riddikulusims

[mutantenfisch]

Made pelmeni with a filling of potato, onion, champignons and cream cheese.

Devoured them all in one sitting with a few slices of freshly harvested kohlrabi.

This might not solve my problems but at least I'm feeling full and a tiny bit satisfied right now :)

[katistrophe]

List 5 topics you can talk on for an hour without preparing any material

Tagged by @toooldforthisbutstill - thank yoooou!

Discworld

Podcast recommendations (fiction and non-fiction, the latter in up to three languages)

Leitmotifs in film soundtracks

Cooking (on the budget-y end of the scale, though I can probably spend at least ten minutes of that hour on caveats about preexisting gear, one’s personal spoon cost of cooking, proximity to various supermarkets and feasibility of shopping there,… before making any claims)

If we’ll allow angry yelling, antibiotic overuse/misuse in livestock farming and just generally the rise of antimicrobial resistance

Tagging, hm… @awordwasthebeginning @having-conniptions @thattalviel @wippsteertt @mutantenfisch @black-cat-aoife @grumpyfaceurn @tatzelwyrm and whoever else wants to, I’m in a food coma from my latest Aquafaba Experiment (tm), I’ve probably forgotten people.

[franzis-kunst-und-krempel]

Ask game babay! (Thanks for tagging me @onioneyez <3)

Last song: let me check my spotify... Terpsichore*: Bransle simple 1 (La, la, la, je ne l'ose dire) by Michael Praetorius. The song currently stuck in my head is Sona a battenti though :)

Favorite colour: it's been yellow for quite some time now, but I think I'm starting to like colours contrasting more and more... like a sky blue and terracotta, light blue and a bright orange etc

Currently reading: The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco, but I'm not on holiday anymore so I'm less motivated to read :( Also a collection of short poems in my local dialect

Currently watching: The Ritz (1976). Set in a gay bathhouse and one guy just had to sign in and he used "Ronald Reagan" as a nome de plume. Talk about irony eh?

Last movie: does Agatha Christie's Poirot count? Other than that: Lawrence of Arabia (1962) which I watched with my mum. We both liked it but it was heavy stuff phew

Sweet, spicy, savoury? Ideally a mix of all three. Mostly savoury, though!

Relationship status: what are you, a cop?

Current obsession: oh, Poirot without a doubt. That little Belgian has bewitched me body and soul. Also early music. Mwah!

(Re: prev - if you need Jeeves and Wooster fanfic recommendations, don't hesitate to ask me :) ! I've got lots in my basement (aka bookmarked). ALSO I recently went to Rhodes & took a pic with a copy of the Laocoon statue! You should totally do your own replica B) )

Tea or coffee? Both. More of a tea gal though

Last thing I googled: 'statue english' ahahah - turns out it's the same in English and German, but I wanted to be on the safe side lol

Only if you want to, tagging @loki-lock, @sadlonelyyogurt & @mutantenfisch :)

[ejunkiet]

wip wednesday

tagged by the lovely @honeysofte and look, it’s actually wednesday hehehe

here is a snippet from another chapter of ‘the devil is in the details’, an imperium au where david is hired as private security detail to the royal consort.

redacted audio: imperium!david/angel, rated teen.

--

The days feel endless, their rented rooms a gilded cage that sometimes feel like a coffin. 

Still, they’re not entirely alone.

There’s David. 

Alpha, the others on the security detail had murmured in deference, a detail they had filed away to be examined more closely after the debriefing, after he'd finished explaining his pack’s patrol routes and established perimeter.

They’d tried it with him, later, after the others had left and he’d taken up position outside their apartments. Alpha. It’d gotten them the reaction they’d been hoping for, his eyes flashing to theirs, glittering with dark intensity.

There’s an edge of a growl to his voice when he speaks. “Don’t use it if you don’t know what it means.”

It becomes a game. Poking the wolf. He makes it so easy, and Angel loves needling at his composure, teasing out the personality underneath.

Plus, he’s smart, and it’s been too long since Angel has had a decent conversation with anyone that wasn’t Damien, or their hired staff - most of whom won’t talk to them anyway.

Still, a year is a long time, and alone together, they grow closer. And they talk.

