#the date is march 1 btw

[choking-on-roses]

I am so used to being an afterthought in everyone's lives that if someone came along who put genuine effort into spending time with me, like truly just wanted to hang out with me and made time to do it, I would probably 1) break down sobbing and 2) immediately fall in love with them

[everythingne]

marketing ploy (ln4) - rewrite

McLaren and Red Bull make a deal—a plan to get them both some publicity (and some extra cash). Olivia Piastri (yes, Piastri), the head analyst of Red Bull, has to pretend to date her brother’s teammate.

Oh, and she can’t tell anyone—not even Oscar, it’s not a real relationship.

piastri!oc x lando norris (fc: yesly)

warnings/notes: sort of financial abuse, manipulation from higher authorities, christian horner is fucking insane in this now btw!! fake dating AND brothers best friend trope, rewriting this to hopefully spark some inspiration for new fics over the summer ?

02 March 2023 - Bahrain (Instagram)

liked by landonorris, oscarpiastri, redbullracing, and 689k more…

oliviapiastri: thx bahrain for rb 1-2

tagged: maxverstappen, oscarpiastri

mclaren: the siblings ever 🧡

user1: so are we gonna talk ab her calling lando NORI during her little interview with kym????

⤷ user2: NO FR??

maxverstappen: only got p1 thanks to you and the team

f1wagsnfamsupport: miss olivia out here with the short hair looking STUNNING

maepiastri: OSCAR IM SCREAMINNGGG

oscarpiastri: what is that photo of me?

⤷ olivepastries: this is what u get for eating my timtams on the plane

landonorris: thanks oli 🧡

redbullracing: the prettiest strategist on the planet

user3: UGH I LOVE WOMEN...

⤷ user4: wuhluhwuh please PLEASE

hattiepiastri: THE PRETTIEST. SO GORGEOUS. WOWOWOW

7 March 2023 - Jedddah (Practice)

“Piastri incoming!” is the call that alerts the group of the presence appearing around the corner. Tall white heels clicking, Olivia--affectionately nicknamed Olive, Piastri steps into the doorway of the main meeting room in Red Bull's motorhome. Her little orange sundress swishing with every step she takes as she pauses to shake Christian's hand--tugging up the sleeve of her white sweater to do so, gold bracelets twinkling and clinking on her wirst, perfectly manicured navy nails securing around Christian's hand.

A small piece of hair tugs on her earring, and Olivia takes pause to slip it out of its confinement, before moving out of the way so Christian can close the door. Two dirty martinis and a shot of tequila down during family dinner, Olivia whisks her way into the room with a breath of floral perfume and a hint of rubber still clinging to her skin from the heat of the night practices in Jeddah. Even post dinner with the WAGs and some of the other women who worked in the sport, like Laura, Susie, and Hannah.

"Thank you again, Miss Piastri, for coming on such a short notice." Christian says as Olivia turns to take in the room in front of her. Three men sit in different stages of formal dress. One off to the side with Alice--Red Bulls CCO, a woman sitting next to Mark Webber in the corner--which is intriguing to Olivia, because they both had just been at dinner. And then when Olivia turns her head further, Zak Brown and Andrea Stella are against the far wall.

She blinks, pauses, and lifts a hand, "Sorry, what is this?"

And in the most casual clothing is Lando, leaned back in his chair like he owns the garage. Which makes Olivia's jaw tick just a bit. Who did he think he was? There wasn't any level of animosity between the two of them, but Olivia finds the whole situation to be quite interesting. Lando was polite, bright and smiley, had managed to get Oscar a little bit out of his shell. Not that Olivia would complain about that, it was nice to see Oscar with a genuine smile, but its Mark in the corner that makes her head tilt.

Mark has a tense line in his jaw Olivia knew meant he didn't necessarily care for what was about to go down. It only grew when Christian clapped Olivia's shoulder and she sent him a glare that had his hand popping off in a second.

"We were waiting for you to get started." Christian ends up motioning for the chair next to Lando that, conveniently, had been left open. Olivia moves forward and pops down next to Lando, offering him a small polite smile he manages to return.

Ah yes, civility. Olivia can work with the bare minimum, it's the usual amount of respect she gets here.

"My Mom had to get a picture of Oscar and I in the paddock here, thats what took so long." Olivia says, setting her little purse in her lap and folding her hands on top of it, "Sorry if I was a bit late."

"Right on time, actually," Christian nods, "As punctual as usual."

"Lets get right to business, we need Lando to be in top shape for tomorrows race. Can't keep him out too late." Zak easily jokes, bringing the attention of the room to him. Christian accompanies with his own laugh softly, taking a seat at his desk and flicking open his laptop. There's an obvious line of tension between the two, it was well known Christian and Zak didn't get along, and so Olivia sends a glance to Mark.

He won't meet her eyes.

So she clears her throat, and kicks Lando's chair with a small smirk, voice coming out monotonous as usual, "Ah, it's all too much for little Lando Norris, right?"

"Little Lando Norris?" He jokingly pouts and Olivia grins, kicking his chair again with a shrug, making him start laughing as he leans back and swats at her foot. His nails scratch along Olivia's ankle and her shiver is visible as she ends up pulling my ankle to the side of my leg.

"Well, this might work better than expected." Andrea comments with a soft grin on his lips, "they already get along well, and have some sort of chemistry."

"Huh?" "What?"

Lando and Olivia both turn to look at Andrea, then both turn their attention to Zak and then Christian in order. The three men laugh along to Andrea, nodding in agreement as the two women jot down some notes, the third woman by Lando huffing with a soft smile on her lips. I point to Mark Webber, my brothers manager and speak softly.

