#circular queue using c++

[spicycinnabun]

SO excited for the results of this make me write. It was so hard to decide and I wish I could do them all but I think I will ask for 🤖🤖🤖 or ❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹 whichever you get less of 🥰

I've got about six other beep boop asks in the queue lol, so I'm going to go with ❤️‍🩹! Let's rewind to before the break-up. c:

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They were cuddling on Tommy’s couch. Tommy was behind him, hands resting protectively on Buck’s belly. He had been doing that a lot lately—holding him there, touching him there. Buck wasn’t sure if Tommy was aware he kept doing it.

Buck hadn't said anything. He didn’t want to call attention to it and risk having Tommy stop. Because he liked it. Okay, more than just liked it. His body was sending him strong signals about what the Alpha wanted, and it was making him a little stupid with need.

His heart sped up.

Of course, Tommy noticed. One of his hands started rubbing in a hypnotic, circular motion. “What's up?”

“I-I’ve been thinking,” Buck started, trying not to get distracted by the petting. His eyes closed. “I’d like to spend my next heat with you.”

“Oh?” Tommy said, after a small intake of breath Buck couldn’t really decipher.

He didn't say anything else, waiting for Buck to elaborate on his thoughts.

Buck had never enjoyed his heats. Dreaded them because of how desperate they made him, among other undesirable attributes, but maybe it would be different with Tommy. Every time they’d gotten hot and heavy with each other, it was so good, an intense burn that kept building.

Buck was used to being a service omega, but with Tommy, he hadn't fallen into that role. He didn't feel like a wind-up toy, only good for one use, one purpose. His world had been shaken and turned upside down. He actually felt kind of giddy, for once.

“Y-you said I could set the pace, but I also don’t want to pressure you,” Buck continued. “If you’re not ready yet or don’t want to, that’s totally fine. Or if we get to the middle of things and you decide it’s too much—t-that I’m too much—you don’t have to stay.”

That already went unspoken, but Buck wanted to assure Tommy that he had an out. He wasn’t stuck with Buck if he got too whiny, too needy, too clingy. Like he always did.

Tommy’s grip on him had gone slack. He was silent for so long Buck had to sit up and turn around. Tommy looked… kind of horrified, actually.

Buck’s stomach twisted. That was definitely not the reaction he’d been hoping for.

He backtracked. “O-or! Secret third option: We can forget this conversation ever happened and go on a fun date after my cycle is over. I was looking at this new sushi place the other day that has—”

“No.” Tommy let out a slow breath, eyes wide. “I’m sorry, I’m just still trying to process what you said. You think I would leave you in the middle of your heat? That's ludicrous, Evan. Even if, for whatever reason, I couldn’t continue, I wouldn’t abandon any omega like that.” Tommy tilted Buck's chin up gently, eyes filled with sincerity. “Especially not my omega. Have past partners done that to you?”

“Uh.” Buck swallowed hard, feeling suddenly very off-kilter and overwhelmed. “Yes? I’m… you know, a l-lot to handle. D-difficult. E-e-exhausting. It’s okay.”

“Oh, it is so far from okay,” Tommy said. His scent had changed, no longer relaxed. Filling the air with an edge of bitter anger he was trying to keep at bay.

Buck didn’t know what to do, so he followed his instincts and hugged his Alpha. Tommy's tension released. He hugged Buck back. They nuzzled each other, Buck focusing on Tommy's scent gland.

“And now you’re comforting me,” Tommy added with a weak chuckle of disbelief.

“I didn’t mean to upset you,” Buck murmured, burying his nose in Tommy’s shoulder and kissing it.

“I’m upset for you, Evan. You didn’t deserve to be treated that way. You're none of those things.” Buck made an involuntary sound, and Tommy squeezed him. “I’m going to take care of you, okay? I’m going to show you what a heat is supposed to be like.”

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[3gremlins]

i don't remember if i posted this (sometimes i run out of spoons setting up my queue/writing image descriptions and then i just don't post anything b/c i don't want to post things without descriptions*) but whatever!

did this back in october b/c there was that "kind of cat" meme going around bsky i think? and i thought it'd be fun to illustrate some of them. the plan is to eventually make them stickers but I am obviously behind on that T.T will be available in the store and earlier for patreon supporters when i get them made (stickers are always a little behind- tho by the time this posts, maybe i will have gotten to them already)

My cats fit several of these descriptions (izzy is for sure a snack master, and merrill is both a crime child and le slinkus) but i only used merrill as inspo for one (crime child) since i wanted to show different types of cats.

def have plans to do a few more but as always, my attention span is short (but circular!) and has to do a bunch of things before it comes back around to an idea

*though tbh i'm never sure my descriptions are that great :/ i try tho

[thecircularsystem]

I am enjoying following your new blog! But this does mean that I can no longer search for you in the way I used to, which was typing "circular-b" into the search bar and waiting for it to come up, which had the pleasant side effect of making me think of a circular bee 😄🐝

That is such a grave error on my part, rebranding was a mistake, back to 30+ blogs I go!!!

Joking, joking.

But imagine if I had a circular blog for every letter…

Circular-Answers (ask blog, tried it once)

Circular-Bircular (the OG)

Circular-Circular (Reblogging my own posts)

Circulars-Diatribes (Rants I don’t post publicly)

Circular-Eulogy (vent blog)

Circular-Fruit (blog about being gay)

Circular-Gay (also about being gay)

Circular-Hercular (either about gender or about hit Disney renaissance classic Hercules and other similar vibes)

C-Irkular (Petty blog for being a little bitch with)

Circular-Jerkular (shhh don’t tell anyone)

Circular-Kirkular (Star Trek fan blog)

Circular-Love (positivity blog)

Circulars-Musings (musing blog where I write my random rambles that get very derailed)

Circular-Nocturnal (a blog for strictly those after midnight posts I sometimes write up. Like this one)

Circulars-Optics (optical illusion and unreality blog)

Circulars-Pictures (just a photo blog of things from my life)

Circulars-Queue (just my own posts, reblogged; but now using the queue function)

Circulars-Reasoning (lmao)

Circular-Sircular (syscourse posts but written like I’m a knight in Medieval times)

Circular-Thirstcular (thirst posts)

Circular-Underated (Me boosting and reblogging the ever loving shit out of my own posts)

Circular-Vents (Surprisingly, my among us blog)

Circular-Winning (celebration posts)

Circular-Xylophone (posting my music)

Circular-Youth (blog for my littles to go ham)

Zircular (another gender blog)

[put-me-out-of-my-destiny]

In my post about expanding on Nero's Buster mechanic, I mentioned wanting to incorporate Tomboy's moves into Nero's standard moveset. Let me elaborate on that.

Tomboy's air attacks, Bloody Queen Air and Red Queen Air EX, would be the easiest to incorporate.

Bloody Queen Air is a Revolver-like move that slowly sends Nero to the ground as he spins, slashing with Red Queen. I would incorporate this into his air combo, making it his new Air Combo B (performed by performing the first hit of the air combo, pausing, then pressing the Attack button again), making his Roulette Spin his Air Combo C.

Bloody Queen EX is a downward swing, followed by another downward swing that sends Nero to the ground. I would give this a similar input to Hard Way, performed by holding and releasing the Attack button.

Incorporating the ground attacks is tricky, but not impossible, provided another change is made to Nero's moveset.

In Devil May Cry 5, Nero's Devil Breaker moves and his Devil Bringer are mapped to different buttons (Circle/B and R2/RT by default). However, if the player could utilize the directional pad to manually select Devil Breakers rather than cycling through them in an inflexible order, perhaps they could also select Nero's Devil Bringer instead, using the same button to control it as they do to control his Devil Breakers.

I'm picturing something a little similar to Dante's Style Wheel from Devil May Cry 4, with Nero's Devil Bringer occupying the same position as Dante's Darkslayer style. I'm thinking that switching from one Breaker to another would destroy the currently equipped Breaker, but the player should be able to switch between their current Breaker and the Devil Bringer easily.

The only significant downside to this is that Nero would no longer be able to use Bringer Knuckle during their Devil Breaker moves, not without some very time sensitive directional pad presses. The Devil Bringer moveset I designed doesn't really have a Forward action, maybe some way to queue a Bringer Knuckle that will activate on Nero's next attack? Maybe holding or repeating the input could delay the activation further, up to three attacks ahead? It's a bit of a complicated solution, but it's worth exploring.

But with all this in mind, perhaps Nero would still have access to Maximum Bet and Showdown with his Devil Bringer selected, but with a Devil Breaker selected he'd be able to perform Tomboy's ground attacks, Red Queen Combo EX and Bloody Queen, with the same inputs.

Red Queen Combo EX is a series of heavy slashes, ended with a fourteenth extra heavy slash. It reminds of Force Edge/Mirage Edge Combo B, in which Vergil alternately swings Yamato and his secondary sword, ending with a leaking circular slash. I think this move would be activated with either Maximum Bet's or Showdown's input, but would only continue as long as the player mashes the Attack button, a little bit like Dante's Dance Macabre.

Bloody Queen is an attack that sends Nero forward and upward, and while it could use Maximum Bet's or Showdown's input, there's actually another option I like better, that occurred to me due to how much Bloody Queen reminds me of Vergil's Rising Star. Rising Star is performed when the player holds the Attack button during Rapid Slash, so perhaps Bloody Queen could be performed when the player holds the Attack button during Streak. I like this because it would make room for Nero to have a brand new Red Queen attack using either Maxim Bet's or Showdown's input.

And while I touched on this in the previous post, I want to reiterate that I want Tomboy's EX Shot to be incorporated into Nero's standard moveset too.

In past entries, the player is basically obligated to remap the Gun button in order to take full advantage of Charge Shots, so one change I'd make is mapping Color Up to Back-To-Forward + Gun, and have Blue Rose automatically charge so long as at least one Color Up shot is available.

On top of this, if the player uses the Back-To-Forward + Gun input with all three Color Up shots available, Nero will enter the manual aiming stance associated with Tomboy's EX Shot.

[lindsaywesker]

Good morning!  I hope you slept well and feel rested?  Currently sitting at my desk, in my study, attired only in Blue Towelling Robe No. 1, enjoying my first cuppa of the day.

Welcome to the working week although, for those of you working in the NHS, welcome to just another day.

Many thanks to everyone that listened to The Letter C (Pt. 6).   Thanks for all your emails, messages, texts and WhatsApps.  Apologies if I didn’t get to your shout.  If you missed the show, it’s up on my MixCloud page.

Sunday was quite a day!  Of course, the weather was pants but that didn’t stop us.  As usual, went to Sainsbury’s in the morning!  Didn’t buy much but the bill was huge!  The Cost Of Greed Crisis will affect more people this year, more people will be unable to pay their bills, unless the powers-that-be can actual govern!

