#am i doing this right? idk

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3 CS Fic Outlines/Concepts

Ideas for some fics for angsty august if I had the time to do them justice, all on the milder side. (Since I probably won’t be finishing them, if anyone wants to use them however they see fit, feel free)

1: “Obsolescence”

Setup: Killian texts Emma/leaves her a note as he goes off to do something while she’s busy/asleep. She brings it up later, amused by his old-fashioned spelling and grammar.

Angst: As time goes by, she sees how much he’s been left behind in this world. He’s not helpless, and there’s plenty he’s figured out all on his own—but there are times where it seems like he’s having a hard time keeping his head above water. There are skills he has (that he’s worked hard to both master and remaster) that have been not only replaced by technology, but done better. He uses words that have been lost to time entirely in the centuries that have past, no one able to quite understand him for a moment. The music he finds nostalgic—that reminds him of Liam and the high-society events they attended (and discreetly rolled their eyes at) while serving—is dismissed, seen as boring by most. The world that his has been replaced with is entirely alien to him, and there are days where everyone else seems to find it funny.

Resolution: Emma redoubles her efforts to explain everything she can about this world. (Pick a partner who knows what she’s doing, Killian) Henry is all too excited to help as well. (Operation Crash Course or something lol) Eventually, he's nearly as fluent in the ways of this realm as he was with the last one. Just as importantly, he does this without relinquishing his identity—he just adapts, as he always does. He wears jeans with his kohl and long leather coat, the lock screen on his phone is a Montague Dawson painting he found on the internet. He tells Emma about the realm and era he’s from—the foods, the customs, the stories, the music—anything, whenever he’s reminded. She makes sure to always give him her full attention. His time may be long gone, but she’s made plenty of space for him in hers.

2: “Lost Future”

Setup: Something reminds her of the nursery she saw in the Enchanted Forest. A home decoration magazine on a side table, a TV advertisement, etc.

Angst: It’s an old wound, just as painful as it always was. Some bitter, mumbled comment she makes in relation to her parents tips Killian off. Once the dam breaks, the words come tumbling out. She spent a long damn time fending for herself. She had to get here the hard way. But apparently, it didn’t have to be that way, and if--

Killian shakes his head.

“That’s a good way to drive yourself mad, Swan.”

Resolution: All they have are the moments now, he goes on to say. What did she always want when she was younger, the little things? The everyday? Emma puts her hands on her hips, shrugging. The little things? “I dunno,” She takes in a breath and finds herself answering the question, as best she can in the face of the knot in her chest. Someone to...give a shit about her, and ask real questions about her day like they care. To make chicken-noodle soup or whatever the hell when she’s sick. Someone to teach her how to make (insert recipe), to sit with her and watch movies older than she is (and act surprised when she says she hasn’t seen them), someone to tell her all the little wisdoms of the world they’ve learned and hold her when it all seems ready to fall apart. Killian frowns. Who’s to say she can’t have all that with her family now? There’s a lot she may have missed, but she hasn’t missed all of it—sometimes, focusing on the the little things makes it easier. After a few months, he finds himself invited to a movie night at the loft. (This time, it’s a Disney movie marathon, and there’s howling laughter and indignant shouting at the screen all the through the night. At least three new inside jokes are born from this.)

3: “Public Opinion”

Setup: Nebulously Post 3A, possibly no curse...¯\_(ツ)_/¯. While discussing how to deal with the villain-of-the-week, a townsperson sarcastically asks if Killian thinks that just because he helped once, everyone will just forget the kind of guy he was before.

Angst: This isn’t the first time, it won’t be the last. And it’s not entirely unjustified, he supposes. But the opinions of the masses are starting to get to him.

He’s done irreparable harm under the philosophy that the end would justify his means. It’s a stain that can never be washed out, he’s mostly come to terms with that. And this idea everyone seems to have that his redemption would absolve him of his past—that he’d somehow be “getting away with it,” (and they can’t let him do that) bothers him. By no means has that ever been the goal. But feels like he’s never going to be anything more than a monster to the world some days.

In a brief, very human moment of frustration, his temper gets the best of him, somewhere in private. Emma finds him during this and her questions spark a bit of a rant:

“—A monster, forevermore, am I?” He scoffs, but there’s no hiding the bitterness underneath the scorn. “I’ll give them unforgivable, I’ll—” He breaks off. He sighs. His shoulders fall, and he closes his eyes. No, he won’t. He and Emma both know that. He has changed, and isn’t that proof right there that he can’t even finish the thought? Resolution: Emma tells him that, or something like it. But words only do so much in situations like these. After a moment of thought, she offers some kind of opportunity to help the community, one where he’s doing tangible good, but probably isn’t the public’s punching bag. 

Bonus: His pirate tricks are what save lives in a confrontation with a bad guy, or end up being a game-changer in a “how do we stop the villain” strategy meeting. Just because he’s reformed doesn’t mean he’s been de-fanged >:)

(some of these were originally in the comments of the original announcement for this event (by @cosette141), but the character limit had other plans lol. seemed easier just to drop these in a post all their own)

[johndoe-lesbo]

do not. Sell my husband twelve fascinating issues of Zoobooks and the Tiger Poster.

