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nicoline1998enilocin · 2 years ago

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Hi, and welcome to my Tony Stark Masterlist. It is nice to welcome you to my little corner of Tumblr! 🤍

On this master list, you'll find all the one-shots and requests featuring angst, fluff, and smut, with each story including its appropriate warnings. If you'd like to explore some of my other works, feel free to check out my Main Masterlist!

I do not work with a tag list. If you want to be updated when I post new stories, you can follow @nicoline1998enilocin-library! 🤍

WinterIron || Masterlist

All the graphics you see on this post are made by @nicoline1998enilocin

|| 🥀 - Angst || 🤍 - Fluff || 🌶️ - Smut ||

A relaxing night at home || 🥀 🤍 🌶️ You've been going through a bit of a rough patch lately and Tony's caught on, so he wants to do everything in his power to make sure you have a nice, relaxing evening at home. This way you won't have to think about work or any other worries for even a second. He will of course join you, because he could use one of those nights himself, too.

Baby, it's cold outside || 🌶️ You've just gotten married to the love of your life, and are currently on your honeymoon in one of the most beautiful countries of the world. The scenery you're looking over is absolutely breathtaking, but your husband is doing everything he can to take that breath away in all different kinds of ways. And of course, there will also be lots of snuggles in front of the big fireplace too.

Touched for the very first time || 🌶️ You and Tony have been going steady for a while, and you're finally ready to take the next step in your relationship. Tony wants to make sure your first time will be unforgettable and takes out all the stops to make you feel like the most special and beautiful woman on earth, which you will always be in his eyes.

Making a new friend || 🤍 You've been dropping hints about adding a little feline friend to your family for a long time, but when it seems Tony doesn't pick up on your hints, you drop the subject altogether. That is until he suddenly shows up with a little ginger cat, just like the one you have told him about all this time.

Like a King || 🥀 🤍 🌶️ Your husband had a bad day at work, so you decide to treat him like an absolute king. From a nice home cooked meal to a warm bath and a massage, you're pulling out all the stops to make him feel loved and to turn his day around completely.

Falling in love again || 🤍 🌶️ You've been living abroad for almost a decade, and when you find yourself back in New York, you also find yourself in touch with the man you thought you had said goodbye to forever all those years ago. When the flame reignites, the two of you never let go again and finally live the life you have always dreamt of.

Perfect picnic || 🤍 You've been seeing the one and only Tony Stark for the last few months, and you're not ready for the world to know that, so you're enjoying every minute of peace and quiet you two have together. When he invites you for a picnic to discuss something important, you can't help but think about your future together.

Swinging together || 🤍 You have always dreamt of having a porch swing on your porch, and now that you and Tony are moving into your new house, this is the perfect opportunity. He will do everything he can to build it before your baby boy arrives and make your little family complete.

Love by the fire || 🤍 🌶️ Tony has taken you for a weekend away to a small cabin in the woods where it'll be just you two, and no one around for miles to interrupt either of you. The weather outside is cold, but the atmosphere inside the cabin is almost reaching its boiling point as you two can't keep your hands off each other.

I'll always be by your side || 🥀 🤍 What was supposed to be a comfortable, easy Sunday turned into one of the worst as you're caught off guard by your period and in horrible pain. Luckily, your boyfriend, Tony, is by your side the entire time to make you feel better and spoil you absolutely rotten.

Spiked candy || 🤍 🌶️ You've had a crush on Tony for as long as you can remember, but you didn't know he also has one on you. During his annual Halloween party, he makes a move using a project he's been working on for a long time, and they have precisely the desired effect because you couldn't be happier the morning after. Your dream of being his might finally come true after all.

Together forever || 🥀 🤍 🌶️ You and Tony have been head over heels in love with one another for as long as you can remember. It isn't until someone is getting injured and nearly loses their life that your feelings come out, and both of you wish you would have shared your feelings sooner, especially after seeing how fragile a human life is.

Everything I ever wanted || 🤍 🌶️ During your pregnancy, Tony couldn't keep his hands off you, and neither of you could get enough of each other. Now that your twin boys are born, he wants nothing more than to have you pregnant with his babies again, and he'll let you know exactly how he's planning on doing that.

Special assignment || 🌶️ You've had a crush on your professor since the first day you followed his classes, but little did you know you didn't precisely escape his mind either. When he asks you to go to his office for a 'special assignment,' you instantly get excited, looking forward to being alone with him.

Mine || 🤍 🌶️ You've been Tony's PA for many years, and you have both developed feelings for one another over time. When Tony sees you in a beautiful red dress he can't take his eyes off you, and feelings are confessed later that same night. When you spend your first time together it is filled with raw passion, but you wouldn't change it for the world as you're with him.

Mile High Club || 🤍 🌶️ You and Tony have been in a secret relationship for the past seven months, and you're being sent on the first mission for just the two of you since you've become an Avenger. Seeing how the two of you will have nothing but time during the long flight to the other side of the world, he wants nothing more than to make you a part of the Mile High Club.

Warm welcome || 🤍 🌶️ It promises to be a beautiful night at home with your cat and a rom-com playing on the television when you're surprised by your fiancé, Tony. What was supposed to be a three-week mission turned into a two-week one and a surprise welcome, which you're very grateful for.

Love at first sight || 🤍 🌶️ Howard and Maria Stark, the current reigning king and queen, are planning on retiring, but they aren't able to until the heir to the throne is married. Their only son, Tony, feels like it isn't the right time for him to get married, nor does he have anyone he would even think about marrying in the first place. This all changes when you walk into his life and turn his entire plan for the future upside down.

Talk dirty to me || 🤍 🌶️ You have been asked to interview and shadow Tony for a few months regarding his research in nanotechnology and his life as Iron Man. During this time, the sexual tension builds quickly between you two, and when you can't stop staring at him while he's working, the tension snaps, and you learn about a new kink you never knew you had.

Never grow up || 🤍 Your beautiful son came home a few hours ago, and now you witness Tony having a sweet moment with him, making your heart beat faster and filling with love like never before.

Tony Stark x Fem!Reader x Son!OC

Tony Stark and his hair-pulling kink

A drunk mind speaks a sober heart || 🤍 🌶️ You and Tony have been mutually pining for months, and he finally reveals his feelings during a party—albeit after a few too many drinks. The next day, you go out to confront Tony about it, and what happens next is better than you could have ever dreamed.

Reflection || 🤍 🌶️ The sexual tension between you and Tony has been steadily rising for the past few months. After the latest victory tour, it's reaching an all-new height before boiling over, marking the start of a new adventure for you both.

Lovers Garden || 🤍 🌶️ After years of dreaming about starting your life in Italy, the day has finally arrived for your dream to come true. After the exhilarating process of renovating your dream house and turning it into your sanctuary and the anticipation of all your belongings being shipped to the other side of the world, it's time for you to leave New York behind and start your new life with your husband, two-year-old son and the little one on the way.