--

tagging- you, reading this! also (no pressure!):

@chroniclesinlacuna @devilbunnyking @frenchiefitzhere @romirola @taelonsamada @dominimoonbeam @glassbearclock @slushrottweiler @pearl-kite @mutantenfisch @bratty-telepath >:3 <3

[eolewyn1010]

TAG SOMEONE YOU WANT TO KNOW AND/OR SOME OF YOUR BESTIES

@bookshelfdreams tagged me for some intel my Stasi guy isn't yet privy to. Nepomuk, take notes!

favorite color: I tend to call them "velvet colors", and what I mean is dark but not muted colors (death to this decade's everything-needs-to-be-a-shade-of-beige-or-grey mentality!), a rich, juicy, deep red or blue like a velvet would have.

last song: Spotify says it's Reinhard Mey's "Der Mörder ist immer der Gärtner" XD Oh, the taste...

last movie: repeated The Old Guard <3

currently watching: The last season of Downton Abbey, The Sandman, still catching up on Blind ermittelt, She-Ra with my sis / bestie (we're on two different mileages), and started Brooklyn Nine-Nine ...don't talk to me or my undiagnosed ADHD; I'm beyond criticism and saving.

other stuff I watched this year: Nimona (beloved!), 2003's Peter Pan, a series of cringe Christmas romcoms (don't ask), Castlevania, Venom: Let there be Carnage, Gladiator, Knives Out and Glass Onion (I started catching up on all the well-known shit everyone else has already seen. Still shirking Good Omens and Our Flag Means Death seasons 2, respectively.)

shows I dropped this year: I'm about to drop The Witcher; thought I'd watch it for improving my common media knowledge, but I'm through the first season and I just don't vibe with it.

currently reading: Percy Jackson: The Lightning Thief, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (trying to find out if I CAN still read it without constantly being bitter and angry), Terry Pratchett's Mort, Bettina & Gisela von Arnim's Das Leben der Hochgräfin Gritta von Rattenzuhausbeiuns, and my newbie, Alice Bell's Grave Expectations (My friend reignited my passion for reading. I take no responsibility. Good day, sir.)

currently listening to: Nothing in particular; I'm currently more into watching series on the side than into background music.

currently working on: my depression, writing a letter, tidying up EVERYTHING from my hard drive to my recipes to my drawings to my internet fave bar

current obsession/s: Downton Abbey's costumes. I'm mostly over the character writing by now, but the costumes. Be still, my rotten heart. Also, for some strange reason, Halloween. It was never a holiday I particularly cared for, but this year? Hell yeah, bring on the bats and eerie lights and the Wild Hunt! I even carved a glowy pumpkin.

tagging if you wanna share important data: @mordsfesch @str4wanzerin @carlomainzinger @chrisoels @khalaris @chucklepea-hotpot @itsyveinthesky @cricrithings @mutantenfisch and @annahamiltonsstuff

[achilleanwizard]

I was tagged by @punkranger (Thank you!!! 😊) And I’m going to tag @gelvaan @sataari @mutantenfisch @deviant3lover @averagejermafan @demianwas and @aelyosos (Feel free to ignore this if you’ve already done it, or just don’t feel like filling it out for your OC(s)!! I’ve just noticed you guys talking about your ocs, and I’d love to hear more about them!)

BASICS

Full Name: Alexander Valente

Gender: Male?? Look, we’ve got more important things to worry about right now, okay?

Sexuality: Biromantic Bisexual

Pronouns: As of right now? Just he/him. He’s pretty comfy with she/her too though. It’s flattering that people think he might be a girl

OTHERS

Family: He never had anyone he considered family; Just very good friends. If asked about it, then he’d say something along the lines of “Do you think I would take the boost drug, with a notoriously very low survival rate, in order to get superhero powers if I had any family I wanted to talk about?”

Birthplace: ???, Nevada, USA

Job: A consultant. Who is he advising and what is he giving them advice about? Mind your business

Phobias: Spiders. Heights. Especially looking out of windows from a very tall height. Admitting he has feelings for a certain someone(s). Abandonment. Probably a whole bucketful more, but those are the main ones.

Guilty Pleasures: Sugar in all it’s various forms (even if he needs the energy to function/for his telepathy) Taking the time to read and appreciate art when not working. Painting his nails (but only when possessing the Puppet’s body) Taking time off work. Buying three entire floors of a luxury skyscraper to house his villain base/office, Renting the most luxurious top floor penthouse (That would make Mayor Osborn (from spider-man) weep tears of envy) he could afford for a home that he barely resides in, Pleasures of the flesh (it’s like a catholic priest up in here) Honestly, it would be easier to list things he isn’t guilty about. (Killing. He’s not guilty about those he’s killed, even if he should be.)

Hobbies: Playing piano. Scheming. Beating up Daniel behind a Wendy’s parking lot Training Daniel. Kissing Daniel too. Starting fights that he can’t possibly hope to win/finish

MORALS

Morality Alignment: Chaotic Neutral

Sins: Desire / Despair / Envy / Fear / Hunger / Pride / Rage / Sloth (so almost all of them…)

Virtues: Charity / Chastity / Diligence / Humility / Justice / Kindness / Patience

THIS OR THAT

introvert/extrovert organized/disorganized close minded/open-minded calm/anxious disagreeable/agreeable cautious/reckless patient/impatient outspoken/reserved leader/follower empathetic/unempathic optimistic/pessimistic traditional/modern hard-working/lazy

RELATIONSHIPS

Otp: It’s cruel that you’re making me choose between Herald and Ortega. But gun to my head…. Chargestep. There’s nothing quite like old lost loves.

