#i'm so sorry for dumping all that info at the beginning

[smol-feralgremlin]

🎵 ⚠️ 🏷️ for the WIP ask game please!

Hi! I'm so sorry that it's been a few days since you sent this, I've been busy with writing and shenanigans on the farm. But I'm here now so let's get this show on the road XD

SO you didn't specify which wip this is for, so I've gone with wip number...8

🏷️ Does it have a title yet? If so, where did it come from?

Absolutely it does. Revenge of the Kashir.

And it comes from the fact that the last living Kashir are the current generation that were locked into solitary isolation in towers at temples scattered across the country after their elders were unceremoniously murdered by King Orel. Twelve of the twenty four Kashir children that were locked in those towers died due complication resulting from the first of the visions that determined if the young Kashir are capable of acting in the role of a full fledged Kashir.

Kaz was the first of the Kashir to escape and he fled to the nomadic Shilun people, who have always been friends and allies of the Kashir. From there he gathered his "siblings" as they escaped. Through their grief and rage at what had happened to them, the Kashir swear revenge on King Orel and the Templars who had aided in the attempted erasure of the Kashir as a whole, and to a lesser degree the country that let this all happen.

⚠️ If you had to select five tags for it, right now, what would they be?

It already falls under the tag of #Revenge of the Kashir.

the other four are just the names of the main characters #Lira #Kaz #Anthron #Jem

🎵 Are you writing it with a specific playlist in the background?

Not really??? I have two playlists that I switch between when I'm writing, or I shuffle through all of my liked songs on spotify.

I am slowly pulling together character playlists though. Ever so slowly.

[luveline]

heyy! ━ im not sure if you requests currently because its totally fine if you dont.

but how about hot bombshell bau!reader where she looks extra fine today [like its warm and she wears a dress] and spencer cant info dump like he usually does? ━ feel free to add anything to the story!

love your writing and page, <3

ty for requesting ♡ fem!reader

Texas gets hot. Unbearable, suffocating heat, arid air that feels as though it's baking you alive paired with the unforgiving beat of the sun on your shoulders. Sorry, Hotch, but you have to wear a dress. 

It's a little black thing with respectable sleeves and a less respectable hemline. There's no cleavage on show. Honestly, you could wear it to the courthouse if you needed to, and that's what counts. 

"Well, hi, mama," Morgan greets as you drift into the hotel lobby. 

"Unprofessional?" you ask, holding the hem in your two hands and pulling it down a touch. 

"On you? Absolutely." Morgan's wearing his usual attitude, but even he had the sense to wear a light grey shirt. "Where've you been hiding that one?" 

"I'm prepared for anything, Derek, you know that." 

Hotch raises his eyebrows when he sees you. 

"Too much?" you ask cautiously. 

"No. You look nice, Y/N. It's not you I'm thinking about." He suffers in his suit jacket, but you can't imagine he'll wear it much longer. He's a stickler for formality but he's not insane. "Speaking of, where's Reid?" 

"We're here!" JJ assures, leading the rest of your team from the breakfast hall. "We were following the air-conditioning. Hey, nice dress. I wish I packed something cooler." 

"It has to be hitting one ten," Emily whines. 

Spencer follows behind her, not quite looking at you as he begins, "It's an even one hundred farenheit today, it just feels hot because the aridity of the air is…" 

Spencer stares at you, his voice fading thin as the edge of a flower petal. He makes a very gentlemanly and extremely entertaining attempt to restrain himself, but his eyes pitch downward to your thighs, your legs as a whole, pupils dragging and catching on the slopes of them. 

His gaze shoots back to your eyes. "The air?" you ask softly. 

You can feel Hotch's disapproval in the same way you could predict today's heat. Spencer glances at him, and, because he isn't totally socially unable, he steadies himself and says, "You look nice." 

"Spencer!" you cheer, your happiness nearly smothering a mixture of sighs and laughs. "Thank you so much, that's so sweet!" You close the distance between you to clasp his arm gently. "You look nice too. I see you've foregone a sweater in the heat. Have you ever thought about wearing a v-neck shirt like Morgan does? You'd look really good, especially your arms." 

Speechless, Spencer shakes his head. You pat his shoulder as Hotch shepherd's you out of the hotel and into the sunshine, the agony of a land without air-conditioning distracting your audience. With slightly more privacy, you lean into Spencer's side. 

"I know it's not quite right to wear to work but my pencil skirts are all too tight after the last wash. Do you think it's alright?" 

A bead of sweat collects at his hairline. "I think it's fine." 

"Yeah? I just couldn't stand to be hot again like we were yesterday, even my knee caps felt sweaty. If it gets any hotter I'll have to solve the case in my underwear." 

Spencer makes a quiet, strange sound, like a pant or a gasp being choked on. You'd love to say you attribute it to the heat, but you're not that humble. 

"We'd still get the job done, wouldn't we?" you ask. 

"I don't know what to tell you," Spencer says. 

Hotch puts you and Spencer in separate SUVs.

[sungbeam]

𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞

gamer/streamer!choi beomgyu x f!reader

1.5k words, fluff/comfort, reader has hair long enough for a claw clip, strawberries, est. relationship au, the background info dump in the beginning was for my own entertainment tbh

Choi Beomgyu loved you.

Sometimes he wondered how you could possibly love someone like him—a loser who streamed League half the day away, lived in his pajamas, and dropped out of college to play video games for hundreds of thousands of people online. He barely went out of the house, unless it was to touch grass, but he had managed to snag your attention nonetheless.

He liked to joke that you were in it for his celebrity status. It was made all the more ironic, since you had no idea who he was when he'd first introduced himself to you in the self-checkout aisle of a grocery store, and you'd stared at him like he was high. Beomgyu, humbled to all hell, had stuttered out an apology and bowed about ninety degrees—then asked for your number like a normal person.

Ah, good times.

He'd then somehow mustered up enough swagger to date you for two years and counting. And now, you were moved in and got to hear him yell at a handful of computer monitors for twelve hours a day. (Love was funny, wasn't it?)

But if forever was the sweetest con, then dear god, he hoped he could pull this one off.

It was during one of his streams that he heard the front door slam from his office. He had just finished a round, and when he had heard the door but not your voice, he pushed back from his desk so he could lean back and give you a holler. "Yn! Yn-ie! Babyyyyy!"

He waited a beat.

A frown curled his mouth downward when he didn't hear your reply. Uh oh.

Tongue in cheek, Beomgyu used his feet to bring him back to his computer screen. His eyes flickered with the pace at which his chat flew past. "Hey chat, I need to check up on my girl. I'll be right back. Go get a snack or something."

With that, he dumped his headset onto the desk and raced out of the office.

He flew out into the main living space of the apartment, his eyes scanning the premises for you. With both of your incomes combined, the two of you managed to live comfortably in a nice apartment complex just north of the main city center. You both shared a bedroom and bathroom, while also getting separate, small office spaces. You used yours a lot less than he did his, but it was nice to have one in case.

Instead of your figure, he found your keys and shoes by the door, and a grocery bag on the island counter.

He backpedaled over to the bedroom next, head poking into the darkened room. His voice came out low, "Babe, you here?"

"Yeah," came your small response.

He tracked it to the bathroom, where you were hunched over your sink in the dark, your hair pulled back in a claw clip. Your face was damp like you had just washed it, but he didn't miss the way you were wiping at your eyes. Something sank in his chest, something heavy that made his body slump in dread.

"Sorry, I didn't wanna bother you," you said, forcing stability into your voice, even if it still shook a little.

You reached for your facial towel to hide your melancholy, but Beomgyu liked to think he paid more attention than you were giving him credit for.

He wrapped his arms around your middle from behind, pressing a kiss to the side of your head. "Hey, you're never a bother; you know that," he replied softly. "What's wrong, hm? How can I help?"

Your body shook with a sob as you cried into the towel. Beomgyu's chest clenched at the sound, at the feeling. God, he was right here, and yet, he felt so helpless, so useless. "It's nothing—I… I just… I'm just tired," you managed to say.

You sniffled, avoiding his eyes in the dark mirror as you set the towel aside and began washing your face again.

Beomgyu pursed his lips and sucked in a breath. "Yn-ie, you know I'm not just gonna let you go to sleep this upset, baby."

When you'd patted your face dry again, you were left with reddened, puffy eyes. You turned around to press your face into his warm chest. His arms looped around you like second nature to hold you to him.

Beomgyu gently smoothed a hand over the back of your head, letting the tension from the claw clip loosen the headache no doubt forming in your cranium. He clipped the accessory to his belt loop, quietly trying to calm your muffled cries. "Come on. Let's get some food into your stomach, okay? It'll make you feel better."

He led you out to the kitchen, helping you onto one of the bar stools while he rummaged through the grocery bag you brought home. His chest panged when he imagined you going through the grocery store while holding back tears. Had you cried there, or perhaps it had all come flooding out here?

There were a few things to add to the fridge, but he found a carton of big, red strawberries at the bottom of the bag. He released a breath he didn't realize he had been holding in—you'd managed to get yourself something. Good. He was glad.

