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[drustvar]

Hey is the torment temporary or do we have it tomorrow and tomorrow and the day after that

[atlasofthestaars]

Hey hey hey! Sorry for the late response, I need to eat first but now my hunger is not in the way I present to you, the love of my life, my beloved, my one and only, Kung Lao!!!! Drumrolls please!

🥁🥁🥁

TADAA!!!! It was a struggle for me to make him because it's the first time I'm making something like this but I kinda get the gist on how to properly make a cardboard creation like this since I have made a ragdoll before, and the watercolors that I have were very very limited so that's why he kinda looks more brown but I like to think that he looks tan so I don't feel disappointed with the result and because that's also one of my hc!

I made this roughly one day and a half but could've been faster if I'm not struggling with the colors and upcoming exam (I'm gonna study after this so dw) Like I would use brown and mixed it white white make a skin tone color but I don't have it so I use yellow, anyway have a Kung Lao without his hat.

p.s This is the 2nd time I'm typing this because it somehow disappears, It's kinda a bummer that Tumblr doesn't have a draft for asking questions, also credit to this vid for giving me the idea to make tiny Kung Lao! Also might make a post with a 360° view of Kung Lao just for you. 😽

-The not so anonymous 😺 anon

No worries I've been busy myself haha ^^ He looks so cute!! :OOOO You did a wonderful job on him!! I'm so honored you're showing this, because it's an amazing work of art!! So cute!! If you ever post the 360 view please tag me that'd be great <3

[vintagetvstars]

Quick disclaimer: I’d like to thank both of you for all the work you’ve done running this tournament, and I still think the final match-up was a great one. The results have really gotten me down, though. Bigtime. Nichelle’s win in the semifinal round gainst a hugely tumblr-popular (and more contemporary) opponent with a bigger body of work came as a delightful surprise, but somehow it’s made her loss a huge bummer to me. Eartha Kitt was lovely—I’m not hating on her at all! (To be clear, I’m also not suggesting there was any kind of “rigging” going on…how would that even happen, lol). It just seems super weird that I never saw any propaganda submitted for her vs. the metric ton of Nichelle propaganda you all received. And even though life’s not fair, it does seem a little unfair (and a little…boring?)—at least to my whiny butt—that the same actress won BOTH the hot vintage movie star poll and the hot vintage TV star poll…especially since her opponent didn’t ever get to become a movie star, at least not beyond a role she’d made iconic on TV.

Anyway, thank you all again for all you do! I’m still looking forward to the men’s tourney, even though I know for sure that my faves are going to be knocked out super early. Just wanted to share my thoughts/distress here instead of shouting them into the void that tumblr dot com can be. Obviously, I got way too invested, haha.

Oof I definitely understand anon and I’m sorry the results were a bit disappointing. I think both women were lovely and equally deserving and personally would have loved to have gotten a tie to crown them both but I’m happy for everyone who really wanted the Eartha double crown!

Now that I can speak freely about my personal preferences, I am a huge Star Trek fan and I adore Nichelle Nichols! She was my number 1 for this competition and I was so ecstatic to see so much love for her throughout the competition! But I’d be lying if I said we both weren’t a lil sad about not getting a Nichelle Nichols upset win or a fun double crown tie! However I do adore Eartha Kitt and she is definitely deserving of a double crown so I’m not at all upset that she won!

Definitely no harm in being a bit upset about the results of something you were invested in and cared about, as long as you’re able to calm down and move forward at the end of the day that’s what matters. I hope this ask helped you get some of those emotions out so you can go forth and continue enjoying your hot vintage tv favs! Thank you for caring so much about our fun lil tournament 💚

Also if it helps at all we fully plan to bring this tournament back next year and we have already decided that winners of previous tournaments won’t be eligible to compete in future tournaments. So next year could very well be the year of Nichelle Nichols!

But in the meantime we hope you enjoy the men’s tournament! Even if your favs don’t make it all the way, I hope it’ll still be fun! (I certainly understand watching your favs get knocked out early 😔 so many of my favs went down in rounds 1&2 of the hot vintage movie men’s tournament).

- mod vintage

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it's understandable to be upset, especially in a race so close (i think it was decided by only about two dozen or so votes in the end). while i love eartha and am happy to present her with the crown, im also very much looking forward to seeing if nichelle can snatch the win next year!

i was completely unaware of how beloved earth kitt is until running this tournament. even though there was no propaganda submitted, the reblogs and tags on the final spoke for themselves - hundreds of people commenting about their love for her and asking their followers to vote in her favor.

thank you for being so invested and for your ask. definitely stick around for the men's bracket - you never know how any of the men's polls are going to go on tumblr.com.

- mod violet

[phdmama]

20 questions for fic writers!

HUGE thank you to @sugareey-makes-stuff @kingsofeverything @xanthippe74 for tagging me in this one!! Sorry it's taken me so long to get to it!!

How many works do you have on AO3?

208! That's not including the large number of Tumblr drabbles I need to post for archival purposes!

2. What's your total AO3 Word Count?

1,066,342 <- which OMG

3. What fandoms do you write for?

I started in 1D (Larry mostly though I've done a couple of threesomes) and then I shifted to HP - I think I've only written main Drarry? I've dabbled a tiny bit in Stucky and I've written one 911 Buddie fic (but I'm working on another one!)

4. What are your top 5 fics by Kudos?

My top one is on that's co-written and has that number of kudos due to the other author, so for the ones that are just mine:

I Like the Way You Move for Me (Drarry)

Feels Like Coming Home (Larry)

Beautiful Madness (Drarry)

Tell Me How You Like It (Drarry - outsider POV)

Is This Love? (Drarry)

5. Do you respond to comments? Why or why not?

I really try but I struggle to keep up with them - not because I get so many comments haha, but I do that "get behind spiral out feel terrible" thing way too often!

6. What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

I don't tend to write angst-y endings, because I really need a happy ending but I've got a couple of really short painful things! Unsurprisingly, these are all microfic/vignette sorts of things!

The Ghost of You (Drarry, microfic, post-MCD)

Here Without You (Drarry, vignette, post-breakup)

What's Left Behind (Drarry, vignette, MCD) wow I just reread this one and FUCK ME I AM A MONSTER

7. What’s the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

Unhhhh most of them honestly! I will say, I do SOMEtimes VERY RARELY put some pain on the journey to HEA so if I had to guess, I'd say that all of me (loves all of you) (Drarry) is probably my most unabashedly sappy no-angst fluff.

8. Do you get hate on fics?

Not to my face anyway! I'm sure there are people who don't like my writing but I think they ignore me more than anything! One of the perks of being a very small writer, I think!

9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind?

Sure do! For kind, I write slash, I guess you'd call it (gay), almost all of it M/M. I have one girl!fic. I don't really write too much kink, I'd say most of what I do is pretty vanilla. Healthy communication is my kink, I guess!

10. Do you write crossovers? What’s the craziest one you’ve written?

Ummm off the top of my head, no?

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

Not to my knowledge. I read one fic that was not a plagiarism of my actual work but was literally the exact same plot, the exact same story beats, the exact same setting etc. I am well-aware there's nothing new under the sun but I read it and was like, unhhh. It's one of my greatest fears honestly - accidentally taking someone's fic!

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

Not that I know. I've been approached, but I'm not comfortable with it.

13. Have you ever co-written a fic before?

Yup! Twice! Both in the Larry fandom. One was with one other writer (who's long gone from fandom as far as I know) and one (Wine Not) I wrote with a big group of people who've become some of my absolute closest friends!

14. What’s your all-time favourite ship?

I don't have one specific. The ones I write for, I obviously feel very very strongly about, but the bummer for me is that when I'm writing in a particular pair, I don't read anything in that pairing! I also don't read for the ship, but for the story and the writing, so I read in a LOT of different pairings!

