#arc: Times Forgotten

[keirientez]

Pokemon trainer AU, Reborn is the champion meanwhile Tsuna is his apprentice. Tsuna’s design belongs to my friend @Cloud_Knee (Twt or X)

[nyxofdemons]

the last SEVERAL sarcastic chorus videos im just gripping my hair with increasing intensity yelling MAN I TRUSTED YOU

[triglycercule]

romance repulsed horror and romantic guy killer 🙏 killer tries to be all sweet and romantical and get horror flowers and bring him on romantic dates because he's a romantic guy! horror is absolutely disgusted during it all 😭

and horror's over here complaining that killer isn't being all romantical with him (dust is the one that doesnt get pissed when killer tries so killer is sweet and shit with him) (mttpoly sneak i know) and then when killer shows up with flowers (that he stole 😁) just for horror the guy just throws them in his face (he might as well have given horror a giftbox with cow shit in it at that point 💔)

[taradactyls]

Progress of Janeuary Prompts and Chapter 43 of Trying to Tread Water

*Edit*

CHAPTER 43 IS UP

8/02/25 Update

Chapter 43 of T3W: As of right now, it's at 8.2k words (almost all of that increase was done within the last few days) and I'm in the home stretch! Between the illness and general busyness it's taken longer than I wanted (and I forgot to post an update last week because of it) but all that's past now so I fully expect it to be posted next week.

I was hoping to get it up looong before Valentine's Day but I suppose there's something fitting about that seeing as it follows directly on from Chapter 42. They're almost part a and b of the same chapter, so it might be a good idea to reread (at least the ending) of it just before this next one comes out. I should also start seriously considering getting the 'what if was smut' and higher-rated bonus/extended scenes into an uploadable state but I won't really worry about that until at least this chapter goes up because my brain is noisy enough right now.

Janeuary: No major updates here, since everything has been jotting down notes and planning. I've also been persuaded, by popular demand, to give 'Dear Lady Catherine' two more chapters to show the crucial moments of how that story unfolds, so that's been added to the to-do list. Everything's going to be uploaded intermittently whenever I finish them even though Janeuary's technically over, since the event still allows late submissions and these little plot bunnies won't leave my head until they're typed out.

I hope you're all doing well and thank you for following up with me and being understanding! Hopefully I'll be giving you lots of goodies soon <3

24/01/25 Update

No real change from last week. I've been busy with the twins turning 3 (!!) and we currently all have a cold.

The Day 20 Janeuary prompt is probably closest to being posted, but when I finish it is heavily dependant on how fuzzy my head feels. Btw, I don't think any of the prompts will be done on the right day but they're all still going to be posted, regardless. I laugh in the face of due dates.

18/01/25 Update

Chapter 43 of T3W: I'm about 5k words in and it's going well. I might have to do some heavy rearranging of the second section depending on how the last goes but I don't think anything has to be scrapped so that word count should only be increasing.

Janeuary: Very behind but still working away (before anyone comes for me: I'm doing this during the times I can't work on T3W because I'm too tired or there's too many distractions and I have to keep pausing, etc. The proper fic requires significantly more brain power and care than quick one-shots).

Also:

I can only see one of these, so unless you sent me a Day 20 prompt about Kitty/Colonel Fitzwilliam (an update on that below) please resend your ask! I think the inbox ate some.

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Janeuary 2025 Prompts done so far:

Day 8: Cravat 'Elizabeth Overestimates her Ability to Tie a Cravat' - Rated G, 3k words, Elizabeth/Darcy, sweet, first kiss, post-canon.

Over the period of their engagement, Elizabeth and Mr Darcy take many long walks. During an unseasonably warm late October day, Mr Darcy loosens his cravat and removes his jacket. Elizabeth finds this a very educational experience. But when it comes time to put them back on, she cannot for the life of her figure out how to knot the cravat properly after insisting she do the honours.

“My dearest, and loveliest, Elizabeth,” he gently began. “You have no idea how to knot a cravat, do you?”