Ot3: I forget the ‘official’ name for it but, Herald/Sidestep/Ortega (Flychargestep? Chargeflystep?)

Acceptable Ships: Alexander flirts with everyone possible, so. Argentstep. Steelstep. Mortumstep? <- Is that the right name? Anyway, he’ll smooch just about anyone.

Brotp: I have to admit, I’ve been thinking about different Sidestep interactions from time to time. I think he’d be good buddies with some, and have a, uh, very *interesting* dynamic with others. Not naming any specific Sidesteps to 1. Avoid any favoritism and 2. Not humiliate myself even further. He’s annoying though, and he revels in that, so it might only be a good time for him. Oh, also Anathema and Sidestep. Best bros for life (or death)

Notp: Oh, this one’s tough. Shroud/Sidestep if that’s even a thing. It’s on sight for him with her. He don’t trust random Regenes like that. (Unless it’s a multiple Sidesteps AU) HG/Sidestep too cause… yeah. If you know you know. Icky. Blaze/Sidestep, because I like teasing my friends(?) (acquaintances?) 😉

[apfelhalm]

Ich habe 12.754 Mal im Jahr 2022 etwas gepostet

Das sind 7.411 more posts als 2021!

366 Einträge erstellt (3%)

12.388 Einträge gerebloggt (97%)

Blogs, die ich am häufigsten gerebloggt habe:

@dream-about-dancing

@mutantenfisch

@squishysoulmate

@free-piza

@diersten

Ich habe 11.796 meiner Einträge im Jahr 2022 getaggt

Nur 8% meiner Einträge hatten keine Tags

#tatort – 1.089 Einträge

#spoilers – 494 Einträge

#top gun maverick – 468 Einträge

#cobra kai – 427 Einträge

#art – 360 Einträge

#tess is rambling – 258 Einträge

#sandman – 225 Einträge

#cute animals – 224 Einträge

#jjba – 201 Einträge

#polizeiruf 110 – 188 Einträge

Longest Tag: 140 characters

#still dying on the inside when i think of that person at comic con that asked john barrowman about a detail she wanted to use for her barrow

Meine Top-Einträge im Jahr 2022:

#5

Vollständigen Eintrag ansehen

97 Anmerkungen – Gepostet 28. August 2022

#4

“Und bei dem Brand in der Garage, da hat Adam es das erste Mal versucht, da war er fast noch ein Kind. Aber es hat nicht geklappt. Hat den Alten nur ins Koma gebracht.”

100 Anmerkungen – Gepostet 13. August 2022

#3

OK, aber wo ist mein Undercover!AU, in dem Leo und Adam sich zum ersten Mal bei einer Mission wiedersehen? Leo ist undercover und Adam ist undercover und die beiden erkennen sich einfach sofort wieder.

Adam weiß, dass Leo ein Bulle ist, nicht nur, weil sie früher mal über seine Pläne geredet haben, sondern weil man den Bullen an Leo fünf Kilometer gegen den Wind riecht. Leo weiß allerdings nicht, dass Adam ein Bulle ist, und ist ein bisschen geschockt und enttäuscht, dass Adam jetzt als Schläger/Handlanger für eine Drogenbande arbeitet. Adam weiß nicht, ob er lachen oder empört sein soll, aber weil er Angst hat, dass Leo seine Deckung sonst auffliegen lässt, spielt er eben mit. Is ja schließlich sein Job. (Und leider ist er ziemlich gut darin, einen mürrischen Schläger zu spielen.)

Und dann gibt's ein schreckliches Hin und Her, in dem Adam versucht, Leos Tarnung zu schützen, während Leo versucht, Adam wieder auf die richtige Bahn zu bringen ("Ich kann da bestimmt ein gutes Wort für dich einlegen"). Und wenn's nach mir ginge, gibt's auch noch ein bisschen Fake Relationship, weil sie einmal fast auffliegen und Adam die Situation nur noch retten kann, indem er Leo küsst und so tut, als wären sie gerade ordentlich dabei zu fummeln.

Am Ende können sie die Bande zwar hochnehmen, aber es wird hochgradig Awkward(TM) zwischen beiden, als klar ist, dass Adam die ganze Zeit auch ein Bulle war. Leo ist sauer, weil Adam ihm nicht gleich die Wahrheit gesagt hat (und schämt sich, weil er es so einfach geglaubt hat) und Adam ist, nun ja, doch irgendwie verletzt, dass Leo das so easy hingenommen und nicht mal hinterfragt hat. Hinzu kommen noch die Gefühle, die beim Fake-Knutschen hochgekommen sind, und volà, perfektes Drama.