Usually in your shared household, you were the one to wash and cut and peel fruit for him. You fed him all the healthy things, kept him a normal functioning human being. You kept him sane.

So Beomgyu took the carton of strawberries out of the bag and transferred them to a colander to be washed. He then carefully sliced the stems off each berry, sliced them into halves, until the colander was empty and the bowl he had on the counter, filled.

He wiped his hands on the towel hanging below the sink, then brought the bowl of glistening red fruit before you.

"For you," he murmured, one warm palm pressed between your shoulder blades, his lips brushing a kiss to your hairline. "I'll be right back."

Beomgyu hurried back to the office to find his viewers waiting.

He braced his arm on the desk, forgoing sitting down in the chair. He swept a lock of his long hair out of his eyes as he skimmed some of the live comments in the chat. A huff of laughter, then a shake of his head. "You guys are so weird. I'm signing off for the night though—no, I don't owe you an explanation... Okay, it's my baby—yeah, yeah, I see you rampaging in the comments, Chenle."

Beomgyu wrinkled his nose playfully. "I'm not a fuckin' simp, you losers. At least I have a partner. Okay, whatever. Later, guys."

He turned off the stream with a tap of his mouse, and then he was back by your side. You seemed to have calmed down a little, but what lacked your sobbing came a sad, startling quiet. Quiet from you wasn't unusual per se, but this one felt empty.

Beomgyu stood behind your stool, one of his arms curling around your middle as he peered over your shoulder at the bowl. You'd eaten a few slices of the fruit while he was gone, but it wasn't as much as he had hoped you would have eaten.

He released a light exhale, reaching for a strawberry slice and popping it into his mouth. He leaned his head against yours. "Wanna snuggle?" He asked you quietly.

A small smile pulled at the corners of your mouth, and he mentally high-fived himself. "Is that a yes?" He gasped with a childlike excitement. "You wanna snuggle with me?"

You nodded, not trusting your voice just yet, but that was okay. He heard you loud and clear.

You turned on the stool so you could wrap your limbs around his body.

Beomgyu cooed softly. "My sweet baby. I'm so sorry you have to feel this way." He kissed your head again, his arms shifting so he could hoist your body up and carry you over to the sofa with him.

He collapsed onto the sofa with a melodramatic grunt, then flopped backward so you were lying on top of his chest. He wondered, with your ear pressed against him, if you could hear just how much your proximity affected him. Even after all this time. If, maybe, you felt even a fraction of what he felt for you (just a fraction would make his heart soar). There was no way you didn't, right?

He wrapped both arms around you with a sigh. "I know you don't want to talk about it," he murmured, "just know it'll be alright. All of it. Even if it seems like the world is falling apart, even if you feel like a failure—you will get through this. I know you can; I know you will."

Your first words since earlier to him came at almost an inaudible volume. "And if I can't? What then?"

"Then I'll be here to help you," he answered. Yes, that was it. His breath was warm against your cheek, against your ear. "I'll always be here."

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[the-modern-typewriter]

do you have any advice on writing beginnings? i never know where to start so that the exposition and action are balanced enough to make the opening interesting. i can do middles and ends easily enough if the beginning is well-set up, but i’ve always struggled. any tips?

I'm going to focus on balancing exposition and action in this answer, as it seems to be the key area you are struggling with, rather than openings more generally.

Okay. Let's go!

1 - Need to know

The first question to ask yourself is what does the reader actually need to know to follow and understand the story?

Openings can vary by genre and the age group they are written for, but beneath all of the variations and methods, is the need to know. So long as you have that covered, the rest honestly just comes down to reader and author preference.

What a reader needs to know will depend on your story and your plot. E.g. if it is a portal fantasy, then we typically just need to know what the protagonist is missing/yearning for/struggling with in their everyday life in order for us to see how this is changed through their adventure in a new world. We will learn about the new world as the protagonist does so there will be a natural exposition point as they explore (exploring = action, we learn as they learn).

If, on the other hand, the whole story is set in a magical fantasy land that the protagonist has always known, then you're going to have to do more exposition in order for your reader to understand the key rules of the world and what things mean.

2 - Start at the interesting bit/provide your protag a goal or the reader with a question they want answered

We don't typically start on an ordinary day where nothing happens, even if it shows us what the protagonist's normal life is like. We start on the day that they have a job interview they desperately want to ace, or the day a body is found in the river, or a day where something unusual happens or two characters meet for the first time.

This raises external, concrete plot questions.

Because we have started at an interesting point in the story where something is actually happening, it makes it easier to interweave action with exposition.

To go hand in hand with this, give your character a goal/something they want. This doesn't have to be a big or seemingly important thing, although it can be. The recent film Everything Everywhere All At Once did a wonderful example of this in that the main character just wanted to do her taxes. Other examples might be that a character just wants to get home after a bad day, or to pick a cake for an event. Whatever.

This can have a number of different purposes depending on the story. For example, it provides tension and conflict because there is an obstacle in the way of what they want (to get home), or it provides an opportunity to showcase character or relationship (e.g. the cake).

3 - Options for exposition

There are different options for doing exposition.

A narrator or first person POV can tell the reader about the world even through direct narration or their internal thoughts. This works especially well if you have a strong sense of character. It is useful for conveying key information quickly, but you will likely want to break it up with other forms of exposition to avoid an info dump.

A flashback. Flashbacks are a great tool! I don't recommend starting a story with a flashback. They are much better for providing important information a little later after you have hooked your reader with the more immediate plot.

Dialogue. Dialogue is a natural and excellent way for us to learn about characters and the world that is also action. The danger being that your dialogue still has to sound natural. If the characters wouldn't be standing around actually talking like that in that setting at that time, sorry mate. Do a different exposition technique.

Exploration/setting. Characters can learn about a place/world as they explore it, which means the reader can learn with them as they experience the world.

One way to balance your exposition with action is to vary how you do your exposition. If your reader is having fun reading the story, they won't care that it's exposition/set up. All stories start with exposition. Look at your favourites and break down what they are actually doing, shamelessly steal the framework, and adapt as relevant for your work.

4 - Remember that you don't have to start by writing the opening

Openings are easier when you know what your story is about. This is because openings often showcase something that is going to be relevant throughout the story. This could be a specific image, a nod to theme, or some character trait that will be important.

If you don't know what your story is about yet because you are still writing it (totally valid!), feel free to come back to the opening later, in the same way that you might write the body of an essay and then do the introduction/conclusion last once you have figured out what you want to say.

You're allowed to work backwards. You're allowed to work in any jigsaw way that works for you. You don't have to write the first line first.

When you know your story, it's also a lot easier to figure out what your reader will need to know.

[draco-after-dark]

Captured and contained

Little info dump on the whole diamond prison thing with regards to my Feral JD AU

So basically what happened when Velvet and Veneer first captured JD in my au is Veneer is always looking for more animals for his little side zoo project. They happened to be doing a photo shoot outside in the woods for a new album cover. Veneer went on a walk to have some alone time and stumbled across a little goblin boy. Aka JD.

"Oooo aren't you a cute little fella, You would be perfect as desk decoration!"

*JD gets snatched*

Later when Veneer tells Velvet he got a new pet and reveals JD. Her initial reaction is "Okay, but where did you even get that thing it's disgusting." JD proceeds to bite Veneer (multiple times) and wriggle himself free from his hands. He then runs rampant through their dressing room until they manage to contain him in a crystal bottle. The only thing they thought was strong enough to hold him. Later down the line when Velvet captures Floyd (basically the same sequence of events as the movie from here) and starts using him for his talent. That's when they realize that JD is actually a troll as well. JD being JD though is as Velvet described "uncooperative" and "savage" so she refuses to use him for his talent and instead tells Veneer "That one can be yours. You're that one that found that thing anyway." So Veneer does end up using JD for his talent just not nearly as often as Velvet does Floyd. JD does still get hit pretty hard by the whole draining thing considering he is grey and unlike the average troll has in a sense "forgotten/lost" his talent. That doesn't stop him from unleashing hell on the twin every chance he gets. Goblin man will do goblin things

Then things follow the movie pretty much the same except Bruce and Clay end up getting captured when they all break into the dressing room to rescue Floyd. Poppy and Branch end up escaping into the rafters. Velvet ends up sticking Clay and Floyd in her shoulder pads and Veneer gets Bruce. Veneer leaves JD behind in his dressing room because he feels guilty and doesn't want to hurt him any more than he has to.

Fast forward to the family harmony scene where although they are technically down a brother and Floyd is still trapped in Velvet's clutches the 3 brothers and pop sisters sing on anyway. The family harmony DOES end up working to free Floyd and also JD. I'm playing this off on the idea that despite JD not being present physically he could feel the connection to his brothers and their desperation to help Floyd. JD wants the same thing, to free Floyd and that is what connects them all together. It's like Branch said "We don't have to be perfect to be in harmony, We just have to be as we are." (just go with it ok IDK) Once the diamonds are shattered JD is pretty worst for wear, unlike Floyd he doesn't have anyone to support him right off the bat. He is used to being on his own at this point tho and only cares about getting Floyd out. He tucks himself away into a corner of the room behind some furniture to hide and rest up till he can get the both of them out of this hell hole.