An elderly Brazilian woman stopped behind me in the queue and she only had a few thing in her basket, so I let her go before me.  “Thank you, thank you,” she said profusely.  “No problem,” I said.  “And you have a beautiful face!” she added.  Naturally, I blushed.  Obviously, kindness makes you more attractive.  She looked in my trolley and saw Red Stripe.  “Party?” she asked.  “No, these are for my wife!”  She pointed at her face, “You don’t have alcoholic face.”  She just meant I didn’t look as if I drank and I don’t really; I rarely get drunk.  Too much alcohol takes its toll on your body.

In the afternoon, we were round the North Circular and up the M11 to Cambridge, to a very nice venue/community centre called Storey’s Field Centre in Eddington.  My cousin Hassan and his wife Huda (we went to Jamaica for their wedding) are having a baby (due in March), so we were there for a baby shower.  Both families are brilliant organisers, so everything was perfect: venue, food, drinks, snacks, music, flowers, cakes.  It’s a pleasure to attend a well-organised function with happy, smiley faces. 

Coming through Neasden, I saw one of those bloody Lime bikes hanging off the pavement.  A thoughtless, inconsiderate action.  People say that life is hard but I definitely feel that we do not help each other!   

Have a marvellous and momentous Monday.  I love you all.

[crispychrissy]

Connected - Part 4

Summary: Dr. Austin's theory is put to the test, and she shows Tony, Bucky, and Steve the woman behind the mystery. Pairing: Eventual Bucky Barnes x Reader Word Count: 2976 Warnings: Angst, medical stuff, stretching the medical science behind the super soldier serum, discussion of Bucky's previous trauma & a mention of the horrible things the Nazi's did A/N: I apologize for the late posting, I fell asleep so hard last night I didn't have a chance to queue this, and then I was out all day (good 14 hours out and about) so I am just now able to post the new chapter since I'm home now. As I mentioned in a prior post, I no longer have a forever taglist, but I will still tag series specific people if they request. You can also follow this story & others on my Ao3 as well. The series was beta’d by the lovely @idjitmonkey and I hope you enjoy! Please send me an ask if you would like to be tagged in the series. :)

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Bucky made a quick call to Shuri who, after a thorough interrogation as to why he was asking, assured him his arm would not be affected by the magnets of an MRI machine. So now, Bucky was laying down on his back inside the machine and staring at the small glass covered camera embedded in the inside curve of the plastic above him.

“Stop staring at the camera, Barnes, you’re giving off some crazy resting murder face right now,” Tony’s staticky voice came through the pair of disposable earbuds he was wearing to protect his hearing from the noise of the scan. “Might sell these scans to Ripley’s Believe It or Not. You actually do have something going on in that head of yours.”

“As much as I know you want to answer, Sergeant Barnes, please do not speak or move,” Dr. Austin’s voice came through after what sounded like a small scuffle for the microphone.

Bucky blinked several times in an unnatural yet controlled fashion, and when he heard Steve’s laughter coming through the earbuds, he had to fight the urge to smile, knowing Steve got the message he blinked out in Morse code.

F-U-C-K Y-O-U T-O-N-Y

The scan was over almost a half an hour later, and Bucky couldn’t hide his exhale of relief once the table began to slide out of the massive scanner. Confined spaces still made his skin crawl and flash back to the cryo tube he was kept in, but the MRI was surprisingly open in design and not like the ones he usually remembered seeing in hospitals. When he brought it up to Dr. Austin on their way back to her office, she smiled at him and explained most of the soldiers they treat have PTSD and claustrophobia, so an open MRI design was necessary for the comfort of the patients she treats.

It made sense, and when they entered her office and Bucky’s stomach growled for the fourth time in the last fifteen minutes, she tossed him the orange he’d been eyeing earlier before taking a seat at her desk and flipping open her laptop.

“Normally we have to wait for the images to be reviewed by a radiologist, but I’m well versed in how to read brain scans,” Dr. Austin explained, clicking a few times before leaning forward to study the screen. “Oh, wow.”

“What?” Bucky asked, using his teeth to bite a chunk of the orange’s peel off since his right hand didn't have nails long enough, and his left didn’t have nails at all. Once he could see the flesh of the orange underneath, he slid his flesh finger under the remaining peel and began to remove it in large pieces, trying to avoid getting sticky juice on his metal hand.

Dr. Austin spun her laptop around to show Bucky the image on her screen. It was a scan of his head, he could tell that, but the mess of swirling bright colors on the inside where his brain was made his eyes hurt. There were bright greens and blues swirled with more vibrant reds and pinks dancing around inside the image. “This is your brain.”

“Looks more like those posters… the ‘this is your brain on drugs’ pictures if they were made in the sixties, Doc,” Tony said. “I’m guessing it’s not supposed to look like that?”

“No. There’s so much brain activity that it’s likely what’s been burning through your energy and why you’ve been hungry all the time,” Dr. Austin explained. “Any type of brain activity, including emotions and problem solving, requires energy, whether it’s planning a complex strategy of attack for a mission or a simple math problem or crying at a sad part in a movie. Overworking the mind usually leads to tiredness, which leads to sleep, naturally refreshing those energy reserves. Most humans don’t expend enough energy, even when the brain is very active, to require major replenishment. Take Mr. Stark for example.”

Tony looked up and raised his eyebrows. “Me?”

“Yes, you’re a very intelligent man, and I’m guessing that when you’re elbow deep in your inventions or developing something, you don’t sleep and will go days without rest… so you find you get somewhat hungry at random times, right?” Dr. Austin asked.

“Well, yeah, I usually keep snacks around the lab that I nibble on so I don’t have to leave to make an actual meal. It ruins the momentum,” Tony said, confusion in his voice. “Pep’s found me passed out over the kitchen counter halfway through making a sandwich.

“Your body shut down and went to sleep before you were even able to replenish that energy via food since sleep is more efficient. So, that is a normal human mind.” Tony opened his mouth to protest, when Dr. Austin rolled her eyes and switched analogies. “Fine, that’s a standard engine, if you will, that can easily be refueled by a small energy source for a limited amount of time before it needs to be shut down and rebooted,” Dr. Austin said, slowly twirling her right pointer finger in a circle.

“Alright, I’m following you so far.” Tony’s head was slightly moving along with the circular rotation of her finger.

“Now, in the case of our super soldiers here, imagine that engine, but amplified almost five hundred percent,” Dr. Austin began to rotate her finger faster and faster until it was a blur of movement. “The need for sleep is suppressed by the serum, since alertness is crucial in combat, so that reboot requirement is easier to put off. In order to keep this kind of engine going at the same speed and level of activity for prolonged periods, it would burn through a small snack, or a small source of energy, too quickly and would signal the driver of the car, if you will, that it needed more.”

“So you’re saying that something is making Bucky’s brain so active, and he’s burning through so much energy, that it’s manifesting as hunger to make sure he keeps up with what’s being expended?” Steve asked, his mouth slightly open in shock. “I mean, I always remember being hungry after mission strategy and planning meetings, but I just assumed it was because I was bored or had skipped a meal.”

Dr. Austin shook her head. “Nope. You were using your brain in overdrive, doing quick calculations and mission scenarios in your head to find the best possible plan of action, much faster than any normal human brain would be able to calculate. It makes you an excellent strategist, but that kind of brain power burns a lot of energy.”

Bucky snorted in disbelief and leaned forward in the chair, resting his elbows on his knees. “It makes sense. I was a good sniper when I was first in the Army during the war, but after Zola… after he injected me with that bastardized version of the serum… I could calculate trajectory angles and wind velocities and distances in my head in seconds, didn’t have to write them out to do the calculations. Didn’t even need a spotter anymore.”

Dr. Austin nodded. “Exactly. The serum allowed you extra mental acuity at the expense of more energy consumption.”

“But that doesn’t explain why Bucky’s brain is lit up like a psychedelic Christmas tree,” Tony said, gesturing to the laptop image. “Barnes obviously isn’t doing any kind of advanced calculus in his head right now.” Tony looked at Bucky. “You’re not right?” Bucky shook his head and Tony continued, “so why is his brain so active?”

“And that leads me to my theory about Y/N,” Dr. Austin said, standing up from her chair. “Follow me, gentlemen. And Sergeant Barnes,” he looked over and raised a brow as he trailed after her into the hallway, “please let me know if you feel any increased feelings of hunger or exhaustion. The effects might come on quickly, so please let me know if, or when, you feel anything.”

Bucky nodded, and looked over to where Steve was walking to his right. Thanks to their childhood friendship, Steve could always see anxiety and nervousness in Bucky even when he tried to hide it, like when he saw Bucky off the morning he shipped off to Europe. Bucky kept his face stoic, but when Steve hugged him goodbye, Bucky was practically trembling under the Army-hardened mask he had worn then.

Steve reached over and clasped a comforting hand on Bucky’s shoulder, giving him a squeeze of reassurance.

The doctor led them down several hallways, until they reached another wing of the military hospital which held secure patient rooms that could be locked down if necessary, whether due to outbursts of violence due to psychological issues from recovering soldiers or to hold prisoners who had been injured and needed medical intervention. Dr. Austin stopped in front of a room at the end of the hallway and gestured to the one-way mirror in front of her.

“Gentlemen, meet Y/N Y/L/N.”

The three men stepped closer and looked into the room, all eyes frozen on the figure sitting upright in the hospital bed. Y/N had shoved herself in the farthest possible corner of the bed, her knees tucked under her chin and arms wrapped around her legs. The photo in her file, and even the video of her they’d seen looked nothing like the woman before them. She looked almost emaciated, her skin a sickly pale that was almost translucent, and her stringy grease matted hair twitched slightly as her body trembled.

“Jesus,” Steve breathed. “She… she looks like those prisoners… the ones—”

Bucky swallowed and nodded. “From Natzweiler, yeah, I remember.” Bucky took a deep breath, fighting against the telltale tingle in his mind of a long since forgotten memory beginning to rise up like a wave. “Doc… is she eating?”

“She was when she first got here, but only if the food was left for her after she passed out from exhaustion,” Dr. Austin explained. “Now, ever since things have escalated, she rips out her IV’s, pulls out NG tubes, and refuses any food we bring her. I’m not going to sedate her just because it’ll make it easier to feed her, we haven’t reached that level of intervention yet, but we’re getting close. She told one of our staff yesterday, in Russian, that she was not going to eat any of our poisoned food, that she wasn’t some kind of lab experiment and that we were animals for not just shooting her in the head to get it over with.”

All of the air in Bucky’s lungs came out in one hard breath like he’d been punched in the chest, and he had to brace himself against the windowsill to keep his knees from buckling. “Fuck.”