102 Anmerkungen – Gepostet 21. Februar 2022

#2

Das Herz der Schlange // The Fallen Angel, Alexandre Cabanel

@neverland-in-space meintest du das?

110 Anmerkungen – Gepostet 28. August 2022

Meine #1 des Jahres 2022

am I the only one who thinks it's kinda sad that so many fandoms are retreating into their own discord servers? like, I get that it's nice to have an exclusive place to talk to likeminded people and where you can post stuff without fear of idiots latching onto it, but ... exclusive means also others get shut out. some people don't have the nerve or time for discord. and if I'm new to a fandom and don't have any other people to contact, the tags are the first thing I'll get to see and ... most of them are just full with AO3 links, which (no offence) I could just go to AO3 for, a few pics, some personal posts ... and that's it. there's hardly anthing in the tags anymore, while a lot of stuff gets discussed and posted in discord.

771 Anmerkungen – Gepostet 23. September 2022

Hol dir deinen Tumblr-Jahresrückblick 2022 →

[apoloniaspiegelgold]

15 questions for 5 mutuals

Rule: You have to answer truthfully and you have to tag 5 mutuals in your post.

I was tagged by @zrspace, thank you! :)

1. Are you named after anyone?

Apparently, I was named after one of my mother's favourite students. I personally find that quite weird, but well, what can I do?

2. When was the last time you cried? Why?

One of our dogs was put to sleep a few weeks ago. Spent the whole weekend crying.

3. Do you believe in Soulmates? 

I believe that everything in this life is connected, and I believe that some people just gravitate towards each other and choose to want to have each other in their lives forever. So maybe you can say that I believe in gravity.

4. Do you drink liquor? 

No. I just find alcohol disgusting. I don't understand how people can drink it. Or coffee. I mean ... why?

5. What do you usually daydream about?

I'm not really a daydreaming kind of person. I'm a dayanalyser. I find patterns in anything. I pick everything apart mentally and try to find out how it fits into the grander scheme of things. That's what's fun to me.

6. First thing you notice about other people?

The eyes.

7. What's your favorite quote from a TV show/movie/book?

"Do you think I care for you so little that betraying me would make a difference?" (from Doctor Who)

8. Some of your pet peeves?

Unemotive people. I don't know. My face is doing acrobatics all the time. Think of Jim Halpert pulling faces at the camera in The Office. That's me all day every day. Emoting is a kind of communication that I personally value greatly. It's like a language of its own, it's like a courtesy in a way, a form of respect if that makes sense. So when people talk to me and their face is completely still and gives me nothing, it always makes me feel like they hate me.

9. Where’s the next place on your travel bucket list and why?

I don't know. I mostly travel for work to get to conferences, so I don't get to see all that much as I'm stuck inside university buildings all day, but I'd like to go to Sweden at some point. And I'd like to return to Norway and have a proper look at it this time around. Scotland would be lovely, too.

10. Where were you born? 

In a neighbouring city of my home town in Germany.

11. What are your hobbies?

Oh, you know, the classics: meeting friends, reading, movies/tv shows. I like going on walks. I was always into photography, but lost sight of it a bit, unfortunately.

12. What's the best joke you've ever heard?

Honestly, I'm quite a fan of my own jokes. I mean, the one person who has to listen to every joke I ever tell in this life is me. Gotta keep my devoted audience satisfied somehow, you know? Too bad I don't remember my jokes though.

13. What’s your love language? 

One thing that I always think gets overlooked is that the love language you like to give and the love language you like to receive are not necessarily the same. I give a lot of words of affirmation and I like quality time. I like to receive physical touch, but hardly ever give it. Deeply despise receiving gifts or acts of service, though.

14. Topics you never get tired of to talk about.

Phonetics/phonology and people. Not in a gossipy kind of way, more like analysing people's cognition. The best conversations happen at 2am in a dark kitchen talking about how your mind works.

15. What would be the title if your life were a movie? 

Peephole

And I'm tagging @museofnightmare, @findstenicht, @mutantenfisch, @livatoseus and @dreamatoria if you guys want to :)

[piratesofthedarkwidesea]

I posted 1,101 times in 2022

That's 323 more posts than 2021!

58 posts created (5%)

1,043 posts reblogged (95%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

@divineandmajesticinone

@mr-iskender

@dadthinksdoctorwhoisacrimeseries

@mutantenfisch

@christianeriksen

I tagged 1,086 of my posts in 2022

Only 1% of my posts had no tags

#interview with the vampire - 195 posts

#polizeiruf 110 - 78 posts

#art - 73 posts

#photography - 62 posts

#tatort saarbrücken - 60 posts

#lol - 51 posts

#me watching stuff - 48 posts

#fanart - 44 posts

#nice edit - 40 posts

#spatort - 37 posts

Longest Tag: 140 characters

#(like okay i know this is problematic on a whole number of levels but i still managed to enjoy this movie and sometimes it be like that 🤷‍♀

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

25 notes - Posted October 24, 2022

#4

Here, have my comments on 365 Day: This Day

(I kinda gave up with the comments after half the movie tho)

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30 notes - Posted April 30, 2022

#3

So I’m just re-watching episode 3 and... I really love the scenes between Louis and Jonah and.. it just occurred to me how extremely human these scenes make Louis look? Like his accent getting all strong makes total sense in the context of him talking to someone from his youth, someone who is a Black man as well.