15. What’s a WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will?

Fuck me, so many.

16. What are your writing strengths?

Oof, I'm not sure! I'm not a trained writer by any means. I think I do scene setting pretty well?

17. What are your writing weaknesses?

Pacing, for sure. It's really hard and I can get bogged down in the "and then THIS happened and then THIS happened and then THIS happened" - I'm so linear, so I have to push myself there.

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language in fic?

Generally no. I've sprinkled in a few words here and there, but I wouldn't do much of it, and if I had to, I would 1000% find someone to help me with it and not rely on Google translate.

19. First fandom you wrote for?

Larry. Still writing there and kinda following along a bit but I'm not active in that fandom anymore other than the writing.

20. Favourite fic you’ve written?

I'm not sure I have one fav fic - I'd say I'm really proud of my long (for me) fics! Those are hard for me, and there's a couple that are really really personal. But I have to say, Maybe You're the Difference (Drarry) is one I really like and am really proud of. I worked so so hard on it.

I feel like I'm late on this one, so I'll call this a general tag (FOR REAL I HONESTLY MEAN IT) - if you want to do this, DO IT and tag me!! xox

[monstersandmaw]

Somewhere in early September Tumblr washed a story from your master list 1 to my dash. Intrigued, I spend a few evenings reading through that list and finally moved to list 2. There I skipped the yautja story as the movies never were my cup of tea. Instead, I fell in love with Moon & Tide and Gabe & Odessa, just when you announced a break - bummer! Rereading could bridge only so much time so eventually I started on the yautja story anyway - and boy! did you have me on the edge of my chair latest by chapter 3!

Long story short, someone here who used to casually scroll through their Tumblr dash maybe once a week now became someone who checks for updates at least twice a day. 🙈😅

Please don't stop! I'm loving it! And thank you for sharing these stories!

PS.: I'd read a book of Moon&Tide and their adventures in witchery. The story was so sweet and lovable and different. 🥰

Ahhh, thank you so much for this!! It's going in my 'sweet anon' tag which is for sweet asks that people send me that I can go back through on a rainy day!

Anyway, I'm delighted that you enjoyed what are probably my two favourite (or dearest) stories on here (aside from Footsteps in the Snow which is super niche and which I never shut up about to people, sorry).

Gabe & Odessa is my next big project after I've finished Big Red's story, and after I've got my Etsy up and running again. I intend to self-publish Gabe & Odessa's story too, when it's finished! I have so many plans for their future...! There's a whole 'Season Two' plotline that I'm just itching to write! haha.

Anyway, thank you so much for trusting my storytelling enough to give something a go that wasn't initially your thing. It means a lot to me, and I'm even happier that you ended up enjoying it!

Thank you too for taking the time out of your day to leave me this!

[russilton]

Solution to the writing problem is easy: drop us another snippet from the a/b/o (please?😃)

This is not a solution, this is just MORE work lmao. You have added a fourth to-do to the pile.

I don’t have the tumblr explainers ready to go haha, I sit and write them all when they come in. They last redbull one took me a week. Which is why y’all have to give me questions to answer (and also why I nearly lost my shit when tumblr deleted this last one twice)

I also got like 3 comments on that, and so it’s hard to plan more when I don’t really… know? What people like? I haven’t had any more inspiration or asks on it so I haven’t got anymore to go yet, cause the asks I do have and post race ficlets have been my focus.

So y’all have to wait, or take a page out of @ruszhou ‘s book at leave the most bitchin tags and asks that helped write like 50% or the RB AU. Sorry to name drop you Ame but I love ur asks so much.

Anyway sorry to be a bummer, but it’s the truth lol

[irrlicht-writes]

of Rex Lapis and the water's embrace

The rock persisted for centuries. Unaffected by the wind and the weather, it was to remain forever. And yet, recently, the tide had been rising and the water hit against the stone. Stubbornly, the stone would endure the fluid form and persist still. But in the battle of adaptability and endurance, adaptability would always win; and the water tore the rock down. The stone would crumble; and the pillar would be no more. The rocks fell deep, deeper than they ever had before and the water caught them gently in their embrace. | "Tell me a story."

Ao3

Please read part 1 here

*

The tea was too hot to drink.

Childe had seemed distressed when they had talked on the pier, and Zhongli was unsure of how he should proceed. He was aware that after he gave away the gnosis to the eighth harbinger, Childe had been upset. He only wasn’t sure why exactly. Zhongli had simply fulfilled his contract. Childe had no reason to be mad.

Regardless, Zhongli had decided to let him calm down a while before he would attempt a conversation again. Childe had a wild temper at the best of times and it was generally unwise to anger him unnecessarily. The boy would go into the wilds of Liyue and kill things to his heart’s content and then they could have a civilised discussion again.

Although, Zhongli had to admit he missed his dates with the harbinger.

It was hard these days to find someone who’d be willing to listen to him ramble in full.

He checked his tea again. It was still too hot.

As he sat waiting, he pulled the Old Stone out again. He missed Azhdaha. Seeing him again had simply reminded him of how much he was missing his old friend – but on the other hand, it had been wonderful to be able to talk to him again, to maybe even ease his pain.

He wondered if Childe would be interested to hear stories about Azhdaha.

They were so alike, in heart. Big and powerful – and yet they possessed a gentle heart inside of them.

Zhongli smiled at his stone.

He hoped that Childe enjoyed his gift. The sword that never made it into the hands it had been destined for – mayhap this had been fate. Maybe Guizhong had never been meant to hold this sword and perhaps Zhongli had been a fool for keeping it all these years. Childe would put it to good use, he was sure of it.

The boy was one of the most formidable warriors he had met in recent years. He hadn’t been what Zhongli had expected in the slightest.

I shall send you my eleventh, my dearest Tartaglia. The vanguard of my forces shall serve your contract well, Rex Lapis.

The vanguard of the Tsaritsa... Zhongli had expected an old man, rich in battles and weary of heart, much like Zhongli himself.

And instead, he had received a bright-eyed, young boy with a blinding smile.

A joke, he had believed.

~*~

“Hi! My name’s Tartaglia, but you can call me Childe! You’re Zhongli, right?”

There was a young boy standing in the Funeral Parlour. His eyes were a dull blue, and his unkempt hair was orange. He grinned brightly and extended his hand in a greeting.

“Her Majesty said I’d find you here. Are you hungry? Let’s go get some food!”

There was no waste in this young boy. He reached forward and grabbed the stunned Zhongli, pulling him outside into the sun.

“Haha, it’s so hot here in Liyue! It’s going to be hard to get used to that... maybe they have thinner uniforms here. Ah, I shall just get used to it, I guess.”

Hold on.

This was Tartaglia? This young boy was supposed to be the vanguard of the Tsaritsa? No. This must be a joke.

Perhaps... perhaps this boy was the assistant of the harbinger, yes? If the real Tartaglia might not wish to deal with the outside world due to weariness or simply because he wished to remain hidden, then Zhongli could understand.

Yes. Yes, this sounded very plausible. He must have hired this boy to be his public face, to allow him to work in the background undeterred.

He did not like being deceived but he would insist on meeting the real harbinger soon. In the meantime, he shall entertain this young boy.

“How can I serve you?”

Zhongli hadn’t even noticed that they sat down at Wanmin Restaurant.

“Hi! I’m fresh off the boat and I would like some nice Liyuean food. I’m not picky; just give me what’s good! What about you, Zhongli? I didn’t stun you into silence, did I?”

Zhongli blinked. “Ah... no, you did not, I apologise for my lack of manners. Miss Xiangling, I would like a bamboo shot soup and my ah, associate would take the Crystal Shrimp.”

The boy grinned at him.

“Well, I’ll trust you, then!”

Xiangling smiled and wandered off. Now, Zhongli wasn’t sure what to say. This boy truly had come in like a hurricane.