“Bucky?” Steve gasped at Bucky’s sudden weakness, grabbing onto his friend’s arm and placing a gentle hand on his back. ”What? Are you feeling the stuff Dr. Austin mentioned?”

Bucky grit his teeth and closed his eyes at the onslaught of memory fragments bombarding him. “No, I’m… I don’t know, maybe? I just… she’s…” Bucky’s thoughts were so jumbled he could barely form a coherent sentence, even in his head. He made a choked off noise that sounded more like a sob before he lifted his head to look at Y/N. “She’s reliving my captivity with Hydra. This… this was after I was transferred from the facility the Russians held me in after they found me to the one where Zola did his experiments. They were, umm, they were testing the limits of the serum, trying to figure out what I could survive.”

Steve’s face dropped and he took a sharp breath in. Bucky’s captivity and torture was not something he talked about often outside his therapy sessions. Steve only knew a handful of stories, ones that had come directly from Bucky’s mouth, and even then they were very hard stories for him to tell—lots of starting and stopping, frequent breaks, and plenty of tears. But here, with two extra people with him, and one being a stranger?

“Buck, you don’t have to talk about it,” Steve whispered.

“No, I need… she said exactly what I said to the guards who brought me food one day.” Bucky swallowed hard, flexing his fingers against the painted metal of the windowsill, the cold against his flesh hand grounding him. “They were testing different poisons and how the serum would fight it off… arsenic, ricin, even different kinds of snake and spider venom. I had seizures, strokes, and my heart stopped so many times I lost count.”

“Fucking hell,” Tony murmured, leaning against the wall behind them, his face a few shades paler than it was ten minutes ago. “Y/N is reliving your memories, reliving your life.”

“We need to find a way to pull her out of this,” Bucky said, straightening up with determination even though his bones felt like liquid and his mind was full of numbing static. If Y/N was reliving his life, even if it didn’t seem like the moments were in order, he knew it was only a matter of time until she would experience how the Winter Soldier was born, how he was forged, and he wouldn’t wish that on anyone.

Dr. Austin nodded and looked back at her patient through the glass. “If my theory is correct, which I believe it is based on your shared memories and brain scans, Y/N’s mind has somehow melded with yours. And your memories, powered by your mind’s energy, have somehow taken over hers, suppressing her personality completely. I don’t know if it was some kind of dormant mutant ability that was activated by the trauma of her captivity and torture, or something else… but there is obviously some kind of link between the two of you that we don’t have the technology to test for and verify. You’re essentially feeding her your memories, which is why your brain is lit up like that and why you’re expending so much energy.”

“It’s like she’s stuck inside one of Stark’s virtual reality headsets and can’t take it off, experiencing everything I went through while my brain keeps playing her different…” Bucky trailed off and his eyes widened before his head snapped to look at Y/N through the glass.

In a flash of movement, Bucky grabbed Dr. Austin’s ID badge from where it was clipped onto her white coat and darted for the door to Y/N’s room, scanning the badge so the door opened with a green light and soft click. Bucky, ignoring the shouts of his name and hands trying to grab at him to pull him back, opened the door and shut it firmly behind him, engaging the door’s auto-lock safety feature that he knows secure wings of hospitals have. The group outside would need to find another ID badge to get in, which would buy him some time.

Y/N’s wide and terrified eyes settled on him, and she tilted her head in an almost confused dog-like fashion, her eyes softening with an air of familiarity. Bucky could feel the hunger gnawing at his stomach turn into sharp cramps that almost made him double over, and there was a soft circle of darkness starting to creep in around his vision.

Bucky took three large steps forward, and even though she flinched away at his sudden movement, Y/N didn’t scramble away to try and avoid his hands as he lifted them. Her weary bloodshot eyes were full of unshed tears, and the closer Bucky’s hands got to her face, the more she began to tremble.

“You’re safe,” he whispered to her in Russian, before repeating the same sentiment in English.

The moment his fingers, both flesh and metal, touched the skin on either side of her face, it felt like he was on the wrong side of an attack from Thor’s hammer. Whatever weakness and hunger he’d been feeling was burned out of his body at the sheer shock cascading through his entire being. It didn’t hurt, but it was bordering on wildly uncomfortable, and Bucky was afraid he’d never be able to let go, his hands stuck to Y/N like a magnet.

There was something different passing between them, more than what touch alone could provide. Trying to understand everything that was happening was overwhelming, but when Bucky focused, he could almost feel Y/N inside his mind, like another whisper of a presence, a ghost in his consciousness. When he reached out in his head for her where he’d felt the ghost of her presence, he was assaulted with bursts of memories he knew were not his own, images of unfamiliar people, places, and things flashing in his mind like photographs. Bucky's curiosity was almost childlike, awestruck and trying to understand what his brain was comprehending, sorting through what Y/N was showing him.

The more information Bucky absorbed, the darker each memory became until it felt like he was wading through molasses, each image being harder and harder to move past. A hoarse whisper of “No” echoed in his mind, and Bucky couldn’t tell if it was his own voice or Y/N’s.

A solid arm wrapped around Bucky’s middle, one much more firm than human flesh would be, and pulled him backward until his hands dropped from Y/N’s face, breaking whatever connection had refused to release him when he’d touched her. Reality came rushing back, and the room and people around him flashed into existence, the change in environment and sound disorienting him and leaving him panting for breath, his knees wobbling.

“She…” Bucky looked over at Y/N, who was just as distressed, and watched her collapse onto the bed, unconscious, before his vision blacked out and darkness took him as well.

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[onegirlatelier]

Recovery Socks | March 2020

It has been a long pause since my last proper entry for a finished object.

People congratulated me on my medical school offer from one of the most prestigious universities in the world, and then people congratulated me on my end-of-term collection prize which was a proof of success at the school. I smiled and said thank you.

I don’t want to talk about it. Nobody has to know about it, and quite frankly I myself do not know what exactly happened. I went from being mildly worried about my weight and easy to become anxious, to this mixture of depression and anxiety and a stomachache after every meal. Am I going to feel okay today? I don’t know. Will I break down in the shoes store if I go there to try on a pair of trainers? I don’t know. Is it okay to feel full? What does my stomach want? Or indeed what is my brain trying to do when it refuses to cooperate with my digestive system? I don’t know.

To put it simply, my mental health annihilated. That’s what it feels like.

The yarn for these socks were liberated from another pair of socks—I attempted to knit Blueberry Waffle socks with it in the beginning of the year for a pair of New Year socks, but things happened and I lost the energy to create anything. By the time I felt like I could do a bit more, that pattern didn’t work for me anymore and I thought it was better to frog the project and start something new.

I am from China and spend a few months each year in the UK for university. In March, just before the full-on breakout of COVID-19 in the UK, I booked the flight ticket three hours after deciding to go back to China, spent three days packing and praying, and I would describe the journey as ‘fleeing back home’. It was filled with angst and uncertainty, and the queues were so long that I started these socks the night before I left my university and finished them even before I came out of the airport.

It was another four or five days before I was allowed to go home. I posted about these socks on social media whilst waiting for my test result, and it was my first moment of comfort after a helpless and terrified night.

I am now home and physically as well as I could be, despite having put on some weight because I had to stay home strictly for 14 days. As is (perhaps) often the case with mental health issues, there are good days and there are bad days. Yesterday I ate a simple cream cake after dinner and appreciated how it was just as good as it had been in my memory. The day before, I just wanted to slice my stomach open.

I am naming these socks Recovery, because it has been long and difficult, and it will continue to be so for a long time.

(I understand most people are having a somewhat difficult time—not to mention our healthcare workers and people with essential responsibilities, though that doesn’t mean the un-coronavirus-related heartbreaks are any less awful. I just hope that everyone is as okay as they can be. And thank you for staying with me, my dear reader.)

 Yarn

Cascade Yarns, Cascade 220. 201m/100g. 100% Peruvian highland wool. 4ply worsted spun.

Main colour (grey): #2442 Fog Hatt 51g.

Contrast colour (red): #2425 Provence 21g.

 Good quality affordable yarn. The yarn definitely became fuzzier after being frogged twice, but overall it was nicely spun, which made it suitable for everyday items such as socks to wear indoors. It performed beautifully in this little colourwork project, though I would say it has good stitch definition for cable work as well.

It doesn’t smell too sheep-y but it doesn’t smell like chemicals either, which is good.

I also like that it is non-superwash. I have cold feet but rarely wear socks when I am at home, plus wool socks don’t need to be washed after every wear if your feet aren’t particularly sweaty.

 Pattern

Camp Moran Socks by Michel Weaver.

Clear pattern. It has instruction for only one sock, but if you want to have the colourwork completely symmetrical (as I did) or add ribbing to the medial section of the arch for better support, you can easily do so.

I only used two colours since that was what I had, and it worked out good enough.

 Finished Measurements

My leg circumference near ankle is about 22~23cm. My foot circumference is about 21cm. These socks fit me well as indoor socks, but for outdoor socks I would prefer my socks to be tighter-fitting.

 Needles

3.25mm circular and 3.75mm circular. As usual, I used the magic loop method.

 Modifications

1×1 tubular CO using 3.25mm circular, 48sts.

2 rows of reinforcement, then 5 rows of 1×1 rib.

Switch to 3.75mm, knit according to the pattern using only two colours.

Knit 8 rows after the pattern (last row w/ 3.25mm).

Split for heel: make sure that the beginning/end of a round is on the inside of the leg so that the ‘imperfect’ part is mostly hidden. This means doing the slip stitch heel on the first half of the stitches for one sock, and on the second half of the stitches for the other sock. One sock will have one row more than the other, but you can barely tell the difference.

Using 3.25mm, do slip stitch heel in CC for 10 rows. (I did the standard slip stitch heel I had used before, instead of as instructed in the pattern.)

Knit heel gusset.

Switch back to 3.75mm, pick up 11+1 stitches on each side.

Dec until 40sts.

Knit another 19 rows.

Switch to CC, dec as in pattern for toe shaping, and bind off.

(Notice that the ‘seam’ sits nicely on the inner side.)

Future considerations

Next time, I would maybe use 3.00mm for the 1×1 rib as the current ribbing is a little loose.

This has been a good project to practise doing colourwork with both hands! My left hand is still a little clumsy, but I can feel it getting better.

I still have plenty yarn left:

a) A matching pair of socks with red as the MC and grey as the CC.

b) A pair of wrist warmers, as my forearms and wrists are so cold during winter.

c) A matching hat maybe?

