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Starlight, Starshine; an impenetrable disguise

its finally happening! i came up with a name for this little fanfic/one shot series/whatever this is going to be! obligatory title is ripped from a steam powered giraffe song (go listen to starlight starshine, its literally sun+moon x reader core im begging you) anyways! Starlight, Starshine is going to be a collection of self indulgent writings between our favorite animatronic and reader! from multiple different aus, though it will mostly center around 2! one au thats "everything is fine nothing bad happens please i just want them ALL to be happy" and the other is a silly dumb idea of "what if reader who used to work at the pizzaplex takes eclipse home and repairs them and ect ect happens"! todays little fic is based off of that! im so sorry about the long authors note, i really need to make it a habit to shorten these but yk obligatory admin is not used to writing fics and theyre still trying to find their style in terms of writing so ! most of these one shots also arent going to be in order, due to the nature of this being a collection of writings for at least 2 aus so for the most part theres no need to read them all to understand a greater story!

Summary: Months after the reader brings Eclipse to their home and repairs them, sun and moon must get accustomed to their new environment. however sun has some plans...

Extra notes: this one is primarily sun centered, reader has a dog, author is attempting at comedy, not proof read we die like men so expect a few grammar mistakes and spelling errors, a lot of this one shot also contains more context and exposition (???) to the "Taken Home" au referenced above, author is not confident in their writing skills and hasnt written a full fledged fic in a year or two, author also isnt used to writing proper dialogue so take that as you will, reader is GN/typically wont be given pronouns due to authors general writing style/POV, he/they pronouns for sun and moon they /them for eclipse, really this is just an experimental piece with a vague idea i had last night, nothing too special more so an exercise to get me back into writing, author is still trying to figure out how to write personalities so these are very likely to be OOC

The first word that came to your mind when describing Sun was "odd". He looked odd, he acted odd, he had odd rituals that he carried out in your home. However it wasn't a bad kind of odd.

It'd been a few months since you took the former daycare attendant to your home, and repaired them. You had already grown close to the pair long before the closure of the pizzaplex, being an extra set of hands in the daycare. You didnt even know they were still active within the building when you decided to explore the remains; already taken on the form of Eclipse, who at the time of your discovery was trying in vain to clean the wreckage. Of course repairing them wasn't easy given you had limited experience in... basically rebuilding an animatronic; but against all odds you made it work! You let them take the guest bedroom, not that either of them used it; they would much rather spend their time hovering around you.

It took a lot of getting used to, for everyone involved, but you were all adjusting quite nicely!

Mostly...

You see, Sun didnt like being cooped up.. your home being considerably smaller than the daycare he was so used to. Leading to todays horrible plan.

"Sunflower," You said through lightly clenched teeth as you watched the sun themed animatronic tug on an oversized hat. He really couldn't be doing this... this wasnt going to work, no one is this dumb to fall for this plan!

The plan in question? Well, Sun thinks it would be a good idea to wander about outside in a "disguise" of sorts; said disguise consisting of the aforementioned hat, sunglasses, a face mask, and a entirely new outfit. Obviously, it looked at convincing as it sounded.

Sun hummed and spun on his feel to look at you, already putting your dog on a leash. "Yeeees starshine?" He asked as he scratched your dog between the ears. "This isnt a good idea," You mumbled as you watched him make his way to the door. "Nonsense! There's hardly anyone out, it'll only be a quick walk around the park!" Sun cheered.

The second word that comes to your mind when you think to describe Sun, is "stubborn", as when he made his mind up on something you can almost guarantee that he would follow through with the plan. So now, you were following behind him, keeping your eyes peeled for anyone who could see him. If he weren't so tall, or if he could tuck his rays in, or didn't emit a mechanical creak with every step he made then perhaps, the plan may have just worked... perhaps.. maybe..

No, it wouldn't, you can see his metal neck from where you were standing.

"Remember, only one lap," You reminded him as you succumbed to his will, much to his delight as his pace picked up just ever so slightly.

To his credit, he was right about not many people being out and about, mostly in part due to the fact it was still early in the morning. Just light enough to keep Sun in control, but just early enough for most to still be sleeping or still getting ready for work. However, the park wasn't empty, mostly it was early morning joggers; who thankfully didn't pay much mind to the two of you outside of giving a half wave as they passed.

There were even a few parents around with their small children walking with them; be it they were walking them to school or simply taking them to take in the early morning air... Sun's body seemed to perk up at the sight of the children, loudly greeting them with a good morning; leaving both them and the parents slightly bewildered at his high energy.

There were others, who had decided to also take their dog out for an early walk. The people once again weren't an issue, as they seemed to miraculously fall for Sun's disguise from a distance.

Their dogs weren't fooled, though. Multiple dogs began to bark and growl as they passed by. "Oh I'm so sorry, I don't know what's gotten into him!" was said a few times throughout the walk. Again, the owners somehow didnt seem to notice the fact Sun was an animatronic, mostly due to having to restrain their dog from lunging forward at him.

The closest call, however, came from Sun excitedly taking up an offer for someone to pet their dog. For you see, Sun didnt think far enough ahead to cover his hands, thus leaving his hands in clear sight. Add in the fact that the dog bit Sun as he leaned forward to pet them.

Of course, the man noticed, and before he could say a word or question, you blurted out that it was a prosthetic hand. Though, you're not sure that the man bought it, as he was now craning his neck up to look up at Sun's round, flat face.

He slinked off. Whether it be he didn't have the energy to deal with it, or he simply just didnt care, or somehow believed you, he left.

Thankfully, that last interaction happened as you and Sun were beginning to loop back to where you started. Before Sun could begin to beg for a second round around the park, you started to walk him home; hand in hand.

"Oh that was so so fun! Starshine we gotta do this more often, everyone was so nice, " Sun chirped as you approached your front door. In his excitement he had begun to skip in long strides, forcing you to speed up your walk to a light jog.

"Yeah, again... maybe we can go earlier in the morning? You know we cant risk anything, I mean, if I get caught with you I could probably get sent to," You trailed off as Sun suddenly shoved something into your hands.

A handful of flowers that he had pulled up from the ground, he must have grabbed them while on the walk. How did you not notice? Were you that nervous of being found out by others?

A third word to describe Sun would be sweet. Even through his oddity and stubbornness, he still thought of you. Always so considerate.

Now that you think about it, you realize this may be the first time Sun has touched a real living flower.

You frowned, slightly. It made sense, he wasnt permitted to step foot outside of the pizzaplex, and its not like many people were giving him bouquets of fresh flowers. Usually if they did it'd be the obviously fake plastic ones. Sure, sometimes the kids would give him paper flowers.

"Can we go again tomorrow?" Sun asked as he watched you fumble around with the cluster of flowers... some were weeds, but.. its the thought that counts.

"Of course, Sunflower," You said before you could let yourself think logically.

Well, there was no taking it back, now. How could you, when Sun quickly stamped his heels in excitement as he dashed inside your home.

Perhaps you'll pick some flowers for him tomorrow, too.

yeah idk about this one yall LMAO, i genuinely didnt know where i was going with this one nor did i know how to end it, if that wasnt obvious SOBS im so not used to writing actual stories, im so used to short scenarios and headcannons... gotta fix that anyways i still have a few more ideas i want to write, but! thats it for the first one shot for Starlight, Starshine !

[kurooisant]

hi !! I hope you’re well 🫶🏼!

quick q , what do you think michael looks for in a partner? What’s his likes/dislikes when it comes to a relationship? Swear if I seen that man I’d be the biggest pick me fr 😃

nONO BECAUSE SAME HAHAH, but ty !! hope ur doing well too :))) (btw this is not proofread so sorry if theres any spelling mistakes)  i feel like michael doesn't really care for looks or gender if you love him, he'll love you back. but to be specific he looks more into personality.

his ideal partner would probably be

somewhat outgoing, like someone who's maybe an ambivert (someone who is both introverted and extroverted)

someone who's there for him, he has trauma from his past bonus points if your still there for him even after the scooping.

SOMEONE WHO CAN COOK. he eats popcorn for a reason, this mf cannot cook for shit 🙁

honesty, he's been lied to before and has horrible trust issues he needs to know if your being fr or not 🤞

someone who shares similar music tastes as him (hc: he listens to the smiths, queen, the cure, probably metallica, ozzy osborne and guns n roses :]) what he likes when in a relationship:

he likes spending time with you, like watching movies, or even just sitting together doing absolutely nothing he will cherish that moment forever.

cuddling? i have a hc that he's extremely cuddly once he warms up to you, it takes time for him to get used to your touch but now he loves it a lot.

waking up in the morning to see you by his side (REAL) (NOT CLICKBAITTT)

listening to music with you while doing literally anything what he dislikes when in a relationship:

fighting/arguing, his parents used to do it a lot when he was younger and it triggers him, but he also doesn't like to make you angry or sad.

dishonesty, if you lie to him he feels so hurt and betrayed

I CANT THINK OF ANYTHING ELSE AHH but ty for this ask anon, this was very fun to do ♡

[sweetlikehoneystingslikeabee]

can we get the rogues party finding out their s/o is dyslexic?

Rogues Party with Dyslexic S/O

Okay! These are shorter given the subject. I do not have dyslexia, so if I make mistakes, let me know so I can learn/fix.

TW: none

Riddler

His partner asks him one too many times how to spell something. It's not a problem! Not at all, he gets to show off- But he does end up asking and it comes about.

Unfortunately he has to come to terms with the fact they probably didn't tell him out of fear he would equate it with low intelligence. He will quickly remedy that. Their brain just works a little differently, is all!

If theres a machine or device he can make to help, he's doing it. Just say the word and it'll be done.

Penguin

He first notices because his love tends to avoid certain work, instead having a device read aloud for them as they try their best to focus on it. One of the goons makes a side comment about it and brings it to Oswalds' attention.

He asks plainly if it's because of a need or simply to make things easier. When they tell him why they use it, he buys them a special scanning pen for dyslexia. The best on the market, gift wrapped for them.

Anything else? You just need to ask.

Mad Hatter

Honestly, no matter how he finds out about it, he takes it as an excuse to read books aloud to his partner. He'll read out loud whatever you want, really, but now you can both enjoy an intimate Alice in Wonderland reading together.

Scarecrow

He has an idea but chooses to let his s/o confirm it.

He's pretty neutral about it. If they ask him why, he'll state how common it is. That doesn't make it not important, but it's not something that changes how he perceives you or how he would treat you. He'll support you how you need him to.

Victor Zsasz

Literally doesn't notice until he's told. Doesn't care much after. Unless it's effecting you in a way he can assist, he doesn't think about it.

Killer Croc

Look, he finished high school later in life, so he was definitely behind education wise. While he doesn't have dyslexia himself, he relates since dyslexia can have that effect.

Fuck anybody giving you problems about it, okay? Anyone tries to make them feel bad for issues they might have, he's there to back them up.

Harley Quinn

She first notices when her s/o is having trouble telling left from right, a common symptom. That along with other things shes noticed, it all clicks.

Why didn't you tell her, lollipop? She wouldn't have judged them! Maybe you just didn't think it was a big deal. She hopes that's it. She'd be a little hurt if you intentionally thought she'd be a jerk about it.

Poison Ivy

They trip over a word several times and Pamela tries to help by showing them the word on her phone. Its then and there they tell her how they're dyslexic. Ah.

It's not likely to come up often unless she notices you mispronouncing something or misspelling. Then it's a polite correction if it's the two of you. Better here in private than someone getting fresh later.

Two-Face

Harv is in the camp of "I only care if you do" while Harvey wants to be as accommodating as possible. Do you know the wonders of... 🌟graphic organizers?🌟

Genuinely, Harv just doesn't want to make it weird for you. He knows what it's like when people hyperanalyze a way you're different from them and make it awkward. None of that for you if he can help it.

Harvey is a giant nerd and a problem solver so he's going to be making new solutions you've never even thought of.

Black Mask

It comes out when he makes fun of them for reading slowly. "What, you need help or something?" And is going to feel like the biggest fucking asshole when they tell him. As he deserves.

He makes up for it by being especially defensive against anyone else. Yeah, they need to take their time, you got a problem? There's at least one bullet in his jacket that'll solve that for you!

Mr. Freeze

At first it begins out of irritation as they forgot an important date. Again. It seems to be a frequent issue but considering he himself is timely and never forgets a date of theirs...

it all comes out at once and immediately makes sense. He apologizes for being too harsh or cold. Now that he knows it's not a lack of trying, he's going to be as helpful as possible wherever they might need it.

Ras al Ghul

Noticed almost immediately based upon a variety of symptoms but never says anything until they bring it up. Its their business and news. He has all the time in the world for them to tell him.

There's quite frankly a lot of his home that wouldn't be the most accessible for someone with dyslexia. It's hard enough reading in a language you know, try reading instructions for a dead language and then trying to explain it!

He will, however, do his best to make sure in his home, his beloved is doing alright.

Bane

Like scarecrow, he knows the signs and has his suspicions but decides to not say anything. One, what if he's incorrect/his s/o isn't diagnosed and he just makes them self conscious? Two, he figures if they want him to know, he'll know. His own trust issues in the past has caused him to keep things until he felt ready. He understands.