"Wait, so why are we here?" Olivia finally asks and Christian looks to Zak, holding a hand out for the man to explain. He does, standing as he motions around the room, introducing everyone to each other, thankfully.

There's Olivia and Lando settled in two leather chairs, Christian sat his desk with Zak and Andrea standing besides him. Alice, Red Bull's Chief Communications Officer sits next to Steve Atkins, who is McLarens Chief Communications Officer. Then, on the other side of the desk is a woman named Astrid Marina, who is Lando's manager, and then Oscar's manager Mark Webber, who is here to represent Olivia.

"And, we are all here for the two of you." Zak nods, and Lando sends Olivia a sharp look that says nothing but 'what the hell did you do?' which she counters with her best 'I didn't do shit, what did you do?' look.

"You see, tensions between Red Bull and McLaren's racing teams are at an all time high due to how close Lando has been racing with Max." Zak continues after a moment, "and the fans have been eating up the rivalry. It's truly been one of the most intense spikes in merch sales and social media trends we've seen in years on both sides. And, Miss Piastri, that is where you come into the picture."

"Okay? What does this have to do with me, if you don't mind my asking?" Olivia leans forward slightly, eyes glancing up at Zak, then to Andrea, then Christian, then back to Zak's smug smile.

"We need to keep the rivalry alive between us and Red Bull, yeah? And, over the past few weeks when you've been on radio with Max, the fans have noticed the two of you seem to be quite close. And considering you are Oscar's sister..." Zak waves a hand as he comes to take one of Olivia's, squeezing it as he leans down to be my eye level, "we have quite an opportunity."

"I'm not following." Olivia glances to Lando, who sends her a helpless shrug of confusion.

"Well, Miss Piastri." Christian taps his desk and Zak moves to sit down again. Both Alice and Steven whisper to each other as the Astrid and Ada nod to Christian, and he speaks words that should never have been strung together.

"To keep up with publicity, we would like for you and Lando to pretend to date. Just for a season or two."

Olivia sends a look to Mark, who just keeps his eyes firm on her. There's a sort of silent patience in his eyes she ifnds astounding. Has Mark agreed to this? Olivia finds she can't even bring words to her mouth, the room closing in and feeling crowded as everyone turns to watch Lando and Olivia react.

Luckily, Lando moves first, stadning with a shocked expression, "I'm sorry? What are you on about?"

"Olivia, you will start to spend more time with McLaren." Alice starts to explain, and everyone looks to her, "post more McLaren, wear more McLaren, start to cause a stir. Once we see that stir, we will take photos of you wearing Lando's number and post those. This should start a dating rumor through Australia to Miami."

Olivia's gaze hardens. She's being treated like a Sim.

"Once the rumor really starts, you will both do a 'soft launch' of the other--basically, faceless photos. You'll be caught by paparazzi on a date, you'll be seen together in the paddocks, and such. We'll bring this rumor up and up until about midway through the season when, during a pole position celebration, Lando will go to you for a celebratory kiss--which will cement your relationship." Alice continues, and then Steven takes over,

"We'll run the relationship probably through next season, maybe a little longer, and then you'll both have a peaceful split off and remain friends. No harm done."

Finally, I stand as well, gripping my purse as I swing it back around my shoulder, "You're reading me a film script, not the next twenty months of my life! I'm an analyst, not some--actress you can throw around for publicity points!"

"Olivia, please." Christian stands, holding a hand out like you would to a scared dog, "it's something temporary, and it's no strings attached! There's a pretty big... financial bonus as well."

The room shifts, Lando glancing back to Olivia with a look that reads 'what the hell?' but she can't even find a place in her mind to register that.

"You both will get between ten to twenty-five percent of all revenue made off this stunt. Merch sales, meet and greets... depending on how well you sell this... that could triple or even times both of your salaries by ten." Alice crosses her arms, "and, the deal will be kept to people in this office. Only we will know why this is being done. To everyone else, even Oscar and Max, this relationship is genuine. NDA assured."

There's a long pause, and part of Olivia feels trapped. The amount of money I could make for putting up with a guy I already put up with his obviously extremely appealing. She already makes a good chunk of change but with the extra...

Hell, Olivia could pay off all my student loans at once with that absolute chunk of change.

But what did this say for women in motorsport? I had been so careful with my image until this point. I got my job before Oscar joined McLaren, I worked tirelessly night and day with GP and Hannah, took classes on top of work on top of engineering on the side on top of life for this job.

Would I throw it all away for some ploy?

"Fuck it." Lando says under his breath, so low only Olivia hears the slight scratch of his voice as he sighs and then looks up at Christian, "We're already putting up with each other, what's the harm of some extra cash?"

"Norris?!" I shout as my disbelief hits an all time high. Lando's right hand takes a pen from Christian's left one as he turns back to me, running a hand through his frizzy curls.

"We fake date for a year, and then we go off and do whatever we want after with a large paycheck for something no one knows is fake. How is this a bad deal, Olivia? I already spend almost every weekend with you and Oscar anyway, it'll hardly be different." He says, and a paper is pushed his way, he looks back at me once more in that loose, half buttoned white tee and black dress shorts. His necklaces dangle off his neck as he scribbles down his name without any hesitance, clicking the pen shut and holding it out to me.

"Plus, if we're pretending to be a real couple, you'll be losing out on nothing because I will be buying you pretty much everything for the next twelve months."

Fuck. That's a good point. She could kinda manipulate this to benefit her if all goes to shit. The black pen taunts Olivia, and the way Lando grins and wiggles it in the air towards her hesitantly lifting hand is no different.