But it it also occurred to me this is the first (and only?!) time we really see Louis flirting? Like we’ve never seen him have this kind of confidence before? He was very much denying and fighting his homosexuality when he meets Lestat (you can see it quite explicitly in a couple of scenes, also him concluding this could never happen again after having sex with Lestat for the first time). But Jonah is somebody he is familiar with, someone he knows is also queer, plus it is already established there is some mutual attraction which is being rekindled. But it is Louis actively flirting with him. Asking if he remembers their shared youth [and their “early fumbles”], which is in part due to Lestat watching them, I guess, getting even with him in a way, calling him out on his “of course”. 

But but BUT what I really wanted to say (sorry for getting off track a bit there ahsdhoas) is... there is no vampire moves to it. There is no indication he’s reading his mind, influencing him in any way with his newly won powers (which he is also still rejecting to a degree at this point). Just some very human “do you remember” and “look at my cool car” (aiosdadhs Louis I can’t even 😂😂😂). It’s just so abusrdly cute and very deeply human in a way? 

And I do kinda see how Lestat is jealous here, because Louis has never been flirting with him like this. And he keeps telling Louis (and us) how much he wants Louis to explicitly say / show he loves him? 

I mean of course it is on the other hand very obvious how Louis wasn’t like that with Lestat when he met him. One part being him struggling a lot more with his sexuality and his shame about it there. But also Lestat is being very active in pursuing Louis. Louis describes it as being hunted (we’re gonna ignore the unreliable narrator level here bc I don’t wanna go this deep here - and also bc I do believe it in general terms, I guess). Like there are parts where we see Lestat taking it kinda slow, including Lilly there to ease Louis into it. But also then getting very insistent, basically jumping a distraught Louis who is in shock over the death of his brother (with he witnessed first hand, his mother blaming him for it etc.), not leaving him alone... But then here on the other hand also Louis isn’t being only passive here. I love how it is very clearly him initiating the kiss with Lestat after Lilly is out of the picture. All these nuances and complexities really are what makes their relationship so compelling I think!

And uh... I guess I also have some thoughts about Lestat courting Louis and Vampire Moves tbh (bc I introduced the absence of them in Louis flirting with Jonah) but this post is already so long 🙈 What it does probably boil down to though (not 100% sure bc I haven’t really thought this through yet). But, in my view, he isn’t even using his Vampire Moves much? Like yeah he is in Louis’ mind and showing some tricks but... more in a showing off way than in a manipulative way? Like whatever Louis is trying to tell us here, he is just really attracted to that French guy. He may also be repulsed by him in some ways (or maybe more by his visceral reaction(s) to him, hm, Louis?) but damn he wants to fuck that guy so bad it makes him look stupid. 

And yeah you might raise the argument that Lestat does use his Vampire Moves when he’s in Louis’ head, pestering him about how he is not gonna be ignored  right after Paul died. But he first walked up to him when the family were on their way to the cemetery and.. was pestering him in quite mundane ways there, you know? Like him being in his mind was driving it to a head a bit more quickly and dramatically maybe but... knowing Lestat he would probably also have been able to be an absolute pest, just showing up again and again, not taking no for an answer (and he basically does so in ep 6, doesn’t he?). So yeah Louis is talking about vampire bonds and mind gifts but... he attracted to him. Big time. I ain’t buying your angle here, Louis.

(Only that of course I kinda do, bc Lestat is a narcissistic manipulative shit in certain ways as well. And doesn’t take no for an answer. Neither in ep 1 nor in ep 6. But then ep 7... weeelll... layers and all 😅😂 But I hope you still get my point.) 

43 notes - Posted November 22, 2022

#2

Me watching Vikings Valhalla like

You call this a man? He doesn't even have hair on his chest. What kind of Viking is he supposed to be? Where is the chest hair? Okay who am I kidding he hot but. Still. Where?? dggdfhg

Well now, this is a man. A fine man.

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44 notes - Posted March 1, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

Okay erm... episode 1x05 is certainly very visceral and also very complex and I’ve already seen a lot of interesting thoughts about.. 