Also Day 8: Cravat 'Inappropriate Use of a Cravat'- Explicit, 6k words, Elizabeth/Darcy, author's first smut, the prompt was from the wildest ask I have ever received but I made it seem normal, smut, established relationship, post-canon, the cravat is part of the smut.

After an absence of some weeks, Mr Darcy and Elizabeth are very eager to be alone together and don’t even make it to the bedroom. As it’s been a while, Mr Darcy doesn’t think he’ll hold out very long if Elizabeth keeps lavishing attention down there – so she ties his cravat around the base of his shaft, to prevent an early end to their enjoyment.

Her surprised gasp was silenced by his lips, her own eagerly parting as she tangled her hands into his hair to keep his face pressed to hers. Pushing Mr Darcy against the wall – door – something, she melted against him, his hands digging into her waist, revelling in the taste and feel of her. “I missed you,” she said again, drawing back to kiss a line down his throat, “so much.”

Day 11: Card Playing Artwork- Which is the banner of...

'A Losing Hand' - Rated G, 2.9k words, Elizabeth/Darcy, canon compliant, falling in love and FIGHTING it, banter, awkward flirting, unrequited crush.

Mr Darcy is falling in love with Elizabeth Bennet, and he is not best pleased about it. His pov of that enlightening card game in Chapter 8 of Pride and Prejudice when they discuss accomplished women.

Darcy could only look at her – the light challenge in her gaze, the slight smile that accompanied it. He could debate with her all day.

Day 16: Gossip 'Dear Lady Catherine' - Rated G, 4.2k words, Elizabeth Bennet/Fitzwilliam Darcy, Jane Bennet/Charles Bingley, Canon divergence, Lady Catherine is in peak form, and facing someone who's allowed to argue back, Character development, Speedrunning Darcy's realisations, Self-reflection

Following the Netherfield Ball, Mr Collins happily gossips in a letter to Lady Catherine that her that her nephew may be on the verge of matrimony… to Miss Bingley. He overheard his cousins talking of the lady’s attentions and quite misconstrued everything. Lady Catherine, as incensed as she could ever be, goes to confront her nephew in London… and arrives in the middle of the ‘Why You Should Not Marry Jane Bennet’ intervention.

Yelling ensues. And maybe more than one instance of self-reflection.

OR

In which Mr Collins has the sacred duty of sharing gossip he wasn’t supposed to know; Lady Catherine is of infinite use, which ought to make her happy, for she loves to be of use; Miss Bingley learns what all her attempts to secure Mr Darcy’s affections have amounted to; and Mr Darcy himself is full of pride and confronted with his hypocrisy.

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Janeuary Prompts in progress/ideas:

Day 13: Christian Name - A few people wondered what Darcy was really thinking in Chapter 42 of T3W when he was talking about how he imaged Elizabeth calling him Fitzwilliam:

“How did you imagine it?” she enquired with a frown. Mr Darcy blushed a deep crimson. “Mostly, mere casual use.”

And I thought that made a great prompt for trying my hand at some more smut.

Day 20: Dearest - An anon sent a prompt for some Kitty/Colonel Fitzwilliam Fluff, and since I've never considered them before it was a fun exercise to think about how that would work! I started a draft of it as I worked out some ideas so this will definitely be happening.

Day 27: Cousins - Toying with the idea of doing a sweet glimpse of 5 or so years into the future, featuring little Bingleys and Darcys. Not sure if that's something anyone's interested in though.

Day 29: Carriage - A missing scene from Pride and Prejudice featuring Darcy and Colonel Fitzwilliam

Day 30: Garden - Another Pride and Prejudice missing scene with Darcy's pov of something Elizabeth mentions in passing.

[omarwolaeth]

"Hey, hey; didn't I do good?"

I'm very out of practice drawing things in general,,,

[persisting]

it honestly makes me so sad when people mistake humor or deliberate pastiche in comics as just "stupidity" or the writer somehow missing the mark on looking cool or whatever. idk, maybe a send-up of the ridiculousness of the spy genre, purposeful references to a character's long history as a queer icon, and silly incidents that the characters eyeroll at are in there on purpose?