[pillowfluffs]

Sick!Jooheon

Pairing: Jooheon X Reader (Gender Neutral)

Genre: Sick!AU, Mafia!AU, fluff

author’s note: I wanna slowly start writing again... I’ve sorta been on hiatus and all the short stories that post weekly were written months ago, they’re just in my queue... I hope I’ve improved a little even though I haven’t written in so long, but I’m reading a lot so I hope that counts for something? If not, I’m sorry I haven’t improved and I just hope I didn’t worsen

Other Sick!MX: Hyunwoo // Wonho // Minhyuk // Kihyun // Hyungwon // Jooheon // Changkyun 

*I couldn't find a better gif ;( *

Soft non-verbal music played gently from your phone as you sat at a table in the corner of your study room

Your notes and laptop were sprawled before you as you copied your notes from your lecture into an official study notebook you made

A cool breeze blew in from the cracked open window, making your white sheer curtains float about as if they had a life of their own 

You felt good with the subject at hand

Everything was making sense

You were awake in your classes and lectures and for the first time in a long time, ahead of what you had to do

You flipped through the pages of your textbook and looked online for more information on a subject discussed in class every now and then, but for the most part, you were retaining it all

Your study room was your most favorite room in your house, alongside your bedroom

It had a white wall and curtains with a window and then your circular table and chair that faced the perpendicular dark wooden wall that had some of your paintings and drawings

The wall you faced away from, which your chair was against, was your bookshelf wall, filled with books you had collected over time since your love for reading simply bloomed as you aged

You had a soft white rug on your carpet and the wall with the door in the corner that led to your house had a couch that fit two people perfectly

You spent some days in summer when you weren’t studying by reading or writing or even doing art

Today was a perfect day: the sun was shining, the temperature outside and in your room wasn’t too cold or hot, you were finally studying without any disturbances until a low sound pulled you out of it all

Loud bangs on your door made your heart drop in a second

You shut off your phone without a second thought, letting silence fall over your entire house

You even held your breath

The banging continued and you slowly got up from your spot at your desk, walking towards the far corner of the bookshelf which was near the couch and reached for a wooden box behind a set of books

You wasted no time grabbing the small karambit knife and tucking it in the waist of your pants, hidden by your shirt and a fully loaded small handgun

You hid the box once again in the dark corner of your books before you stepped out of the room, shutting it behind you silently

The banging paused before it started once again, sounding louder than ever

You walked slowly over your carpeted floor towards the door

You went behind the door, opening it and as soon as it swung open, you crouched behind it, seeing two tall and broad figures in all black storm through your doorway

You lunged from behind the door, kicking the back of one’s knee, forcing him to kneel and used his body as an anchor, sending another kick to the other, making him stumble

“Y/N, stop!” The one you used to propel yourself grabbed you firmly by the arms, forcing you to yield and grabbed you by the wrist, squeezing hard enough to make you drop the gun in pain

Your hammering heart slowed down as you realized who had come: Shownu and Wonho

“Would it kill you two to knock, I don’t know, in a way that sounds civil and not like someone’s about to stick their head through the door and yell ‘here’s Johnny!’”

You swiped up your gun and tucked it in your side and began to help Shownu up

“We need you to come with us back to base, it’s an emergency…” Shownu sounded grim as he took your hand, hoisting himself off your carpet

“Why? What happened?”

Your mind went to the worst case scenario every time you heard these words or anything close to these words

“Is Jooheon okay? Is he hurt? Did someone die?” you gasped, choking out the next question

“Did he die?”

“Nah, he’s too tough to die, you know that Y/N,” Wonho smirked as he leaned against your kitchen counter

“No one’s hurt, don’t worry. But, it is Jooheon though… He’s sick and he refuses to get any medical help from anyone, even Kihyun, so here we are because we know that there’s one person he can’t refuse, and that’s you.” Shownu stood leaning in the doorway

“Let’s go then.” You began to walk out the door before Shownu put his arm across the span of the doorway

“You don’t need your arsenal, Y/N, you know this. Plus, you know how Jooheon feels when you have a gun…” He reached behind your back, grabbing your sheathed karambit. “And your knife,” he smirked

“Ugh, fine.” You grabbed your belongings from his hand and brought it back to your hidden box before you scurried out your door

You were probably the most secure person in the city thanks to Jooheon, but you wanted to do some things for yourself, and protection was one of them considering you didn’t live on base with the group

And you didn’t want men in black with you or following you around everywhere you went

Even now with Wonho standing behind you and Shownu walking in front of you, leading you to the car made it feel suffocating

It took you months of begging and pleading to have Jooheon train you mentally and physically

Everywhere you went, every room, your eyes would survey what was around and consider what could be a weapon in case anything were ever to happen

Even the cars were armored with numerous firearms and explosives along with a bulletproof glass

The car ride was scenic, going through back roads and not as often used ones

It was a bumpy ride, but you got there in one piece nonetheless

The base was the same just as you remembered it; an abandoned warehouse that seemed like a ghost town but was anything but

The inside was redone, remodeled so everything was clean and new and secure

Shownu pulled into the parking garage below ground and your feet were on the ground before the car was parked

You knew where everything was and didn’t need a guide

It was only a matter of time before you appeared outside of Jooheon’s quarters, hearing the sound of glass smashing with the others crowded outside his door

You walked past all of them and opened the door to Kihyun bracing himself as Jooheon laid back down against the bed, refusing to drink any of the medicine Kihyun provided

He was dressed nothing like the doctor he was in the group and had a handgun similar to yours strapped to his hip

“Oh, thank god, you’re here”

A weight lifted off of Kihyun as he approached, pushing his cart of medicine to you

“Everything you need is here, but he should take this,” he said as he handed you a new bottle of what you assumed to have been what Jooheon threw against the wall moments before

“Have fun…” He patted your shoulder before he left the room, shutting the door behind him

Jooheon laid in his bed, breathing heavily under his blankets, seeming as exhausted as ever

The room was dark, even with the bright sun just shining outside the windows

“Hey,” you said softly as you sat on the edge of his bed

You reached forward, resting your hand on his forehead gently, feeling how hot he was before he was able to comprehend your presence

He squeezed your wrist tightly, feeling like he was about to snap it right then and there when he released you

“Oh, sorry,” he coughed out

A thin layer of sweat coated his forehead as he laid there

Mugs and issues littered his nightstand beside his bed as well as weapons at his disposal

The curtains closed, giving the room a dark atmosphere

“How long have you been sick, honey?” You rested your hand against his forehead, feeling how hot it was, which was much hotter than you originally thought

“I think a few days or a week,” he wheezed

He took your hand in his, bringing it down to his chest where he held it, brushing his thumb over your skin

Dark circles were painted over his pale skin under his eyes

“Why weren’t you taking your medicine? Why were you refusing Kihyun’s aid? They and I just want you to get better.” You gave a soft smile as you brought his hand up to your lips, pressing a chaste kiss against his skin

He heaved out a sigh, avoiding your eyes, but never let his hold on your hand waver

“I just need you and I didn’t want to be babied or anything by them..”

You couldn’t help the smile that grew on your face hearing his soft voice, sounding childlike

“Well I’m here now and whether you like it or not, I will be taking care of you,” you said firmly as a matter of factly

“I know you like to protect and take care of me, but let me return the favor and do it for you, okay honey?”

He coughed as he nodded, scooching over a little so you had more space to sit beside him

His touch never left your body as you pulled the cart over to his bedside

Your hands went straight to work, knowing what you were doing without a second thought

You pressed a cooling pad to his forehead and prepared a clean cup of warm water while getting a clean teaspoon, filling it with the opaque, sweet-smelling orange liquid

You rested your arm against his back, helping him sit up in order to take his medicine

“This will make you sleepy, so I’ll go when you’re asleep, okay?”

Just as the words fell from your mouth, he tried to stifle a yawn as he began to curl up in his sheets 

“Stay with me, please?”

The way he sounded, the way he looked, everything about him in this very moment almost made you forget who he really was; a ruthless man ready to put a bullet into anyone who would ever wrong you or anyone in the group

You stood thinking for a second, wondering if you could afford to be sick or not if whatever Jooheon had would pass to you

You brushed away all thoughts and before you could even realize or stop yourself, your body was already moving, climbing onto his bed, under the blankets beside him, letting him nuzzle up against you, falling asleep

