#i'm so slow... rip....

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A super quick connverse before work!

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incorrect jjk quotes [39/?]

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The Preferable Alternative-prologue-part 2

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And here we go! : )

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WIP Wednesday

tagged by @thewildballyntynesgrow

Ok, maybe I missed the deadline by a couple minutes, but in my defense, I was scrolling through things to see what I had already shared (I haven't had a chance to write anything new) BUT. I think I found it - more of the Young River!fic but it's expanded slightly to include Catherine, because, assuming I did my math right, Catherine would've just started working at Slough House with Lamb right around the time that River comes to live with his grandfather.

Ahem.

Anyway.

“You’re worse than the roaches, Cartwright - how did you even get in here? Who let you in here?” One of these days, that boy was going to turn up at some place that actually made sense, but Lamb doubted it was any time in the near future. But Christ on a bicycle, he knew his Horses were slow, but he didn’t think they were so slow as to let a child in the front door, no matter what he told them.

River was sitting cross legged on one of the empty desks, peering through one of the folders marked ‘DESTROY’ in bright red stamped letters across the front, delicately sipping from a broken and chipped mug that had seen better days. “Granddad sent me here to punish you,” he said, without looking up. Instead, he put his mug down, pulling his knees up closer to his face so he could prop the folder closer as he squinted at something on the page. “What does ‘absquatulate’ mean?”

“It’s a deeply silly word meaning to abscond with something,” Catherine answered as she sidestepped around Lamb. “Like I’m about to do with that file, which I told you to leave alone.”

“It can’t be that silly if it’s in an MI5 document,” River argued, still squinting at the page. “How are you supposed to be able to read this? The writing is terrible.”

Catherine peered over the boy’s shoulder, pretending to study the document seriously for a moment. “It says ‘Listen to Catherine and put it in the shredder like she asked you to’.”

River laughed at that, his blonde hair that was getting redder by the day falling in front of his face before Catherine absently pushed it back, before pulling the folder from his hands, exchanging it for a plate with an edible looking sandwich that Lamb suspected was from her own packed lunch.

It was so…weirdly domestic that Lamb almost physically recoiled, but he wasn’t sure why, and did what he always did when he didn’t feel like examining his own self too closely. “What the…Standish, you can’t feed it, then we’ll never get rid of him!”

Catherine scowled at him. “He’s a boy, not an it, Jackson.”

“You don’t know him like I do,” Lamb pointed out. “I’ve been trying to get rid of this one for years - like a bad penny, that one.”

tagging....hmm.

No pressure tags but know that I am deeply invested in your WIP's no matter what they are (drawing or writing): @tenderhooked @abubblingcandle @jamietarttsnorthernattitude @lord-owlsnake @itsjustdg @dragonnan @philcoulsonismyhero aaaaaaaaaaand anyone else who wants to play a belated game of tag

[essektheylyss]

I am once again knitting which means I'm back to the Nein rewatch and happened to be on Midnight Espionage, and truly INSANE episode. The egg dick, both break-ins, the Zauber Spire attack, and the first time a beacon is on screen in like four hours flat. Trent Ikithon is there. The episode ends with Liam and Marisha yelling, "TRUST THE PORN."

[cassiskurocorner]

Try not to make Sebastian have heated eye contact with another man challenge (Impossible edition)

[batfossil-fr]

it's gonna be a while til he can get his genes, but wow, I JUST scried him and I'm instantly in love

[insurged]

when will you return from war? :(

when i hit grandmaster in mar.vel rivals and no sooner.... no jk... but i am getting there, hehe... i'm around, i'm just remaking graphics and pages for all of my muses (and with no self control, added another muse aka dr strange to the roster which in turn, is more stuff to work on). i'm working on asks that my mutuals have sent in ages ago that i owe (but they're so good i don't want to just discard them) and drafts/replies, starting with the oldest first rip. they will only be published when i feel somewhat caught up. i'm very lowkey right now while i work on things in the background and lurking. uwu

[manasurge]

Even though I was too distracted and didn't get screens during the main party, I got some screenshots during the after party where me and Eira got surrounded by big beautiful women <3 (and other friends too!!). I just HAD to get the perspective of everyone from down here, hehe. Then it eventually evolved into a big charr cuddle pile <3

. Also this meme made courtesy of @twilightdomain bc it fits the situation perfectly and it absolutely sent me lsjflksfj. Ilu friend!! ty for this gift, I love this so much adjlksdjf

[dandelion-wings]

PLEASE share those extraneous details you cut from the Lisa whump we need the lore/headcanons

I liked a lot of them, so, sure? XD A lot were embedded in other parts, so I'll post those parts in full with the extra/parentheticals highlighted.

First, not parentheticals, just the easiest things to chop out of a section that was already prose-heavy when I was trying to also convey urgency. Also a potential theme (learning vs. teaching) that I found interesting enough to chuck wholesale into my fic ideas document for later exploration:

"So when Alice designed her Theater, there was enough resin in it for this to revitalize? Like a tree in a Domain?" Jean asks. Even in the midst of the calm that she refuses to let become terror, Lisa feels a spark of pride. She may not be Jean's teacher in the way she is for Razor and Klee, but seeing someone untutored make connections between the information they're given and what they already know will always give her the same joy. "Yes," she says, in the same tone she would to one of those students, "very good.

and

Two years of helping seal Hermanubis, over and over, until it stopped breaking through to overwhelm Cyno and he could develop his own control. She'd done a great deal of research in those two years. Along with all the other learning she'd been doing at the Akademiya, of course. Sleeping two hours a night, working through every meal, walking about with a book in hand so as not to lose a single second in which she might be able to absorb more knowledge.... An unsustainable pace, but one she had sustained for longer than might seem humanly possible. Even then she had eventually burned out. (She sees herself in Jean, sometimes, young and determined and convinced that if she just keeps going, eventually she'll reach the breakthrough point where all the hard work at last becomes *easy*, and all that sacrifice is redeemed by what she gains.) Only after that catastrophic emotional crash had she learned the joys of relaxing, the delights of taking it slow. And the satisfaction of teaching, so much more rewarding than all that learning had ever been. The pursuit of knowledge requires constant sacrifice; *sharing* knowledge demands nothing, only doubles what is given. She had left her notes for Cyrus when she left the Akademiya, and he and Cyno far surpass her now in their expertise on this subject.