He has no problem being something of a "translator" when needed. You don't give him guff when he makes the occasional mistakes in English, he's not going to give you any because of brain mix ups.

[agentplutonium]

EA talk!! I just got back from watching it and I need to speak about it. Thoughts/Theories under the cut <33 (also, this one is a long one guys)

OKAY FIRST OF ALL I AM GOING INSANE. LITERALLY INSANE OVER HERE. okay. now. onto things that stuck out to me (gonna bold the ones I'll focus on later in this post):

"... Abomination. I am authorized to end you." "You're chorus... is giving up on me already...?"

Articulate, answers to the chorus

Hush has telepathic abilities

"Do you have any idea what that freak is capable of?"

"He doesn't know I'm in your head" "We only have one shot" really the difference in tone between this and when Doc wakes up

THE SOUNDS OF HIS MAGIC. THERES WATER SOUNDS IN THAT BITCH. LIKE A GREAT RUSH OF IT.

"I don't know what I want to do with you, I haven't decided yet"

"path of least resistance"

"My name? ... Hmm. That would be rather odd if I didn't have one, wouldn't it? Let's go with... Hush. It's got a nice ring to it."

"I'm afraid I'm a little... new, here."

mentions a lot of people who want him gone

"I didn't want to hurt you. I still Don't think I want to."

"I needed it to act as a focal point. A Conduit. A bottleneck. I used your core to focus the spell song on a single point. Like channelling the entire force of a river through a pinhole and then using that pressure of all that magic to eviscerate Reticuli [...] I don't have a core. i needed yours. I could have silenced his connection to the spell song, but I didn't want his powers to be muted, I wanted him dead." (SCREAMING)

6'6" demon,,, (not hush, but like-)

"did it never occur to you that that demon might have been right? You have no idea about the man you saved. What I'm capable of. What I'm going to do" followed by "and foolish"

"I still don't know what I'm going to do with you. but I like talking with you, so that's something."

"What am I? [...] You're gonna have to be more specific. What kind of magic user am I? It's a simpler question, I'll give you that. As a matter of fact, I'm starting to think there's a lot of things I'd like to give you. If I get the chance" (SIR-)

Not a demon, not a human, not a robot "I'm more, and less."

that bitch disoriented us on purpose with the "complicated answer" Also, there's a voice in there, and it obviously did not feel good for human empowered Doc

"Maybe for now we just stick with that simple answer. maybe someday, knowing me won't have to hurt. Only one way to find out"

"I was put on elegy to do something very important, and there are a lot of people who are in the way of that."

"I don't think I want you to hurt. I don't think I'll like that."

"I'm not gonna wipe your memories. I think I want you to remember me. One day you might look back and think that, saving me was the worst mistake of your life. but here's only one way to find out, right?"

that bitch blew us a fucking kiss I'm dying

OKAY OKAY OKAY now time for me to go into hyperfixation mode.

First and foremost, I'm putting my stance out there: This guy is a sovereign. specifically, the one from Brachium's little journey into the river. The one who said "Death is already here" THAT GUY IS HUSH. I have no proof other than a hunch (that Max helped with), but I'm telling you guys. now as for which one, I have a feeling that (out of the named Soverigns) it's A'Xerahn (Desire, the one who created vamps, for the line "there's a lot of things I'd like to show you, given the chance." (still screaming)) or N'Dellex (Dreams, created Dreamwalkers, Hush, get it?). If it isn't a named sovereign then I still believe he's a sovereign from below the river. listen ARGUE WITH THE WALL I AM RIGHT ABOUT THIS.

Moving on. I want to point out the language that Reticuli used when talking about Hush. Abomination, Freak, "I'm authorized to end you." Whoever Hush is, he has the council worried. He's not like them. They're probably scared. This also hints that Hush has done things in the past to get attention put on himself. He's talking about how dangerous he is, and what he's capable of. it's clear that the chorus knows what Hush is. But unfortunately, that lil conversation doesn't give us much. However, Hush seems to be pretty willing to give information, for the most part.

This brings me to my next point, the things that Hush has said. Hush, for whatever reason, seems very comfortable telling Doc that he wanted Reticuli dead. Not only this, but he tells Doc that there is not an insignificant line of people who want him gone. This man is being hunted, and he knows it. He then goes and warns Doc that maybe Reticuli was right and asked if they considered that. He says that they can't know what he's capable of, or what he's going to do.

Before we continue, I do kinda want to talk about the hints that we get for just what Hush is. He says he isn't human or demon. With that, for a being of power, that is, there's really only two options left, and that is Sovereign or Shade. However, he can't be a SHade, cause even when becoming tangible Shades just simply look a certain way that empowered's are aware of. "Oh but pluto, Sovereign is so out there-" not really, not if you think about it. We are getting an Avior narrative push around the same time that we got a new character. What was Avior's whole plot? El'aetum and Min'ara wanted Starlight to be the middle ground cause something was going down with the Meridian. In Inversion, Brachium met someone who tore a hole in the meridian and let the shades loose (or so I'm thinking). Who got out right as the Inversion was happening? Avior and Starlight. The fact that he doesn't give us his real name, and the endless fucking river references when he's being all mysterious- like it's obvious. Not to mention his "I am More. And Less." line. He is more than a regular empowered because he is a Sovereign, but he's also less cause in his "true form" I'll say, he is not exactly tangible or anything, he is power as a concept.

Okay, continuing on. Hush is a Sovereign. He's powerful. He can do things that others cannot. He got sent to Elegy to do something important, something that others don't want him to do. He's ruthless. And he's cutthroat. And he will do what he has to do to survive... but he's curious about Doc. He didn't know whether to let them go or not in the beginning, only to decide so at the end. He has a soft spot for them. He doesn't want to hurt them, but he will do things that might cause them to hurt. One of the last things he says to Doc was "I'm not gonna wipe your memories. I think I want you to remember me. One day you might look back and think that, saving me was the worst mistake of your life. But there's only one way to find out, right?" and guys. GUYS. I think we have a proper antagonist on our hands. I think we have a real villain. One that's gonna affect more than Docs/possibly Avior's storyline.

I think that's all imma write for tonight, but this new boy has effectively gotten me back into the redacted fandom in full swing. I literally don't know what to do with myself.

[oc-cinematic-universe]

It's been quite a while since I read the deathspeaker, mainly 'cause of work. Would you like to give a summary of it?

ho boy. ok so 1) these summaries are not a good replacement for reading the comic. do you know how fucking many small details i put in the comic? every time i send a page to randy to have them proofread before i post it, i point out like 5 different tiny intentional details that are so important for the vibes. a summary does not give you the tiny shifts in characters dialogue and mannerisms, the intentional framing of each panel, the vitally important art style choices. please read my comic im so proud of it 2) this is long im sorry i tried not to ramble but holy shit i love this story. chapter 6 got fucking long in particular but you NEED the little details to understand that one ok just trust me please im sorry 3) this is a summary of every chapter that has posted so far cause idk how far back you stopped reading so congrats youre getting my last 5 years of work in one convenient post 4) this took me hours to write im not editing it if theres spelling and grammar mistakes no there isnt

prologue:

dara, headmistress of the school, explains her recent prophetic dreams to joe, her boyfriend and a fellow teacher at the school. a demon will be coming, one whos been here before and caused destruction. a team of 8 will be able to stop it. thats all they know.

chapter 1:

an introduction to the school and characters. introduces abby, lindsey, cody, and shannon as older students, and liam, victor, and valerie as first years. victor and valerie are twins, victor's super excited to be here and i love that for him <3 joe takes the kids on a tour explaining stuff about the school, most importantly being not to enter the forest without express permission. just like in the rest of the world, there are monsters and you should be careful.

joe then starts their first lesson of the year with magic101 and explains the story of how the world got magic. the 8 magic types were a gift from the 8 corresponding gods, who then left all the new wizards and have not been heard from much since.

after class, joe, dara, april, and lily (two other teachers and joe and daras close friends) discuss the prophecy. dara confirms the 8 who will be stopping the demon will be children, likely students of the school, so they need to keep an eye out.

chapter 2:

its the night before the new students will receive their wands and learn their magic type and valerie is nervous. she doesnt WANT half the magic types theyre SCARY, but victor is so pumped and ready for whatever. they go to sleep resolving 0 of those feelings

joe's in charge of a lot of the proceedings and he's losing his mind just a little bit this man doesn't sleep ever. as he's scrambling through last minute prep, some of the other teachers are introduced. the most important are rowena, the emotion magic teacher who shows up late and waves her hand and suddenly joe has no problem with her bad excuse, and death, who is the literal god of death. he's just chilling.

the kids receive their wands, liam gets fire magic and victor gets space, and valerie causes a bit of a stir when hers is revealed to be light. light wizards aren't the most common and the school hasnt had a new light student in a couple years. which means...

joe finds dara later riffling through books in a bit of a craze, and she explains she thinks valerie must be one of the kids of the prophecy. why else would a light student show up NOW? in fact, dara has a theory that the gods may be involved through the gems of the gods, which are granted to 8 individuals with different magics to increase their power when the world needs help.

joe asks if they should tell valerie. dara says no.

moments after saying she was SURE this had to be it... she says they can't tell valerie, they haven't confirmed anything. they can't be sure.

joe says he trusts her choice. joe lies.

chapter 3:

fuck the first section of this chapter who cares, basically abby and shannon explain yes the god of death (death is not one of the 8 magic types btw) is just here its not a big deal he teaches the dark magic class and he's chill whatever. valerie and harley, the light magic teacher, have discussions on the pressure put on light wizards to be perfect and harley gets goofy with it to let valerie know its ok they won't pressure her to be perfect at all, magic is fun

joe teaches the weapons training class and runs the kids through some basic defense with abby, who volunteered to help demonstrate. because it meant she didn't have to go to her normal class for this period. when she fucks up one of the demonstrations and hurts joe, she takes an embarrassed water break. and notices something watching her. a shadowy being who smiles at her from across the arena. who vanishes when joe comes back to ask how she's doing. abby doesn't feel well, and leaves.

meanwhile in dara's office, rowena comes by asking about some lesson content she wants to use but needs dara to confirm is ok. rowena tries to wave her hand and make it all so easy again. dara does not care and barely notices as she counteracts the spell. dara agrees to hear her out, and she begins telling the story. one about a queen and a peasant boy

the queen had taken the boy in and he worked so hard to make her happy. he admired her and felt close to her. she did not feel the same. an advisor warned her, the boy would cause problems. the boy needed to be dealt with before it was too late. nevermind that he hadnt done anything wrong, he was going to kill them all

so she ordered to have him executed. and as he cried in his cell awaiting his death, something came to help. it offered him freedom. hope.

vengence.

dara interrupts by saying its a bit morbid for this kids huh. startled, rowena can't get a very good reasoning out, and dara denies her request and asks her to leave. but... dara cant help but feel like... somethings wrong. so she adds,

"don't ask questions you dont want answers to"

rowena leaves happily. she got what she wanted

chapter 4:

abby is called on a quest (a normal school occurance stop calling this a weird thing it's just the culture of this world I'll KILL you) and dara won't ler her take shannon, her beloved girlfriend, with her because every single time abby went on a quest last year she took shannon. dara asks her to take a first year instead.

abby and liam leave on their quest to take care of a small gang of goblins. a simple enough quest for a first and second year to handle on their own. liams VERY nervous about heights and has never really ridden on a broom before, so he asks abby random questions to distract himself. he asks about the students he saw already at the school when the buses dropped him off there. abby gets quiet. she explains some students live at the school. "some of us dont have anywhere else to go" "...us?" abby doesnt answer, caught up in memories from only months ago. thankfully, she doesn't have to answer, theyve reached their destination! and...

there's screaming ringing out from everywhere. the goblins, somethings wrong. they're 9 feet taller than they're supposed to be, limbs too long for their body, faces half made up of hanging mouths filled with sharp teeth. they look ghostly, like shadows. liam fire blasts one and it does nothing. frantically, abby tells him to go back and get help, she'll do what she can to stop them.

dara, another teacher, and liam come back as soon as they can, just in time as abby's energy runs out. dara tells the kids to stay put behind a force field she puts up, but not long after leaving them she feels her connection with it break and comes rushing back to find them gone. nearby, theyre sitting with death. death casually tells dara not to worry, his reapers are handling the goblins. everyone can relax now. the other teacher takes the kids back to the school, leaving dara and death alone.

he confirms 6 deaths. but thats not the worst part! the worst is that he and his reapers could only find 1 of their souls. the other 5 have gone missing. he doesnt understand how this couldve happened... but dara does. there's one thing she can think of that could do this.

death is horrified. she promised him she had gotten rid of the demon the first time. she PROMISED. and now she's implying she lied? and has been lying for 70 YEARS?? how could she? unless... it was something to do with-

she tells him to stop. he realizes he is the only one who knows. he realizes she hasnt told anyone in decades. he realizes her refusal to acknowledge it is going to kill them all.