I just wanna concentrate on a very small thing and how I read it, and it’s Daniel slapping Louis. Because to me it was very very clear that that slap was a desperate (and very obvious to everyone in the room) attempt of Daniel trying to pretend he has any kind of control over the situation. Because he very clearly has not. Louis could literally tear him apart without lifting as much as his little finger and he kinda knew all along but that scene is when he really *got* it like rationalized it and he was freaking the fuck out about that. 

And Louis and Rashid also understood that for what it was and therefore let it slide in a “yeah let’s all go with the pretense the human can defend himself in any way, shape or form here” when he very very clearly can’t? Like let’s all take a deep breath and pretend it’s fine / nothing of that happened.

Which says nothing about Daniel being an asshole but... man was frightened to death there tbh

64 notes - Posted October 24, 2022

Get your Tumblr 2022 Year in Review →

[mutantenfisch]

Due to Summer holidays and thus very low customer traffic at my workplace I'll basically be out of a job for 6 weeks from tomorrow on.

Nonetheless i got stuff to do, which is:

Send the, for lack of a better word, immatriculation fee to the school i got accepted in today. It's 30 bucks, which is nothing in comparison to what i would have paid for uni had i tried to get back into academia after what she's done to me

Bother the surgeon whom i want to deboobify me to give me an appointment asap, preferrably before September

Keep the routine of getting up between 8 and 9 am, or maybe even shift it to between 7 and 8 for now to a) make better use of the cooler hours of the day and b) prepare my sleep rhythm for regularly getting up at 6 or - at the latest - 6:15 again

Keep the routine of at least 7k steps per day and add a little bit of stretching and strength training because my back really does need it

Finish a few of my art wips

As a bonus: meet up with friends irl if possible. Depends on all our schedules

[katistrophe]

15 questions for 15 friends

Tagged… a while ago… by @awordwasthebeginning - thanks 💜

Are you named after anyone? No, though if I’d been AMAB I would have been saddled with my bio dad’s first name as my middle name. So many bullets were dodged.

Do you have kids? No. Not planning to, either.

When was the last time you cried? I came close maybe two weeks ago, out of embarrassment over having forgotten a pretty basic thing. (Rather than recognizing it as a sign that maybe the overtime was getting a bit out of hand.)

What sports do you play/have you played? I tried judo and badminton as a kid, to no great success. Now I’m… well, I play quadball when I can, hoping that the local quadball team survives so I can keep playing, because otherwise I’d have to cross the border to play.

Do you use sarcasm? As I’ve been told the story, when I was tiny, there was some situation where my parents explained sarcasm to me, and from that moment on I was a sarcastic little shit.

What is the first thing you notice about people? Clothes and haircut and anything but the things that would be useful to recognize them again.

What’s your eye color? Grayish blue.

Scary movies or happy endings? Depends on the mood.

Any talents? If we’re talking things I’m good at with less practice than expected, I’m weirdly good at separating egg yolks and whites.

Where were you born? Somewhere my family never lived, it was just the nearest place with a hospital.

What are your hobbies? Reading (or wanting to), knitting (ditto), crocheting (you guessed it), visible mending (that gets done a bit more frequently due to necessity), and… with how much it helps me relax, I do think cooking counts.

Do you have any pets? No, though I’ve been making vague (as in “where would I put the litterbox if the laundry room has to be an airlock?”) plans for having an indoor cat one day.

How tall are you? 183 cm.

Favorite subject in school: for the last years, it was definitely biology.

Dream job: also want to say I like the one I have. I get to nerd and program and help people and they pay me for it.

Tagging, hm… @toooldforthisbutstill @having-conniptions @tatzelwyrm @thattalviel @nebty @wippsteertt @grumpyfaceurn @mutantenfisch @black-cat-aoife @secretmellowblog @theherondaels @mishidraws @arkodian and whoever else wants to!

[choccy-zefirka]

Me: I am writing this game for myself. I am not sure when, or if, I will release it to the public, either my friends or the Internet at large.

Also me: adds a playable birch dryad race because @lindenmori will like it; adds squirrels to the randomized list of talking animals the player encounters because @tanaleth will like it; adds horror elements because @massgrav will like it; adds a sad mage dad LI because @mocha-writes and @lazyadmiral will like it; adds a race of white-haired elves because @host-of-chthon will like it; adds a LI that can shapeshift into a bird because @sky-scribbles will like it; adds villain redemption because @vulptilla will like it; adds worldbuilding because @mutantenfisch will like it; adds...

[coronerandundersheriff]

Distinguished behaviour?!

It was not easy, absolutely not easy. 

David gave them both all the time in the world. He kept a low profile, mostly stayed in his studio and worked. Yet he had pointed out emphatically, his doors were always open. 

Cassandra just didn't know where her head was, everything was going wrong and yet she felt a lot better now. It was quiet up here, no noise, no stares - yes, she didn't even have to go grocery shopping, her "flatmate" brought everything home. He cooked and provided the food. 

She just couldn't bring herself to talk to him, their last conversation ended in a total breakdown and in David’s flat. 

