#i decided to yolo it

[lxkeeeee]

—scaramouche x fem! reader

fanart by @MNCE_o at twt

“Soulmates? What a load of bullshit.”

“I do not need a man and I am perfectly fine without ever meeting him.”

Spoiler alert: they really wanted to meet each other.

—two people were destined to meet each other the problem is... They're from completely two different timelines.

His countdown timer on his wrist -1,920,000 hours and hers is 1,920, 000 hours. They didn't have any hope in meeting each other, thinking it was a cruel joke made by fate itself... If only they knew.

CHAPTERS:

CH. 0 — PROLOGUE

CH. 1 — LITERALLY FELL IN YOUR ARMS

CH. 2 — IT IS NICE TO FINALLY MEET YOU, SOULMATE

CH. 2 — IT IS NICE TO FINALLY MEET YOU, SOULMATE (HER POINT OF VIEW)

CH. 3 — HOME SWEET HOME

CH. 4 — GETTING TO KNOW EACH OTHER

CH. 5 — FEELINGS

CH. 6 — LOVERBOY

CH. 7 — DOMESTIC STUFF

CH. 8 — WE'RE NOT MARRIED... YET.

CH. 9 — MOVING OUT

CH. 10 — MOVING IN

CH. 11 — I'LL TAKE CARE OF YOU

CH. 12 — SHIT... I'M SO TOUCH STARVED

MORE CHAPTERS TBA...

Chapter titles are subject to change.

Plot is fast paced, love at first sight, soulmate au.

©lxke 2023

PLAYLIST | CHARACTERS | CH. 0

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#—SOULMATES? WHAT A LOAD OF BS [MASTERLIST] ©lxke

[cherryfull]

Introducing Frightfield University and some of its students!! 🦇💜

FF is a fictional university set in the Monster High universe that I made up just for fun!🕺🪩 I wanted to explore what a monster college might be like, and what students might go there! (Also included is some concept artwork for the school of Frightfield itself !!)

[essektheylyss]

This was entirely tangential to this post from @utilitycaster which is why this is its own post, but the tags made me think about what feels most compelling about Liliana to me, and it's really because there's such an interesting approach to redemption in terms of the sunk cost fallacy to be had there.

There have been plenty of comparisons between Liliana and Essek, but I don't think they're really situations that can be compared. Essek had done one horrible thing (that was of relevence to the story; it is implied that he's taken other actions that he feels were wrong, but we don't know what those entail nor do the Nein care enough to ask, so per narrative convention, they do not matter for analysis) and was only still involved in it to the extent that he couldn't take it back, so to survive he had to continue covering his tracks. But he was also incentivized to otherwise act in alignment with the group that was not those on behalf of whom he had made terrible choices, because he was still living in the Dynasty, and as such wasn't actively perpetuating those actions beyond the cover up.

Liliana on the other hand is acting with the Vanguard and has been furthering if not personally committing atrocities on their behalf for a number of years, continuing to the present. Like Essek, she believes her involvement in the cause to be a difficult choice that was made for noble reasons, and now can't see a way out. But she is also relieved to be told to stay, though at the point that they discuss her leaving, she is alone and outside the immediate range of contact or oversight from the Vanguard. It seems reasonable that she could disappear with a decent headstart, and perhaps become untraceable quickly enough to be safe from anyone following. With this context, returning to the Vanguard with the intention of feeding information to the opposition feels like the riskier choice, but crucially it is the devil she knows.

I actually liken this more to Cassandra de Rolo than Essek. Cassandra was manipulated against her brother by the Briarwoods, but this was also spurred by having watched Percy seemingly leave her for dead. There are legitimate reasons why the Briarwoods, as the people who rescued her and then kept her alive for many years, are the easier option in which to place her trust. She knows what she's getting from that vantage point and how to handle it. She doesn't inherently have faith that someone she only knew as a young and helpless child, who ran from the hardships she's faced, would have the strength or willingness to do what she has found necessary for survival.