chapter 5:

this one is not getting several paragraphs it is so simple, jules is an elf prince who passed out near the school and was found by harley and valerie. after questioning them on why the hell they are here and they explain they ran away to get away from their family, she invites them to stay as a student. they agree! joe gives them a tour he's the tour guy and he is so excited to have a new student here <3 during the tour they end up talking about joe's hair, which he magically dyed to be pink with a spell he made himself, which leads to mentioning the gods never gave him a magic type so he has to make do with the little magic that works outside of magic types. later that night jules struggles to sleep and wanders the school, stumbling on rowenas classroom, where her voice drifts through the open door. jules takes a peek.

she's talking to the demon. she notices jules and quickly makes sure they won't think anything of what they saw (erasing memories is tricky. but making it harder to focus on.... thats easy). they go back to bed content. the demons excited. that was the last of the 8! so finally, finally, they can begin putting things into motion.

chapter 6:

in order to make up for a failed assignment, shannons teacher gives her a ridiculous homework sheet she'll have to go into the woods for. she tries to argue, but rowena enters the room. whats the problem shannon? youre a smart girl, after all. it's no problem for you. so shannon, grumbling, agrees.

victor overhears some students outside his class talking about the rumors that the school is in danger. always a fan of properly fact checking, victor decides to take this to dara and ask for an explanation. shes says the rumors are true, but its nothing to worry about. everything is under control. victor doesnt buy this for a second. he does what every good scientist should do and goes to research

shannon and abby walk at the edge of the forest, complaining about how unfair the assignment is. abby offers to come with shannon, its dangerous after all. she declines. she's a smart girl, after all. she can handle herself. it breaks abbys heart. shannon would never notice that. she's a smart girl, after all. after shannon leaves, abby is all alone. but she knows she's not, as the shadowy being once again stares at her. so close it could touch her. she knows it cant be real, its always gone when she goes to double check. so she turns around. theres no one there. abby is alone.

victor realizes too late into his plan that he doesnt know how the fuck research is supposed to help him here. but its alright. a wad of paper hits him from an unknown source, pointing him the direction of... an unlabeled book. it has a note stuck to the front: "do you want the truth? ps dont let dara see" nervously, he takes it somewhere private, and begins to read.

its a journal of a 10 year old boy during 1950. he's been taken in by miss dara and mister beckett after his mom left him at the school, promising to come back for him. 4 years later, she never came. he laments about school life as the only 10 year old living at this high school, and about miss dara being so mean and mister beckett being so nice. he writes about a cat he found in the woods, where he knew he wasnt supposed to go. he writes about the cat that follows him home. the cat that won't step into the light. the cat thats offering him a deal

shannon, in her quest to document magical animals in the woods, enters a small cave opening, calling out to any creatures that may reside. she does not want to be here and it shows. but here she will stay as the cave entrance crumbles behind her, and a doubled voice next to her ear taunts her. she spins around, wand brandished, and the demon floats smugly, unconcerned. she threatens and screams at them to tell her who they are. dramatically, they almost laughingly call themself "The Deathspeaker" flourishing their cape. ...shannon realizes she has run into a theater kid and no longer feels concerned. she could probably bully them no problem.

the boy from the journal is scared. The cat has told him it's a demon and it wants to make a deal. he knows better, and refuses over and over until it leaves. hopefully it won't come back. Life is hard enough as it is.

incredibly annoyed that shannon won't take their drama seriously, the demon says she can call them Theron instead. Trying to get back into the moment, they ask, voice echoing, how on EARTH she managed to find them. she says homework. for a moment their voice splits. "what???" "homework?" she doesn't notice. ... But hey a demon is a magical animal right, maybe she can fill her homework out

the boy tries to move on. the demon won't come back, it hasn't in a while. he describes his day, but the page is ripped near the end, cutting off the dark inky reply that he surely did not write himself. it wants a deal.

they want a deal. they'll do Shannon's homework if she retrieves a dragon for them. they lost it, and they can't leave to chase it, they've got this dreadful chain on their leg. shannon agrees. she's a smart girl, after all. this won't be a problem. so they remove the rocks from the cave entrance and send her on her way

the boy never budges. the cat tries and tries but he won't make a deal. so again, it leaves. days later, mister beckett does something strange. he and miss dara have a screaming match, and afterwards he tells the boy not to trust her. he's going to find a way to get the boy out of here. the boy doesnt understand. he thought dara loved them both, why would they need to leave? the next day, the boy write at midnight. miss dara woke him up and told him to follow her. he trusts her. how can he not.

the rest of the journal is blank.

victor refuses to believe that was it. what did any of that mean? how does this help? the door creaks behind him. dara enters the room, not noticing him at first. she smiles and greets him, and he panics and runs. ...odd. he left a book there. dara picks it up and opens it. moments later its nothing but ash. he knows. he knows, and she cant... breathe. he knows. he knows.

the 2 voices of the demon argue in their cave. he asks why they can't just tell shannon, rowena listened why wouldnt she? it snaps and yells at him, this isnt how it works!! this isnt what they discussed! shannons voice calls from the cave entrance. it tells him to be quiet and let it handle it.

she found the dragon but because it was A Ghost, she wasn't exactly able to get it back. she did her best! but its not enough. they count this as a broken deal, and refuse to hand her homework until she promises one more tiny thing. one more deal. they want her help talking to abby. ...she says no, of course not, thats stupid she doesnt trust this!! they move faster than she can react, pinning her up to the wall. she doesnt have a choice. she does this for them or she dies. she nods, and they let her go, with instructions written down to give to abby.

"you weren't supposed to do that" he says. "shut up" it snaps back.

victor got enough information from the journal to try research attempt number 2. with the help of lindsey (who caught him very obviously talking about stealing a laptop from the school computer room, and chose to help him out of pity), he discovers an article from 1950 about a fire at the school. headmistress dara refused to answer many questions from the police and journalists, especially about the 10 year old boy who had gone missing under her care. he was the only one they couldn't find any trace of in the aftermath. victor, horrified, confirms thats him. thats the boy from the journal. the one this all seems to be about.

theron deathspeaker.

[ashstar1111]

babysitting storytime?? not a good one tho lol

its kinda long so be aware. also, sorry for any spelling/grammer mistakes, english isnt my first language.

ok so BACKROUND: theres this couple + two daughters (7 and 5 y/o) who lives two floors below me & my family, and both the parents had to work and they needed someonw to watch their girls from 8am to almost 5pm (so about 9h). 

Usually my little sis babysits for them but she had plans + she didnt feel like shes ready to babysit for so long (its the first family shes babysitting for), so she offered me the job. and me, being me, took it without thinking twice (spoiler alart, BIG MISTAKE).

so i wake up in the morning and i feel really ill, i almost threw up a few times and my stomach really hurts, but i dont have much time to worry about it so i suck it up like a big kid, drink my coffe, take the dog for a walk, come home, finish my coffe, and go to their house. 

so, get to these girls apartment at 8am sharp, and everything is fine for the first few hours, they’re snacking some chips and drinking WAY to much chocolate milk, as well as watching wired youtubes on the tv, they were honestly very well behaved at the begining tbh, so i just let them be. 

at like 11:30am they started being hungry and they asked me for some fruites, so i was like “okay :)” and went to cut some fruites and stuff for them. i cut them a peach and washed them two different types of grapes, put it all on a plate and brought it to them.

then, they said they want corn schnitzel and i was like, “okay, well you can eat the fruites while i make u some” and went to the kitchen. what i didnt know was that they were starting to play with the fruits instead of eating them, so i came back to find the grapes, still uneaten, but covered in green liquid sope (???), and one (1) pice of peach was eaten. thats it. no girls.

at this point its about 12:45pm and they’re not in the living room where i left them. why? because APPARENTALLY, they decided that braking into their parents room (which was locked, btw, dont ask me how tf they got in) to steal some Mentos, was the best thing to do after murdering fruites.

i caught them right before they found the Mentos, and brought them to the dining table to eat the schnitzel they asked for. after they ate they decided to play a game called “trying to get into mom and dad’s room to steal stuff”, and i had to literally STAND AND GAURD THE DOOR TO MAKE SURE THEY WERENT STEALING SHIT. 

then, as they relized that I was the main problem, they decided to start trowing things at me. moestly shoes and crayons and markers and dolls. i asked them to stop multipul times and tryed to talk to them like big girls, until they decided to take it one step forwared, and throw a PAIR OF SCISSURES directly at me. 

it didnt hit me bc i moved, and then i yelled at them that they’re not supposed to be throwing sharp stuff like that, especially not at people. they didnt give TWO SHITS, and their way of showing me that was to throw the scissures at me AGAIN.

at that point i kinda gave up, maybe bc i was tired, maybe bc i was feeling kinda ill, maybe bc i was hungry, or maybe bc ive had enough stuff thrown at me a this point. fuck knows, the point is, i fucking had it.

i got away from the door and yelled at them that i hope they treat the next babysitter to watch them better than that (bc FUCK IT im not going back in there, especially not for enother 9 fucking houres.) and that ill be telling their mom everything. 

they obviusly were like “yeah we dont really care”. and when im telling u i was so close to snapping, i mean i was SO FUCKING CLOSE. so, i did what every reasonable adult would have done, and i sat on the couch in the living room and had a silent meltdown while the girls i was supposed to be watching were stealing cendy from their parents :).

after about 15 muinets (so it was about 2pm) of silently crying, they came to apologize to me, but i was so fucking angry (i still am and its 10pm) that all i did was telling them that i dont want their apology, and again, that i hope they would treat the next babysitter better, and then i got up and went to the kitchen floor to text heir mom.

long story short: their mom called me and scolded them that it wasnt ok and shit, but im still angry (both that they think they have the right to throw a pair of scissures at me, and that they actually made me scared. the rest of the babysitting they behaved and shit so i hid in the bathroom, bc i was shaking (im still a bit shaky for some reason) and honestly i didnt feel like i could face them).

[qingxintea]

heartbreak avenue (4) || albedo x reader

https://qingxintea.tumblr.com/post/668802979671982080/on-heartbreak-avenue-with-albedo-5-gender

will we meet on bakers street... or find ourselves on melrose avenue?

gender neutral reader.

mentions of spiking

————

- my mans is out of glaze lilies for an experiment once again. like sir stock up :skull:

- travels to liyue,, he gets lost bc hes not that familiar with the map (bc you would always offer to get them for him, like in my cecilia flowers post) (real ones know)

- and ventures inside the city instead, where he seems to come across you again. (not clickbait)

- he doesn't try to get ur attention, just observes. especially after ...

- anyway 👹👹

- you were with hu tao, chilling around her workplace as he studies the lilies growing nearby

- subconsciously (did i spell that right.) he focuses on your conversation. he doesnt mean to, its a natural instinct he has

- "y/n. it seems you've been distant for awhile, and to be honest, im only worried. do... would you like my help in getting over him?"

- you chuckled for a moment, then shifted your gaze to setting sun. "ah... the story just doesn't bother me anymore."

- "oh dear, when will you learn to stand for yourself... im curious, if you dont mind me asking, why did you suppress your feelings to help your friend..?" hu tao followed your gaze in the same direction, legs swinging back and forth on the wooden bench.

- "you see, its that before, he showed no signs of interest in me. i doubt he will- would've returned my feelings. but the way his eyes lit up when the topic was about her... its just a harmless thing i wanted to keep forever."

- "does that still remain true?"

- "..."

- and an inaudible sentence after that. 😔⛓🥀🖤

- oh.

- so you have? had? feelings for him. (little bit to late but he’s still learning 🥺)

- yet the way you had bitterly looked into his eyes and said, “im not y/n.” it made him feel like youve despised him this whole time..

- hu tao takes you to stroll around wuwang hill, or so he hears.

- recall in part 2 traveller visited your house, right?

- so albedo def knows your address 👹👹

- anyways drops a bundle of his hard earned glaze lilies by your doorstep. because fuck an experiment, youre worth so much more. (/j) (/g)

- so like hes about to leave liyue right?

- but you come out of nowhere

- he spent too much time reflecting ig 💀

- you notice him and he looks back . you already know there’s something to be discussed that you couldnt escape from

- “...let’s talk at my house.” you blankly said

- he only agrees .

- when you reached your doorstep, he was expecting to see the flowers

- but they were gone !

- did he place it at the wrong house ? no, he couldn’t have made a mistake like that , plus the address number was the same

- so... someone must’ve taken them. how disappointing.

- you two enter . nice house tbh

- anyways you told him to sit on the couch as you made yourselves tea

- so meanwhile u were in the kitchen . took ur phone and called hu tao . she picked up ,,

- “i need you to stay quiet, ok? come if you see i’m in trouble.”

- ���was literally our plan from the start but ok”

- you softly laughed, grabbing two identical teacups and a serum from your cabinet

- made the tea. poured it in, then poured the serum into the right cup.

- it wasn’t supposed to do any harm, just make whoever sleep bc you didn’t really have the energy to discuss anything with him rn

- also you would never want to harm him so like

- you set them down on the table, then sitting across from him. “...so?”