“Thank you, Y/N…,” he said before he was consumed by sleep

~~~~~

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[crazyfreckledginger]

The Outlaws x Reader x Deadpool - “Team Red” [Part 12]

Warning: Wade flirting with everyone, implied sex, language

“Go, go, go!” (Y/N) encouraged, watching the screen.

“You know how ridiculous you look cheering someone one in front of a screen in an enclosed space?” Wade grumbled.

“We’ll see who’s talking during finals,” The girl smirked sarcastically.

“Wow, rude!” He pouted.

“Can we keep our focus?” Red Hood turned to them momentarily before staring back at Roy’s cam,”

“Move those beautiful thighs Roybaby,” Wade motivated. The girl gave him a weird look before leaning into his side.

“You eye them as well?” She murmured.

“Oh yeah,” he agreed without a second thought.

“Thank god, I thought it was only me,” A sigh of relief escaped her lips.

“You okay out there ginger?” Jason asked.

“It’s getting a little hard to keep up,” He admitted.

“I’ll assist,” The girl stood up, “Jay, guide me,” She instructed.

“Be careful,” She nodded in response, opening the door and turning on her earpiece and camera. As soon as the door closed, Jason popped up a new tab with a signal of (Y/N)’s camera view and tracking device.

“I’ve sent Roy’s location to you,” The raven haired man informed.

“Thanks,” She replied, looking down at her wrist before using her powers to make her body fly through the air.

****

“I could have handled it on my own,” The ginger grumbled.

“Maybe, but I wanted in on the fun,” She winked at him.

“What the hell do you want with me?” The man yelled through the bad on his head.

“We will be bringing you and your dirty little crimes to justice.” Arsenal casually dragged the man by the back of his vest.

“Hey man, this cost a fortune!” He complained.

“You mean, you paid for that with dirty money,” The girl corrected him. The criminal remained silent for a moment before the tense atmosphere was sliced with the roaring of an engine and screeching of tires.

“Took you guys long enough,” The girl grinned. Red Hood casually slid out of the front seat as Deadpool leaned back in his seat.

“Mmh, you three are my perfect sex dream,” He remarked. Jason ignored him, moving to the girl.

“You have the hard drive?”

“Yup,” She pulled it out, their bodies were so close to each other, a much higher proximity than any teammate would be. Her hand slid it up his armoured chest.

“Thank you sweetheart,” His robotic voice chuckled as he took it from her grip, “in the van, go,” his finger gestured in the air as it made a circular movement.

“Hehe, I’ve been wanting to kick some ass for a while,” Deadpool smirked under his mask as he slid the man along the ground and threw him in the back of the van, getting in after him and shutting the doors.

The girl sat comfortably in between Arsenal and Red Hood as the latter steered the van out of the alleyway.

“You know where you’re going right?”

“Isn’t it a little late to be popping by the GCPD?” The girl leaned against Roy’s shoulder lazily as Jason placed a hand on her thigh. Under other circumstances, she would have swatted his hand away, but she was too tired, or that’s what she thought.

“Dick is expecting us,”

****

“Here,” Red Hood handed the hard drive to the police officer, “it’s got some decent footage, and he had it on him,” Deadpool threw the man at the two brother’s feet as if on queue.

“I’m tired,” the girl grumbled.

“Me too,” Arsenal groaned.

“Say, Jason’s brother is really cute,”

“I know right,” Deadpool slung his arm around her shoulders, “he has the cutest smile, and his baby blue eyes, ooh, god, he’s so hot,” he expressed dreamily. (Y/N) stared at Wade for a moment.

“You’re really into these three huh,” She smirked.

“Oh yeah, so much eye candy,” The merc agreed. Suddenly, an idea popped into Roy’s brain and he grinned. As soon as the two brothers shook hands and were about to part, the man made his presence known.

“Jason, shouldn’t you present your teammates to your own blood? It’s a little rude no?”

“He’s not my blood,” Jason grumbled as Roy guided the girl and Wade up to him.

“This is Wade,” Jason gestured, “and this is (Y/N),” his arm casually slid around her waist, hopeful that he subtly dropped a hint. The girl was still too exhausted and drawn to Dick to even notice.

“Hi,” She smiled.

“Nice to meet you,” Dick grinned, extending an arm to her. The witch opened her hand and gladly shook it.

“Say, does your name live up to-”

“Okay, okay,” Jason pulled the girl away and towards the van.

“Nice seeing ya, Dickie bird,” Roy patted his friend’s chest.

“Don’t worry my precious, I’ll find your number, and we will reunite again.” Wade kissed the eldest Wayne’s cheek lovingly. The first robin stayed silent for a moment. Confused, he shook his head.

“I’m sorry, what?”

“Nothing,” Roy pulled Wade to the van after Jason.

****

“Jason, your brother is hot,” The girl stated tiredly. He immediately tense -- but never peeled his eyes off of the road as he drove down the street. Roy didn’t say a word, understanding what was happening and partially blaming himself for it.

“So is Jason,” Roy grumbled.

“Shit watch out!” The girl exclaimed as a car rushed through a red light on a road perpendicular to theirs. Jason slammed the breaks, making all three of them jerk towards the dashboard, followed by a loud thump behind them.

“Son of a bitch!” Jason cursed, watching the car race down the road.

“I’m awake,” The girl announced in shock. Roy opened the small window behind him and peeked through the hole.

“You okay back there, buddy?” He asked.

“Yeah….just...fine,” Wade grunted softly, rubbing the back of his head after it slammed into the back of their seats.

“Let’s just get home, we did a good job today out there guys,” The girl murmured as Jason cautiously drove towards their apartment.

*****

“You okay Jason.” The girl leaned against the kitchen counter in only underwear and his stolen sweatshirt.

“Fine,” He muttered, making himself a small sandwich, the two other men were already in their rooms, either watching TV at this ungodly time of the night or already sound asleep.

“You only eat like this when you’re upset, tell me what’s wrong,” Her feet moved towards him, arms sliding around his waist as she rested her cheek against his back.

“Talk to me, Jason, what’s the matter, just because you lead the team doesn’t mean you have to stay strong for us, you deserve the world,” He slowly turned to face her, heart clenching as his eyes distinguished the worry in her (E/C) ones. Jason took another deep breath before cupping her cheek. His fingertips caressed down her cheek to her jaw, tracing it softly. He slowly tilted her chin up, before dipping down and capturing her lips in his.

Her hands gripped his white T-shirt, not being in the mood for sex but understanding that it might help him get his mind off of things. His hand gripped her neck as he trailed hungry kisses along her pulse point.

“Come,” She held his hand and slowly guided him back to his room.

“Thank you,” He whispered.

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SENTENCE MEME ⟶ EDDIE IZZARD: DEFINITE ARTICLE / PART ONE. always feel free to tweak the sentence to fit your muse.

‘they call it coming out of a book-- and you’ve gotta do it at some point in your life, haven’t you?’

‘fuckin’ come outta a book. surprise your neighbours.’

‘people think i’m on drugs.’

‘when i take drugs i start going ‘ooh, insurance. and pensions, very sensible’.’

‘don’t take drugs, otherwise you’ll go like that.’

‘thimbles is what i really wanna talk about.’

‘they don’t get enough press these days. i don’t know if they ever did.’

‘you very rarely see a headline that goes: ‘THIMBLES, says man’.’

‘you put a thimble on your finger and it helps in case you slip with the needle and the needle goes up and into your brain and death.’

‘’if only thimbles were invented!’ says physic man with big hat.’

‘they’ve got this piece of semi-circular metal nailed to each and every hoof.’

‘they don’t do the breast stroke, do they? ducks?’

‘horse shoes are lucky and horses have four bits of lucky nailed to their feet. they should be the luckiest animals in the world!’

‘five ran, one sauntered.’

‘yeah, you decline the verb ‘to hand-glide’ then.’

‘they hand-glidededed.’

‘don’t laugh too much, please.’

‘hair nets, of course, are pointless.’

‘oooh, the hair thieves...’

‘the hair thieves, they come in the night. steal your hair, they do!’

‘bit of a strangled route up to that one, isn’t it?’

‘i think that’s a three in the morning kind of decision, that one.’

‘small dogs are roman leaders, aren’t they?’

‘in two thousand years i shall be remembered as a kind of small dog food.’

‘they do psychological tricks on us.’

‘i will do well here.’

‘this is a poo shop! everything here is made of poo!’

‘i knew i didn’t need to mime it any further. you got the drift.’

‘vitamin C is good for scurvy, and there’s a lot of scurvy around these days.’

‘can’t come into work today, i’ve got scurvy.’

‘granny smith made apples. who the hell is granny smith?’

‘shaaag for babies.’

‘come in with your shiny apples.’

‘apples are user friendly.’

‘to eat a satsuma is a piece of piss.’

‘never chat someone up eating an orange.’

‘oranges can FUCK OFF, that’s what i say.’

‘pears can fuck off too, ‘cause they’re gorgeous little beasts but they’re ripe for half an hour and you’re never there. they’re like a rock or they’re mush.’

‘do you do that squeezy squeezy thing on fruit?’

‘yeah, so fuck pears.’

‘i don’t know about you but i’ve never actually in my life ever seen anyone actually slip on a banana skin in reality.’

‘and star fruit, which are from mars.’

‘so you get all this fruit and you take it home, you arrange it in a bowl and you watch it rot.’

‘is that good? is that far too little protein?’

‘can you overdose on calcium?’

‘we’re all very good at queue strategy now.’

‘i left my aura there!’

‘there’s a war on, y’know.’

‘there’s a badger with a gun.’

‘and then you take all your clothes off and put them on a string.’

‘i’ll just tap out the handy fifty digit number, i’ll be with you in a sec.’

‘and then you realise two sea anemones have taken over your hand.’

‘he’s slumped over a desk DEAD. or asleep.’

‘i’d like some brown bread. yeah, brown bread. brown bread. no, that’s diesel oil.’

‘tryna give real fuck off vibes back here.’

‘yeah, bread for my BREAD GUN.’

‘you must hassle him now.’

‘hello, we’re murderers.’

‘i got caught nicking stuff when i was fifteen.’

‘i could’ve saved up and bought it, but i thought if i bought it someone might say ‘hey you’re a boy buying makeup!’‘

‘oh, well done sherlock holmes. how did you get that one you big deerstalker weird hat fuckin’ person?’

‘they let me off with a warning, and the warning was ‘this lipstick’s not gonna work with this eye shadow’.’

‘that’s light blue! that’s a death colour.’

‘i got done for jumping a 20p tube fair.’

‘you’re not the bishop of durham! he wears a bigger hat than that.’

‘i’ll get my own darkness.’

‘i ran and i ran and i ran and after five inches they caught me,’

‘assault is motion towards, i feel.’

‘i got done for assault and i was running away!’

‘i should have been done for deserting a police officer.’

‘he’s fuckin’ hitting me.’

[throwitonthepile]

How did we listen to that bonkers, ahem, advice with a straight face? With the UK set to be one of the first countries to come out of the pandemic, I thought it was worth starting to compile a list of the most lunatic measures. Lest we forget.

Some of my followers on Twitter offered these. I’m sure you will have your own.

1. “Church yesterday. Wafer but no wine for communion. Service followed by wine and biscuits to mark the vicar’s retirement.”

2. “The one where you could work in a control room with multiple people for 12 hours then be breaking the law if you sat on a bench drinking coffee with one of them.”

3. “Forming a socially distanced queue at the airport before being sardined into a packed plane with the same people, two hours later.”

4. “Swings in our local park put into quarantine or removed – even though children were barely at risk from Covid as swings were outside.”

5. “No butterfly stroke allowed while swimming.”

6. “Pubs with no volume on the TV.”

7. “Not allowing people to sit on a park bench. My elderly aunt kept fit by walking her dog every day, but she needed to rest. Since that rule, she stopped going out. She went downhill and died last April.”

8. “I got thrown out of a McDonald’s for refusing to stand on a yellow circle. I was the only customer.”

9. “Yellow and black hazard tape across public seats and benches outdoors.”

