#idk i'm rusty af

[nostalgic-films]

The only way to save this beautiful marble is to get rid of all of us. Every one of us. Even me. Because there is only one person who deserves all of this beauty. And that's you. - Poison Ivy #1 (2022)

[tinyangrynerd]

me, arms literally shaking going into my first game as dredge, against a stacked team: uh oh i'm in danger :')

me, coming out of the match covered in blood, with 4 iri's and a 4k: what the fuck just happened???????

[nav4rre]

a brow lifts.ㅤ❛ㅤwhy would i handle you?ㅤ❜ㅤoutside of the bedroom, why would she need to? it's not their thing. unless it is now and tara has missed that particular missive.ㅤ❛ㅤwhat the fuck have you done, matthias?ㅤ❜

@halfrustㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ/ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤyou're not going to handle me?

[lyokowarrior-yumiishiyama]

"some things are just better left unsaid." from William.

What are you hiding from me Meme | @phonypizza | Accepting

❀;; -- Something about that comment made the girl's blood rush away from her face, making the already pale girl even paler. So he was hiding something from her. She knew it, William had been "off" for a while now. Sure it could have been from anything really, after all the former ally-turned-enemy-turned-possible-ally-again had his share of traumas just from XANA alone. Who knew what other things were bothering the boy.

"Maybe," Yumi admitted. "But that doesn't mean that I don't stop worrying about you. Look, I get it, we've not been the most uh...welcoming to you but that doesn't mean that I want you slipping to your demons.

"What I'm saying is that if you have something to say to me, then I want you to just say it. I fucked this all up, I get it. I'm sorry. So please, just talk to me!"

[cursivebloodlines]

"You sure about that?" He shot her a quizzical look, brow raised slightly in semi-amusement as he eyed her intently. There was a shift in the atmosphere, she might not have expressed it but Finley definitely felt it though he failed to identify what exactly had gone wrong here. It wasn't meant destined for the long haul, he thought she knew that? Head tilting a fraction, his eyes narrowed curiously as his gaze flickered between her face and the phone that suddenly became worthier of her attention than him. "A lot?" he reiterated, pushing himself from the wall he had been leaning on. "Since when? I don't remember you complaining," He said, circling around the room until he found himself standing behind Paige, where she was seated. Had An oblivious man or an ignorant one? Either? Both. Part of him couldn't fathom her wanting to go out with others when he was literally right there. Didn't that contradict what he had not long ago said? Maybe. No? Perhaps. Shit. Now he was confused.

"I don't remember ever imposing that restriction on you in the first place," Finn mused. His hands planted firmly against the back of her chair, shamelessly leaning over her shoulder to see what she was doing. Or who she was suddenly messaging. "Are you really already looking for other options while I'm still here? Wow."

Either he was playing dumb or Finn really didn't understand where she was coming from. Paige wasn't sure what was worse? "Oh, I see..." she trailed off. Though she didn't really see. Clearly she had been going about their relationship situationship? Now she actually just wasn't sure what to call it. Their whatever, she had been going about it wrong. Paige let out a little laugh, shaking her head. "It was never just fun for me because I dropped a lot for you but thanks for the clarification." One thing Paige would never let a man do was make her ask twice or embarrass her. She was too cute for that. Paige sat back, pulling her phone out to respond to a DM she had rejected for Finn. "It's actually really nice to know I don't have to wait for you to go out on dates now." She spoke without looking up from said phone.

[plasterhound]

7, 10 and 15 for Five Pebbles and Looks to The Moon

HI SOSA !!!

7. What's something the fandom does when it comes to this character that you like?

Hmm its been a while since i rlly interacted w the fandom and stuff but i rlly like when they make pebbles and moon weird. like. less people and more incomprehensible intelligence. does that make sense?? i see this more w pebbles anyway, but i actually dont rlly like that much when they make him too... expressive? like. he's just so weird his puppet doesnt emote and he moves it like a real fucking hand puppet its soo weird we need more of that. idk man words are so hard... maybe im making shit up too cuz as i said its been a while since i interacted w the fandom. theres this fanart though with him staring at survivor while upside down and i think thats really cool. Thats not him!! thats just an arm with a pink sock on its hand!! Anyways after all this shit. i rlly like when ppl draw moon rusty and dirty af and covered in moss even. I love her