Yeah, so much for being shy, Lando.

"I have an image to maintain." Olivia squeaks out as she lowers her hand, and Christian stands then, slowly making his way across the room like he's planning some sort of attack.

"But, you would have more money than you ever need, and a big boost in permanent salary if you do this." Christian smiles dangerously, "plus, if you want to leave after we start this... talk with me, and I'll sort it out. It's really no strings attached."

Olivia looks to Mark for guidance. It's not an ideal situation in any way, but at least she'd have a way out, right? Mark blinks, watching her, and then he raises a hand, "Can I speak with her in the hall for a moment?"

"Lando already signed," Alice stands, clicking her pen shut, "McLaren is free to leave."

McLaren does just that, silently shuffling out. There's a moment of still, of pure silence as Mark collects his words. Christian leans back in his chair, eyebrows raising, before Mark sighs and finally moves off the wall to point at Christian, "I don't respect you."

Olivia can't help the laugh that barks out of her before she immediately slams her hand over her lips.

"I know that." Christian replies, "But its simply business, Mark. A year or so of this bullshit, she gets double the pay shes already got, then shes done."

Mark's reply is quick and flat, "Olivia doesn't just hold her own reputation, she holds the reputation for all women in motorsports. She's a professional, an analyst, and to quote her 'not some actress you can throw around for publicity points.'"

"Her dating a driver wont discredit her value to Red Bull, I assure you." Christian leans forward to rest his elbows on the desk and Olivia scoffs without even thinking about what shes about to say--

"Clearly you haven't read any article about women in motorsports or opened any of our Instagram comments, or listen to the broadcasters, in the past ten years, Horner."

"If I may interject." Alice raises a hand, looking between the two men. Mark huffs, taking a step back towards Olivia, his hand resting on the back of her chair, as Christian lightly lifts his head in suggestion.

"At any point, we can run back what was said, call it all conjecture, rumors, lies and say the two are friends." Alice shrugs, "Olivia and Max had dating rumors what, six months ago over a hug? These rumors come and go in F1, and we are a PR team, we are running the narrative, we can make things work the way we need them to if they get too bad."

"I still don't think it's a good idea." Mark sighs, "if these rumors run too long, they could destroy her future in her career."

Olivia sits there, ankles crossed. Mark has made nothing but good points. But it's Christian's next line that makes her heart sink,

"It would be a shame to replace such a star analyst."

and though the sentence could be morphed to mean it would be a shame to replace her if things get worse, theres a tinge of greed in Christian's eyes. She knows he means it would be a shame to find someone now to replace her, assuming Red Bull just moved her to another series rather than axing her fully.

Mark's hand on the back of the chair taps twice, some sort of signal for Oscar that flies over Olivia's head, and he moves to exit the room. It takes a beat, but Olivia begins to follow.

"Consider this deal closed. She's not doing it." Mark calls, Olivia stopping next to him to keep from colliding into his shoulder as he pauses in the doorway while he speaks. Mark continues down the hall, but Olivia hesitates. Alice folds her files neatly, and Christian speaks softly.

"If you like this job, Piastri..." He makes a vague signing motion and Olivia swallows, before slamming the door shut and chasing after Mark.

8 March 2023 - Jeddah (Qualifying)

Olivia sits restless at her desk, leg bouncing as she stares over the files and numbers and data that soar by. Eyes bore into her skin, and she turns her head to see Christian staring her down. It's been a constant since she left the meeting, and though she told Mark it was nothing to worry about and that she wasn't planning on signing anything...

God, the silent pressure all weekend was practically torture.

After quali, Max wants to go over data, so Olivia sits with Hannah and GP running numbers and showing simulations for a good few hours. The race strategy had worked relatively well, but Max always had room for improvement. It was why he and Olivia were so close and worked so well together, they always wanted to do more, be more. The plan for the quali-to-win is the same is usually is for Jeddah, save for the adjustments of a faster McLaren and a biting Mercedes.

They work well into the after hours, but there's a race tomorrow, and they know at some point this conversation must be pushed for the next day. So, Hannah leaves first, then Max, and finally GP--after finishing some final notes, before bidding Olivia farewell.

She stands quietly in the board room then, packing up her purse and disconnecting form the projector they'd been using. The large black purse--a Coach tote that she could fit her whole life into, had served her better than any backpack ever had. And as Olivia is shooting a text to Max in reply to a question about tire deg, there's a shadow looming in the corner of her eyes.

And much like the monster he's become, Christian breaks into a like sharp toothed grin.

"Miss Piastri." He says simply and Olivia pauses, hand tight on her phone. Slowly turning over her shoulder, she sees Christian in the doorway.

"I already told you Christian, I'm not doing that stupid PR stunt." Olivia tightens her grasp on her phone, feeling her pulse run against the rough plastic edges of the case.

Chrsitian sighs, "While I can't fire you, I will say, we have a lot of offers for new analysts. With two, your pay would cut in half, you do realize that, right? This opportunity is a way for us to grow the team's publicity in harmless way! Just a little fake date, that we completely control, no harm done."

"You realize I could report you to HR for this entire conversation, right?" Olivia whispers, but she knows before he laughs that it doesn't matter.

"And how well has that gone for those before you, Piastri?" Christian steps forward, placing a clipboard in front of Olivia. She stares down at it, gnawing her already bitten and chapped lips. And with a nrvous smile, she picks up the pen, hesitating before she asks,

"I can always back out, right?"

"Always." Christian's grin looks downright sadistic. But Olivia bites the bullet, and signs the damn paper. More so for the feeling of Christian off her back than the actual fake dating scenario. And when her asshole team principle leaves the room with a happy grin and an evil glint in his eyes, Olivia slumps back down into one of the chairs, running her hands through her hair and contemplating screaming, or sobbing, or throwing something.