10. “I’m stuck in the infant in-patient ward with my nine-day-old sick baby, post C-section, unable to look after him. My husband (same household) is not allowed to be here with us. I’m having panic attacks, which is preventing me from producing milk for the baby.”

11. “I was advised by a council worker to keep my dog on a lead because people might stop to pet her and congregate too closely.”

12. “My bed-ridden mother-in-law with dementia in a care home where only ‘window visits’ were allowed. Mum was on the first floor. Had to wait for someone to die on the ground floor so she could be moved down there and finally seen by her family. After 12 months.”

13. “Two people allowed to go for a walk on a golf course. If they took clubs and balls, it was a criminal offence.”

14. “The one-way system in my local pub, which meant that to visit the loo you had to make a circular journey through the building, ensuring you passed every table.”

15. “My dad was failing in his care home. We weren’t allowed to visit him until the doctor judged he was end-of-life care because of one positive case in the home. We had 24 hours with him before he passed.”

16. “People falling down the escalator on the Underground because they were frightened of touching the handrails – even though you couldn’t get Covid from surfaces.”

17. “Rule of Six. My wife and I have three children so we could meet either my wife’s mum or her dad, but not both at the same time.”

18. “Nobody solved an airborne virus transmission with a one-way system in Tesco.”

19. “How about not being allowed for several months – by law – to play tennis outdoors with my own wife? We’d have been further apart from each other on court than in our own home.”

20. “On two occasions, I was stopped and questioned while taking flowers to my mother’s grave. One time, a police officer even asked for my mum’s name. No idea what he would have done with that information.”

21. “Birmingham City Council cutting the grass in two-metre strips – so the weeds could social-distance?”

22. “Northampton police checking supermarket baskets for non-essential items.”

23. “All the children at school were asked to bring in a favourite book, but it had to be quarantined for two days before being ‘exposed’ to the rest of the class.”

24. “Dr Hilary on Good Morning Britain advising people to wear masks on the beach – and that it would be a good idea to swim in the sea with one on, too.”

25. “Gyms and exercise classes forced to close, but fast-food outlets remained open.”

26. “They taped off every other urinal in my workplace.”

27. “Sign on the inside of work bathroom door: close toilet lid before flushing to prevent plumes of Covid-19.”

28. “We held our carol service in a local park, but had to send out invitations by word of mouth, rather than email, so we’d have plausible deniability if stopped by police.”

29. “Having to wear a disposable apron and gloves while visiting my mother in a care home, while she was on the other side of a floor-to-ceiling Perspex wall.”

30. “Scotch eggs. You couldn’t drink in a pub unless you also had a ‘substantial’ meal.”

31. “Testing of totally healthy people and making them stop work based on a questionable positive test result, when they have no symptoms, creating NHS staff shortages, cancelled operations. Things that, you know, actually kill people…”

32. “My son works in the NHS on the Covid ward and could go to the local Sainsbury’s for his lunch. But when we were ill and isolating at home, he had to isolate as well – for 10 days.”

33. “My eight-year-old granddaughter telling me they weren’t allowed to sing Happy Birthday at school for her friend’s ninth birthday.”

34. “It was illegal to see your parents in their back garden, but legal to meet them in a pub garden with lots of other people.”

35.  “I had to abandon my weekly choir practice – but my husband was allowed to sing as a spectator at a football match.”

36. “They removed all the bins in Regent’s Park and Hampstead Heath.”

37. “Having a flask of tea or coffee on a walk meant it was classified as a picnic – and thus verboten.”

38. “Bring your own biro to a dental appointment to fill in a form declaring you do not have Covid.”

39. “My neighbour refused to hang the washing out to dry – they thought the sheets might catch Covid and infect them.”

40. “My 12-year-old had to sit alone at her grandfather’s funeral – her first experience of one – even though we drove there together and hugged outside. There were three officials watching us all to ensure we didn’t break the rules.”

41. “We could only go outdoors once a day for exercise.”

42. “In pubs, wearing a mask to get from the door to the table, and the table to the toilet – but not wearing a mask while sitting down.”

43. “People in a Tier 3 area walking two minutes down the road for a pint in Tier 2.”

44. “In Wales, supermarkets were allowed to stay open, but the aisles containing children’s clothing and books were taped off.Because buying a baby’s jumper is so much more perilous than picking up a pint of milk.”

45. “The pallbearers all but threw my mother’s coffin in the grave and ran away. They had her down as a Covid death, but she died of cancer.”

46. “The one-way systems around supermarkets that led to people being forced into parts they didn’t want to be in, making them spend more time in the shop – while Covid simply circulated over the top of the shelves.”

47. “Children abandoned by social services and left in the clutches of terrible parents.”

48. “Police breaking into our student house and pinning my girlfriend by the neck up against the wall. I said: ‘This is England – you’re not allowed to do that.’”

49. “Residents of care homes forgetting who they were during the long months when family were not allowed to visit them.”

50. “Dying alone. How many died alone? How many?”

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The Neuroscience of Happiness

What is happiness and how can we boost it?

It’s easy to think of happiness as just a positive emotion that involves feeling ‘good’ and content. However, a happy person doesn’t walk around feeling like this 24/7; they still experience life’s ups and downs - they just deal with them better and foster an overall positive lifestyle.

The World Happiness Report 2015 (1) has a chapter on the ‘Neuroscience of Happiness’, written by R. Davidson and B. Schuyler, that emphasises four aspects of well-being, noting how they each play an important role in the notion of happiness. These consist of 1. Sustained positive emotion, 2. Recovery from negative emotion, 3. Empathy, altruism and pro-social behaviour, and 4. Mindwandering and mindfulness. I’m going to talk through each of these briefly.

1. Sustained positive emotion

The ventral striatum is a nucleus of neurons within the brain, and has been showed to activate when we think ‘happy thoughts’ such as winning the lottery, or when we see a photo of our child. Examining both healthy control subjects and depressed patients, Heller et al. (2) found that positive images caused the ventral striatum in both groups to activate to a similar degree. However, when this activation was measured over a longer period of time, differences between the groups began to appear. Specifically, healthy subjects showed sustained nucleus activation as the experiment progressed whereas depressed patients did not.

As a follow-up, they then found that antidepressant treatment went hand-in-hand with both sustained ventral striatum activation and an increase in reports of positive feelings in depressed patients (3). Prettyyy cool.

It was also found that people with greater sustained activation of the ventral striatum (and the dorsolateral prefrontal region) had lower levels of the body’s stress hormone, cortisol, suggesting less activation of stress responses (4). It seems to be that measuring the sustained activity of these brain areas can predict our psychological well-being and cortisol levels to an impressive degree.

So, sustaining the happy feeling is our first important factor. Next up...

2. Recovery from negative emotion

AKA resilience, AKA “the maintenance of high levels of well-being in the face of adversity”.

One way of measuring emotional recovery is observing the brain’s activation following the presentation of a negative emotional stimulus. The logic here is that slow, prolonged activity reflects a “continuation of the emotional response when it ceases to be relevant” (1)- therefore, fast recovery following a negative stimulus should reflect better well-being.

The happiness report considers the brain’s amygdala a central node for resilience due to the piles of evidence implicating its role in fear and anxiety. Therefore monitoring amygdala activity is sensible for assessing resilience.

Participants viewed emotional images, and then were sometimes subjected to loud bursts of sound - the level of ‘startle’ they exhibited was used as a measure of sustained emotional arousal. Remove the negative image and the ‘startle’ diminishes faster for some people than others. Those people who recover better (faster) following negative events show higher scores on the Purpose in Life subscale. (5)

The report even suggests that opportunities that provide moderate levels of adversity may help us learn emotional regulatory strategies to help us recover from the really bad events that knock us down. So, y’know, maybe there’s another reason to stand up for yourself if someone cuts in front of you in a queue... you’re training your brain to be more resilient. 

3. Empathy, altruism, and pro-social behaviour

What about our social relationships? It’s well known that happy people have fulfilling, supportive social connections. Social isolation has shown to activate the physical pain regions of the brain (6), buying gifts for people feels good, and pro-social behaviour can activate feedback loops of increased wellbeing and even more pro-social behaviour and so on.(7)

Empathy has shown to manifest itself in the emotional centres of the brain, seeing someone hurt often makes you experience similar feelings in similar brain areas (8). Research has shown that if you feel more connected to someone (even if they just support the same team as you) you’re empathetic reaction to their experiences is stronger. (9)

Our good friend, the ventral striatum (a ‘happiness’ centre for the brain), activates when we receive money and  when we donate it to charity. In fact, evidence shows that it is even more active when giving than receiving! It make sense that those who find giving to charity intrinsically rewarding (via the ventral striatum) are more likely to engage in donating. (10)

Our other good friend, the amygdala (fear and emotion centre), has shown to have both increased volume and bigger response to faces of people in fear (i.e. representing sensitivity to the suffering of others) in individuals who are classed as “extraordinary altruists” and might, say, donate a kidney to a stranger. (11)

If we can train ourselves to be to show more empathy (sharing the feelings of others), compassion (concern and desire to help others), and recognise/be mindful of our own emotions, the evidence suggests that, not only do we get better at understanding people’s feelings, but we also become happier people ourselves.

Going back to our favourite wordy brain regions, the ventral striatum and dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, research has shown that stronger increases in connectivity between these two brain areas predicts more helping behaviour. All about training that brain!

4. Mindwandering and mindfulness

Using a smartphone app, Killingsworth & Gilbert (12) sampled more than 2000 people to see how often their minds ‘wandered’ from the activities they were engaged in and how happy/unhappy they were in that moment. They found that, in general, people were less happy when their minds wander from the task at hand. In fact, one experiment showed that some college students would rather suffer electric shocks than sit in a room alone for 6-15 minutes. Imagine that, some of us hate being left to our own thoughts so much, we’d rather be electrocuted... is our own company really that unpleasant? (13)

In the absence of a task, our brain’s ‘default mode network’ becomes active, coinciding with the feeling of mindwandering (14). We can counter the negative feelings that this brings using mindfulness - a technique that’s all the rage on meditation apps.