10. Could you be best friends with this character?

No lmao i think theyd hate me 😭😭😭 if i was an ancient at least. at best id just live my life gaslighting myself into thinking i dont gaf abt the fact im living on top of a being that could just kill me if it wants to and they wouldn't even know i exist. at worse they would talk shit abt me and the other ancients to survivor. if i was a slugcat though i think me and moon would be friends cuz im really smart and well behaved and i love listening to women talk about stuff my brain wasn't made to understand

15. What's your favorite ship for this character? (Doesn't matter if it's canon or not.)

I'm sorry rain worlders but i dont like any rw ships 🥲 and i triedd theyre just not my vibe.... im in for the weird shit and ugly animals and random gods not for romance unfortunately.... but if i had to choose one i think id be lttmxsliver of straw! its the most interesting one to me. also its yuri

[myfanfic-urfantrash]

Onto more positive stuff...I got back into wuwa and am working very hard to catch up. I don't think the rewards are bad, I just took a break, so now my pull progress has been reset back to 0, and I'm having a tough time. Plus I don't know who I should pull for. I'll get there, I'm sure.

Excited to play some new upcoming games! I'll be trying out new gachas and one not-gacha just to see if I like them. Here's a list if you're curious.

Ananta: Urban Open World Gacha. Everyone seems hyped about this one, but I'll admit I'm not sold solely because the character designs don't speak to me. I'll try it simply because a lot of the CCs I follow have hyped it up and because the gameplay does genuinely look good.

Neverness to Everness: Basically the same as above, which is why I've seen people say they'll skip it for Ananta. But actually, I like the art style and character design for this game more. Just a personal preference.

Etheria Restart: A turn based gacha like HSR. I LOVE the character designs so far. There's a dark skinned character who's supposed to be meta right off the bat too. He ashy af but he hot so I'll let it slide. The women are sexy too and THERE'S SOME THAT WEAR PANTS.

Blue Protocol Star Resonance: This is an MMO, actually, and I'm looking forward to trying it just to see if I can get some friends to play with me. Might quit early on cause I don't care for overly grindy games but I'll give it a go.

Azur Promilia: Fantasy Open World Gacha. Idk if it's related to Azur Lane, which I've never played, but it looks cute and you can collect pets. Look at this fucker.

Silver Palace: Open World Gacha but make it Victorian and noir at the same time. I love a good detective story and the aesthetic speaks to me. Gameplay is solid too by the look of it.

Arknights Endfield: The open world experience looks really cool with base/factory building. The music is also probably the best out of all the other games on this list. I actually am super excited to try this one so I'm hoping that it won't let me down.

Project Bang Bang: Italian gooner gacha. Or a dating sim, maybe both. Apparently, it's just labeled as a women-targeted game. Anyway you're a badass mafia boss surrounded by hot men and also you fight people. Looks really good art-wise. Probably a Love & Deepspace competitor. It's 18+ too so Spicy. (I could probably jerk off to the trailer alone)

That's a lot of new games to look forward to. I'm looking forward to hearing about some games that look pretty interesting to me too:

Star Garden - A single to multiplayer game where you can explore, collect creatures and race. It was inspired by Kirby air ride and the chao garden feature from Sonic I really loved both of these games when I was younger though they were owned by my cousin so I never had the games myself. The style might not be everyone's cup of tea and it looks dated compared to games currently released but if it's fun and actually works without a horrific frame rate that's really all that matters.

and

Grave Seasons - Narrative farming sim where there's a supernatural serial killer and you try to figure out who it is. You can do most of what's typical in farm sims like growing your own stuff, befriending people, romancing a townsfolk but you could romance the serial killer too and like you wouldn't know it because the killer is randomized every play through. Everything you do matters in this game I want to see how it goes because it takes my love for farm sims, horror, mystery and smashes them together.

There's a few more but those have already been released or are at least on early access: Echoes of the Plum Grove, Fields of Mistria, Refind Self: The Personality Test Game, and Rusty's Retirement. It's mostly just a list to go see a little of the gameplay of others to see if I'd truly enjoy them and want to buy them. There's more but the rest of that list are more old games I'd like to play one day if I get the chance.

[beac0ns]

ㅤㅤㅤthe blade in hand comes to a stop mid-twirl and the middle burns exhales a sigh.ㅤ❛❛ㅤshit, cal. calm down,ㅤ❜❜ㅤslinging the weapon back into the holster, apollo makes his way over to his sister and lifts the entire body without her help.ㅤ❛❛ㅤwhat the hell's your problem? we got the job done. man, this whole negative thing isn't really working for you.ㅤ❜❜

@beac0ns (Apollo)

"Can you not be an asshole for like two seconds and help me carry this body over there?" Cal asks, clearly annoyed. She loves Apollo; she really does. He's a great older brother... most of the time. Times like tonight, she wants to strangle him and misses having Theseus around to balance out his arrogance. And when she does miss him, it leads her down a spiral. Because maybe just maybe he wouldn't be a vampire if it weren't for her. Maybe just maybe their family wouldn't be falling apart around them.