[caruliaa]

staff still hasn't given me polls, what should i do?

🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪 their moms 69%

🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪 their dads 31%

grace image os i get to look at her

[inkskinned]

i keep thinking about hobbies and how i often spill over myself to pick up new ones. i have adhd, i end up trying something for like a month and then just getting far enough in it that i move on, satisfied.

and that should be fine; but it's never fine.

i am a pretty decent artist; but i can't just make art for my dnd campaign, i should be selling dnd maps and character designs and scene setting pieces. i can't just make my friends matching earrings, i need to get an etsy and ship them internationally and take bulk orders. i make pretty good props and decorations and use them to throw my friends parties - but i should be running a party planning business and start taking paying clients and networking and putting my skills to actual use.

for some reason, i never figured out the specifics of pottery. it was a fun class and i enjoyed myself - and still, i'm embarrassed, years later, that i put in all that useless effort. everything i make has to be stunning. stellar. i should have applied myself more. maybe i'm too lazy. maybe i'm broken and selfish and needy. actually creative people would have kept going; they would be bettering themselves at every possible opportunity.

we find ourselves in this trap, even accidentally: we need to commodify our time, because it is a commodity. if we spend our efforts and our time not earning, isn't that the same thing as burning free money? and god forbid you ever take up a hobby that ends up being more expensive than you thought. you sit in your car and you look at the receipt and in your head you hear a conversation that isn't even happening - your mom or your friend or your partner all saying oh great. not this shit again. it's always something with you, and it never actually means anything.

i have realized this horrible thing, recently - i'll get excited to start a project, pick up a new hobby. and then i just... stop myself. i start thinking about the amount of time it will take, and how it'll look in my monthly budget. what if i can't even produce a good enough final product. sure, it's exciting to think about how i could make my friend her own custom dice. but i'm just polluting the earth if i don't get it right. better not bother. better not try.

restless, i get caught in the negative space. the feeling that oh god, i want to create. and that horrible sense - yeah, but i don't have the time to just put to waste.

[jade-len]

please help i just had a dream where svsss was a dating sim. so, of course i tried pursuing shen qingqiu, but it ultimately backfired because suddenly he realized that he was in a dating visual novel?? and since i put myself as a guy, he just refused to show up to special in game events to avoid me interacting with him???

and obviously i was like "wtf why isn't he here?" when he didn't show up. then at some point i explored the area, and the screen suddenly zoomed in to show sqq talking to sqh (supposedly telling him all about the little situation). next thing i know, both of them are slowly turning their head to stare at the screen in pure and utter terror

also in some part of the dream, i think i did some liu qingge events or something and as his affection levels rose, he would continuously jump scare me by popping up out of nowhere and go, "its not like i like you or anything!!" while covered in blood and holding out a demonic beast head as if it were a box of treats

anyways, totally random question guys haha if i made an svsss visual novel dating sim would you guys play it. no reason in particular at all.

[jestroer]

Grian and Scar in their exciting new cosplay! ^^

[kaiserouo]

Well someone has to give it its driver updates, Gabriel

[hayaku14]

OH MY FUCKING GOD KAITO AND SHINICHI TOGETHER EXISTING IN ONE FRAME AND LOOKING HELLA DAPPER I'M GOING TO DIE

(x)

[fox-guardian]

[ID: A digital comic in two images of Samama Khalid and Celia Ripley from The Magnus Protocol on a gray background. Sam is a fat South Asian man with short, curly black hair, and a mustache and small goatee, and he is wearing a turtleneck, a cardigan, black nail polish and small black earrings. Celia is a slim Korean woman with short black hair, and she is wearing a button down shirt, a vest, rectangular glasses, an x-shaped earring, an industrial piercing, and snakebite studs. Sam is colored in solid red, and Celia is colored in solid green.

The first image is three drawings of Sam. The first is of him looking up pleadingly with his hands clasped and his eyes large and sparkly with sparkles around his head saying "Ahem, please?" The second is him holding up two tickets and smiling, saying "Ta-da! These incredibly exclusive, hardly-discounted, barely obstructed theatre tickets?" The last is him holding up the tickets to himself to read them and saying "I don't really know much about it, I just thought-" His eyes are drawn as dots in the last one.

The second image is of Celia smiling down at him with half-lidded eyes and an amused and slightly scheming smile. She is blushing lightly with a thought bubble next to her with partially blocked out text reading "I need to (blank) him and (blank blank) him until he (blank)". The censored parts also contain pink hearts on the black censor bars. end ID]

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thinkin bout that one bit. i love him <3 celia you need to kiss his silly little face or i will

[vebokki]

besties

[tempikotee]

ghost trick fanart,,, interesting caption here

[officialmiintee]

oh ye i made sad heart pirates art inspired by this in twt

[suntails]

⚔️🐬

[sunnyyyteaaa]

🌺🌻 hello tumblr! here's a collab piece between the two of us!!

[reineydraws]

caught the sprace bug in 2023 lol. i blame tommy bracco's arms, eyes, and smile, in that order. 🥲💖

[tickletails]

extra arms are cheating