“Sorry for dragging you away like that, but I’ve only just arrived and the bank already wants to drown me in paperwork. I know we were supposed to meet tomorrow, but I just had to get away, you know?”

“The bank? You mean the Northland Bank?”

“Yeah! I’m supposed to supervise it a bit while I’m here. Apparently, the debt collectors have gotten a bit too soft around these parts, so I’m meant to rough them up again. I wasn’t told about the paperwork though, so that’s a bummer.”

A harbinger would not talk like this, correct? This boy couldn’t have seen more than twenty summers.

“You have knowledge about collecting debts?”

“Yeah, I guess. Before I became a harbinger, I’ve been a debt collector for a while. Not very long though, because I kept killing the clients. And, y’know, dead guys don’t pay their debts after all. But I’m a harbinger now, so who cares!”

Tartaglia laughed and Zhongli blinked.

This boy could not be the Tsaritsa’s vanguard in a hundred years.

“Wha – what are those?!”

The boy’s hand was cramping around the chopsticks.

“Those are chopsticks. You use them to eat your foot... no, don’t stab the shrimp.”

“Well, then how... how do you use them?! This is impossible!”

Zhongli chuckled. “They are an important part of Liyuean cuisine, Childe. Please learn how to use them.”

“How do you guys not starve to death?! What’s wrong with forks?!”

~*~

“Yaahoo, your tea is cold, old man.”

Hu Tao’s voice tore Zhongli out of his thoughts. He looked at the Funeral Parlour Director for a second before he confirmed her words. Indeed, his tea has gotten cold. He sighed.

“What’s got your panties in a twist to make you sigh like that?”

Zhongli frowned. “I do not –“, but then he decided to just not indulge her.

“Are there any clients?”

Hu Tao pouted.

“No, there are no customers. It’s so boring. Nobody dies anymore these days. Hey, where’s your Fatui boyfriend? He always brought in good business.”

“I have not seen Childe in a few days. Last I saw him he did not seem to be in the mood for providing business, Director.”

In fact, Childe had seemed very depressed, so unlike the boy he had gotten to know.

Hu Tao started to whine. “Boooring. Go to him and make him kill some people, I’m so booreed.”

Zhongli closed his eyes and took a deep breath. In, and out. In, and out. Just this easy. This child was going to drive him insane. Childe was not a dead-body-factory.

Although, admittedly, he had provided a lot of bodies for Hu Tao during his stay here.

The two of them even got along. Hu Tao had convinced Childe to partake in several pranks and in almost all of them, Zhongli had been the butt-end of the joke.

“If there is nothing to do, I shall take a walk.”

“Go drag your boyfriend’s ass back here! And bring some dead people! I need a booming business!”

Zhongli decided to ignore her as he pocketed the Old Stone and left the Parlour.

Maybe he should check on Childe. At least, he could inquire whether or not the boy liked his new weapon.

The guard at the door barely recognised Zhongli, as he was busy writing a letter.

As usual, the bank was relatively quiet. The local manager, Andrei, and Mister Qi were talking to each other, presumably about the latter taking on a loan. They did not interest him however. Zhongli headed straight to the bank’s teller, Ekaterina. She’s always been his go-to whenever he had been looking for Childe.

“Good day, Miss Ekaterina. I was wondering –“

“Master Childe is not with you?”

Zhongli frowned. “I – no, he is not. Is something wrong?”

Despite the mask, Zhongli could tell how worried she was.

“Master Childe has left early the last evening and when he did not return, I thought he might be with you – please tell me I haven’t lost a Harbinger. Oh, I can’t even imagine what they’ll do to me. Tell me he’s fine. I don’t care if it’s a lie, just tell me he’s making a bad joke and is harassing Vlad outside the door.”

Childe was missing?

“Are you sure he is not just out for a few days?”

She shook her head. “No, he always tells me for how long he’ll be gone, and we have a matter for him to attend to tomorrow morning. In fact, I only know he has left is because I saw him leave. I checked his office for any sort of note but there was nothing which leads me to believe he intended to be back by now. Oh Seven, what if something’s happened to him? The Tsaritsa will lynch me.”

Childe was strong. Nothing could’ve happened to him, right?

“I will find him.”

Without waiting for an answer, he left the bank.

~*~

The young fake harbinger was a friendly sort. Despite Zhongli’s irritation of not meeting the real harbinger, he could not complain about the company of the fake Tartaglia.

“Xiansheng, do you really need to buy these rocks...?”

“They are of a quality made, Childe, you shouldn’t let an opportunity like this pass you by.”

The boy behind him groaned but paid the merchant. Zhongli took the pair of Jade and pocketed them. Some would wonder where he’d put all of these wonders, and he would never tell.

“Shall we eat, then?”

The boy looked up and blinked at the sun.

“Yeah but we gotta hurry. I have a training session right after lunch and it’s hard enough to keep these rat-tags together at the best of circumstances.”

The harbinger Tartaglia, the boy meant. Often, Zhongli had been tempted to sneak after the boy, trying to catch a glimpse of his real contact. But he, perhaps most of all, knew how difficult it could be to maintain their secret identity.

“Is it hard to train new recruits?”

Childe shrugged. “No, not really. It’s more about what they expect, you know? I’m not the boot camp. I’m not evaluating them, they’re already in. They just have no idea how to properly hold their weapon the right way around. I swear, I have held so many rifles in my life that you’d think I’d be replacing my bow. And you know the worst? The Hydro Gunners keep coming to me like I know what they’re doing. Just shoot your bubbles, man! I’ve never had a tank like that before.”

“You hold a hydro vision, though.”

“Yeah, but do I look like a healer to you? I heal my enemies from their pain by ending their misery. But somehow they expect me to know how theirstuff works. Just hit stuff until it works, it’s not that difficult.”

They arrived at Wanmin Restaurant and Chef Mao came to their table. Apparently, Xiangling was out today, gathering ingredients.

“We’ll take the Chicken Tofu Pudding and the Cured Pork Dry Hotpot, please.”

Childe smiled at him. “We should take a walk sometime.”

“Childe, we take walks all the time.”

“Yeah, I know, but I meant outside! Outside the Harbour. I haven’t really been, you know? There’s so much for me to do in the city that I haven’t really gotten a chance to see the landscape. And I figured, since you know everything about Liyue, you’d be a perfect tour guide!”

That was true. Childe had been for about two weeks and he had seldom left the Bank without Zhongli’s company. A young boy like Childe would grow restless in a city like this, especially considering how he’d grown up in a small village surrounded by trees. So he nodded.

“If your training session does not take too long, we may take stroll tonight.”

The training session did indeed not take long and Zhongli presumed that Childe had simply left early since the real harbinger was going to lead the training anyway.

Brash as ever, Childe stormed the Parlour and leaned over the counter, staring expectedly at Zhongli. He was not deterred though and kept going through his papers.

“Yaahoo, who are you?!”

Oh no. He forgot about Director Hu. He would –

“Hi, I’m Childe! Are you the leader here?”

“Before you stands mighty Hu Tao, 77th Director of the Wangsheng Funeral Parlour! Are you the guy who keeps stealing my consultant?”

Childe laughed. “Indeed I am! In fact, I’m here to steal him away again.”

“Hmmm, you have the deadest eyes I’ve ever seen. You’ll be a customer soon, yeah? If you sign up now, I can give you a coupon.”

Childe waved his hand. “Thanks, but I’m not going to die here. If I do, it’ll be in the cold embrace of my home. But I’ll take coupons!”

Hu Tao grinned and shoved them into Childe’s hands. “Effective only if used within three weeks!”

“Well, I’ll be sure to drop some bodies, then.”

Zhongli stood up quickly before this could escalate any further.

“Childe, let us leave lest it gets too late.”