Mind you only Floyd knows that he's also being held captive somewhere backstage when all this is happening. So once Floyd regains consciousness and has a chance to take a moment with his brothers. he then immediately goes into full anxiety mode well explaining that they have to get to JD. The others confused about what he's talking about don't believe him at first, but do end up helping Floyd backstage since he keeps insisting that JD needs them. They do end up finding JD and that's where the real story begins.

:D

Hopefully this makes sense? I ain't no writer sorry people

Little bonus scene

"Hey Vel does this look infected to you???"

"I can't believe we're related... CRIMP SCHEDULE A HOSPITAL VISIT BECAUSE MY IDIOT OF A BROTHER GOT BITTEN BY A FUCKING RAT!"

[somewhereincairparavel]

okay. So I've finished book 1 of keeper of the lost cities for the first time. And I'm loving this keefe dude already?? Like I never thought I'd like a fictional character so quickly. All it took was like one page for me to fall for him, I am aware that keefe is one of the most loved characters in the fandom, and I can see why (correct me if I'm wrong).

Also the book is a solid 9.5/10, the only thing I was frustrated about was probably the slight info dumping about the whole blackswan thing towards the end? because it took me like 3 reads to understand the whole situation, of course, we could just narrow it down to me being slow too, lol. But I'm VERY excited to continue reading the rest. So while we're at it, I'll put in my first impressions of the characters, so I can look back on it after I've read all the books, to see how much my perception has changed of them.

Sophie- i like her, she's really mature for her age, I keep forgetting that she's like 12 lmao. But she's well written, her emotions seem very raw and natural. Of course, she may seem overpowered but, I think that's the whole point of the story, she is supposed to be overpowered, so I don't mind and i wouldn't call her a Mary sue. Overall great protagonist, my girlie deserves a break tho, she got dumped in the hospital atleast 6 times lol.

Fitz- i actually think he's cool. I liked him better in the beginning of the story tho, I feel like afterwards, the dude kinda just disappeared a little? Keefe and Sophie seemed to have more private interaction than those two, and keefe literally only came by in the middle. But yeah, I feel like he had more of a personality in the start. Keefe and Dex, in my opinion had more personality in 5 minutes than fitz did the whole book, but I wouldn't judge so quickly, it's only the first book after all, Hopefully he'd have more page time in the later books. I still like him tho, just not as much as keefe.

Dex- Yeah he is such a typical best friend, I love him. His beef w the vackers is so funny lol I was relieved when Sophie stuck with him even after she became popular tho, also, he seems to have a crush on sophie right? It's kinda obvious, but overall friendship goals 10/10. I vocally "AWW-ed" after he said "are you kidding, i can't wait to tell everyone that you're my first friend" like I need a guy bestie like him :(

Alden- honestly, my heart warmed so much with his father-like dynamic with sophie tbh. He seemed to genuinely care about her well being, but I don't want to get too attached to him tho, just in case becomes a traitor or some shit later on, you can literally never tell with the adults lol. I've read enough books to back that up. But yeah, i really like him and della, the amount of reassuring hugs he gives sophie really heals me :(, They're like sophies 2nd (well, in her case, 3rd) parents. The amount of effort and lengths Alden put to get her out of trouble is actually sweet.

Elwin- This guy is such a W. He is like an adult keefe tbh. He is probably my favorite adult so far lol.

Cassius- I'm sorry, but Mr jerk face over here reminds me SO much of Lucius Malfoy??? Like ?? I feel so bad for Keefe, like poor baby leave him alone smh. I really wanna deck his royal highness in the face tbh.

Biana- absolutely loathed her in the beginning, she gave off such bad snob vibes lol but I love her now. I like the trope of two people forced to be friends w eachother by someone actually end up becoming friends. It's rather uncommon as far as I've read, atleast.

Grady and Edaline- is it bad that i thought they were going to be evil? Yeah I have so much trust issues, it's concerning. But yeah, they're both big W's, their backstory, their temporary contemplation to reject sophies adoption, everything aligned well with their backstory. Greatly written characters.

And last but not least, the king himself, Keefe- okay, he's like added to my list of fictional crushes now lol (along with Percy Jackson, Jason grace, Steve Harrington, chat noir, Eugene fitzherbert, edmund pevensie and Ravi singh ofc). How does sophie not have a fat crush on him, like- ma'am if you don't want him, I'll take him. But jokes aside, he feels like the most authentic character out of them all, tbh. Epitome of great writing. He was inserted to the story as this random dude that sophie runs into, and becomes an og in like 5 minutes. He is like a mix of Eugene from tangled, Kristoff from Frozen and chat noir from mlb all at the same time?? I cannot wait to see more of him and his backstory, especially with his parents. I know alot of people dislike the humorous guy with depression trope since it's overused, but I like how it played out on keefe, he uses school as an escape, which is very relatable.

Also, bonus, i LOVE the world building, the light leaping and all, very creative. I cannot wait to get my hands on book 2

[hereliesbou]

I AM GOING TO INFO DUMP ABOUT MY LATEST TWOMP AU AND YOU CAN EITHER JOIN ME IN MY FANDOM INDUCED DELIRIUM OR IGNORE ME LIKE AN ANNOYING STREET PREACHER.

I suffer from, "i like to put my guys in any and all kinds of situations" syndrome. It's chronic.

Anyway: The Harbinger AU (is what im calling it for now) I started thinking about this au today on my walk, so don't expect a complete idea. Just stuff I need to scream about. 😭 Anyway, the au- it's like this gloomy, apocalyptic, four horseman inspired type of deal, where Argos, Mr. Plant, Mr. Flower and even Thorn (he's a part of all of my au's and has been for quite some time now and im not sorry, i'm very attached to him) are all these beacons of death and destruction and the sole reason for their existence is to bring an end to all life. But they don't know it. Not right away at least, and it takes them a long time to put all the pieces together cause that would be one hell of a conclusion to come to right away. All they know is, for as long as they can remember, strange and awful things happen all around them all of the time. They are like conduits for bad luck, just spreading it like a disease to everyone around them at all times and they've always been helpless to stop it. The bad shit they cause for people starts out small and always out of their control. Family members experiencing financial crisis, friends always getting hurt or in trouble around them, people losing things. But the longer people spend around them, the more the misfortune snowballs until it rolls up into a tragedy. "School bus driver passes out at the wheel, collision with oncoming train. Students on board and no survivors." "Local high school evacuated due to dangerous chlorine related incident. Swim team in critical condition." "Small town man kills entire family, leaves cryptic message on living room wall and commits suicide." Etc. And the older they get, the worse the incidents become. They start to effect things on a grander scale and start to realize they can do things people shouldn't be able to do. Manipulate people and the world around them in unnatural ways, like a maestro guiding their orchestra. And at first they try to use this to help people around them, to try to prevent tragedy from striking, but it never seems to work. Always the same outcome. Misfortune after misfortune, followed by some horrible disaster, like fate was sending a message. Trying to let them know. I should clarify also, that all four of them, Argos, Mr. Plant, Thorn, Mr. Flower, experience all of this alone up to a point and only find each other a little later on in life, with some slight exceptions. I like to think Mr. Flower and Mr. Plant find each other in the midst of one of the many disasters they cause. Some kind of trauma bonding perhaps, and they slowly begin to realize that one does not effect the other the same way they effect everyone else. They are immune to each other. And so they remain together. And of course Argos comes in similarly to cannon, absolutely obsessing over Mr. Plant. He's still captivated by the man but I also think he's drawn to him for similar reasons to Mr. Flower and Mr. Plant. He is different. He is unbothered. he is safe. They both are. In fact, I think they're all drawn to each other. Even Thorn blows into the area coincidentally and stumbles on these guys, fully expecting to make trouble for them, but it never comes. And how curious that is. I'd like to think that the four of them are meant to destroy the world together, and that the everyone would be much safer if all of them never found each other but again, they don't know that. What they do know, is that they're finding people who they can't hurt just by being around. For once, they're finding people who won't resent them for their presence and the dread filled pall that hangs over them. And as they cling to one another and learn more about the other, they realize they're all experiencing the exact same thing, and so they all set out to find out if there's a way to stop it, thereby officially and unknowingly, setting in motion the end of all things. This is all I have so far since i just started chewing on this idea today. But i've half wondered about what kind of outcome this would actually end in.

Will there be an end to all things? Or will there be some kind of happy ending? I dunno. I love happy endings as much as I love tragic ones, and as much as I love thinking about the four of them being able to continue on with their lives normally instead of having to worry about stuff, I also daydream about an outcome where they learn their roles and just hang their heads and accept it, thereby becoming active participants in the end of the world. At least they'll die together. I feel like this is one of those au's where you could just easily replace the character's with all original ones lmaoooo. I have a few of those types of stories, but I'm way too attached to these guys to do it. orz Besides, i don't have it in me to make something out of this anyway, so it'll stay in my head until i'm hit with enough energy to do more than just daydream about it.