- albedo takes it in his hands, the heat of it pretty questionable as it felt like fucking molten lava flowing through his hands

- he didn’t prepare for this really, he was expecting for you to find the flowers as he poured out how much you meant to him or other stuff

- why not follow along that, then?

- but before he could say anything, you spoke up first, uncomfortable with the silence.

- “a little star told me that they’d have to take my soul if i destroyed mondstadt.” you deadass yawned and snorted with a straight face, and the sentence implied of you mocking his future. “unbelievable, isn’t it?” you sarcastically added.

- when had you even learned to act like this? he was taken aback, unfamiliar with your personality though he had known you for so long.

- regardless, he took a sip and responded, “if you think it is... sure.” also meant backhandedly as if ppl were supposed to believe your every word as if u were a god(dess)

- you watched as he set the cup back down, curious on how the serum wasn’t taking effect though it was supposed to be immediate. maybe after awhile.

- “why don’t you drink your tea? i remember that you don’t like them cold.” words from albedo truly 😻😻

- he remembers.

- you scoffed, crossing your legs. “i only made it this hot because i remember you don’t like them hot.” you watched his troubled expression.

- communicating with you has never been this hard.

- staring at the steam floating into the air, you wondered about the serum and noticed no signs of fatigue from albedo. when was it gonna...

- oh, wait.

- you then shifted your gaze to your cup, it’s vibrant color reflecting your irises. FUCK-

- ...your turn now, hu tao.

- picking it up gently and drinking it, you felt the forced tiredness onto, all thoughts void of your mind. tf where did u even get this shit? sketchy 🤨

- then . collapse 💀

- mans was about to take action,, but hu tao . girl is fast as fuck

- appears in a rush of butterflies and picks you up bridal style (hand in marriage now), staring him directly in the eyes

- before anything else, he noticed the glaze lilies stuffed in her sachet. she followed his gaze, picking up his thoughts.

- “i, personally, wouldn’t recommend bringing y/n back. after all... they left for a reason.. but, you do you, i guess.” she looked around, her gaze resting on the unfinished teacups. “just don’t expect it to be easy.”

- and in another flash of butterflies, she escaped, leaving him all alone.

- once again.

“ 💀⛓🖤🥀 “

—————

ok looks like i got over the fact that i have to write stuff down in order to publish it let’s go ig 👹👹 /hj

[filipinoizukuu]

pls tell me more of ur fic pet peeves

K OSMFKS OKAY MAN. man. HSDBBSJDJS

so i have like. a FUCK ton of pet peeves for fics, and i just wanted to say first that fanfic should not be placed in any boxes or standards because it is freely written and it is something meant to be enjoyed. these are my opinions and all peeve me to only a certain degree (meaning it squicks me out at worst)—so if you are a fic writer and you find yourself doing any of these things, do NOT take it to heart and just know i love you for doing what you do and i wish you all the best ♡

im gonna give reasons why certain things peeve me so i dont just sound like im bitching but generally, when reading ANY fics, i dislike the ff:

- long paragraphs with no breaks. bro i have adhd i cant go through all of this im going to get LOST.

- underlining, bolding, italicizing, AND capitalizing statements for emphasis like sir its chill i think i get the point. imho if you wrote your scene well enough and paced it properly, the most you'll need is an italics and maybe an exclamation mark. u gotta trust ur own writing and the reading comprehension of your audience.

- jittery perspective jumps especially when its fic about characters who use the same pronouns and youre constantly shifting the thoughts being presented. it... gets kinda confusing.

- FIRST PERSON POV. ITS NOT BAD I JUST GET SO JARRED BECAUSE SASUKE UCHIHA IS DOING WHAT TO ME??

everything else like grammar and punctuation and spelling is literally just. whatever. like as long as i get your point i really dont care. sometimes writers dont speak english fluently. sometimes writers just fuck up and dont have betas. sometimes writers just post their chapters at 3 am and leave all their mistakes out for god. i have no right to judge.

for personal bnha fic pet peeves, ig most of my annoyance lies on characterization and my own personal beliefs

- i already said it previously but i cannot STRESS how much i dislike the whole "fuck redemption arcs and fuck all authority figures except LoV for some reason" theme. it annoys me and i just flat out dont agree with it

- HATE tropes that reduce deku to being like 🥺👉👈 uwu okie soft helpless bean. theres nothing wrong with it if thats how you prefer deku, but i just get annoyed by it

- ANYTIME BKDK HAS AN UNEQUAL DYNAMIC. again. nothing wrong with exploring it in fanfiction. i just dislike reading fics that make either deku or bakugou blatantly weaker than the other. i love quirkless deku fics but i hate ones where he's also characterized as amounting to nothing and still acts like bakugous punching bag/okay with bakugou disrespecting him. their whole dynamic in canon is built on a great deal of respect

- speaking of bkdks power dynamic, FRICK GOSH I HATE SEEING FICS WHERE DEKU "realizes bakugous been abusing him for years!" and gets him expelled from ua and everyone claps. like. LIKE??? N. NO???? thats not how it works 😭

- all might slander. also unjustified or unnuanced endeavor slander where they dont tackle the complexity of his character. also also unjustified or unnuanced bakugous mom slander. this ones a bit controversial so i wont talk about it much.

- sexist homophobic or racist bakugou. im kicking that away. no. especially fics where bakugous past bullying is explained as "repressed homosexuality". i like making that as a joke but i genuinely do no believe in it.

- BAD MOM MIDORIYA INKO. ITS A TROPE I SEE SOMETIMES AND IT MAKES ME CRY I DONT HAVE A RATIONAL REASONING FOR IT I JUST LOVE INKO

- fics where ochako is obviously very reduced into a supporting figure with absolutely no dimension except being a supportive character and maybe having a shoe-horned wlw romance just for the sake of making her unavailable. shes my fave bnha girl and sometimes in fics i can literally FEEL her character being butchered to only show up when deku needs Love Advice. *note that this only applies when literally every other male character has something else going on for them and its just the females being sidelined into Boy Advice Givers and Talking Sense.

- fics that very obviously belittle asian principles and culture. family means a GOOD DEAL to a lot of asian cultures and fics that spout "if you dont like your family then leave and find your own! its that simple!" usually sound incredibly ignorant or outright claim moral superiority to the weight of familial bond in asian culture. same with manners, respect, and discipline.

- jeALOUSY/CHEATING FICS OK IM SELFISH I ONLY WANT BKDK TOGETHER LIKE IM DEKUBOWL ONLY SOMETIMES BUT BKDK ALWAYS HAS TO END UP TOGETHER

- "murdering is ok if its characters i hate 🥰" ... listen, you do you bestie but like. no thanks. if i wanted to read about mineta getting murdered by momo with a pistol i dont think id be opening a bkdk soulmarks au

- any dekusquad slander 😭 i love them okay

- *kicks mean/bakugou-hating todoroki out the door*

- *kicks 'all mha characters text, talk, and behave like 14 year old stan twt users (no offense ok i speak like that too)' fics out the door*

- *kicks bratty deku and/or bakugou out the door*

thats. all i can think of atm.

[snickiebear]

yo nadia <3333 i'm bored in my online classes and u reblogged the questions thingy at the right time lmao, so get ready: 1, 4, 5, 9, 10, 17, 23, 24, 28, 30!!!, 34, 38, 39, 40 (the intimacy of being understood) (imma stop here lol) (also i'm sorry u're not feeling well, ily and hope u'll feel better soon!! <33333)

ELE ILY. (and thank you, i’m stayin home today cause,,, yeah. i appreciate you sm.) you’re the literal best, i adore you. 

1. How long ago did you start reading fanfiction? Writing fanfiction?

The first fanfiction i read was for The Lunar Chronicles when I was like 11?? and it was 100% on accident and it scarred me because it was a hardcore porn one with a period kink and i was like WHAT IS THIS??? OH MY GOD???? LMAOOOOO i didn’t pick it back up until i was 13-14 and really got into the Fairy Tail fandom. I still reread my favorites on ff.net cause i love them. 

As for writing, I wrote a horrible, terrible x-men fanfiction when I was twelve. (my friend still brings it up and REFUSES to delete it so it still gets comments and views, that shit HAUNTS ME ELE.) then tried again for Fairy Tail, posted like two chapters before taking it down cause i wasn’t really feeling it. And then I posted The Intimacy Of Being Understood and here we are. 

4. Link your three favorite fics right now.

OMGG okok 

@murd3rm1ttens ‘s The Problem How Time Works IF YOU HAVENT READ THIS YOU GUYS NEED TO HOP ON IT ASAP. MITTEN’S WRITING SO SO SO SO GOOD. SAKURA AND INO ARE TOTAL BADASSES. KAKASHI IS A SIMPPPP. ITS SO FUCKING GOOD. 

@mouseymightymarvellous ‘s We Were Screaming In Color (Only A Possibility) yes, yes I KNOW. i always point into mousey’s direction but i WILL always advocate that everyone reads her fics, they’re literally so beautiful???? i just happen to be rereading WWSIN rn 

@safelycapricious ‘s Shaking Up And Breaking Down series. I found this like?? idfk but i’ve been raving about it ever since. ALSO CHECK OUT THEIR FICS IN GENERAL. 

fuck i have more than three but also check out @ambivalens999 ‘s Masks

i do wanna make a fic rec thing where i just rav about my favs,,, might do that later or sum

5. What are your fanfic pet peeves? Do they have a huge effect on whether or not you decide to read something?

Omniscient third person. I don’t like it. Like I can understand that it can be a little hard to stay in one person’s perspective but, in my opinion, if you can, it shows how disciplined you are as a writer. Plus, i just get so confused when I go from A’s thoughts to suddenly what B is thinking about A. 

When writers use ‘ ‘ instead of “ “. When writers put thoughts in ‘ ‘ instead of just italicizing them. It’s small things but like they just bother me sO MUCH. most of the time i can ignore it and try to enjoy but other times i just dip. 

9. Tag 3 fic writers you think are underrated/unknown in the fandom/fanfiction community.

@espoir-et-reves !!!!! THEIR SHISAKU FICS ARE SO SO SO SO SO GOOD. And they have a warring states one going on THAT I AM SO OBSESSED WITH. 

@writer168 idk if they’re really “underrated” but THEY HAVE SUCH GREAT FICS ON AO3. Like theres an AU with sakura, kiba, and shino that i reread constantly because it just. is. so. fucking. GOOD. and they posted a new one that i’m YELLING about. 

@eggtoasties okay they only have 2 in the naruto fandom (one shisaku which is still ongoing) BUT THEIR WRITING STYLE IS SO NICE?? I ABSOLUTELY LOVE IT. I still go back and reread their shikasaku one cause UGH i can’t get enough. I love it. 

10. What’s your favorite fandom, pairing, or character to read fic for?

Fandoms: Naruto, Soul Eater, The Old Guard, ATLA

Parings: KakaSaku/ShikaSaku/ShiSaku/MultiSaku, SoMa, Joe X Nicky, Zukka

Character: SAKURA. I will read anything with Sakura as the main character and her being a fuckin badass or becoming a badass. I love her.

17. How obsessively do you sit and stare at your fic after you’ve just posted and wait for feedback?

aha.. haha.. well. I check my email like three times an hour. its the first thing i check in the mornings too. I’m literally a whore for praise and literally eat up feedback like its going out of style. I also reread a lot of my stuff because i make so many mistakes and spelling errors, or the spacing is weird oR SOMETHING. plus, literally any and all comments make my day, i go back and reread them cause they just make me feel so tingly and warm like “wow. this person enjoyed the fic/my writing enough to tell me. thats HUGE!”

23. What’s your absolute favorite trope to write?

Angry, feral, bloodied, morally gray women. They aren’t bad guys, they’re probably the good guy, but that doesn’t mean they cant be fucking raging at the world with raw knuckles and blood on their teeth. I just love an angry woman who struggles with her emotions and just has so much inner conflict but that doesn’t take away from her character or badassery, it adds to it. 

24. What’s a trope that you’d like to never hear about as long as you live, let alone write?

The fake dating or miscommunication troupe. LIKE GUYS JUST TALK. AND TELL EACH OTHER OMFG. the entire like obliviousness of “nah they dont like me” while the They holds their hand and kisses their cheek. MOFO WHAT. it makes me so impatient and like mad HAAHHAHA. its probably because i’m a pretty confrontational person so seeing stuff like that just “cmon bro, USE YO HEAD.”

28. How do you deal with writing pressure (ie: pressure to update, negative comments, deadlines, etc)?

I have yet to receive a negative comment! Which i was really surprised about tbh. As for deadlines or pressure to update, i just kind of do whatever. I do set goals, but i set them flexible enough that hey, if i can’t do it, that’s okay. 

I have a lot of mini goals, like “i want to write this chapter and get it done this week” and then the large goal is “FINISH BY END OF MAY” so i have time. 

Actually, now that I think on it, the entire pressure to update thing is probably why i’m waiting until I have all of OL&W written to post it weekly,, cause well. I wouldn’t wanna leave you guys waiting as I tried to write and work out the next chapters and stuff, you know?