But after a moment, she picks up her bag, plasters on a content look, and forces her way out of garage without as much as a glare in the direction of Christian's office.

9 March 2023 - Jeddah (Race Day)

The Saudi Arabian sun burns across the track, making wiggly lines shimmer on the streets and through the paddocks. Two hours to sunset, four hours to the race. Olivia can taste the heat in the air, her second water bottle already empty. It's miserable. Even more so as she ducks out of a meeting her and Lando had been subjected to in order to 'ensure they seemed legit.'

Olivia just wants to back out already, but if they haven't started earning money, she imagines Christian might axe her.

The thinner uniform shirts for Saudi don't do much to regulate the heat stifling the McLaren garage as they pass through, trying to get back to the motorhomes, but an attentive Oscar cuts them off with a joking smile on his lips but a serious inquiry in his eyes.

"Ready to die in the heat?" He asks, a perfect fist bump shared between the two teammates. Olivia smiles softly, looking around the garage, noticing the camera trained in their direction, the eyes on them. Olivia never left the screen at Red Bull, so seeing her here is an oddity. What's even weirder is when Lando turns after a joke with Oscar, and gives Olivia a proper hug. A full, two arm, squish into the chest and hold type hug.

The buzz begins with Oscar's confused grimace.

To kill the moment, Lando shakes the sweat of his water bottle in Oscar's direction, making him scoff and wipe the icy water off his face. Lando grins, turning and looking at Olivia like she's hung the moon and stars for him. She can't help but be shocked at how easily he can fall into faking utter and complete love. He's a natural.

Someone calls Lando over from the other side of the paddock and as he excuses himself, he places a hand on Olivia's lower back as he moves behind her, and it lingers like the burns of stares and camera lenses. His fingers glide along the fabric of her shirt, nails scratching at the skin underneath enough to make Olivia look over her shoulder at him as he smiles at me one last time before fully stepping away..

"When do you have to be with Red Bull?" Oscar asks, drawing Olivia's attention back to him, "to see your second, more important brother."

"You're so dramatic about Max." Olivia laughs, punching her brothers arm, "and not for another like… ten or so minutes, Hannah's leading the start today."

"Ah. Surprised to see you here, is all." Oscar takes a water from a worker who hands the two siblings ice cold plastic bottles. The two both take a large gulp, relishing in the fact its actually cold, before Oscar is called off like Lando had been. As Oscar turns away, Lando pulls Olivia back to a far corner and lets her rest against it as he hovers in front of her. Shielding me from view as he runs his hands through his curls.

"So, how exactly are we handling media?" He says, "like the paparazzi, the reporters, and stuff?"

"I guess we should just act the same? Maybe a bit friendlier, just... I guess deny all romantic things for now." Olivia hums, looking over at a few media personnel who hover around the car, the team, and Oscar. The paddocks are slowly buzzing to life as everyone's arriving for the day.

"Then, you have to act like you like me a little bit, Ollie." Lando leans in a bit, breath fanning across Olivia's cheek in a tease that she isn't afraid to counter by turning her head so their noses brush. Lando sucks in a breath, his hands hovering, begging to touch to hold, but she just smiles softly.

"Gotta go, Nori." she whispers back, grinning as Lando's eyes flicker from her lips to her eyes twice before he steps back. As Olivia steps out, she calls softly,

"Tell Oscar I said not to fuck this up!"

Luckily no one had passed out during the race.

Olivia's standing at the edge of the paddock, grinning as Max shakes champagne from his hair. He's flushed, still a bit heat-exhausted, but seemingly doing well enough. The rest of Red Bull is packing up, organizers already tearing parts of the track away to free to road within a few hours of the races completion. Checo laughs at something Max says, passing by with a slap to his teammates shoulder as the second place winner goes off to leave for the night.

"We did pretty damn good," Max leans against the wall, taking a water from Olivia's outstretched hand as GP exits the paddock with a wave over his shoulder at someone.

"And we'll keep the momentum up." Olivia chimes, before a flicker of approaching papaya catches her eyes. She blinks up and grins at Oscar's approach to the exterior of the Red Bull paddocks, two steps forward and she tugs him into a loose hug.

"Nice P4." She congratulates, Oscar stepping back with a smile.

"I almost tasted that podium," Oscar smiles, then straightens a bit when he sees the Red Bull staff hovering. Every one of us in shorts and tees, and Oscar in a hoodie like no one communicated to him that it was hot.

"Hey, Max." Oscar says, wiping sweat from his face with the sleeve of his hoodie. Whistling to get her brothers attention, Olivia tosses him a plain white towel, a cold one that Red Bull had frozen for the hear. She swears Oscar almost melts with appreciation when he sees it and then promptly wipes his entire face down and rests the towel around his neck.

"Good to see you, Oscar." Max nods, leaning on the shaded wall next to Olivia. Flushed cheeks and tired eyes making GP nudge the water bottle towards him with a little less sly nature than usual, a look from Olivia telling Max to just suck it up and take a sip.

"Good to see you Max, great win today," Oscar smiles, but quickly continues, "Livie, weren't answering your phone, and I needed to give you your stuff, so I came over to tell you I've gotta stay late, meeting with Mark."

"I'll catch a ride back, no worries." Olivia pats his shoulder and he Oscar nods, lifting his phone to his face and groaning.

"Gotta go, again, see you for dinner tomorrow when you land?" Oscar starts backing up and Olivia nods. The tradition of post-race dinner never a lost art on the Piastri siblings.