Some other fun ideas I've played around with for this au include:

Abilities based on their insecurities. I have this other au i've been obsessing over since I joined the twomp fandom, which was like... July sometime? Last year. And we're a few months away from my 1 year anniversary, yay!!!

Anyway, obviously my main focus for that au is Mr. Plant and Argos, but also Mr. Flower and Thorn are also central to the whole thing, and a huge part of the focus for that au is everyone's relationship with each other and the shit they deal with.

In short, the four of them work thru things together and it's messy and it's angsty, and there's drama and distrust and betrayal and murder, etc. etc. you get the picture. I've kind of taken those ideas about them and transferred some of them them over to this au.

Point is, each of them struggle with a lot of things, but there's always one main thing that's like the eye of the storm. The cause of everything else wrong with each of them.

For Mr. Plant it's his dislike of people. It's more of a distrust in the au. Distrust of others, distrust in himself to be able to be around others. So he just avoids. Stays where he can't be seen and bothered until he absolutely has to be somewhere.

And so when things go from bad to worse and Mr. Plant starts to develop unnatural abilities, they feed off of his need to stay in the dark. To stay out of sight.

Like being able to fuck with electricity and even your vision. He can also teleport a little bit. But like- you know the first twomp episode where the narrator is like, "Sometimes Mr. Plants like to be watched, likes to be seen and sometimes he doesn't" (paraphrasing) and he like jumps from the bed to be directly in front of the camera? More like that.

Thorn is similar in that his abilities are meant to conceal in a way. His problem is that he feels he can't measure up. He's got standards set for himself that are far too high, and they're all based on expectations set on him. But he's too proud to admit when he needs help, so he puts on an act all the time. Boastful and loud and always grinning. And always making promises he can't keep.

He's all smoke and mirrors, and so smoke becomes his weapon. The cloud of illusion and confusion. His cigarette smoke will leave your head spinning and unable to tell up from down or if what you're seeing is real or not.

Poor Argos has abandonment issues, everyone around him dying or running away from him. He is unlovable and everyone tells him so in some fashion or another. So he clings to people, obsesses, watches them, learns who they are and what they want and molds himself into their preferred person.

He's become so good at watching and learning and discerning that he can manifest all of one's deepest secrets and desires into a third eye on his subject's forehead, and all he has to do is look into it and everything is laid bare for him.

The downside is that this often leaves the subject in a ruined state of mind, hysteria, severe paranoia, stuff like that.

Mr. Flower's is a very special one, and one that doesn't get used often.

He doesn't like it.

I've always imagined Mr. Flower as the straight man of the group in any au. Always the voice of reason, always trying to make violence a last resort. So i felt this ability he has would be absolutely fun to give him.

I imagine that everyone here- Argos, Mr. Plant, Thorn and Mr. Flower, would eventually come to have issues with other people in some way, given the situation they're in. They've lived a lonely existence up until they found each other. Scared to hurt people, scared to be ostracized, wanting to belong but not wanting to cause problems. Maybe it's caused them to eventually give up on others. Maybe even push people away.

I imagine Mr. Flower being the worst offender for that type of behaviour. To the point where's he's driven someone close to him to commit suicide. And it's always hung over him, always haunted him, always weighed on his mind. For Mr. Flower, it was somehow the worst thing he's ever done to someone despite all the bad luck he's given people, because this felt like the one thing that didn't have to happen.

At least with the bad luck, all that had been completely out of his control. But the suicide... The suicide was directly his fault. All the ways he'd hurt that person, the things he'd done and the words he'd said to them. Until it was too much and then they were gone.

And so i've given Mr. Flower the ability to force people to kill themselves just by speaking it. But the kicker is, he has to know their biggest insecurity to do it. But once he has it, their life is in his hands.

And he hates it.

The way I've always interpreted Mr. Flower is being this tired and high strung kind of guy. He seems rough around the edges, but he's not mean. He's actually very kind and gentle but he can be a bit naggy. He's a worry wort. He and Argos have a lot of similarities in my au's, with the difference being that Argos struggles with overwhelming violent emotions when sufficiently pushed and Mr. Flower does not.

Among other things.

ANYWAY

I like the idea of each of their issues and abilities somehow resembling and/or complimenting one another to further drive home how intertwined they all are. Four separate fates bound together.

Or some silly thing like that.

Anyway, this last part is not set in stone. I'm just babbling. But it's a fun idea even if it gets scrapped later. But if you made it this far then... uh... would you like a pepsi?

[into-crazy]

don't wanna miss a thing

》 chapter 4

Negan Smith x Female Reader

Non-apocalyptic AU // The Walking Dead AU

Other Characters(mentioned): Rick Grimes

Summary: You finally open up about your feelings to Negan.

Warnings- mature language, age gap(reader's in her early 20s), slow burn, fluff, kissing and sensual touches, ages 18+

Other chapters & info -> RIGHT HERE

💕divider by @saradika-graphics

You shoot him a puzzled look, "I'm sorry, what do you mean you know?"

Negan tightens his lips into a line. Fucking damn it, he nearly messed up. He knows what you're going to say but he wants you to tell him yourself. He chuckles, "come on, it's obvious. You've had this look on your face all day, like you got something on your mind."

Your gaze shys away for a moment. "Yeah, about that.." you pause, nervously rubbing your arm. "I want to tell you how I feel. And before I do, you should know that this is something that I've felt for a very long time."

"It's alright, go on." He takes a couple steps towards you. After noticing how tense you are he stays put. But you still have his full, undivided attention.

This is it. Mustering up the courage you blink up at him. "We've known each other for a few years now. You've always been a great friend to my family and to me. Well I really like being your friend, but I have developed romantic feelings for you." You shake your head, hoping that you hadn't just ruined everything. "I hope this doesn't mess up our friendship. It means a whole lot to me, whether you feel the same way or not."

Negan takes it all in, sighing before responding, "I know that you've got feelings for me. Known for a while."

Your breath gets caught in your throat. "You- you knew?"

He nods sympathetically. "Yeah. Listen, I know that must have been hard for you to tell me and I'm glad that you did."

"It was." You are relieved. It's as though a weight has been lifted from your shoulders. Even though he hasn't given a response to how he feels about all of it. "How long have you known?"

It takes him a second to ponder. "Every now and then I've had my suspicions. I could tell by the way you look at me sometimes."

"I'm sorry."

This time, he smiles at you. Warm and genuine. "Now what the hell are you sorry for, sweetheart?"

"I don't know. For just dumping all of that on to you. Even if you already knew. But I guess there was no need for me to tell you then." You bite your lip, afraid that maybe you'll start to say too much again. However, Negan knows you better than that.

"Oh yes there fucking was. And I know there's more. I want you to tell me exactly how you feel about me."

That was all you needed to continue. "I always feel safe when I'm around you. I admire how you are not afraid to tell the truth or say what's your mind.." Negan begins to slowly make his way closer to you, listening to every single word. "I can never get enough of your laugh, it's one of my favorite sounds. I love your smile, your kindness, your unique sense of humor.."

Your voice trails off now that he is standing directly in front of you.

You're eyeing up at him like a lovesick doe. He can't deny that it does something to him. You're so damn beautiful to him in that very moment. So close. It took every ounce of his self control to not to gaze down at your body, though it's difficult when your exposed stomach and silky thighs call to him. It was becoming harder for him to hold back from you. Especially when your heavenly scent invades his nose. You have always smelled good to him, however it felt like there was something new added to it. Something thicker, sweeter.. It's mind-numbing.

He sighs, gazing over your lips then up towards your eyes. "You wanna know something?" You nod, rather prettily, and he takes that as a cue to continue. "The way you looked at me right before you left Rick's, it made me feel like I betrayed you- broke your heart. You've never looked at me like that before, and I sure as shit didn't like it." His fingers come up to caress your jaw, keeping your eyes locked with his. "It made me realize that I never want you look at me like that ever again."

"I'm sorry. I didn't mean to make you feel that way." It feels like there's a lump in your throat when you talk.

He leans in closer, his face just inches from yours. He gazes at you with half lidded eyes. "No more apologizing for tonight, alright sweetheart."

"Okay." Your breath hitches. He is right there. How badly do you want to kiss him.

A toothy grin spreads across his face. "Good. You're too fucking sweet to be saying sorry anyway, especially for nothing. Now tell me what you really want from me."

"I want you to kiss me."

"That I can do."

He moves in, pressing his warm lips to yours. Moving gently as he kisses you, his tongue finds yours and you hum lowly into his mouth. Your arms wrap around his neck, drawing his body closer to you. His brows furrow as he brings his hands to hold your waist. The kiss quickly grows more passionate. He backs you against the wall while continuing to make out with you feverishly. You can't get enough of him, wanting more. He tastes even better than you've ever imagined. Neither of you want to pull away, not even for air.