[fareplay]

Ive decided for Safety reasons I gotta blog about John Tyler here instead of my main bc holy shit. Im trying so hard not to be a little obsessed with him and failing so hard. I feel like Tell Me Your Secrets was a little...not good over all but I think the parts of it that arent done well kind of benefit John more than the other leads.

Like for one thing the dialogue is not very naturalistic. Kids especially talk in a way that no one would, ever. But it works for John bc hes such a weird guy in the first place. Everything he says is intentionally chosen usually get characters to like him or stating something in line with his strict internal blue and orange morality. Or the way that all the supporting characters tend to do whatever the main characters ask of them/open up to them immediately without resistance. In the other mains its awkward (why are several teenaged girls just attracted to Emma like flies to honey??) But with John it furthers the implication that he's an expert in charming people, which he is supposed to be.

His instability and unpredictability add a lot to the show. Will he or wont he do something horrible to the people foolhardy enough to get close to him is a constant and enriching source of dramatic tension. I could sense once he started going full tilt villain with Emma that they were going to kill him but genuinely if the show got a second season (i dont think it was good enough to) it would have suffered without him. Hes kind of the only character who goes against his instincts, who is both a solution (he really does keep to his word about finding Emma for Mary) and a problem (he gets sidetracked and sometimes flips the power dynamic around between them). And there was room to develop him too, plenty of leads left unanswered about his backstory, about his connection to Mary and maybe more importantly her attatchment to him, and just what his plans were once he found Emma. He seemed to specifically be against Mary killing her. Him and Mary turning into enemies at the last minute was not a good move. The plan should have continued more or less as planned with Mary showing up and having to face the object of her rage and John having to choose between Mary's continued "friendship" and stopping her from killing and continuing his "redemption".

Also the entire St.James subplot took up wayyy too much of the story the whole show didnt need it. They should have given Emma something smaller to do that wrapped up at the end of the season bc what they tried to do was a whole other show that the other leads are not involved in.

[iguessitsjustme]

Unfortunately, Keen remains an under utilized character BUT with one episode remaining it seems likely that he will keep his glasses but we will see

[t-u-i-t-c]

balance & naga // episode 31

[weregonnabecoolbeans]

Season 1 episode 7 of Once Upon A Time makes it SO HARD to forgive Regina

Like I want to love her but my god Graham did NOT deserve ANY of that

[just-someone-online]

Okay, apparently I'm in an Edolas mood tonight.

If I could add one thing, just one thing to the Edolas arc, I would absolutely have more Mystogan and Wendy interactions.

Like, I'm sorry, but you mean to tell me that after finally reuniting with her Jellal, the one she was so shaken up over during Nirvana, their only interaction basically amounts to him saying "Hey Wendy, sorry I ghosted you for seven years, but literally everybody is about to die and I can't stop it, so you should probably skip town."

[theofficialdramallama]

Some of my favourite Cam Mickelthwaite moments in the Welcome to the Warzone boxset from BBC's Casualty (2023)

Rida: I freaked out earlier. Cam: And I did too. Rida: No, you were thoughtful, and you were kind, and the whole time you were just 100% you. You were just amazing.

[crystalkitty1220]

Man I wonder where the leader of the fear realm could've gone, it's alMOST LIKE NEVIN HAS AN

[defnotjarlaxle]

Sure, I'm totally normal about Artemis Entreri.

Just like everybody else I like to put him in little situations in my funny little brain~

For example.. you know.. tucking him in... or ruffling his hair.. or putting him in life-or-death situations with powerful enemies.. or making him feel awkward because of reasons..

Everyone does that!

Right?

...

[abyssmalice]

tonitoni shitposting as tumbloo textposts - pt 1 of ???????/never

[something-in-your-walls]

ok I haven’t posted much recently but here’s a silly guy for you!!!