Discovering Our Love || 🥀 🤍 🌶️ When Tony throws a party after an extended, challenging mission to celebrate its success, you and the other Avengers get wrapped up in a game of truth or dare, which turns out to be the start of the most fantastic love story you’ve ever witnessed: you and Tony. When you’ve gone without warning the next day, Tony can’t help but get distracted every time he thinks about you, the thought of you and your first kiss still fresh in his mind.

Sprinkles Of Romance || 🤍 When your dream of opening your coffee shop becomes a reality, you get a lot more than you bargained for. Not only do you get to fall in love with the shop, you also get to fall deeper in love with your best friend.

Nice and round for me || 🌶️ || Part 2 || 🤍 🌶️ [ Part 1 ] You and Tony are enjoying your honeymoon in Switzerland, and you had a little more to drink this particular night than usual. You still can't keep your hands off one another, but when the night gets more heated, a specific kink of Tony's comes to light, and you can't help but indulge him in his biggest fantasy.

[ Part 2 ] The two of you are absolutely in love with each other and your amazing twin boys. The two of them are like angels sent straight from heaven, and now Tony can't wait to make more kids with you. Especially now that he wants a few that are exact copies of you, after having boys that are his carbon copy.

His innocent assistant || 🌶️ || Part 2 || 🤍 🌶️ [ Part 1 ] Tony's feeling a little needy, and he can't resist asking his sweet, innocent lab assistant for help. You don't like seeing your boss in discomfort, so you're more than happy to help.

[ Part 2 ] Tony enjoys taking you to his parties as his date since he loves to show off his sweet, innocent assistant to everyone willing to hear about you. This time, however, the party doesn't go entirely to plan as he finds you flirting with none other than the God of Mischief himself, and jealousy takes over his entire being.

"I can hear you!" || 🌶️ [ Part 1 ] After a rather intimate moment in the kitchen with Tony, you go to your room to take the edge off for yourself. When he happens to walk by and hear you moan out his name, he can't help himself as he walks in, wanting to give you the pleasure you're so desperately craving from him.

[ Part 2 ] Coming soon!

The Only One For Me || 🤍 || Part 2 || 🤍 🌶️ [ Part 1 ] You and Tony have been crushing on one another since the beginning of your time at college, but it’s not until he gets to kiss you during a kissing booth that he finally gathers the courage to ask you out on a date. Once he’s picked you up for said date, he can’t stop telling you how he feels about you, and and he also wants nothing more than to kiss you every chance he gets.

[ Part 2 ] Life with Tony as your boyfriend has been a dream, and now you're both getting ready to take your relationship to the next level. After that night, you feel like a different person, and you're happy to have shared this moment with him.

Finally kissing you || 🤍 🌶️ || Part 2 || 🤍 🌶️ [ Part 1 ] Two times Tony almost kissed you, and one time he did kiss you.

[ Part 2 ] Coming soon!

Don't go baking my heart || Baker! Tony Stark

Lips like sugar || Sugar Daddy! Tony Stark

The love of my life || Young! Tony Stark

Bare It All || 🤍 🌶️

"Marry me" || 🥀 🤍 🌶️

#masterlist #tony stark #tony stark angst #tony stark fluff #tony stark smut #iron man #iron man angst #iron man fluff #iron man smut

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ren-cerati · 1 month ago

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Hi! I read your pinned post and I saw that you write fanfic sometimes. I was wondering what aus you have! :)

(Feel free to rant. I love reading peoples yaps hehe :D)

AAAA oh my goodness. Alright this is probably gonna get long

I write for a variety of fandoms, the main ones being genshin impact, ninjago, and cookie run kingdom (though I'm working on some Lego monkie kid and Nezha (movies) things aswell!

Ninjago Rewrite: yeah. 21 tab document with headcanons, charcter info, and the worldbuilding ive gathered. I haven't worked on it in a while, but I'm sort of taking Canon and expanding on it basically. (And tweaking some seasons such as crystallized- because I feel like there were enjoyable moments of it, the thing was overall a train wreck.) Will also be addressing questions about Wu+Garmadon+Lloyd dragoni heritage in my own way (Ft. The First Spinjitzu master)

The moons can be company: Dragons rising Lloyd centric, just a lot of oni + dragon headcanons because I have seen like every single dragoni lloyd In the world and I need my food so I guess I need to cook. I'll also probably bring Morro into at some point? Alongside Harumi (This has been put on hold since I'm waiting for dragons rising season three) deep diving into found family and all the charcters.

To Bottle Lightning: Dragons rising and Jay + Jordana centric. Thinking about how my guy got his memory yoinked, shattered his soul, worked a 9 to five, and joined an evil furry cult and shattered his goodness and all that. Also the effects of Jordana's possession and running away from imperium, and everything that shes gone through and how shes never really gotten recognized for her accomplishmemts and been seen as expendable. with Jay being like a sort of father figure to Jordana, and also Wolfcat, Sora x Jordana because lesbians. Could have master of lightning Jordana, but I'm on the fence about it because I'm not sure how I would work that concept in.

CRK K-Drama AU/Crash Landing On You: this is one of my most amusing ones. Its for Cookie run kingdom and a Pureshadow fic where basically I take the gay cookies...and drop them in the most stereotypical k Drama office romance in the world. Also standing behind my belief that shadow milk could get better (just. Needs a LOT of time and talking) (Bro is a bitchass mf who can't do emotions and Pure Vanilla can't be expected to just immediately forgive the guy for his zesty misdeeds, so yeah. Doomed cookie yaoi turned undoomed)

(Extra note- i described it to one of my buddies as 'Shadow Milk and his evil posse are found after a short while after beast yeast episode 8. Shadow Milk is still injured from Pure Vanilla cracking the soul jam, and the three are rehabilitated' it's highkey giving mha villains rehabilitation au...the flashbacks...)

The Cat And The Fox: Genshin modern au!! Basically my wretched son Scaramouche is in the foster care system and bullies a ginger (Childe) into sharing his nepotism baby apartment. Lots of shenanigans and being written as crack but I plan to beat people to death with a baseball bat of angst somewhere along the line. Very found family.

I will not let you destroy yourself: a generally Canon compliant genshin au with Kaveh and Alhaitham starting to date each other and going through it. I just need them suffering and also cuddling.

Xiao gets hugs: placeholder name, but a silly zhongchi marriage au where the wedding is being planned and Xiao is hating on Childe because he's ginger and gay. Also has Xiaother on the side! My gay children

No name for these two, but i have a Xiaother royalty/arranged marriage au that's lovely and wholesome, and a Kaeya charcter breakdown/study thing. Wanted to get inside his head because he wouldn't leave mine. (Also has Kaeya and Diluc reconciliation because they make me ill on the daily.)