30. Post a snippet from your current WIP without context - no more than 300 words.

AAAAAA YOU KNOW I LOVE THESE AHAHAHAH

Have you seen the way the dead dance, World Breaker? They roar, half mad and starving. Do you not wish, do you not hope to see them twist and bend and dance to your will?

Shikamaru snarls, looking behind his shoulders to where his Shadows lay. “Patience.” He spits. “Is of the essence, Things of Ancient. Know your place as the dark you are.”

34. How much of yourself and your life experiences do you put into your writing? What do you think your readers’ image of you is?

None of my experiences match up to anything I write tbh,,, probably the only thing that is me in my writing is maybe the emotional turmoil? I’m pretty emotionally and mentally mature because from a pretty young age i started forming my own opinions, started looking into the world around us and being like “dude what the fuck this is not what disney advertised”. Then i started talking (read: arguing and debating) with my dad about a lot of it. So, like emotions are kind of hard for me. Like i’m pretty good at controlling them or understanding them, but still. idk its hard to explain ig.

Like the weight of stress, the anger, the sadness. It’s kind of therapeutic to write. Cause i don’t know how to put those feelings to verbal words so writing them really helps. 

As for my readers’ image? Probably like some kind of hunched over figure typing away in the dark with a maniacal grin on their face. I honestly don’t know AHHAHAHA but it is fun to think about. I think they’d see me as someone with potential but a lot of room to grow and someone who is imperfect but in a charming way LMAOOOO

38. What does your writing process look like? How chaotic is it on a scale of 1 (very tame) to 10 (you can’t handle this kind of chaos)?

I’m gonna be real honest. Its probably like a 2. I’m a bit of a control freak so I almost always go in chronological order, my writing is pretty linear. Unless, i get bored and jump to one of my fav parts. It's pretty much i sit down, i open the doc, read over my notes and just start writing. 

It’s a little boring to explain AHAHAHA but once i get into the groove of things its really fucking great, I can like feel myself in the world, I can feel what i want the characters to, i love it. I catch myself mouthing the words as i type too, which i find hilarious.

39. What’s something about your writing that you pride yourself on?

I rather like how raw my writing is sometimes. Which might sound really vain, but i do like the way i word things or describe things. I love juxtaposition and repetition, or making a good ole circle back to some minute detail that wouldn’t stand out until i repeat it at the end and you’re like “omg” AHAHAHAHA.

Like those little poetic snippets or certain wording i just sit back and go “damn thats kinda good nadia! go you!’ HAHAHA  

40. How did you come up with the idea for The Intimacy Of Being Understood?

AAAAA this fic is like my first child, my pride and joy LMAO

so the idea initially came when i was reading some fic, idk if it was even naruto, but i was like “i don't like this, but i do like the rain symbolism.” And I knew i wanted to write something kind of slow paced, something a little sad and angsty, but would show KakaSaku slowly but surely falling in love.

Idk if you’ve noticed but a lot of my fics, the pairings don’t change each other dramatically. They accept each other as they are and then they grow with together. Like that acceptance is something i just love writing, its so subtle, it isn’t something you declare. Its simply “I am going to love you. I am going to love you despite your flaws and faults. I am going to love you unconditionally because I know you, I understand you, and there is nothing you could do to drive me away.” 

The fic kind of wrote itself after that first scene. I kept going back to the rain, go being ghosts, and resurrection, and the small epiphanies one gets. I wanted to focus on each character’s growth with each other. They didn’t find light in life because of each other, but with each other. And i think that’s my favorite thing about that fic. 

I wanted something raw and real and just something beautiful. I’m actually really proud of it tbh. Would i go back and rewrite/edit it? Oh of course! I’d do that with every single one of my fics, but i’m not gonna cause i think its in its rawest form right now. :))))

ask me shit plz

[popculturebuffet]

Close Enough Reviews: First Date and Snailin’ It

We’re in the home stretch thank god! Seriously while I do love this show, doing 13 reviews in one day, even as most are easy to bang out, has been exausting. But the thank god is also because we’ve arrived at my faviorite episode so far and.. er another one but at least it has Noel Fielding! That’s really awesome!  This time around Josh and Emily try to recapture the magic of their first date only to end up in one of the good Blumhouse movies, while Bridgette brings Josh along on an awkward first date. Then Emily gets the help of a snail’s magical hat to juggle work and life. Snail yeah under hte cut. 

First Date: 

A fourtune teller is at the fourplex, another review of the series I recently read revealed that’s what their buildings called and I like the sound of it so i’m using that, predicting a weird romance for bridget, who belivies it’s a guy she’s been texing, and sometimes sexting in her words not mine, who she has a date with tonight while said psychic also reveals to Emily that things with her and josh have gotten bland, something emily realizes via a hilarous flashback of them making out while falling asleep repeadtly before both just conk out. Also randy has thunder pants, aka pants tha tmake thunde rnoises and have a giant lighting bolt cod piece. Your the second best randy. Andt hat’s only because Alex is still a character. 

So we have our two plots and unlike previous episodes and one future one the plots.. don’t dovetail. Which I like and I like a show being able to do two seperate plots in eleven minutes. We frankly need more of that. Bridgette has her date and Josh and Emily end up having theres. As such i’ll cover both seperatley. And since their plots a bit simplier let’s start with Josh and Emily.  Emily tries flirting with Josh before explaning it’s because she wants to bring the spice back. After josh bungles his response trying to say what she wants but just.. you know asking emily what she wants him to say which is never a good move in any conversation, Josh does near instantly rebound, texting emily to come to the close tfor a suprise. Granted since Josh, self admittley right after, admits he has no game, it come across as weird and creepy, but Emily appricates him trying and is touched when he reveals his real bring the sparks back romantic plan: a recreation of their first date, which was at a haunted house. Also for some reason Josh thought mr magoriums wonder emporium was a best picture contender. Never change josh, never change. But I genuinely like this: having a couple that while relaistically having a dry spell still lvoes each other: instead of worrying the relationship is dead as these plots tend to do they simply want to bring back the magic that’s sometimes lost when you work two jobs, raise a kid full time and live with two weirdos with little sense of personal space.  So they go and the reason it’s pretty simple is their subplot is the two having a mind screw being chased by various horrors in the house. As i’ve said I feel the series has more of a horror bent at times with some episodes leaning more into that than just goofy madness like regular show did. Regular Show really saved most of its straight up horror content for terror tales, here horror bits can crop up as much as fucking wacky bits. I mean a logan’s run parody where a man dies is paired up with a low speed train chase with a con arist that ends with her driving into a thermortor factory while choking her fake son. The show can ping pong on tone, but it does work.  But yeah that’s why there’s less to talk about: it’s not bad stuff, it’s super spooky including the end bit where their told they died, it’s just mostly the two of them running around a nightmare, that unsuprisngly turns out not to be real and was just the attraction, before a really touching climax when the two finally find each other run towards each other and realize just how horrifed they were at the thought of loosing one another. it’s really damn touching and romantic, and leads to another climax when the two start kissing before getting it on despite the horror house working telling them they have others coming. I’ts a good plot, I just don’t have a ton to anlyaize about it. it’s just really good and really good horror stuff with a satsifying and sweet ending.  On to our main event, Bridgette heads out to her date and TRIES lying to alex for his own sake.. but Alex not only easily guessed she was on a date in the first place but... isn’t bothered at all. He even offers to wing man while sining the firends theme song and clapping at the wrong time. Because he’s alex even when he’s being sweet and a good friend and ex, he can’t help but be just a BIT off.  Bridget goes to meet Ron.. and finds he’s sewn to his ex Joy... like literally sewn or conjoined as they put it. Bridgette freaks the fuck out but is talked by ron into continuing, partly because their getting it undone and partly because Bridgette herself admits Ron looked past her baggage.. even if his is larger, she can at least try to. Also Ron is voiced by Chris Parnell who, with archer delayed event hough i’m watching it again and having stopped wtching rick and morty, I dearly missed. Glad to have you back dude. I’m also unsuprised he’s in this as the man is in everything. He’s a fucking workhorse. 

Anyways Alex happily agrees, has his own brief freakout because bridget didn’t tell him about the conjoined twins thing despite being a room away, but quickly rebounds and.. actually hits it off with Joy. even better than Bridgette is with ron who she soon realizes won’t shut the hell up about hiking. Soon Bridgette.. is jealous. Both because Alex is moving on way easier and found someone way quicker, Joyce shares his weird taste in viking erotica, and because she may still have some feelings left. We saw a bit of that in “Robot Tutor”: Bridgette got jealous real quick when alex saw someone elsed espite them being there mostly as sex pals, and admitted there was still some unresolved stuff there they hadnt gotten past on both sides.  They hit the club and things continue to degrade, with Bridgette even more jealous because Alex never took her dancing. And being that bridg is a musician and loves clubbing and what not, i’ts pretty understandable to be frustrated with her ex talking about how it took someone else to get him to do the worm.. also Alex doing the worm is a sheeer delight. When the cojoined ex couple leave, with Ron once again bringing up climbing machu pichu because apparently it’s in chris parnells contract he can never play an actually likeable romantic intrest, Bridget tries to bail but Alex wants to stay since it’s not his fault his date is going well and her’s isn’t.  Bridgette makes the mistake of saying “If you like joy so much why don’t you just conjoin with her”.. and Alex being alex says “why dont’ I and we end up at conjoin, the place Ron and Joy got bonded in the first place. Ever since 1994, you won’t regret this. Actual signs up there and they are wonderful. Bridgette, still jealous even ifs he can’t stand ron offers to be conjoined to him both in a desperate attempt not to losoe alex and to one up him.  However Alex finally calls her out, as while he’s perfeclty happy for her to move on, as this episode showed.. she can’t stand to see him with someone else, and Ron wisley tells her he can’t be attached to someone who isn’t unattached from her ex. When bridgette counters with the oppsitie ron is suprisingly pogniant “We can detach from each other physically but you two can’t detach from each other spirtually”. WHile bridgette quips about him finally saying something intresting, he’s right. She’s not ready and this night clearly proved it and even if she was she was only doing this to show up Alex. Joy likewise breaks things off. a bit more abrubtly since Alex has’nt been nearly as obvious as bridgette.. but alex himself shows he too still has some feelings when he accidentlya dmits to having written an entire section of his memoir about her teeth. Would could be creepy or you know, standard alex ends up really sweet as Bridgette is not only touched by the gesture, but Alex explains why “THeir all the parts that make up your smile” The two share a look, Joy wants what they have and Ron wants to masturbate alone. The end. 

Sadly this isn’t followed up on yet, if at all if there isn’t more episodes next week, as the next ep with the two in it, the finale for today, has the two in seperate plots that only dovetail at the end. But this honestly feels like a posisble arc for the show; Will the two get back together and work past the issues that got them to divorce in the first place or stay divorced and move on? And regular show, with one exception i’ve ranted enough about and will again, was really good at romantic storylines eventually and this could be really intresting for a number of reasons. I’m realy hoping this isn’t just a one off ending, could be but we’ll hopefully see. Either way this episode is really damn good with both plots , while not intersecitng connecting thematically: ONe couple relives a horrifying mirorr version of their first date while a former couple goes on their first real date with other people since the split but finds they might not be as done as they thought. IT’s a good juxtopision and the whole conjoining bit is both horrifying and good Beisdes having my ship at the center i’ts just a damn good time and the best of the season so far (or at all atain the 8 episodes thing is really throwing me off). 

Snailed It: This one should go quicker as its a much simpler ep: Emily has been working way too much and neglecting Candace, including a crypt based board game they’ve been playing for her job because she’s being a doormat. however i’ts not unresonable since said job gives them health insurance which given their lives, they REALLY need. She’s being such a doormat because she’s understandably afraid if she stands up for herself it could risk her job and they’d loose important stuff.  Emily TRIES to juggle things by doing a charity garden/publicity stunt to distract thigns at the school btu the comination of extra work from her boss and the children not actually gardening makes it fail and candace more upset. Emily finds help in the most unlikely of places: A giant talking snail that offers to let her use his magic hat to speed up time and complete the garden in exchange for some of the veggies. He’s also voiced by nice dude and mighty boosh alum noel fielding in what hoenstly feels like a boosh character got out of that universe, if their not the same unvierse which is possible, and snuck into this one.  Emily accepts, and is tempted to use the hat to do more of her job, with the snail calling her a shit parent. Fuck you man, sh’e sa good mom she’s just making mistakes. Emily decides to do it anyway and it works but she soon finds out using the hat outside the garden ages her while the snail decides fuck it and kidnaps candace by aborbing her into his stomach and making her be his legs so he can get dumplings because why not. What follows is a horrifc and tense chase between the two as candace’s life is on the line and the snail has a backup hat and emily time blasting him only makes candace age or deage, horrifyingly becoming a fetus at one point and a teenager later. It’s ar eally tense well done seen that combines the show’s usual insanity with it’s horror side to great effect Meanwhile josh feels useless since his job is less important, and he feels less important as he’s on call and skipping rocks with randy because apparently that’s what he does on call. Randy gets a great moment though, explaning to josh that h’es like the stones their skipping: he’s immoible and seemingly useless most of the time but when it matters he’s there . He’s there rock. Their support.. and naturally with emily slowly dying from her hat, a rare sentence, Josh steps upa nd saves the day via stone skipping, emily throws the hat in and the fundraiser, due to the madness, sucesffuly buired the scandal and Emily finally tells mr salt no.. and he’s really cool about it just telling her to come in a little later. Things are back on track and we’re out.  This wasn’t a bad one, but it both feels less after the prevoius episode and somehwhat simple comaprd other emily centreic episodes. WHile the snail is a great villian and noel fielding,  like rich fulcher before him, fits into this kind of world nicely. Not a bad one, just one sandwitched between two far more interesting episodes. Speaking of which, we’re in the endg ame now. Next time it’s dog days and weird fucking al baby, until very soon later days. 