"As always! Seven pm, sharp!" Olivia calls to her brothers retreating form and he nods before turning and just taking off in a run to vanish into the McLaren paddock.

"Need a ride back?" Max asks after a beat, GP tugging his backpack up over his shoulders. Olivia goes to say yes, but a whistle takes her attention sideways to Lando approaching.

"Nope. See you guys tomorrow!" Olivia can't help but cheekily grin, slipping off the wall to approach Lando who twirls his car keys absentmindedly. He smiles at her approach, adjusting his bag as he stops so Olivia can meet him midway.

"Nice to see you, Ollie... you need a ride home, right?" He grins, placing a hand on my lower back once more and Olivia doesn't hesitate to lean up to tuck a stray hair back against the others. The same curl that always pokes out of it's spot.

"I do, Oscar's late with Mark tonight." Olivia says, peeking behind her to see Max--and a newly appeared Charles, Daniel, and off to side, Logan and Alex and George, watching the two interact.

"Perfect." Lando's eyes lift to look at the group, and seconds later he's escorting Olivia with flair, his hand naturally slotting to rest a little lower than the small of her back. his steps falling in time with hers as he guides her out of the paddocks with a cheeky, "Starting strong, aren't we?"

Olivia can't help but laugh, hiding her mouth with her hand as they slip into the car park. There's a few lingering reporters here, but no large crowd for once other than some teams that linger their eyes on the closeness of Lando and his teammates sister.

"Strong starts typically lead to strong races." Olivia says as he opens the passenger door to his car for her. The sleek black McLaren a beauty, and Olivia can't hepl the happy sigh as she sinks into the passengers seat. Lando makes sure shes all tucked in, even scooting her purse a bit deeper, before shutting the door as he makes his way around the front of the car and clambering into the drivers seat.

He smirks, "At least they can't say we aren't holding up our end of the contract."

And Olivia laughs, because its true, they are doing everything in their power to make sure this contract works. And it starts making Olivia think, how quickly can she get the hell out of this? She wasn't an actress, thats for sure, but she also didn't want to piss off Oscar.

It was a unique predicament to be in. One she didn't really want. But at least conversation with Lando flows easily as they drive back to the hotel.

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[sanctus-ingenium]

we need to talk about Inprnt.com

Following a really good post with more screenshots and evidence by @dynasoar5 i'm going to talk about my own experiences with @inprnt and why I am about to put my shop on indefinite hiatus from Monday the 14th of August.

First of all I'll say that since starting my print shop last year it has been a significant help to me financially - I was able to not worry about affording car insurance or motor tax (together commonly over a thousand euro) when I bought my first car, for example. I am immeasurably grateful to anyone who chose to buy one and I treasure all the pictures I've been sent of my prints hanging up on people's walls. Right now they are displayed in a real (if small) art exhibition in my home town.

(top right print is not from inprnt though)

They're great prints. Never had any complaints about them. But here's what's going on behind the scenes.

Earlier this year, around March or April, Inprnt sales started increasing in regularity. I'd made as much as $600 a week during previous sales when I made proper promo posts here, but with this increase in regularity, I felt that I couldn't make promo posts every single week. And then one day, I'm not sure when tbh, the sale just never ended. It just didn't stop having that "Ending soon! 15% off your order" banner at the top of the site. Right now it says "Final Hours: $5 Worldwide shipping and save up to 35% off your order!" and not even for a second do I believe in this final hours bullshit. It's been 'final hours' for weeks now. Months, even.

Why is this a problem? Well, how tf am I meant to make a promo post for a sale that is always "ending soon!!" and then never ends. One week it'll say "this weekend only!!" and then when the weekend is over, the sale banner just changes its wording and the sale doesn't end. I can't promo this, it makes me look like a liar and a skeevy salesman by association! It makes the site look like it's 1 week from crashing and burning, and the site owners are just scrabbling to suck as much money from artists as possible before they drown.

And they are sucking money from us. To peel back the curtain, Inprnt money can only be transferred to my paypal account 30 days after the sale is made, just in case the order is cancelled and refunded. This means I used to make one withdrawal every couple of months, when there was enough build-up of money to make it worthwhile. It also forbids withdrawing any sum under $50 btw. I would make a withdrawal request and then, after a 10 business day wait, it would reach my Paypal account.

Not anymore! The past few withdrawals have taken over a month to complete. They are straight up keeping my earnings from me for longer the agreed period. This was my last fulfilled withdrawal:

Note the date.

Almost two months.

And here is the latest withdrawal request that still has not been fulfilled.

It's coming up on 1 month and if the pattern continues, it could literally be November or December by the time I fully clear all sales.

So what's going to happen to my print shop? Because my art is currently being exhibited with a QR code linking to the shop, I can't close the shop this week. Instead I will close it on Monday the 14th of August, next week. That means that on the 14th of September, I can withdraw all of the remaining money without having any left over. My account balance will go to 0 and stay there. Although I'll de-list my prints I will leave my account there, because at the end of the day I don't want to leave Inprnt. It still offers the best artist margins and as I'm now unemployed after graduating, the additional support is such a load off my mind. So this is a chance to wait and see - if they improve their services, I'll happily re-open.

It's a big deal to me because selling prints is sort of my ideal life as an artist. I never had the attention span or self-discipline for commission work and I found that it left me creatively stagnant. I always want to try new things, new concepts and ideas, and being able to think "yeah, people will like this as a print" while I experiment is honestly very reassuring. And I know that in going on hiatus, it'll break a lot of "buy a print" links in my circulating posts. Oh well lmao. If you want to buy a print right now - go ahead, it might be your last opportunity. Another way to support me would be to check out my ko-fi for once-off donations or some nice sketchbooks/comics/book samples you can buy, or subscribing to my Patreon.