[mbcorvo-author]

I was thinking to make a langblr sideblog since lately I'm in a mood to learn languages again... maybe posting stuff could keep me motivated? Idk.

I started thinking to relearn some stuff bc after 11? 12? years of not using it I need to refresh my French bc at work I struggled to speak (i still understand it spoken and written but I can't remember a dang word when i try to speak/write), and I wanted to prepare some phrases & such in German bc for the love of what's unholy it never stuck in my head.

Then I remembered that I went to university for studying Japanese (then I switched to cinema and then dropped bc lack of money) and that I loved to flex a bit with my Latin (but that's rusty af too)... and from there I'm falling into a rabbit hole and idk where to start at this point lmao

[somewhereinthepines]

I can't quite remember where, it was either here or on ao3 that you mentioned that Chris is a bit of the jealous/possessive type. At least because of his condition maybe, and it got me thinking about that.

It feels like it would definitely have a sinister vibe to it, I can certainly see it building in GP. Watching Ryan, potentially following him around, the ambigious touches, the weird conversations, and the revealing dreams. It's just below the surface, but noticbly inches out closer to the full moon or after interactions with Dylan. It's just so interesting because nobody would think that Chris has any bad intentions. He's just an old dude who's hard set on his rules and is openly fond of Ryan in anyone else's eyes.

Seeing glimpses of what could be him losing his composure is tantalising and creepy at times. As the reader, we have a different perspective than Ryan. He just really wants Mister H, and it's amusing how frustrated he's become. But then that begs the question, what is going to happen when he gets him? All bets would be off, I guess.

I've been trying to imagine what they might be like once it's all up in the air. That Ryan knows Chris wants him and how Chris might alter his behaviour. What's the use of hiding his intent when that person is aware? It's difficult to think of how different things might be after that. And I'm quite curious just how open or obvious Chris might be about his possessive, overly protective feelings towards Ryan might be. I'm also curious about who else Ryan might be meeting, but I have a feeling it could be some of the other hacketts? Maybe Travis, god, imagine if Ryan somehow got to meet Constance or Jed. It'd maybe go okay if he did as he was told and kept being polite, but he wouldn't like them. Didn't he say he doesn't like Jed at the start of GP? If he met Bobby, under normal circumstances, I feel like there'd be room for a comedic moment. Both of them just awkwardly stand there in the woods or something.

Bobby not knowing what to do because there's nobody to tell him what to do, plus Ryan isn't a threat. Then our poor guy is panicking, thinking, "Who is he, is he a hunter, I thought they weren't allowed on the property? Why does he kinda look a bit like Chris?" Imagine Chris behind the camera freaking out and cursing up a storm. He rushes down there to defuse and talk their way out of the situation. Only to reach them and see of all the bizarre things that Ryan and Bobby are having a simple, weird, but positive conversation. Maybe Ryan said something blunt and awkward like "nice, knife?" and Bobby just started explaining to him how he got it and what it's good for. It could be the most crackiest, chaotic convo, but Ryan is just nodding, listening, and making a few comments. Meanwhile, Chris is just confused behind a tree or something, feeling conflicted bcs it'd bad that Ryan bumped into Bobby. But idk maybe if he and Bobby have a decent brotherly relationship, he'd feel kinda grateful or happy that Ryan is making an effort to talk to Bobby. Yk like how he liked that Ryan makes an effort with Kaylee and Caleb? It'd be the most chaotic and weirdly funny thing if Ryan managed to accidentally get Bobby to like him. Especially considering what happens in canon. But that's just a funny weird little imagine ramble, haha. I doubt it'd actually go like that, it was just funny to think about. Pfft, imagine Chris telling Bobby that if he promises to keep the interaction a secret, he can come see them later. All the hacketts except the parents having lunch with Ryan. It would be chaotic af, lmao.