Chris was so cute today, giggling all the time and playing with his stuff. With his new stuff, by the way! They had taken next to nothing with them. He loved the funny colourful room that David had decorated for him. Better said the famous designer Mel Apple, whom they had often read about in magazines - not to believe, David knew the lady personally. 

Yes, and that's how much things had changed. Nothing was the same anymore. 

Cassandra mused. How nice the days were back then in the office and on patrol. Life was sometimes exhausting but so regulated and somehow pleasantly simple. And "simple" is good!

Seeing David again was dreamlike, but also traumatic. All the events whizzed past her mind's eye in fast motion. It was horrible and yet part of her life. 

Then she looked over at Chris, he was also part of this transformation. And she was grateful and smiled. The little rascal saw this and he stopped playing, got up and ran to his mummy beaming with joy.

There was a knock on the door to David's studio. 

"Come in." Answered a deep, warm voice.

"Hello hello hello..." Bubbled out the happily smiling little boy on Cassandra's arm.

"Someone wanted to say hello to you, David. And to finally thank you. Do you possibly have a few minutes?" The pretty woman smiled tentatively and blushed.

"My doors are always open for you. It's good to see you. Everything good so far?" 

David stood beside his PC, finishing a programme. Cassandra spied naked people before the window closed. 

"Please, have a seat. Something to drink perhaps?" David offered them space on the couch.

"No thanks." With those words, Chris and his cuddly toy was put down in one of the sofa corners. 

Then the adults sat down too. 

"So..." Cassandra began and fell silent. 

David smiled and waited. But nothing came. 

"So?" He broke the silence. 

"Ugh, how do you start a conversation like that? Phew..." Pentaghast stroked her son's hair and swallowed hard.

"Do you even want to talk, Cass? There's no need to say or tell anything. You don't owe me a speech or an answer or have to justify yourself for anything. We are friends after all. Right?" 

The man in the armchair seemed composed, calm and spoke almost lullingly. 

"Oh man, David... it was, we were... can we just chat?" Cassandra's eyes shone. 

"Of course." And Trevelyan grinned. 

It struck Cassandra that this was still the same smile, but for the first time she noticed the wrinkles on David's face. And weren't those grey hairs at the hairline? Did her old mate dye his hair? Did he have to do that to get in with customers? 

Oh, how his life had changed! The down-to-earth country bumpkin now lived above the clouds in the city. 

Everything seemed as if millions of years had passed....

"Do you want to know something? Do you want to ask something in particular? Don't be shy, Cass." David's voice was so warm and full, deep and masculine. 

"Okay. Questions... good, good... So... um... you live here alone?" She asked, scratching her neck a little sheepishly. 

"Tehehe, no, as you can see, no..." And Trevelyan winked. 

"Oh man, David! Okay, you got me! So, no one lives here but the three of us. I mean, the place is huge!" She blushed. 

"Yeah, no one but us. Is this a problem for you?" David's look seemed troubled. 

"No no, I just thought maybe there was someone. Or several or ... I don't know."

David smiled again, "That's all right, dear. I understand now. No, there's no one there. Certainly not several, don't worry. Hahaha..." 

"Oh God, sorry, it wasn't meant to come across like that! David, jeez, everything's still okay between us, isn't it?" Her voice wavered.

"Cass, darling, it's just like old times! We're still the same. Everything's changed, but we're still us!" What a pure heart David's smile revealed.

"You seem so changed, David. So... so..."

"Old and grey - yes yes, the wheel of time never stops! Tehehe..." Laughed David. 

"No, oh God... I....ugh! You seem so distinguished. Where are your jokes? I mean, damn... I miss the old days!" Pentaghast lowered her eyes.

David stood up and knelt in front of the pretty woman on the couch.

"Cassandra, it's all good. You know, it takes an audience to tell a joke. Maybe I'll start telling jokes again now?" And he stroked Cassandra's forearm tenderly.

Chris, who had been playing so beautifully and quietly all this time, had fallen asleep. 

Cassandra looked at her son and smiled, "Now I have to carry the rascal all over the estate. Oh man! Haha!"

"Can I carry him? Sorry you have the rooms downstairs." David asked sheepishly.

"You would do that? Gladly and thank you, Chris is such a bundle of joy and honestly, quite heavy..."

They both laughed softly as David took the little one in his arms.

Then they quietly left the studio and went downstairs.

(A snippet of "Afterlife")

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[minuteminx]

WIP Wednesday

Since @mayihavethisdanse tagged me and I actually have something I’m proud to show off today, here’s an excerpt from my Preston x SoSu long fic where THERE WAS ONLY ONE BED ROOM.

A smirk tugged at one of Charlie’s cheeks, and she rolled her eyes, talking a step into the room. “Does it not embarrass you that your bartender buddy thinks we’re going to get it on in—” she flipped on the light and looked around the space provided for them— “this sad, dusty little room?”