As of right now, Inprnt owes me $381 (the unfulfilled request submitted above for $186.60 and my current standing balance of $194.80 which takes 30 days from each transaction to clear).

[soli-floris]

ᰔ — of chocolates and sweet, sweet love; will you be mine this valentine's?

btw — hi, this is roxie!! ( @rose-tinted-kalopsia ) !!about: a love and deepspace valentines fic event event duration: february 1 2025 — march 15 2025

how does this work? send me an ask with: (1) a character of your choice, (2) a genre of your choice, and — (3) either a place you'd like to go on a date, or a gift you'd like to receive! note; please view my request rules here. i can't promise to do every single request sent my way, but i will do my absolute best to!!

STATUS: completed! (1 remaining fic pending 🤍)

"solifloris valentine25" tag, masterlist below 🥰

CALEB — cozy — convenience store date; fluff. wc 1.6k

XAVIER — maybe the night — pillow fort date; fluff. wc 2k

ZAYNE — love you twice — home date; hurt/comfort. wc 3k

JEREMIAH — honey is sweeter with you — home date; fluff. wc 1.2k

LUKE & KIERAN — love countdown — receiving homemade chocolate; fluff. wc

© solifloris. all rights reserved. do not: steal, copy, repost, reupload, modify, or claim any of my works as your own, regardless of credit given. absolutely do not use my works for AI training and other related purposes.

[bewaretheidesofmarchyall]

Sunrise on the Reaping Thoughts

Chapter 1

Thoughts from the first chapter

-Haymitch's ma is so. It's going to kill me, she's so practical, she's just a normal person trying her best. That's the best (re: most agonizing) kind of Character Who's Going To Die- the kind of character who doesn't know it

-HE'S A GOOD KID :[[ he's snarky and would rather be making out with his girlfriend than doing chores, but he works hard for his family. want to get him out of there (and by there I mean the narrative) :[[[[[

-Something about the fact that he has an actual parent makes him feel even younger than the other two protagonists.

-I was expecting to get punched in the face by though I'm not a drinker, I'd had that line spoiled, but JESUS CHRIST Clerk Carmine shooting him a look that says he holds him responsible is some boiling dramatic irony. I haven't seen anyone talking about Clerk Carmine (probably because he was such a minor character in Ballad that he got left out of the movie) but I know! I finished re-reading Ballad today! To me, it was just yesterday that he was a 12-year-old kid, and now he's trying to raise his niece (who's Maude Ivory's kid btw, which is even more of a mindfuck) and she's going to die, because she's dating Haymitch Abernathy

-homophobia canon to Panem. alas

-HAYMITCH ABERNATHY AN ALLY THOUGH! AT LEAST HAYMITCH ABERNATHY IS AN ALLY ASJSJJSJSJJSJS

-Why the fuck are so many people saying that Leonore Dove is just Lucy Gray again. She's very much not. Yeah, the name is similar (intentionally in-universe), and whether or not the premise of her was a good idea (regardless of fun execution) is a fair enough question, but I like her and, having just read Ballad today, their personalities are clearly very different.

-Asterid March...Katniss's mom as a teenager is so. Seeing her before her grief is making me want to start climbing the walls. She was so good. And also really highlighting how terrible it is that Katniss and Prim nearly starved- where were their grandparents from the merchant side of the family? Not giving a shit!

-Really like the Choices for the aesthetics of the Capitol rule here. The escort dressed up in military chic, the insistence that if kids don't show up to the Reaping dresses nice then they're disrespecting the Capitol war dead, the montages of Capitol military might playing on the tv screens that feel straight out of a US Army commercial, NO CAPITOL, NO PEACE. PRESIDENT SNOW #1 PEACEKEEPER posters

-and the Reaped tributes...Maysilee Donner is so flawed, Wyatt had almost aged out of this shit, Louella's thirteen, and none of them know they're gonna die. Oh, and the Chance family still causing trouble 💜 rest in peace Woodbine Chance, you tried to make a run for it. unfortunately that means they had to shoot you and pick another boy. wonder who

TLDR:

With he being Haymitch Abernathy and there being The Narrative

[itzzzzzzyyyyydaaaaa]

it’s a long rant btw…so you can stay or not.🙂

ykw fuck it. it’s MY blog i can say what i wanna say.

March 22nd 2024 was the day Alexey came into my life and we got together a week or two after we met. At the time, we were both very scared to ask each other out because we both wanted to get to know each other. After some time, i asked her to be my girlfriend.

Which was March 22nd. We started calling, playing games, and texting non stop unless she was busy. Which, i get. But us being clingy, we always messaged each other until one of us replied. Sometimes HOURS would go by and still have 20+ messages from one another.

Then while dating we got to know each other more like, our real names, or what we really were like outside of tumblr. And it was a nice thing to know about. We really shared common interests and liked a lot of the same things.

Now, during all this, she would get very sick during car rides and she couldn’t be on the phone too long cs she would get dizzy. Once she got home we would text, or send pictures of each other to save or to just make each other smile. Sometimes i would sleep almost half past noon, and would wake up to one or two pictures of her.

No. We weren’t a perfect couple. We had our small arguments, and we had our really full blown out arguments to the point where it was “No i don’t want to” when we would ask each other something.

And that’s okay! Because if you don’t have an argument, most of the time…it’s not healthy. But that’s just my opinion. Yeah yeah yeah. I know we all say “Oh my god she showed me true love” … “She taught me-‘ NO. Alexey really did show true mother fucking love to me. Because she treated me a way that no one else had ever treated me. And that’s what made me fall for her even harder.