Sorry for that long-winded ramble, I only meant to ask and wonder about Chris's hidden possessive mannerisms. I ended up coming up with an odd Bobby and Ryan bonding moment instead of all things, haha.

heya! it was a while, since we talked the last time. and considering how, i’m yet to re-read my works to recall, where i’ve dropped it all, my memory on that bit is also rusty. but chris sure is possessive! though, i’d say that the wolf part of his nature is only half of the problem. the other part is that chris himself have those feelings / emotions no matter what, but if he wasn’t a werewolf, he would have been better at hiding / controlling it. 

and honestly, jealousy is generally not a good thing / emotion, even if i’m an absolute sucker and advocate for it in fiction. jealousy is hot to me, as well as possessiveness. irl, it would be a different matter, but considering how good portion (if not all tbh) of my ships usually have at least one ‘yandere’ or emotionally unstable individual, it makes perfect sense for them to lean very heavily into that aspect. express their dedication to a person in somewhat extreme ways. tho when i’m looking specifically at my supermassive ship, funny enough there is not much space for such stuff, haha. at least, not in how i write it. i mean, if we take idk john/andrew, there isn’t any possible rival there, bc andrew and john are kinda joined by the hip and get along to the point, where every other interaction in comparison just doesn’t live up to what they have. well, from my point of view, anyways. but in chris and ryan's situation, it’s different, since ryan despite being a quiet, weird kid has people, who have crushes on him and then there are folks, who are friendly to him. and generally, chris’s view on ryan isn’t similar to john’s on andrew. from chris’s perspective ryan would eventually date and prob marry people, which naturally doesn’t sit well with him. he’s not proud of it, of how he seem to put an invincible claim on ryan, but it is a thing lol. and in GP, he’s way more weak-willed vs in ASB. he cannot help himself, and the further it goes, the worse it gets. and yeah, that’s the scary, might i say even realistic part about chris. he’s fatherly, friendly, old-educational kind of man. you look at him, and think, hey he’s rough around the edges, kinda awkward, but he’s nice and tries his best. and yeah, he does tries his best. he's fatherly and overall (usually) means well, but he’s not nice lol. and while at first, he did tried to be a parental figure for ryan, he honestly wanted just that, eventually it twisted and changed as ryan got older….less boyish and more ‘easy on the eyes’. and then, most importantly, he’s also chris’s first ‘friend’, the only attachment beyond his family nest. so in a way, you can see how he will get weird about it tbh. esp bc he and ryan get along so well. he would be afraid to lose it. to see ryan moving on. and while he knows that it would be for the best, it's also one of those instances, where he wants to be selfish about it.

as for how they will act once they’re properly ‘together’, well, it would heavily lean onto the lil plot that slowly happens in the fic. besides they cannot be a ‘normal’ couple in public for example. not only are they're a boss and employee, but ryan is way younger than chris. and it’s if we won’t take into account both of their families, and how ryan and chris themselves were raised. and how while it’s part of why they understand one another, they also will be 'weird' in any relationship. even if in their case, it’ll be somewhat comfy, bc they’re both like this. but what i can say is that ironically chris prob be less aggressive toward dylan, once he and ryan are together lol. one might have pictured it the other way around, but nope. but like, why would chris be jealous of that poor lad, when ryan picked him? it's like set in stone from that point on, esp when chris will see the 'proof' of it. ryan means business. but that applies only to dylan, haha. bc chris always feels somewhat bad for picking on him so much. since really, it’s not his fault for liking ryan, from chris's bias perspective, who wouldn’t? but there is also another aspect of how much one can let the other person know, the level of ‘creepy’ they are about them. if a person is smart and have at least some understanding about what is ‘okay’ and ‘what’s not’, and if they know that they're actively doing the later, they would try to either play it down or keep it a secret. out of all my supermassive ships, only du’met can be openly creepy, bc he’s a serial killer and he’s well-aware that he's what one might call bat-shit-crazy. and then, charlie is a low-key narcissist, so y'know...it works, haha. in comparison, everyone else will be partly scared to alienate the other person, to push them away, bc of how obsessive they are about them. and in chris’s case, it’s also complicated by a simple fact, that he’s a werewolf. him and ryan being together not only somewhat ‘problematic’ for 'normal' reasons, but also bc chris essentially a serial killer. it would be so-so much harder for him to be ‘decent’ about stuff, or seem this way, if one will be like ‘jesus, he’s a real deviant. he prob liked killing and eating those people too. and prob have some murder fantasy about that ryan kid too’. even knowing everything, ryan won’t think this, naturally. but chris will still hold that fear, bc he cannot know for sure what ryan might assume. to him, it’s a very tricky territory. but then again, if only he knew the extent of ryan’s own obsession, he might have been a bit calmer about that part, haha. i also must say, that ryan is prob the one, who isn’t fully aware about his own ‘claimship’ on chris. 