I'm still tumbling lmk and Nezha things around in my head, but I'll hopefully expand on them sometime soon.

But uh yeah! Thank you so much for asking and if you have any aus you'd like to share in turn, feel absolutely free, I also like reading peoples yaps because they always have such cool and awesome things to yap about. :33

(Goodness gracious this is like. 2 paragraphs and kind of disjointed but uh. Screams.)

But yeah, thank you so much for asking! I don't post about my aus often, but since I'm getting more active on tumblr, who knows? I might get infested or something and then all that'll come out of my blog is blorbo bingus getting gay with sneekus snorkus lmao

#answering asks #goes insane

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ardentsong · 2 years ago

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Tabletop Adventuring!

From Left to Right: Duman (commissioned by zav) playing the ginger mink bicolor fighter, Maple (my new friend) acting as Game Master, Cupcake (commissioned by kaf) playing the grey tabby thief/fighter, Burnt Toast Jr (mine, tiny bean) who is trying to play with the dice, Skittles (belongs to Cupcake, tail noodle) who has been assigned to keep the bean from messing with the dice rolls, and Pepper (my precious Pepper) who is playing the orange tabby archer. Duman has just rolled two successes on the pink (heroic) dice to attack the Green Woodland Viper. Pepper's character will be going next, and plans to shoot the Leaf Mite. All of this is made as 3D fanart for a lovely little pet game over at pixelcatsend.com where you can have a little village of pixel art cats and give them clothes and jobs have families and take them on adventures.

Pixel Cat's End is currently in closed beta, so you can't just sign up any time. However, the next opening will be tomorrow (as of this posting), from Fri June 23rd 2023 to Sun June 25th 2023. The next opportunity may not be for a few months, so I'm sorry if you're seeing this later. But if you are seeing this now... my now... and you think that picking what color socks to put on your grey tabby thief/fighter sounds like a nice diversion, here you go:

#pixel cats end #pixelcatsend #needle felting #crafts #not-cats #miniatures #not-cat #craft #sewing #3d printing #dice #leaf mite #ttrpg #nestor

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irlcats-bracket · 2 years ago

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Bracket 6 Round 1 Poll 15

Tama (and Nitama and Sun-tama-tama and Yontama) vs Nebberz vs Nala

image for nala is from getdrawing i failed to draw with the left hand and im still trying not to use my injured one so yeah

check their descriptions and catpaganda for the station cats under the cut

TAMA AND NITAMA AND SUN-TAMA-TAMA AND YONTAMA TOO

pictured: tama, the one who started it all

Tama was a station master (promoted to honorary president of the rail line) at Kishi station. She was so good at her job the passengers increased 17% just the month after she was hired!! Tama is a prime example of nekonomics which basically means that you will increase in profit if you have a cat mascot. Unfortunately i only found some news articles in english but apparently professor Katsuhiro Miyamoto of Kansai university talks abt nekonomics. i could not find his words exactly (only in those news articles) but i also just don't know japanese

There is even a train with small tamas drawn on it

at the age of 16 tama died of heart failure and was enshrined as Tama Daimyōjin

She had an apprentice and eventual successor Nitama. You can easily recognize her as she has longer fur than Tama or Yontama.

Sun-tama-tama was another potential successor to Tama however she went training to okayama and ppl straight up refused to give her back. so yeah she works there now

Yontama is Nitama's apprentice!!

you can also learn more about them from this post

NEBBERZ

also known as nebchamp or paul

Little ginger baby who's so sweetness and niceys. His tail gets all puffy when he's happy and submitter calls it his poog poof. And he'll hurt you for no reason and run everywhere.

NALA

A 7 week old siamese kitten with black ears, black paws, and a black tail. She's the size of a russet potato.

CATPAGANDA

THE TAMAS

tama with nitama

yontama

nitama

#cat #cats #polls #catfight six #catfight six round one #death ment tw

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darklydeliciousdesires · 8 months ago

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Sky Full of Stars - Chapter Twenty Five.

Hey besties! I'm posting this a day early on account of the fact it's my papa's funeral tomorrow, so I'm going to be out all day. Big thanks to you all as usual for your devotion to the story. Love you! :)

Previous chapters - One Two Three Four Five Six Seven Eight Nine Ten Eleven Twelve Thirteen Fourteen Fifteen Sixteen Seventeen Eighteen Nineteen Twenty Twenty One Twenty Two Twenty Three Twenty Four

Tag list - In the comments

Words - 3,539

Warnings - 18+ content throughout. Minors DNI!

Honking. This was certainly a new noise to hear within the walls of his home, Adrien sitting in the office going over emails, looking towards the doorway, Brando appearing. The dog sat down, tilting his head as once again, a definitive honk sounded from the kitchen.

“What’s your mom doing now?”

Brando woofed softly, his master rising from his seat, off to investigate. By the time he was walking towards the kitchen door, a third honk sounded, considerably louder in its pitch, their four cats all scattering at speed through the doorway. Yes, Jade had added to their numbers in felines, taking in a ginger tomcat stray, simply named Ginge, and Mr. Biscuits, a black tuxedo cat who had belonged to an elderly lady living in the nearby village, his wife adopting him after the death of his owner.

“You know you guys are the natural predators of wildfowl, don’t you?” he asked, Juno and Salem taking to their cat tree, Ginge flopping down to groom, and Mr. Biscuits beginning to climb up his leg. “Literal scaredy cats.” Kissing the feline on his head, he carried him into the kitchen to discover the source of the noises, finding a sight that would have been surprising, had he not known his wife as well as he did.

“And you’re bottle feeding a Canadian goose because?” he inquired, staying over at the other side of the island, taking a banana from the bowl and unpeeling it.

“He’s poorly sick,” she replied, poking out her bottom lip, the goose latched onto a bottle that looked to be similar to what baby livestock were fed with. “I found him hobbling around the village green, so I caught him and took him to the vet. He’s malnourished, so Heidi thought he might’ve been somebody’s pet who’s either escaped and can’t fend for himself, or he’s been turned loose. Either that or he’s been rejected by his mother. He’s still a baby, see? He still has a few down feather tufts. Anyway, she gave him an antibiotic and suggested I bottle feed him oat milk to get his strength up.”

His face creased, looking pained. “Jade, he’s gonna imprint on you, and then we’ll have four cats, four dogs, nine chickens, ten ducks, two horses and a goose.”

“Don’t be silly! It’s only goslings and ducklings who imprint. But he might need to stick around, though. If he was somebody’s pet, then he might be too used to people to survive in the wild. I’ll see if I can release him though, once he’s well.” She then gently cradled his neck, tutting. “No, no pecking! Stop it. Dave!”