“Oh, right! Bye, Hu Tao! It was nice meeting you!”

Zhongli practically dragged him out of the Parlour before Hu Tao could respond.

“I had no idea the Director was that young!”

“She has taken over at a very young age, indeed. At some times, I think she does not respect the dead enough, but she is surprisingly loyal to the traditions.”

As Zhongli was dragging him away, Childe looked over his shoulder, seemingly deep in thoughts.

“Anyway, where are we going?”

“It’s a place called Yaoguang Shoal. You will like it.”

“Looks peaceful,” Childe commented and Zhongli nodded.

“There is little here for the Treasure Hoarders to find here. This place is not known for its hidden treasures.”

Childe crossed his arms and looked over to the shore.

“My siblings would love to run across here, I bet.”

“Oh?”

Childe grinned. “Yeah, it’s kinda hard to do that back home, you know? They could even run bare-foot here. You know what...”

The boy turned over and got rid of his shoes, wiggling his toes into the sand. He grabbed Zhongli’s hand and pulled them both down onto the ground.

“Let’s watch the sunset, yeah?”

Zhongli complied. There was, after all, no reason not to.

“What are these called?”

Childe had picked up a conch and held it up to Zhongli’s face.

“They are called Starconches. They say if you hold it to your hear, you can hear the longing call of the sea.”

The boy held the starconch up into the sky, looking at it. “I’ve never seen a seashell with a star on it.”

He proceeded to hold it next to his ear, looking at his toes that were still buried in the sand. He seemed to be listening intently. Then, he laughed.

“Oh, what a siren call indeed. It’s like a call from the very deepest depth, from within all the endless void and darkness at the bottom of the world. So enticing, but I’m not going to drown.” A moment of pause. Then: “No use in hiding back there!”

In a flash, Childe was standing upright, a spear made out of hydro in his hands. Zhongli had barely enough time to turn around to see the Treasure Hoarders before Childe ran over to them.

With each of his attacks, Childe’s weapon shifted fluidly between the spear and what seemed to be two daggers. The red scarf on his back was glimmering with pure hydro energy as Childe spun around himself to knock the Treasure Hoarders out.

The boy turned around, shouldering his spear and grinning at Zhongli. “Do you think that there are any Ruin Guards about?”

~*~

Childe was not on the Guili Plains. After hearing the harbinger had gone there just days prior, Zhongli believed he might’ve returned but there were no hydro traces of his friend.

Why are there no Glaze Lilies on Guili Plains?

Zhongli looked at the desolate plains. He still remembered a time in which the Lilies would bloom plenty. In his ears, he could still hear Guizhong’s song to them. He has never been able to sing it, no matter how hard he tried. But right now, she didn’t matter.

Zhongli turned around again to head to Yaoguang Shoal, hoping to find Childe there. Alas, he was disappointed.

Where else could the young harbinger be?

Maybe... the sword. He closed his eyes. He might be able to find the sword. He’s carried it for so long, there were still so many traces of himself left behind. But he couldn’t concentrate. There were too many thoughts in his head. What if the harbinger was dead? No. No, he couldn’t think like that. He wouldn’t die this easily.

Zhongli opened his eyes again and looked down. There was a starconch lying in the sand. He bent down to pick it up. A conch, carried up to the shore from the depths... Childe liked them. They were a lot like him, he had said. Zhongli had never been sure he understood. Geographically, Snezhnaya was not lower than Liyue. But there had always been something about Childe, something that hadn’t seemed quite right. His eyes, of course, but there had also been the general feeling of... of something beyond this world. Like the boy had been claimed by something else, but Zhongli had never been able to put his finger on it – not that it had ever mattered this far.

Why couldn’t this shell lead him to Childe?

Not wanting to crush it, he threw it back into the ocean. The water rippled for a moment, then the surface stilled once again.

The rock persisted for centuries. Unaffected by the wind and the weather, it was to remain forever. And yet, recently, the tide had been rising and the water hit against the stone. Stubbornly, the stone would endure the fluid form and persist still.

But in the battle of adaptability and endurance, adaptability would always win; and the water tore the rock down. The stone would crumble; and the pillar would be no more. The rocks fell deep, deeper than they ever had before and the water caught them gently in their embrace.

Embraced by the deepest depths, the stone would remain forever more, gently floating away, having overseen the world for long enough.

And if the rock would ever tire, the tide would gently carry the stone to the shore.

Zhongli turned, and left the shore behind. The water was gently lapping at the sand, washing the starconch back ashore. The star in the middle of it shimmered in a gentle blue.

*

Everything inside him called him to Nantianmen. He was not sure why, but he was not one to ignore a feeling like that when he had deliberately been looking for it. There were a lot of monsters and Treasure Hoarders in the area, so that might be why Childe had been heading there. It was worth a try.

The Old Stone in his pocket gave a slight hum, but Zhongli did not have the mind to listen to it.

Nantianmen was eerily quiet. Normally, one could hear the Hillichurls running around, but now there was just dead silence. Something had happened here and Zhongli had the uneasy feeling that Childe might be at the middle of it.

Ever the eye of the storm.

“Not a step closer!”

The voice rung out across the field. It was distorted but Zhongli recognised the voice. It was Childe. He started running.

There was a mass of Ruin Guards and Hunters in front of Azhdaha’s tree. And there was something else. Something twice the size of a human floating in the air, with a cape made out of stars. Zhongli did not recognise the body, but it was Childe’s voice. And judging by the pile of destroyed Ruin Guards, he had been here a while. There were still so many...

“Childe”, he shouted as he ran over.

The boy... turned his head.

“Xianshen –“

He didn’t get to finish as a Ruin Hunter had been charging up his drill to promptly launch forward to attack him with it. Due to Zhongli’s interference, Childe was not able to evade the attack and got thrown back at the tree behind him. Zhongli saw the boy glow and shrink in size before he fell down to the ground, not to move again. He barely saw the jade sword fall next to him.

No.

Childe always got up immediately after being struck down.

Zhongli could only stare for four painfully long seconds before he decided to take revenge. He didn’t know what brought the Ruin Guards here or how Childe was able to transform the way he did or why any of this was happening at all – all he knew was that he wouldn’t let a friend die in vain once again.

Morax was far from dead; and these enemies would know.

Gently carried by the waves, the rock saw more of the world than the pillar ever could have. The tide was careful to not jostle it too much and to carry it great distances before slowing down, allowing the stone to rest.

Countless fish and sea-creatures would come up to the rock but the sea gently carried it away. The rock was thankful and it appreciated the small whales coming with them.

“I am tired,” the rock would say to the waves. “I have overseen it all for too long. But how will they fare without my pillar?”

The water did not answer, but it changed course. It carried the rock back to the start, so that the stone could see: nothing had changed. The pillar was forever gone, and in time, it would be forgotten. Rock would forever endure, until it would ebb away with the tide.

“Take me away,” the stone requested, “show me your beginning. And when you end, I shall end with you. Until that day, let your tide carry me until I erode away.”

As the Ruin Hunters lay dead to his feet, Rex Lapis took a heavy breath. Without a second thought, he spun around and ran up to the boy that was still lying on the ground. He was breathing, right? But there was blood.

“Childe,” he whispered as he gathered his friend into his arms and brushed a strand of hair aside. This couldn’t be like Guizhong all over again, he wouldn’t be able to take it. The boy groaned and shifted a bit.

“Xiansheng...?”

“Yes. Yes, I’m here.”

The boy blinked and slowly his eyes focused on Rex Lapis.

“Oh wow... I didn’t know you had horns.”

Morax didn’t understand, but it also didn’t matter. “Please. Are you in pain? What do I do?”

Childe laughed a bit. “It’s... don’t worry, yeah? It’s nothing a little herbs and bandages can’t fix, right? I’m more exhausted than I am hurt.”

“You are bleeding.”