During the summer, i fucked up and got grounded and was told i would never get my phone back. I was so pissed with myself because i knew i was going to lose Alexey.

Then Come August, i was able to use my friends tumblr and talk with Alexey during school hours which, was a little bit hard…Got caught about 5 times with a phone…

And then…when i thought things would get better just after our 6th month anniversary….

September 27th, 2024…

i opened up tumblr to a break up message. My heart shattered and i cried at school. Begging and pleading asking if i did something wrong that i would and could fix it. Anything and everything just to keep her… just to have her…

It was school. School was getting harder for her since she had finals and i understood that. It just didn’t help the fact that it still hurt. That night, i messaged her and was talking to her until she just went complete radio silent. It was already 1 in the morning for her. So i just brushed it off and said “Maybe she fell asleep. She’ll msg me tomorrow!”

Boy was i so wrong..

Two weeks later i find out her dad found out about us. Forced her to give him her phone, and he broke it. and for about a month, i was speaking with her friend Artu. He is the sweetest boy i’ve ever met. And when we would call while she was at school he would always say

“Hey girl that’s dating my gay best friend” And never “Hey Ari” And the name stuck. It wasn’t until he started msging me telling me what was going on. They made Alexey switch schools. Good thing was Artu and Alexey had the same Art class at a certain location. So he got to see her every now and then. And that’s how i would get info about Alexey.

Then i got my phone back for a little bit till i fucked up again.

February 11th, 2025.

Alexey deactivated her account.

February 16th, 2025.

Just 5 days later…i found out she deactivated

i have missed her since then. Not as much as i do now. I recently went on spotify and saw she updated her profile. She had not touched it since we broke up.

So i changed my name to “Alexey come back please” last night. This morning. I woke up to her following my second account

so to try and get her to come back so we can talk again, i changed my first account to “Alexey(her real name)comebacktomepls”

and i made a playlist that has my pinterest account. And to know that its rlly her, i put on their for her to msg me my real name.

I have had so much anxiety since this morning and my head keeps bringing up scenarios that scare me because i haven’t talked to her in 9 months. So i’m very scared if she’s found someone else or not.

I cried days after we broke up because i was so heartbroken and sad. But that’s everyone…right?

I pray to god that she comes back. Because me @pink-vacancy and @jennissera miss her. When i told them abt her spotify acc, they both got so happy. So i pray she finds my pinterest, gets my tumblr and we can talk again…

[6feathered6siren6]

Winding back the clock

Trigger warnings

Death/gore

Killing the main love interests

Being dilutional

Spoilers of the good/bad ending of love interests

Note: This was inspired by a song, "Again & Again" and reminded me of this game. Anyway enjoy, I will continue this idea with small tidbits, don't know if it would be in order yet, but this is one is at least. Btw rolled a d20 for how this story went, I rolled a nat 1. So be prepared, it's kinda angsty.

P1, P2, P3, P4, P5

𓆩☠︎︎𓆪

September 31st, 11:50 pm. Again.

You have been through this for how long now? Years? You don’t remember, but you remember when it started. 

『00:01』

You didn’t know The Devil Butcher’s name in time, and there was no way out. You had stabbed him, felt the red, hot liquid on your hands, stained them from that moment one. His laughter filled the alleyway. Forever ringing in your ears. His bloody toothy grin was his last movement before the light from his eyes vanished. 

You ran home, you felt his spirit taunting you. His laughter still rings in your ears. No matter how many times you shower, wash your hands until they bleed themselves. You can still feel his blood on them. 

You felt your phone ping, it was Angel. You felt her anger through the letters and words. Then Ronin’s account texting you, then felt like your body was light and saw black. 

-

As you came to, you saw your bedroom ceiling. Not the bathroom. You swore you were there. And you swore you were wearing different clothing, ones painted in red. Not… your cartoon pajamas. Did someone come in here? You check your phone which didn’t have that crack when you dropped it near thanksgiving. Turning it on, September 31st, 202X, 11:50 pm. 

Did.. Did you go back in time? You stared at your phone screen for a moment, you felt so much fear. You looked at your bright computer screen and saw Ronin’s invite to the server. 

This has to be a dream, like it can't be true. Right?

『00:02』

You chalked it up to some weird dream of showing you the future if you loved Ronin. You couldn’t go down the path of falling in love with him again. You couldn’t. You still hear his laughter, your hot covered hands. Instead, you went to the most chaotic member of the server, Misaki. 

You had them in your arms. Her smile was bright, and full of love. Her crossed dazed eyes stared at yours. They were gonna go assassinate someone, but you had to stay at your place while it happened. At least you can text and call, right?

-

You heard the shot through the phone. Her saying ‘I love you.’ and ‘Not your fault.’. But it was, you allowed yourself to let them call you. You knew not to, and you did it anyway. Misaki was dead. And it's your fault. You could feel weight built up on you. Another death you caused. Another soul staring you down. 

You felt your phone ping. You look at it, Ronin and a few others are spam calling you. Ronin knows you did it. There is only so much time you could get away from him, you had to leave, find some protection. The moment your hand was on your doorknob. 

You blinked.

You’re back to your computer screen. Back to September 31st, 202X, 11:50 pm. 

This had to be a dream, right? Like some weird psychic dream. This can’t be real, you can’t have two people’s blood on your hands. 

『00:03』

V, V was a sweetheart in your opinion. And you tried to not be murdered or murder anyone else. Telling him straight out, no, you are not a killer. Well, in reality? Right? And that, he should try and not put Ronin in prison, giving him the freedom from death or going there at all. Or, paying back that you weirdly killed him in a dream. 