Another groan sounded from her husband. “You named him. He’s ours now. But why Dave?”

“He looks like a Dave.”

Shaking his head, he continued eating the banana in his hands, breaking off pieces for Mr. Biscuits here and there. Eventually, he laughed. “Only you, baby love. Only you would happily adopt a cobra chicken, bottle feed it and call it Dave.”

She snorted with laughter, his name for geese cracking her up just as hard as the first time he’d ever used the term. “Cobra chicken! I love that so much,” she hissed, the goose beginning to settle more as he drank down his bottle. “There you go, see? Look at the magic that happens when you stop biting me, you get food.”

If anything was truly magic, it was watching Jade revel in the role of nurturer, Adrien smiling as he finished the banana he was eating. Since becoming pregnant, that maternal side to her had amped up considerably, though, hence the cat who stretched himself out to rest draped over his shoulder, and the other one who eventually came back from hiding in the lounge once Jade had put the goose down to rest in the spare stable, forking down some straw to he could relax comfortably. If you were a creature in need to a loving home, the nice lady at Stone Barn Castle would take you in.

After feeding the chickens and ducks, she and Adrien went for a nice, relaxing ride out over the property, nothing too strenuous on account of the weather being so warm, Mia and Saxon perfectly content to amble along sedately. All the while, he kept stealing little glances at her, thinking to himself how beautiful she looked. Her morning sickness had finally abated, and she was characteristically glowing, as expectant mothers often did when entering their second trimester.

He also couldn’t help but notice the way she would rest a hand to her tiny bump, Jade not even noticing she was doing it half the time. The sight gave him much more in the way of heart flutters than he’d ever thought possible. It was a very exciting time for them, both enjoying that they got to spend so much of that precious time at home together, rather than having their careers separate them for weeks or months at a time.

It was just over a further week before the Seventh Gate girls all assembled again, though, running through a few days of set rehearsals in Manhattan prior to heading to Europe to fulfil their festival commitments.

“Skip, you’ve nearly seen off the entire fucking jar, man!” Jen shouted in one of the last rehearsal sessions, watching Jade digging her fork into the huge jar of sauerkraut in her grasp. “Craving, is it?”

“Oh, hell yeah,” she replied, widening her eyes a touch. “Anything with a sharp flavour and I have to have it. Bob’s been sending me over salt and vinegar crisps by the box load because I’ve been craving Walker’s so bloody badly, too!”

Katie jerked her thumb towards her, snorting softly. “Should have seen her when we stayed at hers en route to Manhattan. I’m telling you; this woman cannot be in the same room as a jar of pickled onions without demolishing them!”

“Adrien had to hold her back from drinking the brine,” Charlotte contributed while restringing her guitar, shaking her head as she remembered it. Jen guffawed at imagining that, watching her bestie simply shrug. “That poor man, having to deal with your onion farts!” she then added, grinning widely.

“Poor man nothing!” she muffled through a mouthful of fermented cabbage, “he’s getting laid more than lino flooring in the seventies. Trust me, he’s happy. If not a little tired.”

Katie arrived at her side, taking a seat with a look of curiosity. “So, does it really make you super horny then, being pregnant? Since this one over here isn’t vibing with the idea of it when we decide to have little ones, it’s gonna be me carrying ‘em. I need to know the upshots of growing another person, because most of it sounds awful.”

Jade crunched through her mouthful of food, digging the fork in again before replying. “The first trimester is hell. You feel tired, you’re puking all the time, it’s rough. Second is great, though. My skin and hair are better than they’ve ever looked, I feel fresh and yeah, the horny feeling is absolutely no joke. I can easily be on him twice a day. It’d be more, but he’s already got a sore dick and a click in his jaw from going down on me so much. I don’t want to ruin the entire man completely.”

Her statement had Katie clapping with mirth as she laughed, leaning into her. “Oh god, that’s amazing. Ruin the entire man!”

“Do sex toys not cut it for you?” Charlotte asked, the string now replaced as she began the tuning process.

“You know that clit sucking one you recommended? I broke it.”

The rhythm guitarist’s eyes almost fell out of her head. “Babe, those things are indestructible.”

“Not when you’re pregnant.”

“God, I’m so glad I’ll never have any of this to worry about! Me and my ornamental ovaries over here!” Jen spoke, twirling a drumstick rapidly, looking to her side. “And what are you looking all dreamy about, huh?”

Jess’s smile continued to grow, thinking of Jayden, her new boyfriend. “Jay says he wants me to have his babies one day.”

“Aw hell,” Jen sighed, “another breeder! And I thought you were on my team, homeslice!”

“I was,” she confessed, still beaming, “but I might’ve changed my mind now I’ve met the love of my life.” Her boyfriend was Jayden Davies, a basketball player for the Knicks, who at six feet seven inches absolutely towered over Jess. It was something her girls had teased her about mercilessly, as well as the fact he was her toyboy at eight years her junior. It was done with much love, though, all of them adoring the sweet guy she’d fallen in love with.

All chatting aside, they continued to run through their setlist, all hyped to be going back out on tour. They loved the big festival crowds, thriving their way through the first dates across Europe, but when the day finally came to play the biggest show of their career to date, though... well. Seeing what eight hundred thousand people actually looked like in the flesh...

“Oh, my life,” Jade gulped, swallowing hard. “Oh bloody, fucking hell.”

“I think I might throw up a little bit. Just to treat myself.” Jen chimed at her side, both at the wings of the gargantuan stage while the openers Motionless in White were whipping the crowd up into utter frenzy, the sea of people moving like a swarm. They both remembered how their beloved friend Dime had described it back when he’d played, the crowd stretching as far as you could see in all directions.

He hadn’t overhyped it. Literally, it was a sea of people.

Heading away from the stage, they weaved through the throngs of crew until they reached their allotted tent, entering with a look of mild panic.

“You two look spooked,” Sunni spoke, eyeing them cautiously. “Why are you spooked? What have you done?”

“Nothing!” Jen cried, moving to the cooler and picking up a bottle of Jack Daniels, unscrewing the cap and upending it into her mouth. “Oh god, that’s better.”

Jade envied her ability to soothe her fear with alcohol. However, she did have something else that worked just as well, Adrien moving to wrap her in a hug.

“Too many people?" He asked.

“All of the people. All of them. And I have to go and pretend I know what I’m doing in front of them, with jellied knees, while up in my head all I can hear are panicked honking noises!”

Sunni visibly relaxed from his tightly wound state to hear those words, Adrien laughing softly as his wife made a small noise of discontent in the back of her throat. “Listen to me, you are gonna be totally fine, alright? You’re the best at what you do, and that goes for all of you, too.”