[yurtletheturtlehenderson]

Dating Beverly Marsh Would Include...

Requested: [I'm sorry I can't remember who requested this or if this was an anon, I'm sorry!] Hey, could I request some headcanons about dating Beverly? (Also if you could add in the reader having homophobic parents 💕)

Warnings: obviously there will be homophobia, [at the end so people can skip if they need to read safely 😊] specifically from the readers parents so please feel free to skip if need be. And remember my blog is a safe space 💕 oh yeah theres also plenty of grammar/spelling errors i'm sure

A//n: This was WAY longer than I anticipated. I just kept coming up with more stuff and holy crap I love writing Bev x readers???? Please request more Bev Edit: this was in my drafts forever and again as much as i have been trying to get requests out in order, it's been pretty tough but at least this way stuff gets out sooner so here ya go.

Okay

First of all..

Y'all make the CUTEST COUPLE, OKAY?!

Like no joke

You know that cliche about girls stealing their boyfriends hoodies/clothes??

Well that goes for both of you and you both are always swapping clothes cause you both love each other's sense of style

Plus, ya know, it's got that great boyfriend girlfriend smell

It's cheesy and played out, but it's honestly so wholesome, and again, you guys each have an interest in each others senses of styles

If you're bigger than her, and her clothes don't necessarily fit you, pfffttt no big deal, she had a million blankets that smelled like her and then you two got together and now she can only find like,, two. But that doesn't mean she doesn't love stealing your clothes!! They're baggier on her but oH MY GOODNESS DOES SHE LOVE THAT. She just loves being able to completely immerse herself in your stuff. Especially when she isn't feeling safe in her own home and you aren't around, the best thing for her is to wrap herself in her your stuff and be comforted by you. Uggh, its hella sweet

But let's start from the beginning...

Both of you knew about each other from school

You definitely heard the many rumors about "Beaver-ly Marsh"

Not that you participated, but you were always overhearing rumors from gossiping girls and bragging boys in your class

Your school wasn't huge but it wasn't small either

But it was kill or be be killed, and rumors spread like the damn plague

It was inevitable

And it was just a matter of time before you overheard the several rumors of the "slut" who did it with every guy in school.

You'd roll you're eyes at the word and the ridiculous insinuations, knowing the massively overplayed game of telephone that ruled your school was not necessary the most credible source of information

And you were positive there were rumors about you, I mean, it really wasn't possible to go to that school without a rumor going around

Everyone had one

Anyways, you never paid much attention to them, but then you met her...

And oh no.

Immediately, it was:

You already never paid much mind to the rumors, but when you got to know each other??

Nuh uh.

No way

Not Beverly

No no no no, no

She was way too sweet, and shy, and beautiful, and awesome, and funny, annnd oh no the damn butterflies were back and shit she made you feel things

And you??

Bevery had no clue she was into girls until you came along...

You were her gay awakening and her being so used to all those nasty things people said about her and all those boys??

Even though it wasn't true, any of it, she still always expected that eventually one day she'd get her first boyfriend, to love and cuddle with and everything normal

Again, then you came along and her heart was all like

BOOM BOOM BEECH

You both danced around each other a lot. Seeing as you were two precious little gay beans that lived in a conservative town in the 80s, it wasn't exactly the most accepting environment and you guys didn't know if the other was into girls at all

On both sides it was "does she like me or is she just really laid back and friendly???"

It took way too long to figure out you were both into each other

If I'm being completely honest here, y'all were like the female reddie

Two girls who became best friends and always bickered like crazy to hide your feelings

The way you two found out you had feelings for one another was bumpy and awkward but silly and cute nonetheless

It came off in a passing comment that just slipped out

The two of you were having a sleepover like you did every Friday night you were available

and you two were laying on her bedroom floor talking about anything and everything staring at the ceiling

Her radio was playing in the background and the two of you were surrounded by various snacks you had been munching on all throughout the night and the conversation drifted to gossip about your peers at school

It went a little something like this:

Y: "Did you see so and so today??"

B: "Yes!!"

Y: *laughing* "Yeah, what the hell was that?"

B: I have no idea what goes on in her head...

B: but I guess I gotta give her some credit, she's always super confident and I'm like, 90% sure that's what makes her the most desirable girl in the 8th grade"

Y: "I guess that makes sense"

B: "I do wish I had her confidence. Maybe I'd have better luck romantically"

Y: "Oh please, like you need that. You're infinitely more attractive than her"

B: "What?"

Y: *panicked* "What?"

B: *slowly sits up with smug ass smirk on her lips* are you saying you find me... attractive?"

Y: ..."what?" *sweating*

B: *still smirking* "Wait,"

Y: "WhAT?"

B: *stILL smirking* "do you-?"

Y: *full on gay panic* "No!"

B: *smirking and blushing*

B: *lays back down* "well, I think you're pretty attractive yourself, if it's any consolation"

She's still so nervous though so it comes out in a whisper

She's 99 percent certain you just accidentally revealed your crush to her but her heart was p o u n d i n g anyway

What if it just came out wrong and that's why you panicked???

Had she just revealed her crush to you by mistake???

But no

You both were a blushing mess and it did not go unnoticed by either one of you

You're hands kinda accidently brushed and you both just had a heart attack on the spot

But the connection you two had that night

You both just... knew

You guys kinda just... happened

After that you both were aware you liked each other

But it was kind of unspoken

At first

It's not like you guys never talked about it, but you two definitely became more touchy and flirty

Holding hands when no one was looking

Shortly before you guys happened and before that night, she had introduced you to losers and they just totally accepted you as one of their own

You got along especially well with Richie (wonder why)

But Bev wasn't too happy about this particular fact...

Especially after you two got together

She wasn't necessarily jealous, especially cause she already had a sneaking suspicion about his feelings for another loser, but because he took up a lot of her time with you

But then, to her chagrin, Richie found out about you two

the eight of you were hanging out in the clubhouse, and Ben had to make some adjustments so him and the others left momentarily to help him get the resources

Except you, and Bev

You two volunteered to hold down the fort [literally]

aaaaaaand you two wanted to have a few minutes alone together too,

Nothing scandalous or anything like that, but you two didn't get be close around the losers

Then Richie returned way earlier than expected [turns out he was doing more harm than good and they sent him back]

He was just outside the entrance and he overheard you two

"I wish we could tell them,"

"I know. And it's not that I don't think they'll accept us, it's-" *sigh* "I'm just not ready... I'm sorry"

"Don't be. It's okay, we can tell them when we're both good and ready."

"Thank you, Y/n."

Richie just kinda stood there thinking about what he just heard

I mean, it made sense, you guys were really close, but then again, that's just how he thought all girls were

But everything else kinda made more sense the more he thought about it

And, it honestly reminded him of him and Eddie

More specifically, how he felt about his best friend

Now naturally this was a very emotional moment, but Richie Tozier being Richie Tozier wasn't about to waltz in there and give some sappy speech about he accepts you guys and he's here for you no matter what

No, no, no

He laid down on the forest floor, sticking his head in the clubhouse scaring the shit out of you two and said

"You guys should really be more quiet, Ben may be a suspiciously good overnight kid architect sensation but he has yet to soundproof this baby"

He then stuck his arm inside the clubhouse, patting the ceiling, shaking a couple spiders loose from his his hand in disgust

"Richie...!"

You two jumped apart and you about nearly shit your pants

"Relax, I'm not gonna tell anyone,"

You both were startled as hell and absolutely disgruntled but the two of you looked at each other, simultaneously breathing a sigh of relief

He got up and joined you two in the clubhouse, and began lounging in his usual spot in the hammock, arms behind his head

"So, this means you two are both into girls, huh?"

Once again, you looked at one another and back at him, nodding shyly

He plastered on the most mischievous smirk you had ever seen and nodded his head, his huge eyes squinting slightly from behind his glasses

"niceee"

This of course was followed by simultaneous eye rolls, Bev even threw her gum wrapper at him but you laughed

It was a relieved laugh

Here you were, exposed and unintentionally outed to Richie "Trashmouth" Tozier and sure enough his reaction was "nICE"

It was honestly a relief and kinda hilarious

You guys just kinda broke out into laughter

It was nice moment

***TRIGGER WARNING FOR [PARENTAL] HOMOPHOBIA BELOW***

And for a while, everything was great. That was, until your parents began to take note just how much time you were spending with Bev

They kept an eye on it at first

Then they started asking questions

You knew this day would come one way or another

Hell, you grew up with them after all, you knew what they thought about people like you and it broke your heart

It terrified you

And it's exactly what you heard every night when you tried to fall asleep, their voices speaking to you clear as day; how disgusted they were. They weren't really there of course and it wasn't until you became a loser that you found out what that voice was...

The point is, your deepest fear was being realized so you did what you could do

Lie

And it seemed to work. Briefly

Your mother had come in to check on you two for the fifth time - usually she checked on you two four times since their suspicions - and found you two snuggled up on top of your sleeping bags

Your mother screamed, scaring the crap out of you guys and you jumped apart

Your mother was thrown into hysterics and went to fetch your father, wailing like a damn baby

Needless to say that night was a long one for everyone

And as if things couldn't get any worse, just days later you found out that Beverly had been taken by It

Immediately, every doubt, every fear, every inkling of shame your parents and your community had drilled into you was forgotten and all that mattered was getting her back

You and your friends literally went through hell to get her back

Needless to say it was a terrifying ordeal but you all had each other's backs and everyone came out okay

When you left Neibolt, you and Beverly were hand in hand

You couldn't give a flying fck about it, you just fought a shape-shifting demon clown you could face your small minded parents

And more importantly you knew even if your parents didn't support you, you had other people who did that and that was enough

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Hope you enjoyed, sorry it's so long and again this is out of order of who requested it so I'm sorry to those of you who had stuff in before this, but I've just been stuck for too long and I needed to get things moving again. Anyways, I hoped you guys like this and again, omg I love writing Beverly!!! I would not be offended if you guys asked for more Bev fics/hc when I open up requests again

[sdra2headcanons]

M-mikado x teruya Christmas headcanons,,,? If you're not comfortable with this one, maybe just some Shinji x Yuki Christmas headcanons? :00

Of course! I lowkey ended up doing both, but if you’d like more for a certain ship lemme know and I’ll write more! 💖

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Mikado/Teruya hcs:

   -I feel like 'organized mess' is a good way to describe their Christmas's. Like they get the job done but there's a usually few bumps along the way, you know?

   -Their favorite thing to do is decorate. It's an extremely long process consisting of decorating everything, taking it all down, and repeating the cycle until they’re too tired to care about what everything looks like, but ! After it’s all over they’ll go lay in bed and cuddle, talking about whatever they wanna do on Christmas until Mikado eventually falls asleep, quickly followed by Teruya

-They prefer staying home on Christmas Eve and Day, that way they can enjoy each others company the whole time. Plus that way they can stay up until 12am, exchange gifts, and then fall asleep in each other’s arms with dumb grins on their faces afterwards. Getting up the next morning is basically impossible though-

-“Mikado, it’s 1pm we need to get up,,”

-“No, we’ve gotta get beauty sleep. Despite popular belief, I’m not this cute naturally.”

-“You’re cute no matter what, now get up before we sleep through Christmas. C’mon.”

-Teruya has to literally drag him out of bed, but their on the way to get breakfast (or technically lunch I guess-) by 2 so it’s fine in the end

-Because they exchanged presents really early in the morning, they’ll come home, grab 17 blankets, and then lay on the couch cuddling, talking, napping, just doing whatever until dinner rolls around

-Wait gifts! It’s hard to shop for a wizard that could probably make whatever he wanted a appear in front of him, but Teruya still tries his best regardless, and Mikado’s always mega happy about whatever he receives

-It’s much easier to shop for Teruya, and he always just kinda ‘dhsjdhdjhgd’ at whatever he gets bc he loves it and Mikado so much

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Shinji/Yuki hcs:

   -They always end up showing up at everyone's parties because someone called about a fire, so they never bother actually going unless it's something hosted by Sora and Yoruko. They need all the help they can get most of the time-

   -It's impossible to be cold if you hug your boyfriend who'll probably overheat because 'dhskdhd cute bf just gave me a hug dhsgdjd'

   -Yuki made the mistake of giving Emma a key to his and Shinji's house, so whenever they both leave Emma and Setsuka go through and put mistletoe in every doorway. It's a bit of a nuisance, but they can't just ignore the tradition right?