i mean, he doesn't want to imagine mister h having a type and all. also if someone thinks, that chris is hella unreasonable with dylan (which he kinda is), you just wait what would have happened, if ryan suspected that chris might have new 'favorite' camp counselor. i even had that hilirious one-shot idea, where both ryan and chris are both jealous of dylan. like chris would try to keep dylan closer to himself, so that he'd spent less time with ryan, but from ryan's pespective it would look like he might be getting replaced. like y'know a classic rom-con stuff, haha. i honestly tend to feel somewhat bad for people like dylan, who is bystander and just kinda gets caught in the middle of it all, while being absolutely clueless. and it gets even more messy, if everybody learning what hackett fam was doing all this time. learning what chris was doing, and ryan is over there still openly simping for mister h, regardless of it, haha. like, it's pretty much canon, and it's amazing. i'll be honest, it's not super important to me what other characters think about my ships within the story. but i love how often, it would create some very awkward situations or an actual 'bruh, wtf' moments. ryan can overlook kidnapping, cut off limbs, deaths and all, if only it would mean, that chris did nothing wrong. amazing. great! one of my biggests personal let downs is that no one in LH, calls out john for almost instantly forgiving andrew abandoning / accidently killing people. john and ryan share that 'selective blindness' to a t.

and oh, since it takes me so long to continue the story, i’ll drop a lil spoiler for you. yeah, jed and bobby are one of few people, who ryan will cross paths with. but it won’t be cute, haha. and he will meet travis too. he prob will met every hackett, beside constance. i wanted him to hang out with caleb as well, since the last story had more spotlight on kyalee. feels fair to give the other hackett sibling some time with ryan too! and yeah, ryan did think that jed sounds like an asshole lol. bc well, he is. ryan despite his emotional stupor, still can see the difference between how his own grandparents raised him and what chris’s parents did. there is a thin line between ‘tough love’ and negligence / low-key sadism, but ryan can feel it. for him chris's family sounds closer to his mother vs his grandparent. so no good 'role model'. ryan also keen enough to notice, that chris has that weird almost automatic response to any critic toward his parents methods. if someone was raised in a norm fam, sure they would defend them, but not to the point of almost knee-jerk reaction.

and this kinda why i often feel, that people mistake chris’s obedience / need to inform his parents about things for him being ‘the spoiled child’ out of the 3. when in fact, he prob ‘has to do those things’, bc he thinks that he has to do them. same with travis. If you look at constance’s favourite phrase of ‘encouragement’ aka ‘good boy’, it legit sounds like smth that you would say to a dog tbh. not to mention, that all 3 of hacketts brothers still live in that very same place, next to their parents, even if they’re all beyond 40. And you can see why well, bobby be there. but while travis was no doubt gaslighted / manipulated into staying, bc what if they needed smth. chris on other hand most likely was ‘conditioned’ to keep the family business running. he might still like his job and love nature, but it didn’t mean, that he couldn’t try to open a camp someplace else. but he never did. like, there is a lot of ‘what the hell’ moments from ryan’s pov when it comes to things that he notices about chris and his stories and interactions with his family. if you love someone, and see them being mistreated or cut off from bigger opportunities or just generally mislead for someone else’s needs, you would feel offended on their behalf, won't you? besides, it’s not like chris is a big fan of ryan’s mom either. but at the same time, he’d be more mild and understanding about ryan’s grandparents, bc they low-key remind him of his own parents, and like travis, he tends to come up with excuses for them. anyways, sorry tangled! as for bobby and ryan’s dynamic, i actually feel like out of 3 brothers, bobby is naturally sadistic, even if in a child-like way. but i do think and hc, that he has this 'odd' kind of interest for ryan. not romantic or anything, but more of lines when a small, cruel kid sees a wounded mouse and decides to see what he can do with it, simply bc it cannot run away and prob will die, anyway. so their interaction won’t be adorable, but i love your take on it, haha. in a lighter themes fic, this surely has a place! in GP, tho it’s more of horror and ‘bad’ progression. 