“Oh believe me, I know. It’s okay though. Still, I... I should probably bandage it, right? I don’t wanna pass out.”

Morax sprang into action. “Don’t worry, baobei, I will take care of it.”

Childe blinked at him hazily as he removed his jacket and started wrapping it around the boy’s torso.

“...that looks kinda ineffective.”

“This is all I have. I will take you to the Harbour immediately.”

Gently, Rex Lapis gathered the boy in his arms to begin the trek back to the Harbour. Childe’s grip on the sword handle was steady.

“They were attacking the tree,” he said after a few minutes of walking. Morax could tell he was about to fall asleep.

“You were protecting it?”

“No, I came here because I heard about the Ruin Guards. But then I saw them attacking the tree and I... I didn’t want to, but I had to. It’s where... it’s where you sealed Azhdaha, right?”

Rex Lapis just nodded.

“I thought I could take them all on, but they just kept coming. Your sword did good damage but I needed something bigger.”

“Which is why you... transformed.”

“Yes,” was all Childe replied.

“Does it hurt?”

“Yes.”

Childe pressed his forehead against Morax’ neck.

“I wanna see the shore.”

“Childe, you’re hurt. Baobei, I need to take you to the Pharmacy.”

“Please.”

So Rex Lapis turned and walked to Yaoguang Shoal.

“Tell me a story,” the young boy asked.

“Please, baobei, let me take you to the Harbour,” Rex Lapis pleaded.

“You can. Just one story. Just tell me one story to fall asleep to. I won’t die. The tide’s not gone yet. I won’t go anywhere just yet, alright? Just one story, alright? Please.”

“Once, a long time ago, Rex Lapis encountered a young boy. The boy would never walk beside the god, but the god would always follow. The god was as steady as stone, but the boy was like the tides, ever-changing, ever-evolving and forever coming back.

Rex Lapis would oversee his country for eternity, and always he would watch the waves, wondering just when they would erode him. Perhaps, the god thought, perhaps erosion would not be the worst if it meant flowing like the tides.

After all, the boy would gift him a starconch, telling stories of a far-too-distant shore.”

In his arms, Childe had fallen asleep. The water was gently lapping at their feet and a starconch was washed ashore. Rex Lapis picked it up and put it gently into Childe’s arms. Carefully, he picked the young boy up and made the long walk back to Liyue Harbour.

Behind him, there was a singular rock carried by the waves.

As Zhongli and Childe disappeared from view, so did the rock vanish as if it had never been there.

[jungwonlvrr]

DEAR DRACO MALFOY

Pairings: Draco x Female Reader

Genre: angst

Warnings: no warnings

Y/n: your name

Y/b/n: your girl best friends name

Y/h/n: your house name

Summary: y/n send letters to Draco but the more letters she sends, the less oblivious she gets of her feelings for him.

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Dear The Slytherin Prince,

Hey! It’s your best friend, Y/n. You told me you really liked y/b/n. I’m sorry I ran away without giving you an answer. I talked with her and she likes you too! That’s crazy isn’t it? She wants you to meet her in the astronomy tower after classes.

Your best friend, Y/n

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Dear My Best Friend,

I heard you two got together. You guys would make a cute couple. I’m quite worried you’re going to leave me for her. But you wouldn’t would you? You promised. Today, I rode buckbeat with the twins, It was quite fun. Bummer you didn’t tag along lol.

Your Favorite y/h/n, Y/n.

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Dear Draco Alfredo,

I see you showed y/b/n our secret hiding spot. That place was only suppose to be between you and I but it’s okay. You two are the couple so I can’t fight and get mad lol. It’s just a bummer because it’s not so secret for you and I anymore. Today, you skipped classes, it’s not out do the ordinary for you to do so but Y/b/n skipped classs also and she never skips. I assume you two met up in our the secret hide out.

Your best wingwoman, Y/n

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Dear Draco,

It’s been two weeks since I last sent you a letter. I was busy. And two weeks since our hiding spot became yours and y/b/n’s hiding spot. That place feels not special anymore so I stopped going there. I’m glad you’re still speaking to me though! I just miss our adventures. We should go on a adventure soon!

Your best friend, Y/n

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Dear The Slytherin Barbie,

Hey! You told me we would go on our adventures, I was really happy until you brought her along. Don’t get it wrong, I’m happy for you both! I just missed the me and you times, it barely happens nowadays. You’re too caught up with Y/b/n to spend time with your best friend. It makes me upset.

Your best friend, Y/n.

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Dear The one and only Draco,

Thanks for getting me soup today, I didn’t feel so well and you realized that. I guess we still have our best friend telepathy hahah. You’re missing out on action though, last night the twins set up fireworks in the forest! I know right, crazy isn’t it. It’s kind of weird experiencing fun things without you around, I’m too use to being around you haha. I also heard you gave Y/b/n the bracelet I made you, I was kind of, maybe really upset. I put a lot of thought into that bracelet.

Your one and only, Y/n.

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Dear Draco Tomato,

It’s been a month since I last sent you a letter, I was busying studying for the exams. I don’t even know why I keep writing to you when I could just talk to you. I guess I don’t have the confidence to talk to you anymore since you seemed to be really busy with your girlfriend. You don’t even reply back so it’s embarrassing sometimes but I know you read them, Goyle told me. He just told me you didn’t have the time to reply which is compeletly fine with me! Your girlfriend must have found that soft side of yours quick, you two are so PDA now , it feels so weird since you’re not normally affectionate.

Your best friend, Y/n.

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Dear Draco,

The more I watch you and your girlfriend do your things, the more I realize I have this heavy feeling in my heart that makes me really sad. Honestly, I think it’s just the anxiety I have stored up for the upcoming exams. A day alone with you could definitely cool it down.

Y/n

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Dear Draco Malfoy,

Why are you ignoring me? Did I do something to upset you? I’m really sorry if I did! What can I do to make it up for you? Oh yeah, I’ll buy you your favorite, chocolate frogs! You better forgive me, I’m paying for this lol.

From you know, Y/n

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Dear The Slytherin,

I hope you enjoyed the chocolate frogs! You talked to today which made me expectionally happy. I get so happy when me and you have a conversation, it could be the smallest and my day will be brightened!how do you do these things?

Your Best friend, Y/n

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Dear Draco Draco Draco,

You’re ignoring me again. That hurts you know. It makes me really upset, giving me a empty feeling in my heart. I miss my best friend. You can’t do this to me.

Your best friend, Y/n

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Dear Draco,

Stop ignoring me. You’re acting as if I don’t exist anymore! What did I do wrong? It’s been 3 weeks of this constant ignoring. It really hurts, Malfoy. You don’t know how many tears are being spent of your stupidness. I’m your best friend! Don’t you remember? Please don’t forget me. I know you’re reading this, Draco. Please reply, I miss you.

Your still best friend, Y/n

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Dear Malfoy,

Today, you told me you didn’t want to be friends with anymore. I’m confused, I didn’t do anything wrong. It was so sudden, I didn’t expect this ending for us, I mean sure you were being an ass and ignoring me but I thought you were just being Draco. I’m too numb to cry right now. I miss you, kiddo.

Your ex best friend, Y/n.

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Dear Malfoy,

I heard Y/b/n was the reason you didn’t want to be friends anymore. I don’t know why I even called her my girl best friend. She stabbed me in the back, she knew how much you meant to me. I guess you were my only real friend and I lost that too. You were a real friend until you started dating her, pathetic isn’t it?.

Your ex best friend, Y/n.

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Dear Draco Malfoy,

I don’t even know why I continue to send you letters as if we are on good terms. I really want to be on good terms but you clearly don’t want that. Today I also found out from Crabbe that you threw away that chocolate frog I have bought for you. That hurt deeply. It feels like actual knives are being carved into my heart, every single day. When I see you, I feel so at home and I just want to hug you and cry while calling you mean.