When you finally do pull away, you're both left panting in intoxicated states. Breathing in the same air together.

Negan smiles lazily, "Goddamn, baby. Now I'm kind of mad at you for making me wait that long."

You look at him sheepishly, heart skipping a beat at his new nickname for you. "I'm so-" The raise of his brows cuts off your sentence. "Oh right, no more apologizing. Sorry about that. No wait- I didn't mean to say it again."

He lets out a deep laugh after listening to you tumble over your own words. Tongue swiping over his lips seductively. "You're so fucking adorable. Come here."

No need to tell you twice. He tugs you in for another kiss, his lips moving hungrily as if he's trying to consume you. His hands slide down to squeeze your hips, causing you to moan into his mouth and your knees nearly give out. Your body's response makes him groan. He brings you with him, making way towards your bed. Backing you until you're laying down on the plush surface.

He brings himself to hover over you, not wanting to crush you. Not yet at least. His eyes run down you appreciatively. Your hair is sprawled around behind you, there's a blush on your face and neck, a hitch in your breath, your lips moist from his, and your eyes are shining with want. You look like an angel to him, soft and beautiful. So innocent looking. Inexperienced compared to him. God how he wants to give you everything you've ever wanted. Every pleasure imaginable. You deserve all of it and more. After taking a couple seconds to take you all in he immediately goes to kiss along your neck. Gentle at first, then rougher when your hand goes to tug down on his hair. Ths sharp gasps and rolling of your hips tell him you want more.

His hips come down, pinning yours to the bed. He can feel himself getting hard in his jeans. And telling from the arch of your back, you felt it too. However he chooses to ignore it for now. His lips trail kisses down your collarbone while his hand slides up your stomach and under your shirt. His touch was about to reach your breast when something startles both of your actions to a complete halt.

It's the distinct sound of the front door closing followed by your aunt Rena's voice, "Y/n? Are you home?"

Your eyes widen before hissing out, "my aunt's home!"

"Shit!" Negan curses under his breath, moving fast to climb off of you.

"Over there, in the closet!" You direct him over to the enclosure. He quickly steps inside and you shut the door.

You race back to the bed, replying aloud to your aunt, "yeah, I'm here in my room!"

Making sure nothing looks suspicious, you look around when your eyes land on Negan's leather jacket at the end of your bed. Fuck, you forgot the jacket! With lightning-fast movements you grab the article and shove it under the covers. Hiding it just in time before Rena enters your room.

"Oh there you are." She addresses when she spots you. "I'd stopped by the Grimes place but they said that you had already left. Is everything alright?"

You give her a curt nod. "Mm yes, I'm good. I was just feeling tired and wanted to come home early."

She hums in understanding. "Glad you're okay. Rick had also said that Negan walked you home?"

Her tone doesn't sound curious or accusing in any way so you assume you're in the clear. You swallow before answering, "he did. They wanted to make sure I got home safely."

She smiles appreciatively. "That's nice. I'll be sure to give him my thanks the next time I see him."

"How was work? I didn't expect you to be back this early."

Your aunt yawns in exhaustion. "It was rather slow today. They decided to let me leave early. The choice was between me and another but she wanted the hours."

You offer a smile. "Well I'm happy you're back before I had gone to sleep. Means I get to tell you good night."

Rena comes over to give you a hug. "Me too. Good night sweetie."

With that, she leaves your room. Closing the door behind her.

You wait for a few seconds to make sure she had gone into her own room. As soon as you felt it was all clear, you spring out of bed and rush towards the closet to let Negan out. Sliding the door open, the both of you have to restrain yourselves from bursting out laughing at the situation.

"That was close," he beams, sliding out past you.

"It was." You laugh in agreement.

You couldn't even imagine what would've happened had your aunt caught you making out with Negan in your bed. How she'd react, what she'd say or think.

Negan exhales heavily, "well, I guess we call it a night here then." He catches the saddened expression on your face. "But hey, how about I take you out?"

Your eyes light up. "You mean like.. on a date?"

"Yup, like a date. I'll take you anywhere you want." His low, gravelly voice makes you swoon all over again.

"I would like that very much."

A grin stretches across his face and he takes you into his arms. "Great. Then afterwards, you can decide whether you want to pick up where we left off or not." He finishes that sentence with a suggestive bounce of his eyebrows, causing you to giggle and blush.

"Hm, I don't know. We'll see." You toss back. Knowing damn well that you'd want to.

//

[vixstarria]

✨Prepare for an unsolicited info dump✨

I was tagged by @herdarkestnightelegance - thanks!

Do you make your bed? Yes, always - I might leave other things lying around, but the bed is the no. 1 thing that always gets done - otherwise the bedroom looks too messy and irks me

Favorite number? I don't have a favourite number.

What’s your job? So... I work in a small law firm as the person who does everything but provide legal advice. Accounts, IT, HR, admin, random paralegal stuff - I'm your guy (gn). No one at work really knows exactly what it is I do, but they generally assume I'm always busy, which provides ample opportunity to shitpost on tumblr during work hours. E.g. right now. I love my job.

If you could go back to school would you? Absolutely not, I still have PTSD and recurring nightmares about school. I mean, I don't mind learning, per se, but I would strongly prefer it to be on my own terms, remote, and outside of a formal academic environment. And definitely not in the country I grew up and went to school in.

Can you parallel park? Strangely enough, yes. I do note that I do not have a license, however.

Do you think aliens are real? There has to be alien life of some kind out there, but it won't be little green men in blinking flying saucers. ...Although then again, hey, within the infinity of the universe, maybe there ARE little green men in saucers as well, somewhere, who knows?

Can you drive a manual car? Strictly within the confines of an empty parking lot - sure

What’s your guilty pleasure? Oh gosh, of what kind? Food - spicy ramen noodles with a bunch of stuff (mushrooms, egg, etc) thrown in. I love it, but I swear I immediately gain a kg any time I have a bowl. Music - early 2000's R&B, pop and nu metal. It's nostalgia, okay? Media - reality fashion shows that involve competitions, e.g. Project Runway, or ANTM. And cooking shows, but I don't feel guilty about those lol.

Tattoos? No, nothing's ever struck me as significant enough for me to want to have it on my skin permanently. If I had a weird scar I would cover it up with a tattoo, though.

Favorite color? Purple, especially lilac and lavender shades.

Favorite types of music? It fluctuates, but I've mostly been on an electronic / industrial binge lately.

Do you like puzzles? Puzzles often make me feel like an idiot, but if there is no timer, pressure or audience - sure. ...Or like, jigsaw puzzles? I fkn LOVE jigsaw puzzles.

Any phobias? Nope.

Favorite childhood sport? Bold of you to assume I participated in ANY sport as a child, much less had a favourite. Uh. Ice skating and rollerblading was fun, I guess. I sometimes contemplate getting rollerblades again, but then I also rather enjoy all my bones being intact. 🤔

Do you talk to yourself? All the time, although mostly in the form of muttered swears and various exclamations.

What movies do you adore? I'm going to pass on this one, or it might turn into a very long rant. To summarise: I like weird movies, horror and comedy horror. Some examples: Mulholland Drive, Eraserhead, Army of Darkness.

Coffee or tea? Both. Start the day with coffee, then drink tea for the remainder. I'm very particular with my coffee though - every morning begins with a little ritual of grinding whole beans and preparing it with a french press.

First thing you wanted to be growing up? One of my earliest memories is me wondering what I wanted to be when I grew up, and my little 4 or 5 year old brain thinking that my only options were teacher, doctor and cashier, for some reason, and being sad because I didn't want to be any of those. I don't think I ever wanted to be anything, as a child - I just wanted to read my books and play with my toys. In fact, I still feel that way. 😠

No pressure tagging (and sorry for any repeats): @spacebarbarianweird @thechaoticdruid @snowfolly @brabblesblog @confused-butter-toast @tragedybunny

[thedelusionreaderbitch]

Annabeth Chase x fem! Reader Heartbreaker irony (pt.2 to Heartbreak irony)

A/n: The part 2 you've all been waiting for, also yes, I'm aware the beginning is an info dump - iM sOrRy

Heartbreak week masterlist? Part 1 Part 2

Summary: After what happened on that flowery field you had become an ultimate heartbreaker, but not in the way that the Aphrodite kids usually do. You're thinking about how you could finally become happy again when a certain girl you kissed comes back for answers...

Warnings: not trusting people, yelling, heartbreak, swearing, I think that's it? You have been warned!

The three P's:

[Pronouns used: you/your (though the reader is fem)] [Pov: 2nd person] [Pairings: (romantic???) annabeth x reader, (romantic???) percy x annabeth]

The aftermath of what happened was chaotic to say the least. You barely came out of your cabin and it wasn't until two weeks did some of your cabin mates push you out of your bed to the outside world of camp half-blood.

When you finally were forced out of your cabin you first heard the whispers; they were about you (which was a first) but not something that you in particular liked.

The rumors were that you were gay which is true, but that you had fallen for someone and it had been unrequited. Like badly unrequited.

