#specifically chapter 8

[fategoflatass]

Dating!Jinmao where Jinshi gets very insisting on Maomao to use pet names with him. Of course, she refuses multiple times due to the embarrassment it provoked her, the sheer thought making her shiver.

He never ceases on his petitions though, so she ends up giving in. But under one condition—only after he'd finished every single one of his daily bureaucratic endeavors. He agrees,

It takes days of trial and error, until it happens—just like an unexpected rain during dry season, that day's workload had been significantly smaller compared to the others. And with the power of simpism enthusiasm, he'd managed to finish it all in one seating.

Jinshi let out a satisfied sigh as the set the last document aside, his work for the day finished. He tried repressing himself, although there were some stray maiden-in-love-like giggles here and there. Basen, once again, considers early retirement.

He abandons his office to and makes a beeline towards his beloved's workplace. (Un)Fortunately, he finds Maomao by herself. His smile gets even bigger as he stands there in silence, awaiting for his much deserved treat of the day. Her expression denoted anguish and later defeat, knowing she only had herself to blame for this.

She let's out a sigh, leaving her matter aside and getting face to face with her now partner. The girl makes a manner with her hand, indicating him to lower his head to which he does. She then pets his head and says "Well done, slug".

His eyes open wide in surprise. She starts thinking to herself that she might've messed things up, until she saw him getting flustered. Yes, she had definitely messed up.

They (she) never did that again.

[project-sekai-facts]

Tsukasa's One Solid Step at a Time card is his first 2* rarity card since his Balloon Presenter card, released alongside the Smile of Dreamer event in February 2021. This is his first 2* card in 811 days (2 years 81 days). He currently holds the record for longest time between two cards of the same rarity, beating Nene’s previous record of 801 days earlier this month.

[stuck-in-the-ghost-zone]

OKAY. OKAY. WINTERS FAMILY TORMENT NEXUS. as i've said before this is all REALLY vague rough outlines bc i wanted to bounce it all back n forth with u. but. what i have:

>winters family (mark & ashe & fridged mom/wife) live in a location hit by the simurgh

>mark is at work when she arrives. something horrific happens at home. maybe his wife is injured or hurt, but not killed. ashe (7/8/9) triggers. whatever his powers are, they. do Not help heal his mom. in fact the opposite.

>mark tears back home asap instead of leaving as soon as he hears her song, actively choosing to stay in her effect zone for his family. finds newly triggered baby ashe & the rest of that scene.

>theyve spent too long in the affected zone to be allowed to go free, especially since ashe triggered from it. mark nukes his whole past life & ashe's to escape without undergoing all the protocols. he spends ages doing shit work to support him & ashe bc theyre both legally dead, ends up working for overlord, manages to get enough of a fake past to get through cauldron background checks & get powers? it'll pay so much better than the grunt work he's doing now & he has to support ashe (powered)(legally dead)(would probably be executed if anyone Found Out)....

anyway to me the trickster is like. the endgame of this specific simurgh rube goldberg. somehow it doesn't end horrifically, for once! but it gets. bad. the fact that they're simurgh survivors is always looming over their heads. its why mark fucking freaks out when ashe joins the wards. literally have nothing more specific than this though u gotta help me put meat on these bones!!!!! STOP "being responsible" and "doing work" and stuff START thinking incessantly abt nhw ashe!!!!! i don't even know his powers bc i have no clue how he triggered!!!! augh. god. them..... mods torture that blonde man in the most narratively satisfying and fucked up way possible!!!!

QUIT YOUR JOB JOIN MY EMO WARDS !!!!!!!!!!!!! god dude god dude I'm gonna be thinking about this all fucking DAY . who needs to be responsible and have a job. not me!!!! FUCK !!!!!!!! dude im just. thinking abt mark being at work getting the notice to evacuate and starting to hear the song and. bc it's important to me that he's a little bit of a coward. it takes him longer than he will ever admit to decide to go back to his family. he definitely hesitates and hates himself for it because. what if he had gotten there 10 minutes earlier! who fucking knows! he never will!!

god man I'm just thinking about. that scene where they're in the hospital waiting to hear back about noelle and the person (ai?) at the desk is giving them the rundown of all the containment procedures and handing them paperwork and asking them if they can pay for the medical care. how fucked up would that be to hear after you're in the midst of losing everything. mark winters the universes most hated man. I looooooove the satisfaction in thinking about that snap decision where he goes from "relatively normal if a little emotionally repressed but otherwise does his best suburban dad" to "my wife is dead and my son is fucked up and there's this fucking sound in my head that won't go away I'm about to erase everything and break several laws in order to get us out of here" and how that eventually leads into. supervillain. it's just soooooooo. sickos haha yessss the downfall of this fucking miserable blonde guy. when do you think he consciously made that choice. he heard "you're never going to get out of here and live a normal life again" do you think he just . sat with that for a while. ashe unresponsive either due to shock or fear or the trauma of triggering/whatever his powers are and mark just has to sit there. by himself. like what the fuck am I gonna do now. auaghghghghhhh I need 2 make him so miserable forever. fuck that guy i hate his ass (<< me when I lie)