Alright, bear with me as I explain this vague concept: mindfulness involves looking inward and simply paying attention to your body and mind in a non-judgemental way. Just observing, reflecting, and breathing. People often focus on their breathing, and just have a moment to themselves without the noisy buzz of the outside of the world distracting them. Some people do it by staring at a single small object and focusing on its features, or taking note of the different background sounds they can hear. It’s a refreshing task, just taking a pause from life, detaching oneself, and has shown to decrease activity in the ‘default mode’ regions and improve well-being. Furthermore, counting our breaths (a form of mindfulness) has shown to reduce our level of distraction from stimuli in experimental research. (15)

Summary

That was a lot, I realise, but according to The World Happiness Report these are the big four constituents of happiness and well-being. Individuals who can better sustain positive feelings, ‘bounce back’ from negative experiences, engage in altruism and empathy (nobody regrets taking part in community-driven projects and charitable actions!), and improve their mindfulness show elevated well-being.

Remember that you can train these skills, and subsequently the brain regions and connections that they relate to, to become a healthier, happier individual! However, I’ve written this whole blog post and even I struggle to practice mindfulness and could definitely carry out more altruistic actions - but remember self-improvement and the pursuit of happiness is a gradual process that we work towards step by step.

Stay happy, my friends.

Al 

(1) Davidson, R. J., & Schuyler, B. S. (2015). Neuroscience of happiness. World happiness report, 88-105.

(2) Heller, A. S., Johnstone, T., Shackman, A. J., Light, S. N., Peterson, M. J., Kolden, G. G., … Davidson, R. J. (2009). Reduced capacity to sustain positive emotion in major depression reflects diminished maintenance of fronto-striatal brain activation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 106(52), 22445–50. doi:10.1073/pnas.0910651106

(3) Heller, A. S., van Reekum, C. M., Schaefer, S. M., Lapate, R. C., Radler, B. T., Ryff, C. D., & Davidson, R. J. (2013). Sustained ventral striatal activity predicts eudaimonic well-being and cortisol output. Psychological Science, 24(11), 2191–2200.

(4) Heller, A. S., Johnstone, T., Light, S. N., Peterson, M. J., Kolden, G. G., Kalin, N. H., & Davidson, R. J. (2013). Relationships between changes in sustained fronto-striatal connectivity and positive affect in major depression resulting from antidepressant treatment. American Journal of Psychiatry, 170(2), 197–206. doi:10.1176/appi.ajp.2012.12010014

(5) Schaefer, S. M., Morozink Boylan, J., van Reekum, C. M., Lapate, R. C., Norris, C. J., Ryff, C. D., & Davidson, R. J. (2013). Purpose in life predicts better emotional recovery from negative stimuli. PloS One, 8(11), e80329. doi:10.1371/journal. pone.0080329

(6) Eisenberger, N. I. (2012). The pain of social disconnection: Examining the shared neural underpinnings of physical and social pain. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 13(6), 421–34. doi:10.1038/nrn3231

(7) Aknin, L. B., Dunn, E. W., & Norton, M. I. (2011). Happiness runs in a circular motion: Evidence for a positive feedback loop between prosocial spending and happiness. Journal of Happiness Studies, 13(2), 347–355. doi:10.1007/s10902-011- 9267-5

(8) Lamm, C., Decety, J., & Singer, T. (2011). Meta-analytic evidence for common and distinct neural networks associated with directly experienced pain and empathy for pain. NeuroImage, 54(3), 2492–502. doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2010.10.014

(9) Hein, G., Silani, G., Preuschoff, K., Batson, C. D., & Singer, T. (2010). Neural responses to ingroup and outgroup members’ suffering predict individual differences in costly helping. Neuron, 68(1), 149–60. doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2010.09.003

(10) Moll, J., Krueger, F., Zahn, R., Pardini, M., de Oliveira-Souza, R., & Grafman, J. (2006). Human fronto-mesolimbic networks guide decisions about charitable donation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 103(42), 15623–8. doi:10.1073/pnas.0604475103

(11) Marsh, A., Stoycos, S. A., Brethel-Haurwitz, K. M., Robinson, P., VanMeter, J. W., & Cardinale, E. M. (2014). Neural and cognitive characteristics of extraordinary altruists. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. doi:10.1073/ pnas.1408440111

(12) Killingsworth, M. A., & Gilbert, D. T. (2010). A wandering mind is an unhappy mind. Science, 330(6006), 932. doi:10.1126/science.1192439

(13) Wilson, T. D., Reinhard, D., Westgate, E. C., Gilbert, D. T., Ellerbeck, N., Hahn, C., … Shaked, A. (2014). Just think: The challenges of the disengaged mind. Science, 345(6192), 75–7. doi:10.1126/science.1250830

(14) Callard, F., Smallwood, J., Golchert, J., & Margulies, D. S. (2013). The era of the wandering mind? Twenty-first century research on self-generated mental activity. Frontiers in Psychology, 4(December), 891. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00891

(15) Anderson, B. A., Laurent, P. A., & Yantis, S. (2011). Value-driven attentional capture. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 108(25), 10367–71. doi:10.1073/pnas.1104047108

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It’s 11:27 and the inbox is now open again! We closed the inbox on February 1st, and we’ve now had it closed for almost three weeks which has given us time to work through requests and get the inbox count down. We have gone from having 508 messages to 130 ( which is honestly amazing, that means we’ve managed to get through 378 asks). We now have 312 drafts instead of the original 370, and our current queue has 3 things in it. 

We’ve also accepted 11 new helpers into hoi, which is super exciting! They’re all super precious, so please give them a warm welcome! We’re all very happy to have them join the hoi team and I hope you all enjoy the resources they release on this blog!  While we have gotten the inbox count down to 130, we feel that we need a fresh start ( and a lot of the messages left now are old ones that no one has claimed ). Thus, we have decided to delete the inbox, so the inbox count is now at ZERO. A list with the deleted requests can be found below the cut. We ask that you do not resend the ones that weren’t aimed at a specific helper, BUT if you really want a request that you requested from someone you can resend it to someone else (or without a name).

We’d like to thank everyone for their patience during these 3 weeks, and also ask that you remain patient, since we still have a lot of requests in the drafts, and quite long to do lists. We hope everyone is having a good week and we’re excited that the inbox is now open once again.

remember, if you see your request in this list and would still like them to be done, then feel free to resend the request and hopefully one of the helpers will complete it for you! 

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Hello! Could any of the helpers please make a gif hunt of Jonathan Hyde as Eldritch Palmer from the Strain? They can be normal and don't need any style. Thank you in advance!

Could someone familiar with wrestling do some rp icons of Randy Orton? More recent ones preferably. Thanks a million!

Can I request a manip of Ciara Baxendale and Grant Gustin? Thank you so much.

to anyone, I was wondering if someone could possibly make some 100x100 plain icons of tyler young in eyewitness? thanks if anyone can!

Hi! Could I request some icons of Ayase Haruka? If possible, from the movie "Umimachi Diary (Our Little Sister)". If not, any role would be perfect! Thanks!

Hi helpers, happy holidays<3 I was wondering if I could have a crackship of Tyson Houseman and Evan Peters please?

hello helpers! is there a helper who'd be willing to possibly help me out and make some base icons of Melanie Tran? ;w; And if not, could you please direct me to where I might be able to find some? Any help is appreciated! <3

Hi guys, I was wondering if I could request some icons of Tanc Sade in his role in Gilmore Girls pretty please?

Hey! Can i please a crackship of Finlay MacMillan and Freya Tingley? Thanks!

hey can i request an aesthetic of m/m interracial couples from lottie if she doesn't feel way too busy? thank you

Hi! Can I please get a manip of Jeremy Irvine and Xavier Dolan please? Thank you in advance!!

Could I please get a lovelt mannip of cory michael smith and eiza gonzalez? <3 <3 <3

Can I please request Rahart Adams icons from Every Witch Way, Liar Liar Vampire, and Nowhere Boys? Preferably border-less 100x100 HQ/HD? Forgot to add border-less in. x.x

Hey Gillan! Can you make some circular icons of Mune from Mune Guardian of The Moon?

Dear Jay and smutty-gif-hunt-anon, Thank you for helping out with what I'd be too embarrassed to request!! Rock on!

Hello if possible could I get gif icons of James paxton of eyewitness. any style works who ever seems inspired to do this works. thank you. I'm easy to please. Thank you again for all your hard work.

Will you make some Faith Wladyka icons?from Blue Valentine? Only if you're up for it :)

Hi Jay! Since you're the resident wrestling related helper I was wondering if you could help me with something. Could you make me a manip of Taylor Swift with the Raw women's title, please? Something similar to when Charlotte visited Today after wrestlemania? I didn't see manips on your WID, but I thought I'd seen you do a manip request before. Thanks in advance for your time!

I don't know if my request was received before or after the inbox was deleted so my apologies if this is a duplicate. Can I please get some roleplay icons of (Tristan Milligan) Lyle Lettau from season 13/14 of Degrassi? Thanks! <3

could i request some Darby Stanchfield rp icons as her role from abby whelan in scandal? preferably 70x70 white a light grey psd thank you so much in advance and god i love this blog - the indie community salutes you

Good evening HOI, could I request a man up of Shin Hye-Jeong and Jessica Parker Kennedy please?

Hi, Lottie! May I request some RP icons of Ryan McCartan as Brad Majors in the TV version of Rocky Horror Picture Show in style "scarlett," please? Thank you so much!

Hey guys! I was wondering if you could please do a manip of Kacey Musgraves and Derek Theler of them and some party or award show? Thanks, love ya bye!

Hey! I'd pretty please like to request plain static rp icons of Korean actor Jo Jung Suk if possible!

Hello! Could I please request an icon pack with Lily James in Downton Abbey using Blue's B6 style? Thank you so much! <3

This message is to anyone who has space on their todo. Culd i request some rp Icons of Keir O'Donnell on Wedding Crashers please ?

hey lovelies! I was wondering if someone was willing to do a manip of Emily Rudd and Matthew Daddario for me (sibling/friends vibes)? thank you in advance :)

hey there lovelies!! could i please request plain 100x100 rp icons made of christina masterson? thank you so much lovelies!

Hey there Samantha! Just wondering if you were up to making a gif icon hunt of recent Kat Mcnamara? Thank you! xxxxx

May I please request standard sized gif icons of Laura Vandervoort from the film Damage, please?? :333 Thank you, and Merry Christmas! <3

Thanks for being helpful and understand about my technical issues & letting me send my gif pack request here (Which admin would you like to complete the request? Anyone What is the url from the video? If it’s about a movie/tv show, tell me which the name of the movie/tv show+episode so we can find suitable download links.- skins 6x07 "alo" Who's the faceclaim?- holly earl as poppy champion Any specific PSD? Vibrant, Pale, Dark, or a link to one posted. " just 160x160 QUOTE text moodboard gifs

Hi Maxie! Could I request some icons of Taylor Dearden as Ophelia Mayer in Sweet/Vicious, in the mx17 style? Thank you!

Hello Ellen. Is it possible that I could het Dylan O'Brien gif icons in EL*013? Thank you in advance! :)

Hey Helpers! Is it possible I can get a twin Lin Miranda manip, one with short hair and one with long? Thanks!

May I request some Amy Nelson rp icons? [ underused face claim ] in any psd you want, I would appreciate it :D

Hello! Is it possible I could get roleplayable icons of Kalel Cullen? With a light psd and such?

Hello lovely helpers, can I please request for a manip picture of Elizabeth Olsen (brunette) with Evan Peters please? As a couple. Thank you so much. <3

Super random but can you pretty please make me some gifs of matthew daddario doing magic. Like instead of crackship gifs of him with another person , it would be of him and a faceless gif of magic aka gifs of wizard matthew daddario lol.

May I request a family template for Rachel Hilbert fc?