“Appreciated, homeslice. Imma still need a bucket next to the drum riser, though, y’know?” Jen spoke, lighting a cigarette with a slightly jittery hand.

Looking up at him, Jade cupped his face with her hands. “Thank you. It’d be a million times worse if you weren’t here to keep me calm.”

“Even though you’re the furthest thing from it, and will be matter what I tell you?” Oh, he knew her far too well.

“Bingo.” She managed a laugh, kissing his chest and resting her head against him. “I love you."

“Love you, too, Burtie." He held her close, feeling her head thudding quickly against his ribs, and then something else a little lower. “Did...”

Her face lit up, resting a hand to her bump. “That was a kick! I’m sure of it, even though it’s early, I think it was.” Waiting, she felt around, her eyes widening when she felt it flutter against her palm again, grabbing his hand with a squeak.

Feeling his baby kicking for the first time, his face lit up, Adrien stroking the swell of her tummy lovingly as he kissed her forehead. “See? Even our baby is telling you, ’c'mon, mom, you got this', so if you don't believe me, believe them."

The other girls all came rushing over, resting their hands in turn to her bump, their faces alight as they felt the little kicks, all hugging her with glee. It took the edge of her nerves if nothing else. They had another five hours until their set, the time coming around quickly as the heat of the day began to abate slightly, Jen and Jade giving their husbands a huge hug before they readied themselves to hit the stage.

Some groups huddled, some prayed, but for Seventh Gate, their pre-show routine was simple and had never changed. They held hands, all filing into a line as they walked towards the stage, taking deep breaths as they waited. Their crew sped around them, finishing the setup, everything in place. It was time.

They were then joined by Sunni, the man looking a much paler shade of brown as he stood before them, pointing a finger at them all in turn. “Behave, behave, behave, behave and bloody fucking bloody behave!” he warned them, the finger still shaking, smiling through his stress. “I love you all, I love you to death, but I cannot emphasise enough that you all need to behave!”

Katie couldn’t keep the grin from her face. “Yo, Sunni. Has anyone ever told you that your accent gets more strongly Indian, the more tightly wound you get?”

It was a truth that had all five girls snort laughing, their long-suffering tour manager mildly exasperated, but laughing too as he ran a hand down his face. “Oh, god. Get the hell up on that stage and blow the fucking tits off every single person in this airfield. Go on!”

They had decided to revert to a popular opener from a few years past, the women taking to the stage, the roar of the crowd absolutely deafening, Jade waiting in the wings, her stomach churning. Turning back to see Adrien next to Sunni, she smiled with nerves, her husband winking.

“You got this.” she just about heard him say as the wail of an air raid siren opening their song Battle Within filled the air, the thunder of guitars swelling sharp as she walked out, grabbed the microphone, drew a breath and did what she did best.

She roared, and by god, she roared hard.

The energy of eight hundred thousand people going apoplectic quelled her nerves in an instant, the sight the most amazing thing she had ever beheld, a mosh pit that must have spanned fifty by eighty feet in size spinning in pure frenzy. It was to her utter delight that she made out a few familiar faces within it right at the front, picking out Corey, Jim, Mick and Sid from Slipknot, all throwing and being thrown around as she paced the stage, feeding off the energy, having the time of her life.

Why had she been nervous, again?

At the side of the stage, Adrien watched her, watched them all, in fact, a huge feeling of pride swelling in his chest. It might not have been to his musical tastes, although there were a few of their songs he did genuinely enjoy, but god, how he respected the five of them for how flawlessly they performed. At his side, Sunni was looking at them a little differently, Adrien moving to grab the nearby placed bottle of Jim Beam for Katie to have a few tots from between songs, along with two plastic cups.

“Here,” he spoke, nudging him, “looks like you need it.”

Sunni took it, sinking it in one gulp. “Don’t tell my wife.” As close to a perfectly devout Sikh as you could get, Sunni still drank here and there. As long as his beloved wife wasn’t there to witness it. Having met Perminder on a couple of occasions, Adrien could well see why he wanted to keep it schtum. She was a fierce lady, if nothing else. “Can you pour me another?”

Laughing, he reached for the bottle again, pouring it out, Sunni sipping this time but still looking no calmer. “I can feel in in my turban. One of them is going to do something, I know it.”

Adrien raised an eyebrow. “You’re not wearing it, though.”

“That’s just how bloody much I can feel that one of them is going to play up!” he exclaimed, eyes wide, taking a deep breath and sinking his drink. “And I hate to say this, mate, but I feel like it’ll be your missus! I cannot cope with the idea of her getting arrested!”

Laughing, he draped an arm around Sunni’s shoulders. “She won’t, dude. I mean, as in she won’t get arrested. Think about it, if she stood up there and actually mouthed off at the Russian government directly then yeah, it could happen, but she’s smarter than that. Doing it through song won’t incriminate her. Plus, can you imagine the scandal it’d cause, arresting a beloved A list actress, one who just so happens to be pregnant, too? Ain’t worth the hassle.”

He could see the validity in that, he guessed, but it still made him feel no calmer as they continued to watch the hour-long set. They had played their hearts out, the crowd in absolute frenzy as the opening riffs to their final song sounded. It should have been Shadow of the Veil. It wasn’t.

“Oh, you are fucking kidding me!” Sunni yelled, a few of the assembled techs all pissing themselves laughing, Jen’s husband Nick throwing his head back to guffaw.

“That’s my lass!” he chuckled, fist bumping with Adrien as the band launched into Kill your Masters. The very song they had categorically been told not to finish on.

Sunni looked like he was about to birth his own lungs. “Oh, that’s it! That’s it! All of them are getting smacked arses for this!”

Adrien laughed, knowing he was joking, but still...

“Yeah, Sunni I love you, man, but you lay one hand on my wife’s ass and you’ll be eating my knuckles.” The men looked at each other, both snorting with laughter, Sunni dragging his fingers through his hair repeatedly. His nerves were frayed beyond an inch of existence, especially when watching as Jade leaned over the edge of the stage, bellowing a certain line of lyrics in the direction of the assembled police on crowd control.

“No compassion, round them up, hang them high, kill your masters.”

Sunni’s blood pressure went through the roof. “She’s fucking done it now!”

“Sunni, my man,” Nick spoke, the tall Scotsman nodding to the front of the stage, “most of those lads dunnae speak no English! They’ve not got a clue that JB is fuckin’ baiting ‘em like, y’know?” Again, he had to concede that he might have been overreacting a tad, but still, when the girls got off stage after taking a bow, it was to a face they expected.

“Like herding fucking wild lions!” he yelled, Jade grabbing his face between her hands and kissing his head.

“You worry too much.”

His lips thinned. “Oh, JB. If you weren’t pregnant, I’d give you such a beatdown.”