with this being said, i don’t hate any of the hacketts, not even constance. it takes a lot for me to downright hate characters. i also cannot hate characters, who are effective in the story, which chris’s family is. we as a player walk in their home, we see them interacting with one another, and we can see why chris and travis are the way they are. the message about the family sticking for each other isn't bad on paper, it's really aren't. but it depends on what sort of family it is. what kind of dynamic it has. and what we see paints a picture of a very unhealthy co-dependance between all of the hacketts. but it runs so deep, that neither travis nor chris seem to think that anything was wrong. or rather, that there was messed up stuff, and smth didn't felt right / nice, but it's all okay, bc this is just how family are, right? as even in the end, travis was like ‘we never wanted to hurt anyone’, when constance and jed, clearly gave zero shits about murdering and burying people as long as it kept their family safe. and it’s not the intent and motive itself that is chilling or twisted, it’s the way, both jed and constance talk and behave about it. like it’s nothing. and it’s kinda different to travis’s stoic and shell-shocked behaviour, to how he nearly numb to it, bc it’s too much. or to chris’s nervous, skittish guilt, that doesn’t stop him from doing those things, but clearly makes him feel disgusted with himself. jed and constance have none of those things lol.

either way, out of all the main characters, only laura had a chance to get ‘close’ to the hacketts and kinda explore their broken family in a more personal way. and i kinda really wanted ryan to do the same. esp bc is this also raises a question of how ‘better’ hackett brothers would have been, if their parents just idk, died. and i feel like, that in a scenario, where chris’s kids are still alive, things could have been somewhat ‘chill’. at least as far as it possible. but with them gone, well….yeah. i always felt like kaylee and caleb were kinda the glue, that held both travis and chris mental states somewhat together. but in better universe, without hackett patriarch and matriarch, yeah, thing might have gone somewhat well. i do believe, that kyalee and caleb could have made chris and travis be less bitter about things and each other. and ryan being latest addition to the family would get accepted just fine. like, travis cannot even be a bitch about chris having a romantic relationships with ryan, bc he himself prefers younger women lol. 

and no worries! i love your rambles and i ended up rambling myself a lot, haha. and i really love hearing your thoughts tbh. or hear fluff set-ups, bc i actually very bad at fluff myself. i also rarely write smth like that, so it's always interesting to see the what could have been, but in more lighter, cheery tone. thank you for the message, they always make my day better! hope, you have a swell time as well!

[gdivitya]

Victor trying to knit socks for Yuuri

Viktor wasn't uncoordinated by any means, but there was something about the two needles in his hands that felt unwieldy. He'd felt the same about using chopsticks for the first time, and if anything had a permanence in his brain, it came in the form of loud, Russian shouting: 'Practice, Vitya! Practice until your legs fall off!' But his legs weren't needed in this endeavor, except to (hopefully) try on the spoils of his new, uh... talent.

Socks. He was knitting socks.

His babushka had tried to teach him years ago, and under her severe brow over watchful eyes of piercing blue, he had been able to produce a mediocre knit cap that he sometimes tucks Makka's ears into when it got particularly blistery outside.

He hadn't picked up on it again after that one minor success. How hard could socks be?

YouTube pulled up on the massive curved screen of his television in the family room and armed with two bottles of wine and not nearly enough yarn, he settled into his three day weekend.

This was important. Yuuri needed warm, cosy feet to battle the tough Russian winters when he moved in.

"How do you know you're getting the size right?" Chris had innocently asked over facetime when Viktor wasn't answering his texts because his hands were busy.

Viktor puffed out his cheeks in half-hearted exasperation because, well. Viktor was intimately acquainted with Yuuri's feet, and he felt like Chris was being a bit rude.

The comment still caused a mild panic attack because he had nearly been done with a single sock and now he found himself surrounded by several of varying sizes and it was impossible to couple them because not one pair was identical.

"Please, Chris, I want him to be warm and happy and comfortable here and never want to leave me!"

Chris had promptly hung up when Viktor called him at 9am two days later from within a crafts shop, debating between the differences in weight and fiber and -

Lilia hadn't even deigned to answer his question about her favorite luxury patterns and instead stared him down until he felt the need to apologize for disturbing her (because he was starting to feel a bit disturbed himself).

('Give him more to do, Yakov, he's wanting to knit luxury stockings for Yura.')

Viktor indeed managed to tackle the extra training, preening at the tone he was maintaining to better woo an attractive Japanese skater who would soon be sharing their rink.

He had also moved onto knit caps that kept turning out too small and scarves that he tested by wrapping them around Yurio until the teen started screaming about premeditated manslaughter and motives for being strangled to death for stealing gold from that loser.