“This is actually pretty nice compared to other places I’ve stayed.” Preston closed the door, locked it, and tucked the key into one of his duster pockets. “There aren’t even any radroaches.”

Charlie grimaced and moved to sit down on the edge of the sheetless bed, then flicking her eyes up to him. “Don’t think I didn’t notice how you expertly evaded my question.”

He sighed and flopped down on the patchy brown sofa that was directly across the room from the bed. “No,” he said as he took off his hat yet again, reaching over to place it on an end table. It was amazing how the Bobrov brothers had managed to squeeze so much furniture into a room that was hardly bigger than a shoebox.

“No?”

“It doesn’t embarrass me,” Preston explained matter-of-factly, gaze dancing around the room before settling on Charlie, “Does it embarrass you?”

“No,” she lied frantically, “I mean… why would it? We’re two, grown-ass, consenting adults, and if that’s what we were doing here— which it obviously isn’t— there would be nothing to be ashamed of.”

The room was quiet as he took a moment to raise his eyebrows and blink at her a few times before letting out a quiet chuckle. “Whatever you say, General.”

Tagging anyone who has a WIP to share this Wednesday but also @theartofblossoming @third-rail-vip @asaara-writes @valkyriejack @adventuresofmeghatron @mutantenfisch with absolutely zero pressure of course ☺️

[third-rail-vip]

wip wednesday

Tagged by @adventuresofmeghatron 💜 tagging @minuteminx @mayihavethisdanse @velvet-verve @theartofblossoming @mutantenfisch and anyone else with something to share

I’m still working away on this fic while my brain lets me. Posting on my phone at midnight, apologies for crappy formatting. So here’s another little snippet with some wintery atmosphere and some soft fools who are just getting used to being more than friends.

An hour or so later the trees parted and they found themselves crunching through thick haw frost along the banks of the Charles. Cool winter sunlight glinting like steel off the frozen river surface. The sky was clear and the temperature bitter, but at least it was dry—a welcome reprieve from the freezing rain that kept coating the ‘wealth in picturesque but traitorous sheaths of ice.

Mac left his rifle on his back in favour of a pistol gripped tightly in his left hand. His mood had brightened enough that he was back to leaning in her ear to brag that he could shoot with either hand.

“Blindfolded, backwards, upside-down and under water. All at once. Yes I get it, you’re superman.” Ivy rolled her eyes, but it was good to have him talking again.

And it was even better to have some privacy for the first time in days.

MacCready’s other hand still had hold of hers. It was delightfully warm against a cold that was tinging her fingertips blue. Every so often he’d absentmindedly lift her hand to his lips and breath some life back into her chilled fingers. All the while he never took his eyes off their surroundings.

And all the while Ivy struggled to take her eyes off him.

What can I say? They’re having a soft moment, but don’t worry their day will go horribly wrong later.

[tanaleth]

See Fire and Go Towards What Now?

DO YOU WANT to see the grand events of Thedas from the perspective of ordinary people? 

WERE YOU DISMAYED that after you put in all that effort to rescue the Haven villagers, you hardly get to talk to them after moving to Skyhold? 

Were you oddly drawn to the gruff-but-caring apothecary or the disillusioned-but-idealistic young templar? Or to the weary apprentice who quietly saved the Tranquil when no one else cared?

Do you enjoy sharp-edged banter and heart-pounding action sequences as much as you love sweet, awkward romance?

Do you yearn for nuanced portrayals of Andrastianism and the Templar Order? 

Do you want to see people struggling with accountability, moral injury, and garden implements? 

Do you like city elves, existential angst, and characters with their own motivations and lives independent of the protagonist?

Do you long for SNARKY INTELLECTUALS? 

Do you live for LADIES WITH SWORDS?

Then have I got a fic for you!

What the critics are saying

"Adan you romantic fool" 

"I'm so damn invested in this NPC melodrama."

"I am completely overwhelmed by how good this is. [...] This made me fall in love with both writing and reading all over again, and I constantly felt like i was holding a published book in my hands."

"Absolutely barbaric, well done.”

"I gasped. Audibly." 

"Shit! I need to read more but I have to stop! Shit!" 

"Aaaaah! All this mutual pining is murder for my heartstrings! You really know how to tease in the most sadistic way!"

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO"

This is a finished story that clocks in at 165k. Check it out on AO3!

(Thanks @mutantenfisch, @codenameyan, and @tortuosity-writes for the beautiful art above as well as @ellenembee, @jlsigman, @ravenqueen89, @gingerbreton, @sarenkascrawls, @sadmagecentral, @phoenixsoul13, @queen-scribbles, @kaleido-vision, @trvelyans, and everyone else who has ever left kind words and/or screams of despair.)