“Also, if my husband wasn’t looming over you like an albatross,” she noted sweetly, taking Adrien’s hand as they began the walk to the backstage area, the man himself playfully touching Sunni’s jaw with a closed fist. “Now stop ruining my buzz! We just played the biggest show of our careers and you’re over there with your wet blanket fuckery!”

Boy, how it had been. Up on that stage, playing to a crowd that huge, Jade had felt on top of the world. Her pregnant hormones had gone wild, having to hold back the tears, in utter disbelief that her career had taken her to such a defining, elating point as to preside over eight hundred thousand screaming fans. Screaming for them, the headline act.

It was such a high, in fact, that she didn’t come down from it for hours. Not backstage, not in the car on the way to the airport, or on the private jet that took her and Adrien to London for a gala they were attending two days’ from then. While he slept, she lay beside him in a state of awe, remembering the crowd, people as far as she could see in every direction. She could still hear the deafening cheers, feel the energy of the crowd, the fading sun on her face.

It had truly been the performance of a lifetime.

“Can’t sleep, huh?”

Turning, she reached to stroke his face, resting back down again. “I never really do on planes unless I’m well medicated, but because of obvious reasons I can’t be. I doubt anything can dent the high I still feel, though. I’ll just have to be tired until we get to the hotel.”

“I could help?” he offered, Jade seeing a flash of white teeth grinning through the dim light, Adrien shuffling to lie above her.

Orgasms at forty-five thousand feet; well, if anything was going to make her sleepy, it was a couple of those.

#adrien brody fanfiction #adrien brody fanfic #adrien brody fic #adrien brody #sky full of stars #adrien and jade

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waywardsou2 · 1 year ago

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April O'neil

Pronouns: They / She

Age: 14

Nicknames: Ginger / Ay

Sexuality / Gender: Aromantic / Asexual / Demi-girl

Descriptors: Scientist / Collector / Orphaned

Species: Human

Favourite colour: Daisy

Weapons: Tenssen

Partner: None

Best friend: Donatello

Pet: Sphynx Cat: Sora

April is a nerdy science wizz, her dad was kidnapped by the Kraang and they couldn’t save hi so she’s been living with the Turtles ever since. She is the only one who gets a free pass into Donnie’s lab.

(sorry I didn’t really know how to “fix her character”)

{Master post}

#tmnt #art #drawing #characters #tmnt 2012 #my art #character art #my characters #tmnt april #tmnt 2012 april #april o'neil #trans april #waywards wallflower au #wallflower au #fanart #tmnt fanart #tmnt 2012 au

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writers-get-biters · 7 months ago

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stuff about some of us :]

[pt: stuff about some of us (smiley emoticon)]

decided to make a post detailing a lot of us's signoffs, names, and pronouns. gonna link it in pinned post so easy access. also gonna update when we get more people bc yea

its gonna be super long (theres so many of us lololol)

lets do this! under the cut ;w;

format is "sign off | name | pronouns":

~ 🧊 | ele(ment[al]e) | ?

~ 🔌 | 404 / .exe | glitch/[ERROR]

~ 🔏🔮 | achilles | they/zhey/xe (ceters can use he/him)

~ 🗜️🪞 | alma / 2a | xe/ne/ze/he

~ 🛜👾🫶 | arzon / arson | xe/ze/fae/bun/bug/it/thon, they theoret

~ 🎨🐳 | art | th3y/th3m

~ 🖱️🪞 | beeatrice / 2b | ve/v/e/kye/xo/it/the/✈️/eni/co/daze

~ 🌌🕳️ | black hole | hei/hy/he/hey/they/the/vae/xae

~ 🧼🚿 | bubble bath | they/he/clean/mel/mist/polish/shine/fo/🧼/🦆/🚿

~ 🌾 | cameron, carpenter, cassidy, clementine (really any three syllable considered-unisex name starting with c) | fae/she/he (?) & some others, not sure yet

~ 📠 | cassandra | she/it/they

~ 📰 | cassie | she/they/it

~ 🎙️ | cecil | ?/any

~ 💿📺 | cisco ordiel | he/they/it/ange/arch/wing/flap/hae/hol/tech/ai/pix/comp/🪽/🦢/💿

~ 🦊🌲 | corey | he/her

~ 🌀 | dash | it/they/she/spark

~ 🕶️💿 | dave strider | he/him

~ 💽 | delta | they/claw/rhy

~ 🧃🔸 | dirk(&) | he/it/prin/ze

~ 🍃🦋 | dominic-georgia | he/xe/smoke/ze/ble/blaze/ze

~ 🎡 | aubrey / roxy / ariel? / angel? | he/xe/hy/sh3 & other revoxpronouns

~ 📡🎯 | ilo | hy/it/prin & other neos

~ 📡💫 | ezekiel / zeke | hy/it/prin & other neos

~ 🤢🤮 | emesis appendix | gag/gags

~ 📜🕸️ | ephila n. serket | sie/sh3/sh*/🕸️

~ 🐱🎭 | eowyn / felicity / marloi (?) | they/nep & cat neos

~ 🐱✨ | etta emery | they/nep & cat neos

~ 🐇 | eva / evangeline | she?/her?

~ 🎲🎰 | felix lucky / the dice master / the dealer of the cards / the chessmaster | xe/they/sh3/it/card/dice/roll/luck/chance/🎲/🃏/🎰/♟️/👑

~ ⚔️ | finn the human | he/him & variations

~ 🧪🔍 | flare (?) | they/he/she/splash/spark/solar/stab/point/acid/sci/💉/🧪/🔬/🔭

~ 🌸🐾 | ginger | she/they/awoo/dog/woof/bun/sparkle/bork/pup/cute

~ 👑 | harley | she/it/xe

~ 💟🌄 | hazel levesque | shy/hyr

~ 📖🌟 | helix | he/azu/they/ty/fi/kye

~ 👑🔏 | ike | hx/hxm

~ 🌷🍉 | imogen | she/it/they?

~ 🌿🏡 | isla | fi/moss/flower/ribbit/they/ash/tree/she

~ 🐈🍼 | jacob | he/they/it

~ 🏠🪐 | jade harley | she/he

~ 🥾 | enzo / jafinniottsprite^3 | ?

~ 📺 | jake english | ?

~ 🎂 | jane crocker | any, pref 4 hx/hxm & he/him

~ 💄🐜 | jane prentiss | she/shx/they/thxy & any bug-themed neos

~ 😸🎁 | joey | he/+/hap/lo

~ 🕷️ | kairi | they/spi/ve

~ 💄 | kanaya maryam | she/they/xo(?)