The blond later apologized because he didn't actually want to relinquish the softsosoft and extra long scarf the same color of Yuuri's glasses.

When the moving boxes started arriving and Viktor had nothing else to do because he had already emptied every nook and cranny available in his already minimalistic inspired home to make space for Yuuri's belongings, he kept knitting.

He didn't know how to stop. 

Makkachin now had a sizable wardrobe of her own that she couldn't even wear outside because it wasn't cold yet.

('It's barely fall, why are you so worried about him being cold?! Stop being so weird, you're going to scare him away with your obsession with keeping him warm!')

(He is obsessed. He's accepted it.)

He finished a throw for the loveseat.

It's 2 in the afternoon and Viktor is nearly vibrating out of his skin because he's left practice early and is on his way to pick up Yuuri. 

He's also ignoring Yurio and Mila shrieking at each other over who gets to take his luggage while Georgi puts on his sappiest playlist as he drives them in an appropriately sized vehicle for extra people and an excess of belongings, but Yuuri had only flown with one travel trunk and a carry on.

('I missed you so much, how was your trip? Did you enjoy your rest and pass your tests?'

'I already told you all of this.'

'Yes, but I want to hear it in person.')

And he's holding Yuuri's cold, cold hands and pulling him closer to him in the middle seat because everyone is speaking at once and Viktor can wait his turn to chat with his lovely fiancé who already looks so at ease in the company of the Russian skate team.

Yurio boasts at having pierced his face and asks how cool he looks, but Yuuri isn't buying it and immediately reaches over to snatch the magnetic jewelry when the teen jerks away from him with a horrible gasp.

"WHY ARE YOU SO FUCKING COLD?" because, FUCK, if Viktor's worry isn't somewhat justified. 

Yuuri laughs and shoves his hands against Yurio's neck and the boy screams about why he even wanted to come in the first place.

"The aircon in the flight was perfect," was his only response and Viktor once again gathered his favorite person against him.

It took forever and no time at all for them to make it to Viktor's apartment, and it would've been so easy to unload without incident, but Mila's bright, "I hope you like your socks!" threw all of that out the window.

Yuuri's look of confusion and quick text to Phichit that followed ('maybe it's a russian thing? quick, go buy him socks!') told Viktor he had been a bit... heavyhanded.

Viktor decided to keep the surprise to himself, just in case. Except after several weeks of teasing quips from the other skaters and Lilia giving Yuuri a severe once-over that lingered at his feet, he'd given in and, in a burst of anxiety and butterflies, asked what the hell is wrong with his feet? and now -

Now they're staring in bemusement at the heap of mismatched things Viktor's fever-knitted out of desperation to make Yuuri happy and, yeah. He's not even embarrassed, just mildly annoyed that nothing matches and when he looks up, Yuuri has gone all blotchy and Viktor panics.

"Oh, no, Yuuri," and he shuffles forward on his knees so he can squeeze himself between Yuuri's legs from where he had sat heavily on the loveseat. "Yurio said it was weird, we can get rid of them."

Yuuri is shaking his head furiously with his eyes scrunched shut. "Don't you dare!" he warbles, voice wet with the sob he refuses to release.

Viktor stills him by cupping Yuuri's face gently in his hands and he's peppering cute little kisses all over his face to try to calm him down and now his nose is red and shiny and Viktor has no choice, but to kiss it, too.

"I was worried that," he laughed, trying to bat Viktor away from breaking yet another world record, but in the amount of face kisses given in a minute, and it works.

"Worried?"

"That I was going to feel a little out of place here, that I - hush, I'm speaking. That I would feel like I'm invading your space, but."

They both looked around the apartment and it had been so, so easy to settle Yuuri into the empty spaces and start existing here as if he already belonged.

(He does.)

"I was starting to feel homesick and you went full grandma mode and made me socks?"

"Knitting is a respectable hobby!" Viktor grinned, giddy for half a second before his face dropped. "But none of them match."

"It's okay. None of my regular socks match, either. I blame the shitty uni washer and dryer sets we were forced to use for eating the other halves."

Yuuri rejects the idea of purchasing a kotatsu because he knows Viktor would rearrange the entire layout of their apartment for the feng shui.

('You're not tearing up these floors, Vitusha, they're original and gorgeous.'

'Heated floors are not a luxury!')