Damn, who knew rumors could turn out to be true.

Though it was rough, having a bunch of people snicker as you walked by while they called you names was not very ideal. It made you want to come out less and less...

Although your cabin mates where the ones that originally had forced you to go outside they were now content for you to just stay inside, they never said it but everyone thought you were a disgrace of an Aphrodite child. Others had even asked you straight to your face if you were really a daughter of Aphrodite and when you finally snapped at their face saying that everyone saw you get claimed like everyone else they just laughed.

For the first time since the first war you prayed to your mother.

And for the first time ever she answered.

"Use the thing you try so hard to conceal, will it to their regret."

It wasn't much, just a flash of her in front of you whispering those words while placing a hand on top of your head as if she were blessing you and then poof gone.

Ah, yes, those abilities.

Most children of Aphrodite didn't have any powers to say the least, some had charm speak but that was pretty much it, it it was pretty rare. Although you didn't have the ability to charm speak people, you did have the ability to make people fall in love. Concealing them was just easier to you, they weren't extremely useful in combat, and you were afraid people would make fun of you for them.

None of that mattered anymore though, so you honed in your powers and tried it on your first victims.

Jason and Piper.

Really, you were doing these two a favor because their relationship was already falling apart by the streams, you were just simply... Speeding up the process.

See you can't get rid of love, be it platonic, familial, sexual, or romantic, it's like energy it doesn't just disappear. But it can be transferred to someone else, which is why your power worked better on people who were already couples, or who had chemistry, or they were just close. Meaning you could just use their love and transfer it instead of just blindly creating it.

Besides now Piper has a lovely girlfriend and Jason is being forced to work on himself.

After the first time it became exhilarating and you did it again, and again. Experimenting with them, finding out you would do all sorts of things, sometimes even bringing in more people into to the mix.

Who could really blame you? It was literally in your blood to do this.

People were suffering because of you, some people were flourishing, but no one could figure out how so many odd break ups and new couples forming in camp.

That's until Annabeth Chase. Of course she figured it out, you always did love who smart she was. Even for an Athena kid, she really outdid them all, everyone, because she is the best.

Not the best heartbreaker, that title went to you, she couldn't pull that away from you.

"I don't want to talk to you Chase." You drawled on with a roll of your eyes as the blonde haired girl followed you through camp.

"Well we need to talk! It's about the camp."

For a second you froze and immediately felt foolish, you had thought that she wanted to talk to you about that day. Not about what you had been doing around camp.

You curled your hands trying to conceal your hurt and took a deep breath, although it did nothing to conceal nor sooth your anger. You could not let her get to you, not again.

"What about it Annabeth?" You snapped and turned around to face her.

Your breath caught inside your throat, as she narrowed her eyes at you and took a step forward with her hands on her hips.

"I know about your abilities, and you have to stop it!" She snarled.

This time you took a step forward with raised eyebrows, you could feel her warmth near you, and her face was just that much closer. You were basically chest to chest at that point.

With a flash your mind took you back to when the two of you kissed. She had tasted oh so sweet, like a breath of fresh air.

"I wonder if she would still taste so sweet?" A cruel voice whispered in the back of your mind.

Shifting your head to the side you try and hide the tears from her as you croak out;

"Why does it matter?" You spoke voice hoarse. "It's not affecting you."

Annabeth blinked a couple of times at you in disbelief. "What?" She whispered.

Suddenly a new type of fury filled your veins, did she really think so little of you? Did she truly think that you would break her Percy up for revenge? After everything, after being simply her best friend did she really think you would do that to her!

"You know what Annabeth!" You nearly screamed which definitely got the attention of a few people around you.

"Fuck you!" You pushed her away from you.

"You're so scared that you might lo- like me that you think I would use my abilities to make you fall in love with me!" You yell as a crowd gathers.

You spin on your heels to turn away from her before a hand grabs onto you.

"Y/n, wait!" She says voice desperate.

"I want you, please Y/n."

Your world is turned on it's axis as she speaks the words you've so desperately wanted her to say for years.

Yet the words and the taunts of the others come back to you and how she never came to seek you out to see if you were okay. How she never came to find you after you cried and cried after she left, and how she thought so low of you after years of friendship.

Yes, it's true you would always love Annabeth Chase till the end of time.

You move your head to look at her once more before turning away.

That was not your Anna, that was someone you didn't recognize.

"You're too late." You hiss at her as you wrench your hand out of her grasp and walk away with a head held high and tears in your eyes.

You were a child of Aphrodite.

You would not be with a coward of love.

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-thedelusionreaderbitch

Heartbreak week: @igotanidea @hawkinsbaby

[oathkeeper-of-tarth]

WIP title ask meme

Prompt: Make a new post with the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them, and then post a little snippet or tell them something about it! And then tag as many people as you have WIPs.

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I was poked to do this months ago, twice at least - once by @docholligay and I think the second was @jeejyboard, but I can't find the tag for the life of me. SORRY. I felt like doing something a bit more meta today re:writing and post about The Process, and this was a perfect excuse - thanks for thinking of me. So here's some actual effort! I went and dug deep, trawled through some really old stuff, which was fun. I write and scribble down way, way more than I actually polish and post (which I assume is probably normal, but who knows). 

General info, for whoever is interested: I mostly use Google Docs with offline backups for fic writing, as I shift between computers a ton, and I put fandom tags at the start of my filenames for organisation. I have a ton of prompt/meme/ask/event collection files - for example, the very latest: "[BG3, STRAHD, SM] Fic Prompts 2024". In these I jot down both the prompts people send or that are listed and the ideas/outlines/notes for each, then when I really get going with a certain fic I spin it off into a separate document. 

I hate coming up with titles and usually do that last, so most of my document names are silly references for my own amusement or just a boring old brief description of the main concept. For instance, my latest posted fic Cerimonia Compedum was for most of its WIP-hood known simply as "[BG3] Tadpoled Isobel". Sometimes I keep different versions/revisions/parts of the same WIP in different files, and if that's the case I've grouped them here. Note that for simplicity's sake this post includes my "solo" fic only, no collabs or coauthored stuff, of which there is also a bunch. 

Some of these are ancient and hit me in the face with "12 years ago" timestamps. Some ficlets will never make it out of the mixed prompt plot bunny dumping grounds into their own doc. I think Sailor Moon 10-ish years ago was the one outlier fandom where I actually wrote most of my concepts out fully and posted them. The ol' brain is currently overproducing stuff for the more recent BG3 flavoured moon lesbians (and no, that ship name will never stop throwing my HaruMichi-loving ass for a loop). Note that some of the SU WIPs on the list I've already posted about here, here, here, and here.

Obviously all of these vary wildly in terms of completion level, word count, refinement, and age (and capitalisation, apparently). So yeah, here's the list, roughly sorted by fandom - ask away, if you feel like it!

[BG3] Moon-chosen, Moon-guided | Moon-chosen, Moon-guided - Part III [BG3] Cerimonia Alārum | ISOBEL TO THE RESCUE AU [BG3] Tremulous Cadence followup | The Return of the Moon Daughter [BG3] Wizard Tower AU | Aylin & Rolan stuff [BG3] Karlach/Minthara Act 2 conclusion aka why are paladins Like That [BG3] I'm having something very strong indeed

[STRAHD] The d'Avenir Treatise verse tidbits [STRAHD] Road Trippin' [STRAHD] In-character notes & ficlets

[SU] eeEEeeeeEE BISMUTH | Bismuth ficlets | Like talking to a wall | Muse. Galatea. Suffering. [SU] SU Daemons HDM AU [SU] The Adolescence of Rose Quartz | But I don't think anyone turns into a car  [SU] Freedom To And Freedom From | Pearlrose Fixit | i love suffering!!! [SU] Forge Showdown AU [SU] Pearl Playing the Field TM | All I need in this life of sin is me and my pearlfriend [SU] The Grand Aventurine Heist (Not Really Grand And Only Slightly A Heist) | oh no who let Rose read the Scarlet Pimpernel

[SM] Future Vision blatantly ripped me off THANKS REBECCA | PUU fic [SM] Outers fall of SilMil | michific | The End is the Beginning is the End

[DS9] Kira fic bits

[TLOK] Five Times Kya Healed Lin and One Time She Couldn't | Kyalin fluff [TLOK] R.C. Noire | Lin BAMFong

[WATCHMEN] Silhouette fic bits

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That's it! I don't think I have a single person that I know writes fic left that hasn't already been tagged in this, so feel free to do it (again) if it strikes your fancy.

[super-secret-clown-corner]

catching up on the kabsmp videos rn and i'm having normal person thoughts as usual anyway did you guys ask for a crazy ass idea on where i think the storyline is gonna go because i have a crazy ass idea on where i think the storyline is gonna go (this is gonna get long sorry in advance)

In Which I Lose My Mind Over Some Guy's Minecraft Persona In A Goofy Ahh Lore SMP

cover image for sillies

So. Hear me out. Clown is still the overarching villain of the series. Whatever's happening with Kyle and the void is still """""important"""""" n stuff, but (totally not because i'm biased or anything (i totally am)) that's all a red herring covering up the real threat. The idea I have rn is that Clown is biding his time and finishing up whatever research he had on the void, then when Kyle is defeated, he's gonna swoop in, take the void for himself, and become basically unstoppable which'll lead into season 3 or smth.