I THINK . I NEED TO SIT FOR A WHILE AND FINISH THESE NEXT COUPLE CHAPTERS AND PROCESS A LITTLE MORE BEFORE I MAKE A SOLID DECISION ON ASHES POWERS. but you knowwwww it's gonna be some fucked up horror shit. it has to be. it has to be something fucked up enough that mark forbids him from using his powers and keeps him . at home isolated for his own good. but not TOO fucked that he wouldn't be able to join the wards.

actually speaking of. HOW THE FUCK DOES HE JOIN THE WARDS. I know mark basically fucking erased their whole identity and everything but. there's noooo way the prt would let this kid join them. right?????? right????. how the hell would that even be a possibility with all the precautions in place for simurgh survivors. THEY EXPLODED THAT ONE CAPE GUYS HEAD BECAUSE HE STAYED IN PROXIMITY FOR A LITTLE BIT TOO LONG. maybe it's unofficial. maybe he never Officially joins them but he sneaks out while mark is gone and meets the boys somewhere and they become friends out of costume first. and then they learn about his powers and ashe is like "I can help!" and helps them like. as a rogue or something. but hes never registered as an official cape. is this anything. im thinking about him so much what the fuuuuuck have we done. what have we done !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[loveletterworm]

on the topic of deliriously specific visions of deltarune chapter 3. This is one that is really inconsequential and I guess is more in the territory of like. those elaborate chapter 3 fanfictions where they just make up every character. But I don't think I've ever seen anyone else ever try the thing that I think would be cool, which is that a secret boss for chapter 3 could have a greyscale color scheme because that would not be out of place in the TV-themed chapter (especially for a secret boss, i'd say), but would also have visual overlap with the goner npcs from undertale...I just sort of feel like someone else would have thought of that but I've never seen anyone that has. I think it would be clever.

[neuxue]

started listening to the mo du audiodrama to catch back up to where I left off with the novel (somewhere at the start of book 3) and the episode-end song???

okay okay okay give me a minute I'm fine I just

it's so lovely what the fuck

I See What You Did There with that little "孤舟随烟波渡我" at the end

but also then you get LWZ's "你去那远方没有黎明不见曙光 / 也无悔深渊同往" and first of all ouch second of all man you really can't have a priest story without an abyss can you and third of all in combination with lines like

Fei Du's "默念恶魔的名册 / 奄奄一息是我" I suddenly cannot help but look very very closely at him through the lens of the few other priest novels I know and the first 2 books of this one and ask hey Fei Du quick question where exactly are you planning for this story to go

[circle-around-again]

"The dark side ignited and fueled his anger. He was enraged by the icy water and by the entire planet of Mygeeto. He fought his way to the surface, kicking and clawing and bursting through the ice. And after he broke through the ice, while he was still gulping freezing water and struggling to keep his face above the surface, he saw his Master on the shore." (Windham, 86-7).

This is not only one of Maul's coolest moments, but perhaps a key insight into the nature of the darkside and its users.

Maul experiences the dark side as fire. Maul's dark signature is that of "ignition" -- like a machine being awakened, or a furnace of power. However, it has distinctly desperate traits -- it is one of struggle.

However, Sidious' force signature is here as well. It is ice. What feels like an entire world of awful power pressing down on Maul specifically. Something he rebels against, but is smothered in until his death. And I always preferred the interpretation that Sidious' force signature was frigidly cold.

[delawaredetroit]

People give his sleuthing skills way too much credit. Even with more context than anyone else and knowing Izuku most of his life, this was his first assumption

[tangled-wires-and-a-dead-heart]

Just posted chapter 8 of my swap au fanfic! I'm really proud of this one so I decided to share it on here as well. Hope you enjoy it!

[waywardsalt]

bellum x linebeck chapter summary drafts that won those polls:

chapter 8

chapter 14

chapter 20

[aliensubstance-011]

New chapter! It's been so long and it fought me all the way, but it's done.

[porcelana-r0ta]

Things that won't make me turn Christian: eternal punishment for "sins" that men have created, rewards only for perceived good behavior, etc.

Things that WOULD make me turn Christian: God please please please please please please PLEASE give inspiration to the fic authors of unfinished fics PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE let them complete the fics please I'm begging I'll do anything God please are they not also made in your image to be creators like you God please let them write let them create let them finish their holy creations as you too have created and finished yours PLEASE

[isabelguerra]

the max & isabel to marcille & chilchuck pipeline

[fountainpenguin]

I am shocked and delighted to see "Sunk Too Deep" is once again doing numbers and outperforming the rest of my gallery on its shiny new home on AO3. What is this thing made of.

[b4kuch1n]

current round of ink comm finished! I am on a train! this will not be the last time

[sergeantpixie]

WIP Tag Game

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

Tagged by: @purplesigebert who is probably trying to get me killed such a lovely person!

I am not going to list all of WIPs bc that's a really long list and I'll cry so instead I will just put the ones that I am actively working on at the moment...which is still a long list tbh.

St. Augustine

Provenance aka Talking With Strangers

Gravestones Are Fragile

all your sex & your diamonds

Just One Fall of Rain

I was not born to drown

All of My Light is For You

I am trying to begin

Divided We Stand

New Constellations

I am willing to take more hurt if it's from you

this is the worthwhile fight (love is a ruthless game)

Tagging: @randomestfandoms, @forasecondtherewedwon and anyone else who wants to!

[lit-in-thy-heart]

words not wording ;-;