I had a whole thing going about "Vision users die young," based in part on a lore theory that I think I picked up from @chrysoula about Vision-users being (ultimately expendable) ways for Celestia to control/process elemental power, but also 50% a dig at the Genshin devs for refusing to give me any playable Beefy Grandpas or Tough Old Women. I pulled it out because all the references for it were an easy thing to rip for pacing:

Very little magic in the modern era doesn't rely on the elements. Even when scholars speak of "old techniques," they're talking about herbalism, which still involves the elemental affinities of certain plants, or tapping the leylines, which remains an occasional if dangerous recourse for those without Visions but had been much more common when Visions were much more rare. They were, before the Cataclysm. (The Akademiya quietly suppresses discussion of *why*.) But there are even older techniques from before the establishment of the Thrones, some still practiced in Liyue and Inazuma under the guise of traditional healing and martial arts, that draw on another source entirely. Her own lifeforce isn't a price Lisa *wishes* to pay. But it is one she knows how to. And it's one Celestia would always have demanded from her, anyway, for that Vision she's so ambivalent about. (People never seem to notice that they've never met a Vision-bearer who isn't *young*. Lisa has done her best to avoid exerting her power, to avoid paying that price into Celestia's coffers. She doesn't miss the irony now.)

(Jean was predestined to die young the moment her Vision appeared, but she'd been taught long before that to accept it as an honor, if in Mondstadt's defense. She would begrudge Lisa the chance to serve more than she would the risk.) (Lisa was predestined to die young the moment her Vision appeared, and she had recoiled from her fate as soon as she realized that truth. She has no desire to rush towards annihilation, even on Mondstadt's behalf.) (Practically, rationally: if they share the work,  *both* of them have a better chance.)

(I do headcanon Lisa as the oldest Mondstadt character by at least 10 years, but mid-to-late-30s is far from old, just puts her that much closer to this theoretical fate.)

and (from Lisa accepting Jean's aid, which happened after the paragraph above in 1.0--moving that to earlier in the ficlet was the other major revision between it and 1.5, and was the reason I wrote that post about twisting Lisa's arm yesterday. I couldn't make her first thought believably be "fine, I'll do this solo" without upping the stakes with something like "Klee's stuck in that," which is a method I already used in the last promptfic, and Jean volunteering way earlier was IC for Jean and fixed that neatly). This whole bit's cut material so I won't color-code here:

Finally, just a bit of speculative magical (and "we don't talk about this in front of Celestia"-themed) worldbuilding that made this paragraph way too chunky:

Sumeran seals tend to use threes (for Dendro, Electro, and Pyro, they say; not for certain trio in their past), Liyue prefers sevens (all seven elements at once grant stability; certainly, with all the adepti also in that court, it has nothing to do with two ruling gods and five generals), and Inazuma likes fives (they're far too secretive to even give their justifications, let alone the historical context behind). Khaenri'ah was emphatically locked into pairs (too gnostic to admit the world has three parts), and Fontaine has a terrible, unstable tendency to use just one anchor-point (that Lisa hopes will change now that it's nearly wiped them out). Mondstadt doesn't have a sealing tradition in the first place as far as the Akademiya is concerned, but Lisa knows better. What else are the Four Winds?

[windtheremin]

I've been playing Phantom Hourglass for the first time, and I think one of my favorite parts about it is that you can actually fight the phantoms. If you're getting chased down and know you can't get away, you can turn around and swing your sword at them, and it works. They flinch and block you with their shield- no damage is dealt and you have to keep swinging nonstop to keep them from hitting you- the moment you stop you're almost definitely dead. But the fact that you can actually look at these terrifying, massive, unkillable wardens, stop running and decide "No, I ain't dying here", and physically fight back against them and it can actually work if you just barely manage to slip away at the perfect moment- it's just SO fucking cool to me.

Scrappy little bastard, this kid.

[princemick]

And I will wait, I will wait for you -- lewis x mumford and sons @f1blrcreatorsfest week 1: glitch + monochrome

[teh-nos]

“We should get going,” she announced, “we don’t want to waste such a lovely evening by socialising outside when we could be shut away indoors screwing instead.”

Finally the sylki con artists AU reaches the point where they both work out what's really been going on for the past 10,000 words. Hurrah! Took me them long enough.

Pairing: Loki/Sylvie Rating: Explicit Additional Tags: Con Artists, Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Crimes & Criminals, One Night Stands, Sexual Content, Mistaken Identity, (sort of), POV Alternating, Romantic Comedy, Dubious Morality, Betrayal with a Happy Ending, Lovers to enemies to lovers, Alternate Universe - Criminals, Art fraud

Chapter 7: At Last, the Penny Drops

[fractempyreal]

You seem pretty chill. But ngl a bit intimidating

ANONYMOUSLY TELL ME YOUR HONEST OPINION ABOUT ME. I CAN’T REPLY/COMMENT, JUST PUBLISH.

[twilightarcade]

STATUS UPDATE ON HEMMING: bad.

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Jesus Christ the MattMello AMV I mentioned in the tags of a recent reblog STILL EXISTS