys with strange passions for animals. theres a collection of gator-sized sweaters in their closet that york gives flo whenever they argue (frequently)

'youre a snowbird' 'youre a leaf peeper' have you considered youre insufferable.

TEXYORK:

i acc love this ship youre never alone when yippeeometer is at the shipyard

theyre gonna be a slow-burn but in the sense that york's natural way of speaking is in one-word sentences and texas (daddy issues galore) would instantly be freaked out. local northeast man now befuddled how his flirting is not being picked up on.

oh god theyre sooooo awkward around each other. southern hospitality vs 'i can f*cking do it myself' northeast. match made in hell. hate them. no one knows how to communicate but also its sooo not casual when he begged u to come down to his ranch so he could teach u horseback riding. was it casual when he stopped the whole 'more than a city' shtick bc he wanted to show ONLY u around.

abnormal behaviour galore.... daddy issues galore..... typa guys where theres two wolves inside them (must protect him) (ab to get soooo vulnerable around him)

TX/WY/MT

cowboys!

typa guys where their only way of flirting is through the medium of horses. this is my horse shes called angel. yeah she fast. want to ride my horse? no seriously you have to ride my horse. u can even wear my hat when u do it but its totally chill or whatever....

its actually not chill they all compete at rodeos against each other and they WILL make it ur problem when it ruins the relationship.

farmer men..... farmer men..... grrrrrr what a yeild of crops..... just got some cows...... u can see them if u want...... u can stay in my bed.....

montana would have such fun with mr. 'pay attention to me or i die' texas and mr. 'no one look at me or ill kill myself' wy. sat at the table trying to maintain eye contact constantly with one whilst completely ignoring the other to not make the whole relationship obvious (its the most obvious thing in the world.)