Bits Of Info That Makes The Pepe Silvia Meme Cover Relevant

Time to be insane and dump every single bit of potential evidence on why I think Clown's a bigger threat than the others think he is, starting at the very beginning (i'll try to keep this as chronological as possible but i'm busting my brain trying to piece everything together i watched this so out of order at first).

First, obviously, is the whole him killing Pyro bit and betraying him to get to Rae, then killing everyone in the commune. hoWEVER bro just casually tore open a portal to the nether and back and none of the other people in the group can do that. It's kinda hinting that Muu knows how to make portals but other than that the original s1 group has been stuck there since the start (which maybe suggests Muu isn't from this dimension also but that's another thing to unpackage).

a side note here: lincu came from an end portal that clown made for maddy and they NEVER BRING THAT UP AGAIN????????? WHAT

In the Pyro POV that came after that, it was heavily suggested that Clown was originally a conqueror or insanely destructive pillager (not the actual mob) (like come on, "bow before the scythe emblem" or whatever the words are? just write your name in the book you're practically screaming it at this point). Then, when Branzy showed up in that cameo episode, he didn't shut up about how Clown destroyed entire villages and killed a fuck ton of people (i will scream more about this point in a second 😁).

In the Season 2 opener animatic, he dropped his manipulative buddy buddy act the moment the void appeared, stabbed Kaboodle, and fucked off. He was also shown going full aggro on Magic, trying to get information about the void from her. A little while later, he's shown reading books on the void and finds something "perfect" for whatever he's planning (brain explosion).

Looping back to the Branzy cameo, it was revealed that he, Branzy, and Ashswag worked together in a laboratory somewhere in a different dimension researching and experimenting with portals. Ashswag said that Clown pushed him into one they made, which resulted in him glitched out and broken (WHICH OPENS UP ANOTHER CAN OF WORMS ARE THEY SUGGESTING THAT THIS IS ALL ACTUALLY JUST A SIMULATION/GAME LIKE HOW MINECRAFT ACTUALLY IS???????????? holy shit if i think about this for too long i'm gonna have another huge scream fest again).

and THEN in the most recent one as of today (aka A New Issue) it's revealed that Pyro had his suspicions that Clown is otherworldly and unnatural. Bro casually soloed a 100-Piglin invasion. I already had the thought of "oh yeah this guy's definitely not from any of the three dimensions" but the only contradictory thing that popped up for that was he and Pyro used to live together for a bit with the Waste Walkers. HOWEVER with this new information that Clown was just this anomaly that popped up periodically in their group, he's practically screaming that he's not from any of the three dimensions.

BASICALLY. I'M VERY NORMAL RIGHT NOW.

i love overcomplicating silly lore as a pastime

[jabbage]

Hey there! I saw your makeup post. I’ve performed as a drag king on several occasions so hopefully this helps!

Foundation - yes absolutely. As a fellow round face person by having my face one tone at the beginning really helps make the contour and highlight POP. It also makes the rest of the makeup blend easier (think of foundation as a canvas primer for an oil painting. Also, put either primer or moisturizer on your face before your foundation so you don’t get acne)

Concealer - a concealer two shades lighter than your skin tone is great to use as a “highlighter”

Contour - lots of different products, it can get confusing, but all very much a matter of preference. They sell contour sticks, or if the idea of a brush seems more ideal, they sell contour palettes that look like paint palettes! Then you can use a makeup brush and paint it on

Or: one massive eyeshadow palette. When I first started I would just use all of the brown tones to do all my contouring then use the black to fill in my brows / draw a beard / etc.

Sorry that’s a HUGE info dump, but hopefully helpful! There’s some great videos by drag kings like Hugo Grrrl and Oliver Branch has a video I recall using on YouTube. Good luck! Have fun!

Thanks! Its so impressive how much thought and artistry goes into all this.

I'm starting to think it's just not my scene, but I feel like I have learned a bunch of stuff and I am in awe of people who can do all of this!

[rednleafff]

Casey J in G?F

More info dump? Yes sir – but this time I'm gonna talk mainly about our beloved Casey j. We all know and love our future boy and wish him the very best life that he can have after all that he went through – BUT – I can't stop thinking about the fact that – he will need probably a looong time to actually settle in, even if he will learn the way of "the simple life of a teenager" – this boy still lost – literally everyone but he also gained them all back – but different – they wont be the same people he once knew because they wont go through the same things – even if their key thing will stay – they still wont be the people he once knew – but they will probably look like them the more they grow up and how difficult is to let go of something when that very something is right Infront of your eyes but  different ? or the survival guilt he must be dealing with? I personally think – he would want to love the simple – less stressful life – but wont be able to – even if he would try to work through his trauma and all – it not something he will ever be able to shake completely - sure he might leave to see the world one day, alone or with someone, and he will get the chance to see thew world he fought tooth and nail to save – and slowly but surely he would learn to love this place, even with it bitter moments. now here it's where I come with Yummi eheh their relationship is actually my favorite – (sorry Leo <3 I love you with all my heart) because – as I see it – When Baby Yummi first joins their family, Casey gets to witness a very familiar behavior from the fam, the parental behavior from Leo, the uncley vibes from the turtles, this baby is basically plays a similar role that was belongs to him back in his time line – he will be a little bit distance from her in the beginning, not on purpose it will just happen- they will share their sweet moments here and there but very few in her first couple of years – until she learns to walk and talk enough that when she gets really clingy to his specifically so he plays along, he really do cares for her, its just – hard- after everything , but then – they share a small moment when she asks him if he's going to join them to some place, he says no cause of reasons, so she claims she won't go either and when asking her why – cause she was so excited to go she will say she wants to go with him cause its always much more fun when he's around – she doesn’t even gives to it much attention, she probably draws or something, but Casey – he think about it a little bit more, Yummi wasn’t present in his time line – she can't because she was created as a result of the Kraang invasion and defeat, and although he saw the world met people that nowadays are alive instead of dead or surviving, saw kids that got the chance to grow up and be born at all – he wasn’t really closed to all that – and maybe that why he didn’t felt a connection to this reality yet? He's always around the people who sometimes he sees the ghost of their past? Other? Self? And he loved them to death don’t get me wrong, but Yummi specifically (up to this point of the story) is the only very closed person to him who doesn’t have "another version of". Casey had to learn to love the world his whole family knew and tried to fight back to save it – but he never had that connection to that world, he was a little bit to stuck in the past, to focus on the ghost of people that wont ever be that it was hard for him to love the present that they all gave him. So – this kid – that little gremlin is one of his first connections to this reality that doesn’t rely on something from his timeline – if that makes sense? It makes sense to me lol. Casey's 20's are ups and down, but from this point forward – I think he will find it much easier to breathe and be present in this timeline. maybe part 2 someday – cause their relationship get's a serious twist when its revealed  and Yummi is part Kraang lol (here are scracps of a comic i worked on but will never finish - it takes place after Yummi's whole - Kraang arc)  

[bcofl0ve]

I'm new here so sorry if you've talked about it before, but what's the tea between Austin and Olivia deJonge? a while ago I heard someone say that they had something during the filming of Elvis but that they are no longer close and don't follow each other on Instagram. they also said that Austin was unfaithful to Vanessa with her, but tbh I don't give these rumors about celebrities cheating much credibility unless they are 100% confirmed 😅 thanks!!

oh, my sweet summer child…*pats your head*. this has become a veryyy contentious topic on my blog so i don’t talk about it much anymore but since you’re a new fan looking for info, as was i once, i will do one Final brain dump about it.

he still follows her and her finstas that i don’t think she uses anymore lol, but yes olivia unfollowed him in september. something that is funny (at least to me) within the context that said unfollow was when she went out with sophie turner and taylor swift. like…what did blondie say that pushed you ever the edge girl LOL. then little miss instagram anxiety unfollowed 100 random accounts the next day trying to pretend it wasn’t selective.

this is also a little contentious because there isn’t proof proof in the form of like kissing photos or something (just beach pap photos from nov 2020 where they aren’t touching each other haha). but in my humble opinion they were involved during filming.

timeline gets a little messy at the start, but i do think re: some late december early january gossip about him being seen with olivia that austin and v were broken up a hot minute before it came out publicly on jan 14th 2020 so 🤷🏼‍♀️. don’t think it was some big affair. they were def broken up before jan 2nd, a day that will leave in infamy lmfao. olivia posted a photo in austin’s shirt, which v fans clocked immediately bc he’d wore in it on vacation with v. and this was jan 2nd, two weeks before the breakup went public. i wasn’t in the fandom for this, but as ive been told it was a real mess. olivia went private briefly, deleted the pics, asked the society fans to take the photos down and it was the beginning of instagram becoming the seemingly anxiety inducing thing for that that it is now.