Your ex best friend, Y/n.

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Dear Draco,

It’s been 2 months, I know I shouldn’t call you by your first name anymore but I miss you. I’m not mad at you anymore, I just want my best friend back. Why did things have to turn out this way? You’re really happy with you girlfriend, I can tell. You never smiled that big with me. I keep holding onto us like we are going to come back to each other.

Your ex best friend, Y/n,

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Dear Malfoy,

I know you’re still reading these. Maybe to make fun of me, I don’t know anymore. But recently I found something out. It’s quite a shock to me. I’m in love with you, Malfoy. The way I feel for you isn’t a normal way to feel for a friend, I’m in love. Only love makes you this crazy, Professer Mcgonnal told me. I think she’s referring to me sending letters almost everyday, expecting a good outcome. I’m too deep in love with you, from the way you talk to the way you move, from the way your blond hair falls into your forehead, from the way your grey eyes wander the rooms, from the way your voice called out my name so naturally, from the way you use to hug me and hum on my bad days, from the way you took me sledding and from the way your lips curved into a perfect smile. I fell in love with you and your personality, ignoring your toxic traits. For I wasn’t enough, what we had wasn’t enough that you chose her over me. Oh what you do for love.

Your secret lover, Y/n.

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Dear Malfoy,

Your girlfriend found my letter and her and her gang beat me up for it. She doesn’t understand. I would never try to sabotage your relationship with her. I just wanted to express my feelings, clearly I can’t even do that. Maybe it was wrong for me to give you a love confession but I wasnt trying to get you to be with me. She wants me to never send letters to you again, but she doesn’t have to know I’m sending this letter. You’re still my best friend in my heart, Draco.

Your ex best friend, Y/n.

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Dear Draco Malfoy,

Hey, it’s been a couple of months. I hope you’re doing well. I finally come to my closure. I’m moving on from this chapter of heartbreak and misery. You were a chapter in my life, a really really big and important one, but I was just a page in yours. I guess all good things come to an end eventually. I’m getting happier and I’m finally moving on from you. Of course I still love you! You’re still my best friend in my heart like I said. But it’s over now. I’m accepting that. You’re still with her, after all this time. I’m really happy for you both, really!

Y/n

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Dear Draco,

You looked awful for the past week. Are you doing okay? I know I said I’ve moved on but I can still send letters to check up on you, you still matter to me. Y/b/n seemed to not care that you looked emotionally tired. She just kept going on about her drama. It makes me sad, you deserve someone who will listen to you like how you listen to her. I can tell you love her a lot.

Y/n

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Dear Draco,

It’s been about a month. I found someone! I’ve officially moved on. Don’t be sad lol, as if you would. His name is Neville Longbottom. I think you know him. He’s really sweet and I don’t deserve him one bit. He bought me my favorite candies yesterday, it made me heart feel so soft and warm inside. He’s adorable. He makes me really happy, I hope you find that soon since Y/b/n isn’t doing a good job at that, lol.

Y/n

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Dear Draco,

I heard what happened, She cheated. Of course she would. I mean I didn’t expect it but it’s not a surprise either. She honestly really did like you at the beginning of your relationship with her, I don’t know what happened. You’re still welcomed to come back to this chapter of my life, I’ll gladly accept my best friend back. Just no more romantic feelings included. Just the old me and you. Oh yeah, about me and Neville, he’s really a sweetheart, i think I’m in love. He makes me feel a way you didn’t. Like I’m loved and special.

Y/n

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Dear Draco,

So we’re friends again. I’m glad. I missed you kiddo. I’m glad I’m getting my best friend back. Let’s make a plan and meet up and catch up. Wouldn’t that sound lovely?

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Dear Draco,

It’s been a week of catching up and our best friend connection came back quickly. Your ex isn’t very happy about you and I becoming friends again but it doesn’t matter.

Y/n

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Dear Y/n,

Yes I’ve read all your letters. They’re really sweet and I’m now realizing how much you cared. It’s been about a year now and I’m rereading your letters. You’re my best friend still, and we’re still like two peas in a pod. I’m happy for you and Neville. Happy late one year to you two though. He seems to the perfect one for you, I can see the love in both of your eyes. Maybe I’m selfish for saying this but I wish I were Neville. I wasted my love on someone who wasn’t worth it when I had someone right in front of me who loved me better and more than Y/b/n ever would. You’re still the same prankster I grew up with. I’m really sorry I broke you badly last year. I really am sorry. I never did want to stop being your friend, I loved you (as a friend ofc) but she made me choose between her and you and my foolishness was too blinded by love to realize what I was throwing away. Also, I did eat the chocolate frog you got me, don’t be sad lol. I fallen in love with you through the year we’ve tried again. Maybe I was always in love with you, maybe I just didn’t know and went for your then best friend. When I found out you were in love with me, I felt these waves of emotions come over me. I was happy but sad but confused. I’m sorry I let y/b/n hands onto that letter, you didn’t deserve what those girls did to you. So to my best friend. I’m in love with you. It’s my turn for this one sided love but it’s unfair that your one sided story with me is worse than mine since I know you wouldn’t leave me for anything. I’m really happy for you and Neville. But I watch your eyes as he walks by, what a sight for sore eyes, brighter than a blue sky. he’s got you mesmerized while I die.

[fearlessjournalism]

writer ask game

tagged by @grasslandgirl ty ty 💚💚💚

what's your all-time favorite ship?

All Time Favorite is far too high a bar but like currently no thoughts head sam/peter, previously no thoughts nalby and minewt from tmr (like i know that series is a mess but goddammit someone’s gotta fix its crimes). rin/venka from tpw haha jk unless?

how many works do you have on ao3?

fifteen babeyyyy we do be. slow writers in this household.

what's your total ao3 word count?

61,003

what are your top five fics by kudos?

Brushfire (av), holding all I used to be sorry about (the flash) (ugh), To Chip Away (atla), One New Post: Missed Connection (atla), and Background Radiation of the Universe (tmr)

do you reply to comments, why or why not?

I do! or like. I try to. sometimes I space out but I do try to. tbh I started doing it because it was nice when other people responded to me, so I wanted to do that for other people bc they took the time to read and to comment (I also think it encourages people to comment more on fics in general, so it’s good for the wider ecosystem).

fic you've written with the angstiest ending?

A Hundred Thousand Loves (for just this one) (tmr) lmaooo like it wasn’t gonna end any other way but I was still like well damn that’s a bummer

fic you've written with the happiest ending?

oh hm. I feel like a lot of mine end well? I have my retroactive issues with brushfire but I feel like that ending is the happiest in some ways even if it doesn’t seem that way up front because it’s like… realistic happy? like, everything hasn’t been perfect, everything won’t be perfect, but we’ve made our peace with that and we’re trying in spite of it

do you write crossovers?

not like, these characters from one thing meet the characters from this other thing crossovers, but sometimes I’ll take like. an element of a universe and bring it into a different one yknow? although that’s usually just for fun and it doesn’t go anywhere

have you ever recieved hate on a fic?

no but I think that would be really funny you’d have to go so far out of your way for that

do you write smut? if so what kind?

I think I’d pass away sometimes the catholicism gets my ass

have you ever had a fic stolen?

no but again I think that would be really funny who would go out of their way to steal like. american vandal fics.

have you ever had a fic translated?

no but that’d be fuckin sick

have you ever co-written a fic before?

honestly I don’t know that I’d be pleasant to like. actually cowrite a fic with BUT a lot of my brainstorming process is collaborative

what’s a WIP that you want to finish but don’t think you ever will?