   -Yuki's good at cooking basic meals, but they usually go out somewhere so theres a little more food variety than just eggs and toast-

   -Whenever they go out somewhere they usually walk, but it's extra fun on colder days because Yuki can ride on Shinji's shoulders until they get to wherever they're going. It's warmer, faster, and more enjoyable because Yuki can play with his hair

   -It's a lot harder than it should be to get gifts for Shinji. Anytime Yuki asks he's just like 'you're the best gift I could ask for' and while it's really sweet, it doesn't really help- Yuki usually ends up asking Yuri, who sometimes gets dragged along for Hajime and Shinji's morning jogs, if Shinji's mentioned anything, and luckily he usually has! Shinji just becomes an irl key smash whenever he receives his gift because 'aaaa amazing bf' as his inner monologue puts it

   -Yuki's also pretty hard to get gifts for, but Shinji always figures it out in the end, granted it's usually extremely last minute- Yuki always thanks him and gives him a kiss on the cheek, making the already-a-mess Shinji a puddle on the floor

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I?? Can’t properly type today for some reason??? I’m sorry for any spelling errors, but that aside, I hope you enjoy these and I hope you had an amazing Christmas! 💕

-Mod Kanade

[lostnfinding]

heyyy! im enjoying ur infodumping on witchcraft (its definitely not too much)! it must be kinda stressful researching without your parents knowing, so good luck with that. and im really sorry u had to watch that disrespectful video, that person is a real pos. if u dont mind me asking, do u want to share more about a particular type of witchcraft/paganism that you're interested in? (totally cool if u dont, i know that a lot of religions are purposely secretive lol)- mango 🥭

hi mango! im glad your enjoying my infodump, im sure im annoying some people, but what can you do, right?

it is stressful, i had to make up some bullshit excuse to change something in my room so i can have a makeshift altar, im having to hide my Book Of Shadows (basically a notebook where im writing down everything im learning, ill eventually write spells and rituals when im ready for all that and possibly some prayers, meditations and stuff when i figure out what works for me), and im starting to sneak in some jars and candles and salt cuz ill probably need at least the salt for protection, since its october and Samhain is almost here (its on halloween)

and yeah, that real person was a dick. i knew that there were people like him, but i didnt really think theyd be so out there, it kinda shocked me. and it also made me sad to know that people really think that of my religion, its disrespectful. im not christian, but im not going out there and saying your religion is evil, even with the history of genocide and literally wipping out thousands of sacrate documents for hundreds of religions.

so, rn im not strickly following any religion. im believe in some aspects of Wicca and i decided to follow their calendar (at least for now) but im not wiccan. im sort of a mixture of Wicca and Greek Paganism, but with a bit of my own believes and my own understanding of the world. basically, i believe in the Greek gods as guides for certain parts of life, and as representation of certain aspects of life (so Hestia represents fire, while Poseidon represents the ocean and bodies of water, and so on. for me, they are basically spirits that can help you connect and understand things (or people in cases like Aphrodite) around you, and they help you to learn how to respect the earth and use the resources it gives you without hurting it), and they also have a certain control on those aspects, but if you dont put your effort into it, theres not much they can do. i believe in who wiccans call God and Goddess as one big genderfluid spirit that kinda just overlooks everything and helps with kinda paving the path every being can go to, but without interfeering directly. and i do believe in the FaeFolk and the MerFolk. i believe in the relation between a persons energy and the energy of the things around them, and that our spirits can communicate with other spirits in other realms if we want to and put an effort into it. (<- this all makes sense in my head, but idk if i explained it on a way that makes sense for other people)

i am mainly doing research rn, because i dont yet feel confident with doing spells and potions, or summoning anything. im mostly focusing on basic energy and spirit protection, with daily tarot readings and meditations to create the habit, while i study and understand the basics. but overall im eclectic, and probably gonna be for a while (maybe forever, who knows) until i figure out what i wanna work with more

on a short note, im eclectic in both my religion and practices :)

little addition i think is important: none of the divinities i believe in are perfect. they all made and make mistakes. but they learn from their mistakes, and so do i. they arent all powerful either, as already said. they can help to up to one point, the rest i have to do it on my own. magick isnt how its represented in the media. we cant make things appear out of thin air or shot fireballs out of our hands. what we can do is improve the odds of something happening through the manipulation of energy and with the help of spirits and divinities.

[stripey-demon-man]

Chapter one here

something i forgot to mention in the first chapter is that this takes place a year after the musical, so Lydia is 16 as of rn

also this post is very important

anyways into the fanfiction!

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Beetlejuice x Reader chapter 2

2nd person POV

"Ok, we're outside. Now who are you?" You ask, to which he responds with "I can't say my name, but i have one definitely," before you could ask why if suddenly hit you: this guy is dead. How come you didn't notice before? How dirty he was, how he just appeared out of no where, of COURSE he was dead. "Well, uh, ok can't you just write it on a piece of paper?" You ask, reaching into your bag and pulling out a marker and a sheet of notebook paper, and then handing it to him. He looked nervous for a second but then started writing. He handed the paper back to you and it took you a solid minute of looking at it before you looked at him and asked "What is this supposed to say?" To which he responds, "Look, i already told you i can't say my own name, and i WAS gonna tell you i can't spell for shit but then you gave me a piece of paper and a marker and i couldn't resist," You couldn't help but laugh at this, which seemed to make him smile a bit. You then look back at the paper and stare at it for a few more minutes, but after a while you think you've finally gotten it. "Uhh, lemme see, does this say... Beetlejuice?" You ask him, and suddenly he literally jumps up with happiness. "Yes!! That's exactly what it says!!" He pretty much shouts, which made you smile a bit. You always liked making people happy, and seeing someone so happy that they literally jump just fills you with joy. "Ok, now that you know my name, would you mind, uh, saying it? 3 times in a row?" He asks you.

Now, lucky enough you already knew what would happen when someone said a dead person's name 3 times in a row. "Uh, I'd rather not," You say back. Immediately he responds with "Why not? Nothing bad will happen i promise." You almost laugh at this. Does he really think you're THAT dumb? "Look, you probably don't know this, and i don't expect you to, but, unfortunately for you, i already know what will happen when i do that. You're gonna make chaos and probably try to kill a few people, and I'd rather not have that on my conscience," You respond. Beetlejuice looks saddened. How though? Isn't it the same just without being able to interact with the physical world? He turns around, and softly speaks to himself, "I don't wanna be invisible anymore.." Of course, this absolutely shatters you inside, but what if it's a trick? You tap him on the shoulder, and pretend you didn't hear what he just said. He turns around. "What is it?" You ask him. "I'm not like other ghosts you've seen, i promise. Just give me a chance, please just say my name 3 times pleeeaaaassseeee," He begs, and now you're conflicted. Should you say his name? Should you just leave him here? Or maybe.. "Ok, here's the deal Mr. Bug man, before i say your name more than twice in a row, im gonna have to see how you behave normally," You say. Beetlejuice looks so confused. You sigh. "Basically, what I'm saying, is that in order for me to trust you enough to say your name 3 times, we need to hang out some," You explain. He looks almost surprised. "You... wanna hang out... with me?" He asks. "I don't see why not," You respond. He now is seemingly overflowing with joy. "Okokokokok, when are we gonna do that exactly?" He asks. You check your watch. It's currently 7:30 PM. "How does right now sound?" You ask him, to which he responds with a very happy "Yes!" You guys decided on just going to your house to hang out. It's empty since you had moved out of your parents' house long ago, and you had never gotten around to starting a family. "Pretty empty, huh?" He states as he walks in the door. "Yeah, i guess so," You respond. He walks over and sits on your couch, and you join him. "So uh, what do you wanna talk about?" You ask rather awkwardly. Apparently neither of you guys thought this whole thing through. There was a seemingly long silence before Beetlejuice decided to say something. "Lets watch some TV, if either of us think of something to talk about in the meantime then we can just pause it," He says. You agree to just turning on some TV, however it was rather hard for you to focus on what was happening. You were currently sitting next to a dead man on your couch, and that thing he said earlier still rang through your head. Before you could think to stop yourself, you reached out and touched his arm. He froze and looked over at you. His hair changing colors again, having gone from pastel green to a turquoise with soft pink tips. Not wanting to make this any more awkward than it needed to be, you immediately took back your hand and checked the time yet again. It was 9:45, and you have to be at the bakery the next morning. "U-um it's, uh, getting kinda late, and i, uh, have to be at work tomorrow morning, do you happen to have a place you can go back to?" You ask. He looks away from you and says "Well, theres always the Netherworld, but I'd rather not go back there..." You can tell just by the look on his face that he really does not like the thought of going there. "Um, alright, well, you can stay in the guest bedroom if you want to then," You tell him. "Are you sure?" He asks, and you nod. You then show him the way to the guest bedroom and you tell each other goodnight. What on Earth happened today?

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WEEE chapter 2 done! sorry if its not as good as chapter one but i hope you enjoyed regardless. Once again, dont be afraid to inform me of any mistakes made in this!!

[tactyl-ymon]

DnD session recap - Curses and Consequences

You all know the drill by now, big session. lots of emotions, didn’t know how to format things coherently blah blah blah all add onto this being like a month late. Enjoy my literal labour of love because this one write up easily took about 20 something hours of note taking, writing, formatting and stuff.