~ 🍭🩷🔮 | kandi / candi | she/candy/gummy/sweet/honey/rainbow/sour/bright/brownie/fruit/cherry/heart/sprinkle

~ 🦀🩶 | karkat vantas / KARKAT VANTAS | he/she/they/it/troll/hx/shx/thxy

~ 🩸🦋 | kenneth / kenny | he/they/she/angel/demon/blood/halo

~ 😪💤 | lailah | nap/sleep/soft/sh/?

~ 🌹🦇 | lucille abel | he/vamp

~ 🌙🌬️ | luna lovegood | shi/shy/lu/star/they/hy/fae/mu/she/it/xe/dar/spirit/gho/whim/ae/lo/xhey/dae

~ 🧩 | maddox | he/him

~ 💫❔ | madeline / "maddy" | sh♡/sh^/heart/hah

~ 👾 | Mal.exe | she/glitch

~ 💥🪲 | mark / slate | he/it/x/xe

~ 🧭☠️ | meg aradia | he/it/she & death neos

~ 😽🔕 | meulin | qui/quis

~ 💊🍸 | momoka | she/he/pup

~ 💖🫰 | nikolai | ?

~ 😍💝 | nina / mika / francis / akari | shx/it/shey/she/he/it/mew/meow/🎀

~ 🎀🔪 | nina mina may | knife/blood/royal/kill/hood/creepy/odd/weird/splatter/obsess/haunt/rot/rotting/gut/gore

~ 🌩️☕ | ochre latte nimbus | they/storm/caf/warm/frappe/rain/thun/light

~ 🥞 | pan / pancake panache | ?

~ 🍓🧸🐰 | pawlette / paulette | ?

~ 😿📦 | peter | he/it/itch/-

~ 🪢 | riley august | she/him

~ ⭐🪁 | ripley | ?

~ 💎🚀 | roman ellis | xe/hymn/hyr/it/thou/ae/sol/holy/illum/ly/ei/lyre

~ 🦇💕 | romeo liev montague | he/love/bow/arrow/heart/cloud

~ 🐕🪽 | roof | pup/x!

~ 🛡️ | rook | any (especially they/xo)

~ 🐈‍⬛ | roxy | they/she/un & cat + void neos

~ 🐈‍⬛🖥️ | roxyhalsprite / ral | ?

~ 🪞 | sasha | mirror pronouns or she/her

~ 🪞🎟️ | s / sasha | mirror pronouns

~ 🎮 | sollux | he/they/it/2/two/vo

~ 🗞️ | t$assi | ?

~ ⚖️ | terezi | ?

~ 🪩 | the one who is seen | any

~ 🪩👁️ | the watched one / the watch'd one | eye/seen/behold/👁️

~ 🧠🔄 | tidbit | it/they, any neos (especially any emoticons)

~ 🎥 | tuo | he/him

~ ♏️ | vrissy | ?

~ 🔆♊ | xanther coda | he/she/they/it/space/cosmic/moon/love/heart/yellow

~ 🧟‍♀️ | zadie | she/it/love

~ 🥀 | zadkiel | he/it/anti but kinda any

~ 🕸🍖 | zinc / azync | it/rot/gore/blood/teeth/bones/skin/meat/feast/hunger/starve/fang/dead/rotting/corpse/gut/kidney/heart/eye/claw/axe/knife/cut/grave/rotten

~ 🎻 | aliyah | she/they

~ 🪽🖼️ | alniel | ce/it/xe/wing

~ 🖍️☀️🌈 | voidbug / arcade / comet / jinx / rocket / soda / stitch / sunbeam / sugar / cupcake / zero / frog / karkat / soda / apple [namehoarder] | it/party/sweet/warm/fwu/fluff/bite/arf/>.</paws/pop/silly/waah/>:3c/🖍️/☀️/🌈 [pronounhoarder]

~ 🌿🖤 | Aurora , Beatrix , Camille , Ophira , Thora , Aurelia , Selena , Anastasia , Arabella , Cordelia | She/Fae/Fai/Fei/Ne/Ny/Se/Tey/Ae/Ay/E/Ey/Ce/Cy/🧚/🌿/🪴/🌱/🖤/🔪/🩸/💜

~ 🍓🍰 | berry / aubrey / nyx | she/they/it/strawb/red/pink/fruit/seed/cake/pie/🍓/🍰

~ 🩻🌊 | blair sabel swann | they/it/cli/gloss/chime/molar

~ ⏰🩵 | C.L.O.C.K. or clock | they/he/she

~ 🏠🪢 | cal | it/pup/pupp/thing

~ 🏠🚬 | cronus | he/hu

~ 🫧💖 | calypso | she/he/they/sea/glass/🫧/it

~ 🩹😼 | carrie / caroline coughs | she/they/claw

~ 👻👁️‍🗨️ | cary | he/bone/null

~ 💥💯 | chaos / discord | It/its, cha/chao, chao/chaotic, may/hem, dis/array, hav/havoc, fei/fire, bon/fire, com/bust, anar/chis, free/frees, arson/arsons, re/ject, Dis/Cord, [REDACTED]/[REDACTEDS], kill/kills, fuck/fucks, shit/shits, in/sane, off/offs, harm/ful, vo/vok

~ 💜⭐ | dakota coven | she/they/space/shy/owl/kom/star/emi/light/🦉/💜/⭐/🌌/👑/💞

~ 📀🪶🗡️ | Davesprite, Dave, D-spri / Dspri | he/it/caw

~ ⛪ | dorcas | fae/they/?

~ 🧣 | elijah aster | hey/ey

~ 🐦🪈 | elizabeth / "birdie" | she/shy

~ 🌻 | elliot / ellis | ne/se/et/fae(/faen, not faer)

~ 🌊 | eridan / river / delta / ronan | xe/she/they/he/wave/wash/🌊/drown

~ 🪶🕸️ | esther / yumi / kora / kei | she/it

~ 🎾💘 | evander | she/it/he/they, bun/buns, per/pers, love/love, sport/sports, nameself

~ 🐟 | everett coast | He / Claw / Chomp / 🌊 / Wave / 🐟 / Kelp / Swim / Ocean / Bass / Guppy / Koi / Fin / Reef / Shell / Bay / Warm / 🦞 / Read / Page / Chess / Coffee / Candle / Feather / Dust

~ 🦦 | fawn / fantasia / fefetasprite | fey/fem, zhey/zhem, fae/faer, rhe/rher, shey/shem, they/them, sh3/h3r, th3y/th3m

~ 🟪5️⃣ | Five / 5 | nameself pronouns, all. aux: they/them

~ 🍽️🟢 | gelatin | he/it/ix/hx/nya/owo

~ 🌱 | georgie | he/hy/they

~ 💛 | heather mcnamara | she/her, fae/faer, 🌻/🌻s, they/them, it/its

~ 🌱🕸️ | ivan , apollo , laith , beau , skylar , faylen , isaac | he / him , shy / hyr , fai / fairy , thon / thons , fey / fem , moss / moss' , fleu / fleur