I think that Liliana's actions are more willful, not least because she was not a child nor in mortal peril when she joined the Vanguard, but she sees herself as having made difficult choices when only faced with difficult options, and I do think they have been difficult. She didn't want to leave her family; she doesn't want to hurt the young Ruidusborn under her care; she is probably genuinely sorry that innocent people were considered a necessary sacrifice for what she sees as the greater good. It is psychologically taxing to feel as though one is always picking between bad options, which is a significant contributing factor for why people buy into a sunk cost for so long. And over time, those hard decisions become easier, because you know what to expect from the outcome. Though Liliana is well aware that she might be killed for a misstep among the Vanguard, she already knows how to act to maintain their favor, but how she might be received on Exandria by those fighting the Vanguard, even with the Hells vouching for her, is anyone's guess.

This is a very real reason why people remain in cults and struggle to push back against this kind of conditioning: because the decision to leave feels more immediately perilous than the decision to stay. (On a certain level making these kinds of choices and actions habitual is a fundamental basis behind a lot of military conditioning.) And if you are acting in the interests of your own survival, but that survival comes at the cost of that of countless others who have not, in fact, made any threat or harm against you to begin with, then is the nature of your survival morally defensible?

This analysis isn't a question of whether Liliana will commit to her role as double agent and turn fully against the Vanguard, or even which one of these is a "better" story; this is about what the story might say if she doesn't. Yes, she might commit to a different path than the one she's on and make an effort to redeem herself, but it is also a perfectly coherent and interesting story if she doesn't.

[sidetongue]

in this photo it looks like he likes me, but i swear there must have been a dog or something behind me because he was CONVINCED i was the fun police

[hardly-an-escape]

FUCK IT I'm putting my Fluffbruary drabbles on AO3. I'll backdate them and I won't post them all at once to avoid flooding the tag/people's notifications (because against all odds there are real life people who are subscribed to me on AO3). but I'm genuinely proud of the fact that I've consistently written near-daily drabbles and ficlets this month and goddamnit I'm going to archive them.

[dantespilled]

whatever is going on w ayakos chaldea

[sheslikealostflower]

MOX ON TOTAL DIVAS ◆ pt. 13

[chelshiart]

[Lydda] met Derk with a mug of broth halfway downstairs and sat herself squarely in his way. "Sit down and drink this, Dad, or I'll peck your burns."

[...]

Derk managed to grin. "Everyone should have griffin daughters to keep them in order," he said.

[jango-fettish]

“My name is Miguel O'Hara. I'm this dimension's one and only Spider-Man.”

But make it Star Wars.

[sweetpapercroissant]

[tiredsurvivoronmain]

How it feels to successfully rizz a Wesker

[starrysharks]

is 90 minutes your high score for the time it takes to make a whole cake and then eat it

this was the first time i've done it so yea

[sargetblu]

YAYY YOU'RE BACK TO NORMAL!!

It was rough being so small

I’m happy to be at my full AMERICAN height again.

Although I do feel dizzy now.

[abyssalhuntersnerd]

Well. Italian cars sure are something else.

[queenharumiura]

there is no other choice. (from Chrome)

Taken from meme: [x] ||Accepting|| @astrcthesiai

Haru really hoped to hear otherwise, but it really did seem to be the case. There was no other option than to make a call and say, 'Oops I may have gone too far because I was upset, so send someone down to do damage control? Tehe pero?'

"For now, the most we can do is make use of illusions to cover up the damage. Sorry for the trouble, Chrome-chan, i'll have to bother you with this." Haru didn't have an affinity for using the mist flames, so she couldn't cover up her own mess.

In her defense, the person had it coming. She warned him multiple times to stand down and to stop being a bother.

The biggest thing, was that the guy was harassing her friend, and she was too timid to do something about it. It was something about their society that Haru really detested. Who told the wall to be so weak and flimsy?

She was going to have to explain it to her friend later, how she was able to do this much damage to a side of a building. "Do you think if I tell her the building was old and on the verge of breaking she'd believe it?" Maybe Haru can get away with saying her friend dreamed it? She seemed to have passed out during the whole process of Haru dealing with an annoying pest.

[kirafanxx69420]

im trying so so hard making a design for lovage's husband the drafts are pilling up