We open with a worried trio of Whisky, Veiraen and Eridol knocking on Emmi’s door after she ran away from the assembled group outside the keep and spend the night watching Emmi drink her weight in wine and make sure she doesn’t die. Once Emmi passes out because she’s more wine than elf at this point, the group decides best not to waste the remainder and get summarily sloshed between them. Veiraen and Eridol have a deep and meaningful conversation about how mysterious Septima is and Veiraen says Septima probably can’t even do a backflip and you can’t trust someone that can’t do a backflip. Eridol wants people to trust him and not seeing any flaws in the logic,tries to do a backflip in full armor to prove he can. Which goes about as hilariously as expected of a jacked toddler in a tin can. The gnome shaped thwack is loud enough to be heard throughout the keep and the ensuing laughter breaks our dwarven wizard’s concentration from his reading. Tornur comes to ask us to keep it down because he’s trying to do some research. Eridol promises they won’t make any more noise and immediately casts silence before trying to do another backflip because he is a stubborn tiny man. Somehow he pulls it off. Veiraen, Whisky and Eridol silently celebrate before the silence is dropped and suddenly we’re not so silently celebrating anymore. We hear the telltale sounds of a disgruntled dwarven wizard stomping down the hallway and operation “oh shit, hide” begins. Eridol trips over a rug and unsuccessfully dives under Emmi’s bed, Whisky dives under the now disturbed rug, Veiraen just kind of melts behind a curtain and Emmi remains passed out in bed. Tornur boots the door open and it doesn’t take long for him to see the half of a shiny gnome sticking out from under the bed and casts web on everyone before telling everyone to be quiet and leaving us in our sticky situation. With that, everyone feebly tries to get out before realising that they can’t move and I guess it’s just impromptu nap time. While everyone is either passed out or studying, Septima decides to go for a walk to talk to some direwolves because we’re all agents of Chaos, but he’s on a different level and wouldn’t you know it, he finds some direwolves. Somehow against all odds he turns a 4v1 combat scenario into the wolves allowing him to lead them back to the keep to meet everyone else and maybe protect the lands surrounding the keep if we agreed to occasionally feed them and protect their den when needed. He asks the wolves to stay put while he brings everyone in the group out so they know what’s going on. After searching all the rooms he finds the majority of the group passed out, covered in wine and decides the best possible way to wake everyone up is by standing in the doorway and using druidcraft to make it smell like smoke and make crackling fire sound effects. Veiraen and Whisky wake up, panic and somehow knock themselves back unconscious. Eridol wakes up, smells smoke, sees the giant in the doorway and decides the best course of action is to jump out the window. After an impromptu second storey pratfall, he heads back inside and freaks out one of the guards with a frankly unnecessary head wound before saying everything’s fine and promptly passing out again. Septima asks Tornur for some help dragging the remaining members downstairs and they pick up the now bandaged and passed out Eridol on the way and wake everyone up just outside where the wolves are. The wolves take an immediate interest in Whisky and as Eridol ineffectively steps in front of her to act as a barrier, she begins petting the alpha into submission. Septima begins explaining that he’s asked the wolves if they could patrol the outskirts of the keep and in return we occasionally feed them and keep their den safe. With everyone somewhat agreeing to this deal, we all head back to the keep proper and pass out from our night of hard drinking/studying like a nerd/wolf hunting. Emmi wakes up to a trashed room and a note from Eridol to come to the training grounds just outside the keep if she wants to blow off some steam and help with something. As Emmi makes her way out to the little arena, she sees the rest of the group watching Eridol train several of the keep guards and offer a challenge to them, whichever of the guards can hit him hard enough to drop concentration on a spell will get 10 gold. A few of the guards accept the challenge as Eridol casts 2 spells on himself and beckons the guards to start. It goes on for a while before Septima feeling this is unfairly weighted in Eridols favour dispels the effects and with his magical safety net dropped, Eridol starts having to actually dodge spears and swords now. He recasts one of the spells but it doesn’t stop a guards spear from finding his abdomen. With the spell broken and a new flesh wound to deal with Eridol hands the prize off to the guard and sits on the ground to heal for a bit before asking if anyone in the party wanted to put on a bit of a sparring show for the guards still watching and takes his place in the middle of the small arena. He realizes his immediate mistake of not saying it was a one on one match when Septima, Veiraen, Whisky and Emmi all take points surrounding him and Eridol hunkers down to the inevitable arse beating he’s about to receive. Which does not come. After several rounds of almost everyone silently agreeing to stomp Veiraen, the impromptu battle ends with Emmi and Veiraen unconscious, Whisky forfeiting and Septima a very fast giant ape thanks to some meddling from an amused Tornur in the stands. Eridol gets to healing everyone as the very fast giant ape with the brain of a not very smart but very fast ape decides play time’s not over just yet and starts beating on Veiraen and things go to far before anyone can do anything to stop him. With the sight of Veiraen dying again and the necklace around his neck turning that horrifying shade of red because of it, Eridol slips back into himself, completely unresponsive. With Eridol out of commission, Tornur drops haste on Septima while Whisky and Emmi start tackling the now exhausted ape before he anything else can happen. A flurry or blows and crossbow bolts knocks our druids concentration enough to come back to himself and drop the spell as Tornur is trying to get Eridol back into reality with a thunderous slap. With the cleric being forced to act but without the materials on hand to bring Veiraen back, Eridol casts gentle repose as he yells for someone to get the bag of holding.  Tornur casts haste on Whisky as she speeds back up to the keep to get the components and makes it back faster than is legally possible. Eridol shakily casts revivify to bring his friend back from the dead for a second time, the collar around Veiraen’s neck flaring back to life seconds later, immoblising the rogue long enough for the protective collar to seep back into his mind and quell the murderous intent he’s had since coming through the portal and massacring several people. Everyone except Whisky and Emmi wordlessly makes their way back to the keep as the two decide a nice stiff drink is required and set off to the nearest town to get shitfaced. After too much ale and many unsuccessful attempts to dodge Whiskys questions about why Emmi was so focused on drinking herself into an early grave, Emmi opens up about the memories she recently rediscovered. The life she thought she had was all a lie, her family, her relationships, her reasons for becoming a sailor. Everything. She thinks back on how Sharona took such an active approach to her sailing education, everything shifting under the realization that this was her mother. A mother who loved her family so much she would rather live without Emmi than see them both lost to time and the ocean in pursuit of their husband. But some things just can’t be helped as Emmi unknowingly had spent her life continuing to learn from her mother. Whisky stating that at least she has the full picture now, so at least theres that silver lining and asks if Emmi would like to go confront her mother about it which is met with the universal facial expression of that being a hard pass. They continue drinking the night away and talking until words lose meaning and have to let the horses lead them back to the keep to face the overwhelming hangover that awaits in the morning. Back with the rest of the group just after leaving the training grounds, Veiraen trails back and pins Eridol to the door frame of the building, asking for the remote to the inhibition collar around his neck. After receiving no answer from the still traumatised gnome he lets him go and Veiraen goes to sit in front of the fireplace and Eridol fights losing himself until he gets into his room. Ending up in a small crate in the corner to shut out the world. It’s about an hour later when Veiraen comes to ask Eridol for the remote again, slipping into the room and finding the hyperventilating, disassociating mess of a cleric in his panic box. Still not getting the information he wants, Veiraen decides he needs to snap Eridol out of whatever this is as gently as possible, not like Tornur slapping him back to reality. Veiraen pours a vial of oil over the shuddering gnome and retrieves his tinderbox. Fire obviously the way to get what he wants in this delicate situation. It takes a few seconds for recognition of the situation to violently rip Eridol out of his own head, with survival instincts kicking in, he puts himself out and punches Veiraen while Veiraen tries to pin him and ask about the remote again. Veiraen leaves without a word and Eridol thrown out of his episode locks the door and sets in to read and to think about where he stands with Veiraen for the remainder of the day. An hour later Veiraen tries to ask again, but finds the door locked and barricaded from the inside and not knowing when to quit he starts climbing the wall of the keep to Eridols window.  A few feet from his prize, the window opens. Eridol having heard the pitons being hammered into the stonework, comes to find his traveling companion hanging from a rope. They exchange a glance before Eridol quietly gives an ultimatum. Drop whatever this is or Eridol will have to stop it and he doesn’t have the energy available to bring Veiraen back if it comes to that. Veiraen asks for the remote again and Eridol mentions he doesn’t have it anymore. Ask Septima. Eridol doesn’t wait for a response and closes the window,  back to standing guard for a fight he prays doesn’t come sneaking through the window. Dawn comes and hoping to avoid Veiraen for as long as possible, Eridol takes Tornur to the main city to find some additional spells and protective measures from their new ally and sometimes adult bronze dragon, deciding to spend the night in town while Tornur copied his new spells to his book, that was definitely the only reason to stay there for now. Back at the keep, Veiraen had been having issues finding our green friend because without an actual bedroom or the need to sleep, Septima had taken to shutting down in the most inconvenient places around the keep in an attempt to scare whoever finds him, you know, for fun. Veiraen finds him early in the morning hidden in a darkened corner of the larder after a scream and string of curses from one of the kitchen workers alerts the rogue to his current hiding spot. Veiraen asks Septima for the remote and is summarily refused, Septima saying he was instructed by everyone, but by Core especially to not give it to him. Veiraen states that he just wants to find a way to disable it for a while so he can figure out how to handle the urges it suppresses for himself so he doesn’t end up hurting anyone around him and argues that it was Core that put the collar on him in the first place after he came through the portal and shouldn’t be trusted. Septima realizes that Veiraen genuinely believes this, but he won’t hand over the remote. But maybe Fulgür the sometimes dragon can help them with momentarily blocking the necklace while Veiraen does what he needs to. With that, Septima and Veiraen start meandering towards Principium, unknowingly arriving several hours after Eridol and Tornur at Fulgür’s magic shop where the dragon was still in the form of the Halfling wizard that also came through the portals with them and Septima so long ago. Before explaining why they need help, Veiraen offers up all the remaining gems that he had taken from Fulgür’s cave system unknowingly with an apology. Veiraen goes into how he knows the collar is dampening a harmful intent, when he came through the portal he felt a need to inflict violence on everyone around him, he killed so many people and felt good about. The collar held the urge in place but he needs to be able to explore it and what it means for him. After a careful inspection from Fulgür, the dragon recognizes an inkling of the same type of fey energy that hid his true self and Emmi’s memories affecting Veiraen. Fulgür agrees to help him with his experimentation and an agreement is made to head out to the cave Septima and Eridol found him digging in originally to be away from anyone. Fulgür casts fly on the two non dragons and they fly out of the city, far to the south away from prying eyes and possible victims should this go poorly. They reach the cave system and Veiraen asks that he be restrained and disarmed before they start, both Septima and Fulgür agree and through a combination of hold person and entanglement he is restrained and his weapons but under Fulgür’s foot for added security and dispel magic is cast in an effort to suppress the collar but the collar shatters from the force of the dispelling enchantment, the small bead  of murderous intent flares to life as Veiraen begins trying to fight off his new urges. As Fulgür and Septima can only watch, Veiraen, as restrained as he is seems to be fighting a losing battle against the fey curse affecting his mind and causing the want to rip and tear those around him. In his mind he hears a voice, the voice of his sword cricket pleading to let her help, he just needs to hold her and she can help. Veiraen begins begging for his sword, whispered under the strain of the efforts he is taking to fight off his urges. Fulgür unsheathes it and offers it without hesitation. With sword in hand, Veiraen redoubles his efforts to fight the curse on him and sensing his control slipping under it’s fog he pins himself through his foot to the ground. With Veiraen pinned and slowly losing this mental battle a decision is made. They need divine intervention to break this like the last ones encountered. Septima shifts into a giant constrictor snake to help restrain Veiraen while Fulgür uses his mighty draconic speed to make it back to Principium to find Eridol as fast as he can. When Fulgür finds the gnome and mentions Veiraen needing help with a curse, it overwhelms whatever negative feelings the healer has for the rogue and they depart as fast as is dragonly possible. Shortly after Fulgür departs the cave, Veiraen hears the calming voice of cricket in his mind over the pulsing of blood in his ears. “This is not a fight you can win, oh bearer mine, there is something I can do that will end this. Will you accept?” With no other options Veiraen accepts this incredibly vague offer from a sword he can’t tell anyone about and for the first time since breaking the collar his mind goes quiet, the murderous intent still there but momentarily contained.  Feeling him stop tensing, Septima releases him and in one smooth motion, Veiraen removes the sword from his foot, spins it around and as if by it’s own will Cricket is driven into Veiraen’s heart. As it completely disappears into his chest, Veiraen can feel the fey curse wither into nothing and for the first time since coming through the portal, with neither good or bad influencing his actions or a collar to inhibit him, Veiraen is completely himself. As he breathes, a figure appears in his mind. A humanoid woman clad in gleaming platinum armor with a shield as large as herself, she smiles and bows at her wielder before fading away, a duty willingly fulfilled. The silence that follows only broken by his raspy breathing and the pulse of his blood in his ears as an emotionally drained and slightly holey Veiraen collapses into a fitful sleep. Septima shifting into a dire wolf to help keep him warm until he wakes. It is a few hours later when Fulgür arrives with his tiny gnome shaped ball of fury who is ready to kick someones arse. Their arrival loud enough to wake the exhausted Veiraen and his wolf buddy. Veiraen starts making a heartfelt explanation of what happened and how he needed to feel like himself and how everything worked out in the end and that  he’s sorry as he draws the gnome in for a hug and for the first time since they’ve known each other Eridol refuses to accept this justification. All the conflicting emotions that he has about Veiraen come boiling to the surface and Eridol yells at the rogue for his stupidity at not thinking of the possible consequences all the time, for dying, for setting him on fire, for not telling anyone his plans and for putting himself and Septima in potential harms way if this went poorly. The gnome turns and begins wordlessly making his way down the mountain rather than spend another second with his companions. With Eridols sudden outburst and departure, the remaining trio discuss what happens now, Core needs to be told obviously and the others will learn eventually. Considering the weirdness between Fulgür and Core after their last meeting, he’s out and Veiraen quietly asks if he can spend the night at Fulgür’s cave rather than go after his friend. This leaves Septima to Terminator run his way to principium because without usable lungs he can’t get exhausted. After several hours of walking silently with a death grip on his hammer, Eridol ends up in a clearing and the realization of how alone he is sets in as every emotion he was trying to push down explodes at once. He leaves a trail of destruction in his wake. Every spell and strike used as an outlet for his anger and frustration as he tries to beat the forest into submission, trees splinter as divine energy flares, rocks shatter with every hammer strike and Eridol finally comes to grips with things as tears stream down his face. It’s past dawn when he makes it back to the keep, two days of emotional exhaustion and no sleep take their toll as he oozes into bed and Eridols justifiably worried dog lies down on his gnome, because he’s a good boy like that. As Septima Forest Gumps his way across the countryside, he eventually makes it to our sorcerer companion’s home in the capital city and his internal snitch programming activates and in his calm, emotionless monotone Septima lays out exactly what happened with Veiraen and the collar and Eridol walking away and also the country is probably going to shatter in like 9 months, to the increasingly panicked caster and they begin making their way back to the keep to yell at two people specifically and everyone generally. The two slip into the keep in the early morning light and with no Veiraen in sight decide Eridol is the next best one to talk to and make their way up to his room. They discuss what happened and try not to notice the near death grip Eridol has on his hammer while clearly lying about how fine he is. Septima mentions how you shouldn’t let death scar you which is enough to trigger the saddest gnome to mention it’s a bit late for that and sheds his armor to show off more scar tissue than is legally allowed. His torso a patchwork of almost surgical scars, abrasions and a series of newer burns wrapping around his right side in a haphazard attempt to cover something. Septima just quietly looks the gnome over and begins unwinding his wrappings to show his own scarred body. Core and Eridol are faced with old husks of wood showing deep gouges and burned to char in places, whatever essence granting him life pulses and dissipates through the joints and cracks in the surface. Obviously in this sad boys body club, Septima takes the crown. Having seen enough of the body horror, Core asks if someone knows how to get in touch with Veiraen, we need to discuss what happens next with the portal and possible destruction of the country in several months. Eridol quietly mentions that he can and sends a mental text to the rogue to come and to bring Fulgur as well. Core leaves and runs into Emmi in the hallway outside, who had been woken by the noise. Seeing her still seemingly drunk from the night before, Core asks if she’s doing alright and gets a pretty hefty no before Emmi drops the equivalent of a bomb and accusingly says “How long have you known Sharona was my mother?” The silence afterwards is deafening as Core tries to process that and we end the session there