(ex: after the oscars last year she posted some elvis filming throwbacks on her story as a nice little end of the era thing. one of her and austin she wrote ‘so proud 🥀 @austinbutler’ on. she then deleted that story, reposted it, deleted it again, and reposted it without the text.)

and i mean yeah- big (probably intentional) goof on her part with the shirt thing. but idk. she was 21 at the time, and i’m willing to give 21 year olds a little girl what are you doing grace.

whatever happened between her and austin, the most she’s done re ‘shade’ is liking a comment someone left on her page saying she deserved better when he was seen with lily rose and something got sent to deuxmoi that said he’d cheated on her (imo he didn’t. she was just hurt bc seeing him move on stung, or maybe the door that should have been fully shut wasn’t. lily was august 2021, he left australia march 2021)- and hanging out with v a handful of times mid 2022 (though she herself never posted about it, it was either other people or paps).

a lot of people on here reallyyyy don’t like her, but i’m a fan so that’s my girl. i have a real big soft spot for her, and a while ago when a friend of mine in the fandom at the time told me ‘oh the internet wasn’t nice to her at all’ in the months after the shirt debacle it really hurt my heart.

even with a little smidgeee of shade as explained above ^ i think she’s handled whatever maybe not so positive feelings she has towards him reasonably. they seemed to get a long just fine and happy during elvis press- esp so in toronto which my fav interviews of the two of them are from bc that press tour stop was just them and baz. she’s never said a negative world about him publicly, and i doubt she ever will. the most candid she’s ever been about elvis filming was an interview earlier this year where she said she did ‘a lot of growing up on that job’ and that she sees her life as before and after elvis. i think that’s the most “deep” she’ll ever go down that road, at least for a long while.

between her unfollowing him in sept, turning off her tagged photos in feburary. and recently deleting a comment v left on a post of hers within 30 seconds (i presume bc she knew just like we did that v was doing that for drama/attention, it was right after austin’s esquire interview where he briefly, respectfully talked about her), i think she’s genuinely trying to move on with her life. which can be hard! i never get over anyone! and if my personal read is right that she was a mix between a rebound and the priscilla to his elvis when he was really living in that man’s head that’s even more of an idk…niche heartbreak to have to wrestle with? whether the other party actually did anything wrong or not. i don’t think austin did anything to her or broke her heart with any malicious intent at all. none of the olivia/austin stuff changes how i see him as a fan. he’s a complex human, olivia is a complex human. that’s the gist.

[ancicntforged]

Kal'tsit lore dump on new Babel event in CN

The gist of it is that Doctor gave Kal'tsit her name and freedom and they been sleeping for 4 million days.

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Kal'tsit: He's the one who understands Originium the most.

Kal'tsit: If there's a need to solve the suffering caused by Originium.....

Kal'tsit: He's the most suitable candidate.

Theresa: I have to say, you always bring things that even Sarkaz wouldn't easily believe.....

Theresa: Can those devices still operate... Are you still confident in his awakening?

Theresa: The vast majority of Terra's life forms are unlikely to resist erosion over such a long period of time.

Kal'tsit: Terra now is undoubtedly a miracle. So are you, Theresa.

Kal'tsit: But in the past, in their eyes, the entire solar system revolving around the sun was insignificant.

Theresa: ......You seem a bit nervous now. There's also some anxiety and unease.

Theresa: Do you have anything else to worry about?

Kal'tsit: ......I do.

Kal'tsit: But I... can't say.

Theresa: That's okay! Sorry, I shouldn't distract you, focus. I can feel it.

Theresa: ......

Theresa: "Kal'tsit"... You love this name, don't you?

Kal'tsit: I... have almost forgotten everything else from that time.

Kal'tsit: But I distinctly remember, in that distant past, there was a person who gave me this name——

Kal'tsit: "Kal'tsit".

Kal'tsit: That was our last meeting.

"Kal'tsit... I don't have much time left.

"Go seek traces of life, go find hope and the future.

"Kal'tsit... Find the answers yourself.

"Go find yourself."

Theresa: Then why hesitate again, Kal'tsit?

Kal'tsit: I know, it's just...

Kal'tsit: ...I've always had a premonition... worry, or speculation.

Kal'tsit: At the beginning of the land, at some point when life was just beginning to sprout, something happened here that can never be reversed.

Kal'tsit: But I don't know what.

Theresa: If it's someone even Dr. Kal'tsit can trust, then I'm not worried at all.

Theresa: Moreover, given Dr. Kal'tsit's cautious nature, I never have to worry about prearranged contingency plans.

Kal'tsit: Unfortunately, Theresa.

Kal'tsit: Only in this matter, no matter how many contingency plans I've made, I don't have any concrete assurance.

Kal'tsit: ...Theresa, I can't guarantee that I'll always make the most rational choice.

Kal'tsit: But this time... I want to believe.

Theresa: Then do what you want to do, I'll be here, accompanying you.

Kal'tsit's hand has already touched the door that has been silent for countless years.

Rhodes Island ushered in a new round of turmoil.

The door, loosened.

"Originium will become the beacon formed by our civilization...

"If one day, other life forms in the universe return to their dead homes, seeking a breakthrough,

"They will witness...

"Our glory,

"Our resistance,

"Our slumber here.

"We once bestowed gifts upon the successors before extinction—

"—Hope."

???: Here...

???: Time... has it... come?

(Note: Here the "???" or actually the Doctor and Kal'tsit speaking in Unknown language)

Warning: Unknown power source activated.

Warning: PRTS system permissions read-write in progress...

Warning: PRTS system permissions read—

PRTS system permissions reset. Administrator permissions confirmed.

Communication module full-band open, communication receiving module overclocking complete.

Search: Preserver... no signal.

Search: Caerula Arbor... no signal.

Search: Paradise Pivot... no signal.

Search: (Unknown noise)... no signal.

...

Search completed, full-band no signal.

Retry—

???: No... response...

???: Only... me...

???: How long... has it been?

Search process log file...

Latest update: 4,755,954 days ago.

???: ...

Detecting severe abnormalities in life sign data. Automatic loading of repair module.

Repairing—

???: ...

???: Did... I wake up too early... or... too late?

???: ...

???: At what stage... is Originium... in?

Retrieving Originium detection historical data... No response.

Originium detection module offline.

???: ...

???: "Terra"...

???: Why store... so much... redundant information...

???: ...

???: This... not recorded in the database... New language?

???: Civilization... has... emerged...?

???: Only... remains... me... What about her, Priestess, my...

Kal'tsit: I can answer your questions. Those data were previously stored in PRTS by me.

???: ...You?

In the eyes of one trapped in the past flickered a hint of unfamiliarity, a hint of suspicion, and... a hint of vigilance.

Kal'tsit keenly caught the gaze of the person in the sarcophagus.

And Theresa caught Kal'tsit's tension.

???: Wait...

???: ...

???: ...

???: ...

???: Even though you have changed a lot...

Kal'tsit: ...

The newly awakened person seemed to have had a short dream in the sarcophagus.

The life that bid farewell before entering the dream still lingered by their side when they woke up.

???: ...You didn't leave.

Kal'tsit: ...No. Since leaving here until now, standing in front of you again—

Kal'tsit: ...I have wandered for tens of thousands of years.

Kal'tsit: ...But, I still haven't forgotten the questions you left me—

Kal'tsit waited, anxious, she needed assurance...

Assurance that her hopes hadn't undergone some terrible change.

???: ...

???: That's not... a question, it's... my hope...

???: ...Then, have you... found the meaning of your life?

"Kal'tsit..."

Kal'tsit: Seeking the meaning of life's continuity—this is still the path I need to continue on in the future.

Kal'tsit: Do you remember...

???: I remember... For me, saying goodbye to you feels like it was just yesterday, yet also as distant as unreal...

???: But for you...

Kal'tsit: Ihave never forgotten the efforts you made for me.

Kal'tsit: Besides life itself, you gave me another precious thing—freedom, Doctor.

???: Or... call me Doctor, Kal'tsit.

Doctor: Let me... leave first...

Kal'tsit: You're still weak, I can help—

Doctor: No need...

Doctor: Kal'tsit, I have... too many doubts.

Doctor: What about Originium... I haven't found any records.

Kal'tsit: ...

Kal'tsit: Originium still grows on the land outside.

Doctor: So I woke up too early.

Kal'tsit: ...

Doctor: You've been through a lot, Kal'tsit.

Doctor: I can tell from your eyes. Do you need my help? Is that why you woke me up?

Kal'tsit: It's not just me who needs your help.

Doctor: Ah. What about the "devil"?

Doctor: On your friend behind you, I not only see Originium existing in unexpected forms...

Doctor: She also possesses... um, the "Civilight Eterna".

Kal'tsit: Nowadays, the trajectory of civilization development is very... complex.

Doctor: What's her name? Do their civilization also have a similar term to refer to their existence?

Kal'tsit: Theresa.

Doctor: The...re...sa...