I’m trying not to think about it but I will say if I had the power to magically finish one it might be the mailee vigilante au I was writing for atla like a year ago

what are your writing strengths?

uuuuuuuu dialogue I think? sometimes i think I’m leaning too much into Witty Banter but then I talk to my family and it’s just like that so… we walk among you I guess

what are your writing weaknesses? 

uuuuuuuu anything that’s not dialogue I think? no but actually when I was writing one of my fics for the flash it took me 45 fucking minutes to write one character coming around a desk and kissing another. like. making characters move is so goddamn hard for me it’s absolutely insane.

what are your thoughts on writing dialogue in other languages in a fic?

in general? no problem with it as long as the person like… knows what they’re doing. for me? I took latin in high school and then forgot all of it and I’m not great with spoken languages so I will leave that to the professionals.

what was the first fandom you wrote for?

officially, TMR. unofficially, I look back at a lot of my early writing and it was unintentional but thinly veiled fanfic of like. the lioness quartet or the avalon: web of magic series (side note did that series exist for other people??? please contact me asap if this existed for you that shit was FORMATIVE)

what's your favorite fic you've written?

I think last time I said it was a hundred thousand loves and I think I stand by that but I’m also genuinely fond of how anatomy turned out. idk if it’s A Favorite but I’m still riding the high of it actually turning out the way I wanted it to

tagging: @mrsinistertype @lesbiantoziers @phonecallfromgod @newtedison

[telesthisia]

“amber are you ok now?” 

before i begin writing here. i feel i should post an update of sorts for you lovely folks who follow three (well four... including mist and i need to work on my oc help) of my blogs. 

read the tags for why i’m putting this under cut BUT it should give you a general idea how things will end for your fav anime protag here haha!

i am posting here and there again yes. but, no. not really. i’m still dying from health issues. hweoDSFJNKB. sorry for the bummer news, but i’m posting on internet again because i miss friends :plead: and while mentally i am getting better thanks to finally refilling my meds. physically? not so much considering my violently sick episode i had two days ago in the morning where i vomit and nearly passed out for only working out for 30 minutes T-T no clue how or why or what that means since that’s never happened but at the request of literally everyone telling me this: a doctor’s visit is in order. plus. i don’t have the medications i need for my physical issue orz but i will try to be on here more but also Limited™ hence ooc stuff because it’s me going: hey still on internet but not for long because Bad Health. Sorry, sorry!

[lemoncupcake]

I really don’t understand why your gifsets don’t have more notes, you are so talented and it’s so obvious that you put so much work in them!

well, clearly i don't either, that's why i make emo posts about it every couple of weeks haha

i did lose a lot of followers when i changed accounts, which was to be expected, so that probably has something to do with the gifsets i post on my personal blog not doing so well. but the sets i work the hardest on not getting a lot of notes was a thing even when i was using the other account with more followers, so idk.

i guess maybe the ones that get more notes happen to have been reblogged by people who have more followers so that gives them a boost? or maybe most people in this fandom just aren't into the rainbow sets and that kind of stuff?? which is valid but a bummer for me because as much as they take me so much time and effort, they're really my favourite because i think they're the prettiest.

idk, it just is what it is and i don't like it but there's not really anything i can do about it. i use every tag i can, ever since the rainbow post flopped (i mean, relative, it did get to 200 notes, which is an amount i'm actually happy with for most of my sets, but rainbow posts are usually very popular and there's plenty of good girls gifsets with 1000+ notes and i personally have had much simpler sets get double that at least, so...) i've decided that i'll be posting my most time-consuming sets on ggdaily bc it has a lot more followers than my personal blog so potentially more people will see them, i try to time things so most people are online or looking for sets when i hit post. nothing i do seems to work. and yeah it makes me sad. you should create things for yourself first and foremost and all that jazz, yada yada, yes, but fandom is about community and if i didn't want notes and engagement with my gifsets then i could simply not post them. idk, i don't think there's any way to fix this "problem", i'm just either gonna have to make my peace with not getting notes or stop making those more time-consuming sets if i can't make my peace with less notes on them.

ty for the compliments, sorry for the really long reply with nothing but complaints lol

[ghos-tea]

Sorry guys, can't post anymore because anime dude said I can't post anymore 😔😔😔😔😔😔

Bummer 😔😔😔

Haha, jk.

I guess I should be arrested for my crime of "harrassing" them

But for context, I have a gengar appreciation blog, so I usually go through tags to reblog stuff.

This post that anime dude posts shows up nearly every day and I think I'm allowed to tell them to stop spamming, lol.

The reason why they do it is because they want ppl to reblog it so that it happens which. Sweetie. Pokemon doesn't have a tumblr as far as I'm aware. They're not gonna see this post 💖

I find it rather ironic that they claim that I'm spamming them when they comment on posts I reblog the same shit. Dude stopped because Ig he realized he can't scroll through all my posts

^^ All of the posts I reported for spam, you get the idea

So yeah, mutuals feel free to block them 💖

[edgypea]

rules: you can usually tell a lot about a person by the type of music they listen to! put your favorite playlist on shuffle and list the first 10 songs. then tag 10 people! no skipping!

Thank you for the tags @chromehoplite @leeloominai22 and @lune-ire 💕💕 It really means a lot to me

1) Child Protective Services Theme Song - Nero's Day at Disneyland (I saw a few posts from mutuals saying they'd like warnings for loud noises. Here it is. This song is loud and screechy)

2) 44 Days - Mr. Kitty

3) Keep Going! Keep Climbing! Up the Tall Tower! - Kikuo

4) Baby Hotline - Jack Stauber

5) The Other Side of Paradise - Glass Animals

6) Mister Jewel Box - TopHamHat-Kyo (this song has literally my favorite lyric: "Being killed by my own creation. For artists, that's our dream" fjksjf they way it's sung is sooo good)

7) Me!Me!Me! - Daoko (good luck finding the og music video ((it has anime tiddies)))

8) Aftermath - Caravan Palace

9) Easy to Breathe - Jack Stauber

10) Stressed Sayo-nara - Twenty-One Pilots x DDLC (Team Salvato) (trigger warning and DDLC spoilers: video shows imagery of a visual novel character hanging themselves from 1:02-1:25)

I'm gonna be a bummer and not tag anyone. Sorry. It looks like everyone I normally tag has already been tagged, haha. Have a pic of my dogs waiting "patiently" for lunch instead.

Feel free to do this if you'd like though if you haven't been tagged yet! I promise I didn't not tag you on purpose. I'm just forgetful as all hell 💕

[acvdemias]

ahhh !! i stalked your tags about opal and it makes me so happy to hear that! also so sad bc i was going to apply when it was first opening but got intimated and now it just seems like too much has happened for me to feel perfectly settled but i do still stalk the main from time to time haha i'm so glad you and everyone there found a lovely rp home !! hopefully i can do the same one day !

omg  hi  pal  !  oh  man  ,  i’m  sorry  to  hear  you  got  intimidated  back  at  the  start  ─  we’ve  all  been  there  tbh  ,  and  it’s  always  such  a  bummer  .  but  i  really  ,  really  encourage  you  to  consider  applying  for  opals  !!!  there’s  still  space  in  our  little  family  , the  admins  are  planning  on  accepting  sometime  next  week  !  and  man  ,  riley  and  lola  are  just  truly  some  of  the  best  admins  i’ve  known  in  a  while  .  not  only  that  ,  but  there’s  a  BUNCH  of  different  things  we  do  over  there  to  be  as  welcoming  as  we  possibly  can  for  new  members  (  including  a  google  docs  that  groups  together  every  single  clue  on  the  poppy  mystery  that  has  been  revealed  since  the  start  of  the  rp  and  how  they  all  tie  together  ft.  colour  coding  and  footnotes  ,  courtesy  of  yours  truly  ─  yea  maybe  it’s  my  pride  and  joy  ,  maybe  i  will  simply  hype  myself  up  for  a  second  bc  she  is  a  Beauty™  )  .  

but  back  to  opals  !!!!!!  it’s  honestly  a  really  friendly  environment  full  of  incredibly  kindhearted  ,  supportive  and  understanding  people  ─  and  your  feelings  are  totally  valid  ,  and  i  completely  understand  where  you’re  coming  from  ,  but  i  promise  that  opals  is  a  group  like  none  other  .  it’s  hands  down  the  most  positive  environment  i’ve  been  in  in  a  WHILE  ,  where  people  are  encouraged  and  their  talents  are  highlighted  pretty  much  on  a  daily  basis  out  of  nothing  but  love  and  admiration  ,  and  i’d  really  like  you  to  have  the  chance  to  enjoy  it  and  feel  the  love  too  ,  you  know  ?  so  dude HONESTLY  if  you  want  to  chat  or  if  you  end  up  wanting  to  send  in  an  app  and  would  like  some  advice  or  just  to  have  a  buddy  look  it  over  lmk  !!!!!  i’ll  hype  you  up  !!!