*

v-nikiforov: It's getting cold outside ⛸️❄️☃️

[image of two pairs of feet covered in mismatched woolen socks in front of a lit fireplace. Makkachin is on her back, showing off the adorable jumper with the slightly wonky looking snowman on her chest]

[unbillievables-blog]

“All great men have mustaches, you should have seen my dad's.”

dad, men, and moustaches. those aren’t words sheuses often, or thinks much about either. hardly ever, actually.  moustaches least of all, unless there’s some really cheesy eighties music videorunning on and on in her head. and none of those are words she’d pair up with great.  — except maybe one. he hasn’t gotmustache, but he’s got some great hair. he’s a man … probably. and just asembarrassing as a dad. grandad. still great on those three fronts though. alittle smile peeks at the thought, and a little pride shines in her quickglance at him. 

—yeah, he’s the closest to a dad she’sgot.  and he’s a great one.  funny, ‘cause all those times she’d imaginedher mum, she hadn’t really imagined her dad. even if he has or had a moustache,  she couldn’t think of someone who wasparticularly great. and no moustache could be great. not in the eighties, not in the nineties, not ever. and he wasn’t a great man. not if she’d been left with moira. still, color her curious to see a rarity: a great moustache on a great dad.    “ have you got any pictures? if he could pull off a moustache, i won’t question the greatness part ”

[rantceratops]

Idk I saw someone send an ask thing to another fan about Rayla werewolf au or some shit and like... I love werewolves?

My wolf and werewolf drawing skills are like trash this evening though so have a really half-assed doodle of first encounter Callum and were!Rayla.

*SHRUG*

[tryggthkona]

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[goldenornstein]

Quick notes on Maia verse // Tolkien Legendarium AU.

He will be referred to as Alkaró;  a translation to Quenya of his true Valarin name.

Another common name for him would be his Thindarin epithet; Limlaith.

The Ainur are divine beings born from different aspects of Eru’s intent, the Allfather and Creator.

The Song of the Ainur gave form to the world, as it was envisioned by Eru. They are the primordial forces that sustain and govern the complex fabric of reality. Their existences are entwined with everything, while at the same time they are it.

Two kinds of Ainur exist; the Valar and the Maiar.

Maiar serve the Valar. Alkaró serves Varda; the sublime Queen of the Valar, Lady of Light and maker of the Stars.

He’s one of Varda’s warriors, so to speak. A Maia who can wield Light as a weapon, governing the more hazardous aspects of it.

All Ainur are spiritual beings. They construct artificial bodies to interact with the Children of Eru, that is, humans and elves — plus dwarves and other creatures.

The Ainur refrain from intervening directly in the lives of Eru’s Children. This restriction has to do with the sacred gift of Free Will, as well as atoning for the actions of the Vala Melkor and his followers, who abused their power and thus caused enormous damage. Another reason is avoiding temptation, knowing themselves capable of turning into selfish and harmful forces.

Alkaró will seldom interfere — unless there’s a reason to do so.

Any interventions tend to be subtle, indirect. He will manifest in forms devoid of the Ainur’s splendour; forms that will seem no different from a regular person, usually a human or elf. His power will also be highly diminished, bound to get by and navigate the world like anyone else would.

Only in Aman, the earthly abode of the Ainur, his identity is known by all inhabitants. There, he will adopt a form slightly less common, albeit still similar to a Vanya, of golden skin and fiery scarlet hair.

His true form is unintelligible and terrible to gaze upon — a primordial being of pure light, as it was when the Creation came into existence.

His disposition tends to be stern and strong-willed, yet fundamentally benign.

However, he is not free from flaws. His unbreakable resolve and pragmatism (plus a faulty lack of empathy) will often make him seem ruthless, particularly when it comes to his role and duty.

He is incapable of understanding some of the struggles of Arda’s people, no matter how hard he tries to act in a wise and fair manner. His nature is just too different from theirs — which  tends to be a common issue among the Ainur.

As a warrior he’s uncannily fast, precise and overall a devastating force to be reckoned with.

Still, the Light is also a source of beauty and energy. Hence, Alkaró isn’t without a gentler side, being rather fond of those who choose to bring solace and guidance to others, especially in times of need and hardship.

[itsacriime]

open to: anyone! muse: Mai, she/her, 30 years old. Physical therapist assistant. plot: She finds out she’s pregnant. Your muse can be the significant other, a friend, etc.

"I...” Mai stared down at the pregnancy test in her hand, blinking in disbelief. She should be excited, right? But why were there so many other thoughts suddenly flooding her mind, hoping that there was some sort of defect in the device. “I think I’m pregnant.”