Hi, can i please request gif icons of Travis Fimmel in her role in Vikings (Ragnar)??? Thanks you very much. Oh, without border pls.

may i have a family template for sarah shahi? if you can, could her father be the one who's persian/iranian and her mother be the one who is spanish? but, if not, that's totally fine! thank you so much, helpers! xx

May I pretty please request a moodboard or aesthetic of Matthew Daddario and Cameron.Monaghan as Even x Isak from skam ?

Hello, there! First of all, I absolutely love your icons! I was just wondering if it was possible to ask for gifs/icons of Daniel Miller from Berlin Station? Thank you. Have a lovely day! :)

hey helpers! i'm currently working on creating a werewolf multimuse, and i want to have two packs represented- but for the life of me i can't think of pack names beyond the cliche "moonstone/bloodstone" kind of thing. so could you help me come up with names? if it helps, the packs are kind of opposites- good vs evil kind of thing. thanks so much!

Hello!! I was wondering if you guys could make me a manip of Tom Felton as Draco and Elle Fanning. As siblings.. Please and thank you! :3

Ayo! Can u make manip of Luke Hemmings and Dua Lipa, pls? Ty. ♡

Hi I was wondering if someone could make an Angelique Boyer gif hunt? I'm wanting to use her as a FC but realized there's hardly any gifs of her out there. I would appreciate it so much <33! Thank you to whoever decides to take it on.

Hi anyway! Can i request some Jun-ji hyun gif icons from The Legend of the Blue Sea please?

Would anyone be willing to make a gif hunt of Travis Fimmel in the the 2003 Tarzan, please?

You all are super talented and super awesome. i was wondering if any of you helpers could possibly do a manip or aesthetic of david gandy and helen owen as a power couple. Whichever would be easier. It's for a story i am currently writing.

Hello, can I please request icons of model and actress Nicole Fox? For whomever reads this I know her movies can be potentially triggering, so if you aren't comfortable with those, that's completely fine (frankly I'm just glad you're reading this). She was also in s13 of ANTM. If there's anything problematic about her, I am not aware, but please let me know. Thank you very much and have a great day x

Hi! I was wondering if any of you would be willing to do a family template for Romanian Actress Madalina Ghenea.

can i please request herman tømmeraas gif icons? thank you in advanced !

may i please request icons for maxence danet-fauvel?? Thank you!!!!

Could you please make some static rp icons of Ben Barns from By The Gun? Thank you!

Sorry, ignore my last message. Could I please request crackships of Britt Robertson and Jeff Goldblum from around Jurassic Park and The Lost World era? Thank you!

hey babes! i love all the manips you all do, so i was wondering if i could request a romantic-y manip of alec lightwood and max ehrich? preferably from under the dome for max, but really anything is fine for him! thank you so much

hello helpers! would someone be willing to make plain 100x100 icons of tom austen in his role as jasper frost from the royals?

I hope I'm not bothering any of you. I hope you all have a great holiday season. I was wondering if anyone would do a manip of Jessica Lowndes and David Labrava as a couple. You all do amazing work and should get more credit for all the hard work you guys put in. You are all talented.

Hey! I was hoping one of you would have the time to help me out with something. I've got all the human icons I need for my muse, but I'm seriously lacking in phoenix icons. I know there's Fawkes in Harry Potter, but I was hoping there would be manga/anime and/or other movies/shows with phoenixes in them that I could get icons from? Or if there are any icons/gifs out there already? Anything would help, please and thank you.

Hello is it possible to get Henrik Holm RP icons in G15 from his role as Even in SKAM?

do you guys make rp icons of animes and mangas? If yes can I ask for rp icons of Sarada Uchiha please? With a tiny white and grey border?

happy 2017 helpers ! hope you all are well c: i was wondering if i could possibly request a manip of seola from cosmic girls and hyungwon from monsta x ? please and thank you so much !

Hi there, can I please request a gif hunt of Jonas Nay from his role in Deutschland 83?

If possible could I get some Icons of the French Model Johan Akan the 3d scan for Nyx Ulric of Final Fantasy XV Kingsglaive? Please and thank you

Hello lovely helpers, can I please request for crackship gifs of Lily Collins with Evan Peters? They relationship is similar of Rosie and Alex's relationship in Love, Rosie. Thank you. <333

I lovely helpers! I was wondering if I could please request a manip of David Giuntoli as an X-Wing pilot from Star Wars? Thank you for your time <3

Hi :) Could you please do some Brent Antonello icons from the tv show Hit the Floor? I'd love that.

Hey helpers! Can I request a manip of Freddie Highmore as a Blue Lantern (or a green lantern if it's easier)?

Good morning helpers! Can I ask for a manip of Hunter Parrish and Robbie Amell please?

Can I have a manip of Kristine Froseth and Evan Peters? I'd like it if it was done mid-90's Polaroid style with using Evan's AHS Season 1 resources.

Hello helpers can someone make a manip of Zach Roerig and Matt lanter as best friend please?

hi, could i possibly get crackship gifs of america ferrera with long hair and chris (the guy) from the tv show skam? thank you in advance xx

Hey guys. I was wondering if any of you would do a manip of Rhiannon Fish and Scott Eastwood as a couple.

hello ! first of all, i'd like to thank all of u for putting in time to make resources for the indie community ! u guys are awesome ! secondly, i'd like to ask if any of you would be willing to make a manip of herman tømmeraas and ariana grande as friends ? thank u in advance !

Hello, can I please request a romantic "instagram-post like" manip of Zendaya and Cristiano Ronaldo? Thank you!

hi there! i hope you're all having a lovely day! could i please request gabi demartino gif icons?

Hey helpers! Can I request a (romantic) manip of Keahu Kahuanui (preferably with facial hair) and Nick Jonas? Thanks!

Hi, can I please request rp icons of Vika Bronova?

Hi guys, I was wondering if you could help me with a url for a Lord of the Rings elf original character, I'm using Emilia Clarke, primarily in her role and Daenarys Targaryen? thnx

Hi Helpers! I would like to know if any of you could do somes gif icons or icons of Trè Samuels, if is not a trouble. Thank you very much in advance <3

Hello! Could you guys suggest first and surname's for Naressa Valdez? ( I'm not sure if this counts as two asks? ) Thank you so much!

Hello, may I please request plain ( with pixel texture) gif icons of Jan Lisiecki ? Thanks in advance !

hello dearies! can i request some plain icons (bases, to be clear) of spencer macpherson in american gothic please?

could you please give me some ronan lynch urls? tysm, i love your blog!!

Could someone pretty please make a manip of Eva Green and Jeffrey Dean Morgan, by any chance? Thank you

hi love, can you do some gif icons of ryan gosling with beard and some from crazy stupid love? tysm <3

Hello can someone please make me some crackship gifs where it looks like Matthew Daddario has super powers.

hi i'd love some simple rp icons of alex steele in her role as tori santamaria in degrassi please <3

Oops! Sorry, I didn't realize there was a form! I recently changed my mind, though, and was wanting just plain RP icons (Robby Benson from The Chosen). Is that doable? Ahh sorry and thank you!

Can I pleeaaasseee get 100 x 100 black and white light textured rp icons of Amandaschronicles/Amanda Mckenna? It would mean so much to me! Thank you sm for all you guys do!

Could I please request some rp icons of Rodrigo Santoro? Thank you!

May I have an aesthetic (or a moodboard which ever you'd like to make) of Kristine Froseth and Evan Peters (AHS season one resources pls) as heads of a mafia known as the Gemini Mafia pls?

hello, could i request icons of Çağatay Ulusoy in a plain style, please? hope you guys have a great day and thanks for all that you do!! ♥

Can I please request some gif icons or a gif hunt, I'm not sure which is easier/preferred, of Raúl Esparza, please?

Hi! I was wondering if it was possible for someone to do a manip of Lady Marian (BBC Robin Hood) and Prince Arthur (BBC Merlin) ? Thank you. :)

Hello, yes! If you're still dong manila, can I have one of Katey Sagal (as Gemma Teller) and Norman Reedus. Preferably as a couple.

Is there any chance you could do a faceless gif hunt of a couple with a blonde female and a male who has dark skin? Thank you so much in advance!

can i request a manip of ryan potter and keiynan lonsdale?

can i please get a dominic sherwood x ashley moore manip? thank you

Hello helpers! I was hoping someone would be able to make regular, 100x100 RP icons of Morgan Lily! I would be much appreciated! Thank you for all of your help!

I'm not sure If you are still doing manipulations but if you are could I please request one of Matt Ryan and Marie Avgeropolous. Thank you. You guys are flawless.

hello! hope you're all doing well! i would like to request icons of Sophie Stuckey (from any and all ages, please). I did put in a request before, but i'm not sure if that's been done (and i haven't seen them) or rejected or forgotten about? so if anyone could make them or direct me to them or .. anything else? that'd be greatly appreciated. <3

Hi helpers! I was wondering if I could ask one of you lovelies to make a family template for Alex Brooke? Thank you so much!

could i ask for billy cranston from mighty morphin power rangers (David yost) icons? thank you thank you thank you :)

hey lizzie! thanks for opening your requests again. could i please request some icons of daniel sharman in the style L6? thanks so much!

hi lizzie!!! hope you're having a brilliant day! could i please ask you for some icons of jeremy irvine in the style L7? thanks so much!

hi hello lizzie! hope this isn't too much of a bother, but would it be possible for me to request some icons of Sean O'Pry in L7? thank you x10000 !!!!

lizzie could you pls make rp icons in L7 of chris wood as jake riley? :)

hey lizzie, could i please get rp icons of ivana baquero as eretria in L1?

could i please request gif icons of bellies during various stages of pregnancy? in short, gif icons of pregnant bellies? nothing fancy style-wise, but maybe a light texture, since i think those look best! thank you so much to whoever takes this up! (and another thank you to the rest of you, since you guys help the community so much!)

Hello! I have been unable to find any resources of Maeda Goki. He's a sadly underrated FC. If you know of some that already exist, could you link me please? And if not, could you please make some plain (no texture/border) icons of him from any role? Thanks for your help!

Hi Lia, could I possibly re-request the Toby Regbo as young Jaime Lannister aesthetic I asked for, if you'd like to do it?

can you make some icons of dean and renee kissing on total divas plkease??

I'm not sure if you've answered this but I I use Marie Avgeropolous as an fc and I know Olivia Steele-Falcone played young Octavia in The 100 but I don't know if she has enough films to create an icon pack.I know you have a gif pack form but I didn't see one for icons. Is it possible for anyone to do these for me, I would much appreciate it. Or if you have already done them can you link me? Many thanks in advance. You guys have been fabulous so far.

Is it possible for someone to make some PNGs? I need some supernatural creatures/scared/crying PNGs but I can't really find any. A mix of those would be great but just scared/crying PNGs are absolutely cool too.

hello! I was wondering if i could please request some icons of Tahlena Chikami? Possibly base icons? Or at least very little editing? I'd really like to use her as an fc, but she has almost no resources that i could find. thank you for your consideration and your time!!

would anyone be willing to make a manip (preferably a selfie) of cody saintgnue and ashley moore? :)

Could someone possibly make a manip of Jon Hamm and Michelle Forbes? They are married in my roleplay so possibly something of them cuddling or anything would be fine. Just a picture of them together would be amazing all together.

hey there lovely helpers!! i was hoping i could please request some 100x100 plain rp icons be made of ming na wen in joy luck club? thank you so much!!

Hello! If icon requests are open, may I please request plain 100x100 icons of Lulu Antariksa as Rowan in t@gged? It's on go90 :)