[polkahotness]

Hey!! Sorry to bother you. I was just wondering if you have any good shortaki fics to recommend? Its hard to find the gems sometimes you know? (And of course I've read your fics *chefs kiss*)

Hello Anon!! <3 

First of all, never worry about bothering me! I love answering questions and talking so no worries :) As for some good Shortaki fics to recommend, unfortunately a great many of my favorite ones have not been finished as of yet, or were abandoned. And while I love Shortaki with my whole soul and being, most of my favorite stories are VERY angsty so take these recs with a grain of salt. They are amazing, but if they aren’t your cup of tea, I apologize.  “Need Me” by ShesusChrist. This fic i have read COUNTLESS times, it’s a pretty dark story, it will make you weep BUCKETS but boy is it good. 

“We Were Merely Freshman” by rockyyy. I feel like i never see this one get recommended and it makes me really sad cause it was one of the first fanfics I ever read and really what ushered me into writing fanfiction myself. there’s also some companions to go with the story if i remember correctly and those are fun too.  “Escape from Death” by LilBeachBum. This is the ONLY AU i have ever actually finished and read and it is AMAZING. Dark themes as it is an AU set in Hitler’s Germany, but it is so good. so, so, good. 

“Care” by Angelic Gemstone. This is a short oneshot, but this author, ALL of their HA stuff that I’ve read at least, is SO SPOT ON. This one in particular made my heart melt because it really felt exactly like a real life episode and also had some super cute shortaki stuff going on. Other ones heavy in Shortaki by them that are AWESOME are, “Audaciously Flirting,” ‘Of Love and Sorrow” and “Fragile Moments” (that one is SUPER cute) honestly they’re all oneshots and as someone with a difficult time holding an attention span, i super appreciate that and I highly recommend. 

“Avalanche” by PointyObjects. I will never stop talking about this story until the day i die. It’s still being updated and as they are in other fandoms, it can be a wait but i SWEAR it is worth it. the plot is WONDERFUL. there is excellent give and take and the plotline is just perfection. Anything by pointy is certifiably gold so i suggest any of their stories, but i love ‘Avalanche’ and I might be biased cause I’m a choreographer but I don’t even care haha I know there are more out there that I have read but maybe don’t have saved or have since been deleted which is always a bummer. THank you for reading my stuff-- I can’t tell you how much I appreciate it! I’m so glad you enjoy my work and I’m even more glad that you popped into my inbox, anon. I hope you have a great day and that even just one of these stories floats your boat and gives you what you’re looking for. Also be sure to check out the ShortakiWeek tag this week-- you’re bound to get TONS of great Shortaki fics out of that! 

Cheers! :) 

[bramblescrossing]

#askbram !

A whole bunch of asks answered below the cut!

warning, it’s really long! ♡

Uploading Designs After Using My Tutorials!

Hey! I don’t mind if you upload them to your creator code, but if possible I would really love a reference/tag to my accounts if you post them anywhere! Mostly because I want to see how you end up using them! ♡

I’m @bramblescrossing​ here (lol) and instagram @ BramsDesigns on twitter!

@cherrixing​

Would you post grids for your designs?

Hey! I would be down for that! I’m thinking I’m going to do a once a month poll where you guys get to vote on which one get’s the pixels posted! The only reason I’m a bit adverse to posting all of them is because it takes a bunch more work, especially with posting all the info for the color palettes! But I’m willing to put in the work if people are wanting this!

Can you do ____ Tutorial?

I haven’t made one yet, but I’ll work on one for you right now! I’ll post it ASAP!

@vennitrii​

First, sdjghsalkdg you’re gonna make me cry, non! 

Second, oh man, I haven’t even tried yet! Both are now on my list of future tutorials! 

@acupofblackcoffeeonesugar​

Could you be more specific? Like a whole top? Or? Send me some reference pictures! :)

Adding it to my list! I’ll do some pixel letter tutorials, but in the mean time, you can google search pixel letters and get some help if ya want! I’m by no means the first or the only!

Wildewisp Weekly Updates!

Hey nonnies! Abosultey! I made the template myself using photoshop (took forever lol!) The whole picture is 540x900 pixels and I cut it into 3 pictures that are 540x300! That is the standard tumblr picture size I believe!

Design Limit Stuff

I believe that character would be able to post 130 more, which I am considering doing. However, I am hesitant because of having another creator-code and having to remember which design goes with which character when making edits. But Bramble (as a character) is likely to make a reappearance soon and join Murmur so I can create more!

I have heard that! That you share you design slots! Such an incredible bummer for families who share! I am so sorry :( I wonder if that means each character would have editing rights over a design created by someone on the island? My guess is not? But if it is, it could solve some of my issues with starting another character (see above).

@snailienz​

I think design packs would be such a great idea! Or the option to rearrange the codes on your creator portal? I totally get that Nintendo has a server and limits, etc etc, that thy have to consider, but I don’t think there is NO way the limit/way designs are shared won’t change! I think there’s lots of options. I’m pretty sure the Infrared sensor on the joycons could even read a qr code? Lot’s of options, @nintendo​!!

“Not Active” Designs

You are so so welcome! I’ll be adding that image to the top of each original post, and adding the tag #notactive so you can check that as well! It helps me to keep things straight on my end, too!

Inspiration?

Hey nonny, don’t get discouraged! The wonderful thing about all of this is you can change it pretty much at will! And taking inspiration from others is great! That’s how ideas grow! I would say, in regards to appreciating your island, find little spots here and there that are filled with your favorite things! And don’t be afraid to join a community here on tumblr or via a discord! There’s lots of them out there!

Honestly, that’s why I love taking requests! People have so many different and wonderful ideas, it always  tests my skills! Other than that, pinterest and  tumblr are great places to find cute outfits!

I’ve always been an artist in my spare time and have really loved pixel art since ACNL! Honestly, practice makes progress! I go in to more details about specific stuff for AC designing here!

@buunnypriince​

#happiness

@morgrenth​ sdgjasdhgkjl thank you so so much!! I really have fun with it!

sdhgkjsadg thank you both so much! I really really really appreciate it. Seriously, saving these asks so I can read them again and again!! <3

@gaiamoth​

@sanuas​ kdsjhgksjad Ily too!!! <3 <3

djhaskdljg thank you so so much. thank you for the encouragement! <3 <3

@whisperel​ jkdsghalskdg thank you so so much, truly. I needed this love, today!

@elizawritescrap​ <3 hugs to you tooo!!!

Other!

Hey island name anon! First, thank you for telling me! I did spend a loooooonngggg time coming up with that name haha, but I also get it! it’s not copyrighted or anything! I hope the name is bringing you and your island as much joy as it is bringing me!!

I do some of the css stuff to tweak things, as many of the theme blogs are inactive and not taking requests! But all the theme designers credit can be found on each individual page! I did not make any of the actual themes!