~ 🌈🍖 | kerry cass | hy / hys , they / them , ny / nyms , sie / sier , xey / xem , nep / neps , glim / glims , fi / fir , silly / sillys , 🍭/🍭s , 🌈/🌈s , 🍖/🍖s , 🌈🍖 / 🌈🍖s

~ 💜✒️ (💚✒️ when feeling silly) | Marker, Mark, Micheal, Mike, Mikey | He/They/Ze/Cap/Joke/Tough/Bro

~ 🌇✂️ | radium (or burn or stone) | math/snip/clink/pattern/he

~ ⚛️ | ramiel (R*MIEL) | He/They/She

~ 🧋 | simon | fluix / any

~ 🫀🥀 | sydney camilla | she/they/it/syringe/kill/med/nurse/pills/horror/blood/knife/trauma/🔪/🫀/💉/🥀/🩸

~ ❤️‍🩹🧹 | tolerance / ruffle / truffle | he/it/clean/dust

~ 💀🧋 | tord | he/she/fuck/they

~ 2️⃣✌️💚 | two / 2 | they/cake/e/hx/vey/frosting/au/bite & projected neopronouns (especially xenopronouns)

~ 🕹️🦄 | uni sock cornelius | she/they/he/pup/any

~ 🔧☎️ | vio bee mist | it/he/she/they/xe/buzz/frost/myst/paw/fox/kit/star/sky/bug

~ 🌿🪐 | westley | Marble/heartbeat/berry/💫/🪱/:^/he/they

~ 🧊⚓ | wybie | he/him

~ 💛✖️ | X, Sev, Ex, Factor | He/Hx/She/Shx/They/Thxy/It/Xt/Xe/Xey/Lycan/Love/Sweet/Hurt/Bruise/Sev

~ 🛏️🎮 | pajamas / pajama / pj / pjs / payjays / pyjamas / jammies / etc. also autumn. | ae/bubble/stim

#so hy speaks!#~ 🧪🔍#~ 🛜👾🫶#~ 🌩️☕#~ 🌹🦇#whooooo !!!!!#finished finally w this #:3 #plural moment

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thesorcerersapprentice · 1 year ago

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✦ C U C U F A T E ✦ CHARACTER PROFILE

Cucufate is Altaluna's (the protagonist) main ally in The Sorcerer’s Apprentice. Under the cut, you’ll find his complete profile! *I'll update this page as I come up with new details.

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I D - CARD

✦ Full Name: Cucufate or Cucuphas (I borrowed the name from the patron saint of petty thieves and kyphosis). Pronounced: "cook - ooo (as in "goo") - fa (as in "fa-la-la-la-la") - te (as in "telephone"). ✦ Age: Unknown ✦ Sex & Gender: Irrelevant, but I'm thinking male? ✦ Physical Description: Cucufate is a culpeo, a South American canid otherwise known as a Paramo Wolf or Andean Fox (although it bears a striking resemblance to the red fox, it's actually more closely related to wolves and coyotes). ✦ Occupation: One of Valeriano's Abandoned Projects.

INSPIRATION

✦ Socrates & Bartleby: (*I'm in the process of rewriting this section, as it isn't very clear. Thanks for your patience!) Cucufate is based on two figures: the ancient philosopher Socrates and Bartleby from the short story Bartleby, The Scrivener by Herman Melville. What I wanted to do with Cucufate was find a way to have an animal speak without necessarily resorting to a 'human' voice (a voice that furthers our aims, mimics and thus elevates our culture, clarifies and informs etc.). This is where Socrates and Bartleby enter the picture. They both provide a language model that subverts standard communication. For instance, despite being the primary character in Plato's Dialogues and one of the most famous philosophers of all time, Socrates makes no positive or prescriptive claims (thou shalt not blah, this is that etc.). Instead, he talks in (flattery &) questions, undermining any certainty his interlocutors might feel by prodding and probing their knowledge of x, y & z until they are forced to reveal their ignorance (this is known as Socratic irony). Socrates' speech is thus a kind of anti-speech. If it spotlights a topic, it does so only to reveal the immensity of the darkness that sustains it, its lack of substance. Indeed, whenever Socrates opens his mouth, he widens the abyss that will eventually swallow his interlocutor's thoughts and beliefs whole, and terminate the discussion (silence). Hence, Socratic dialogue successfully humiliates and confuses us. It strips us of that very human arrogance, our intellectual bravado, so that we too can become wise: so that we too can share in the wisdom of knowing that we don't know. Doesn't the natural world do the same? Isn't that precisely the horror of climate change? Bartleby, on the other hand, taps into the ambiguity of certain language formulas. His signature phrase "I would prefer not to," which he repeats whenever he's asked to do his job, expresses a hypothetical that... never seems to go anywhere? It's the Schrodinger's Cat of phrases, simultaneously dead and alive; he'd prefer not to, but... will he or won't he? Yes. The ambiguity, the inaction of it, dumfounds and incapacitates his employer. Bartleby's speech thus provides an example of a language that resists, confounds rather than clarifies, and complicates rather than simplifies. Like Socratic irony, Bartleby's masterful use of the conditional and modal auxiliary verb "would," disrupts the status quo. Because Cucufate's speech pattern draws from both of them, he becomes an effective helper to Altaluna; by engaging with her, he counteracts the temptation to think along the lines of a simplistic, "heroic" fascism (good vs. evil, light vs. darkness, us vs. them), and forces her instead to adopt a more nuanced stance, capable of aptly handing contradiction and ambiguity. (*Appropriated from this post).

✦ Cunning Intelligence in Greek Culture and Society by Marcel Detienne & Jean-Pierre Vernant: "When Oppian describes the cunning of the fishing frog squatting in the mud, motionless and invisible, he compares it to the fox: ‘The scheming fox (agkulómetis kerdō) devises a similar trick; as soon as it spots a flock of wild birds it lies down on its side, stretches out its agile limbs, closes its eyelids and shuts its mouth. To see it you would think that it was enjoying a deep sleep or even that it was really dead, so well does it hold its breath as it lies stretched out there, all the while turning over treacherous plots (aióla bouleúousa) in its mind. No sooner do the birds notice it than they swoop down on it in a flock and, as if in mockery, tear at its coat with their claws, but as soon as they are within reach of its teeth the fox reveals its cunning (dólos) and seizes them unexpectedly. The fox is a trap; when the right moment comes the dead creature becomes more alive than the living. [….] If the metis of the fox is immediately detectable in its skill at playing dead, it is dazzlingly apparent in this sudden reversal. In effect, the fox holds the secret of reversal which is the last word in craftiness." (pp. 35-36)

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