You went through Luca and Feli’s whole drama of not dating each other. Helping them again for the third time. Your dream predicted this situation twice, three times now. 

Vince’s Christmas dinner was three times correct. Or ‘March is for murder’ again. Feli and Luca’s whole “Is Vince and Ai Hua dating or MARRIED?!” debacle. Christmas call, then Ronin either giving a shovel talk or rizzing you up himself. 

Three times true. Your dilution is tough shelled, that had to be some messed dream. That showed the future… 

V was arrested. 

It still hurts so much, he might die either in there or on some death sentence. You didn’t know. They didn’t arrest you, leaving you on a whole new warrant. You had limited time. 

That same ping. The same message of something went wrong. The same ping of ‘You fucked up.’ You were screwed.

Your hands gripping onto your skull, turning your knuckles white and feeling blood run down your head. Your eyes shut close, hurting them. And Ping! You opened your eyes.

It was your computer screen. Back to September 31st, 202X, 11:50 pm. 

Maybe… maybe it’s not a dream…

『00:04』

Maybe the Angel was the path to take on, like, you murdered two in a dream(Which you are still questioning if it was real.) and another was arrested. Like, she can’t be killed or arrested. Right?

-

You had to fucking jinxed it. YOU HAD TO.

As Ronin was going to your house, the clock hit 3:25 pm and it was back to square one. Back to the beginning, getting that same invite. 

『00:05』

What if saving them worked, what if not being manipulated and fucking everything up. To try and save them.

Would it work? 

Ronin? You made out in the alleyway and him saying your book was good, and that he loved you.

Back to square one.

Misaki, you didn’t call her, didn’t indulge their call. They came out alive and you guys were having an amazing time. 

Back to the computer and hearing that dreadful ping.

V, you didn’t get him arrested, he stayed at your place for a while, and when he said your book was great. 

Another tally to this just being a dream, right? 

Right?

And with Angel, she shot her manager. Her bloody lips kissing while you help her clean up. The moment you are in bed, you are back into your own chair, staring at the fucking blinding screen. 

It didn’t work.

『00:09』

What about them getting arrested? That had to be it. The good ending. It had to be.

The text for everyone, that they should hide, was scary to you. It felt real. No one is dying nor falling in love. This had to be it.

You shut your eyes while on your bed. March 10, 202XX. Taking a breath. This had to be it…. But it wasn’t. Your eyes saw the search engine and your socials with the red dot. 

This is a time loop. Isn’t it?

『00:10』

Seeing your computer again, and the awful ping sound. You were sick of this. You were in a time loop, now… how to get out of this? Like, there had to be. 

Joining the server again, guessing the password right, you knew what would happen, the text and the welcoming. 

You just stared at your bright, digital device as you sighed. Until… an idea popped in your head. This is a time loop. You go back in time 9 times already. What if… you go the way you wanted?

You decide to flirt with Ronin again, play his games, but be corrupted just like him. 

-

It was December, and you stood in this alleyway alone with a corpse. He was an asshole to you throughout the night. You were just walking around when he decided to try and pursue you. You sit on a crate looking at the body, in your past time lines, you looked a lot into murder, the ways people killed, how they disposed, their alibis. You could take one out of Angel’s book and eat him. You never had human meat. You knew some of the effects of eating your own kind. You twiddled your weapon in your hands, a metal rod that was nearby when you attacked him. It was rusted, but now stained with blood. 

It’s also weird to you, you thought when you killed someone with your own bare hands, in your own accord, it would be different. Not… emotionless, like now. You got off the crate and walked closer to the dead person. His head was bleeding quite a lot. Heck, you smashed his head in, to the point you could see his brains. Maybe you could pin it on someone, put the weapon in another’s hands. 

“Now that's a sight for the divine.”

You turn your head to see Ronin, his crowbar was also stained in red. His grin was widder, more sinful in your taste. The man you fell for the first timeline, the original. His combat boots were loud as he took a step forward to you. 

His chuckle pierced your heart again. His warm hand coddled your cheek, his thumb wiping the blood off of you. 

“You might steal my heart by stealing this view, Darlin’.”

You proved yourself, proved that you do kill. And this time, not him. You leaned into his hand, the warmth that radiated off of him. 

“Not some pretty little innocent writer, huh?”

You could hear his grin. His pride and ego. As much as you hated it. You loved it. 

“Let me help finish up here, then we can talk. I want to know everything.”

𓆩☠︎︎𓆪

You told Ronin everything, well, except for the whole time loop thing, and him dying in the first timeline. Why did you kill that asshole and how? You dropped the stained metal rod into garbage. One that would be thrown out in the morning, before the body gets found. 

He holds you close to him, holding your shoulder. Like he’s teaching you. He is guiding you to somewhere. But where?

“You did so well, lost, little lamb.” Lost, little lamb… you pondered on that nickname, you were never called that before. Maybe instead of being called a fallen angel, but it's now ‘little lamb’. You changed a major course and still got his love. You didn’t guess his name, and went straight to him, falling more in love with you. And it’s December, anytime before you start dating, it was February, or a major change was in March, ‘the ending’.

You decided to see how far you can take with these timelines. How far can it take you?

“Ronin���” You mumbled out softly, you looked at him. You finally see that it was snowing. “I…” Your feelings from the original time loop were burning again. You remember that any person you flirt with would date you in February, not December. So you couldn’t take it so far, right?

“I really like you, Ronin.” You blurted out. That was not what you wanted to say. You felt your face burn up. Even he was shocked that you said that before he started laughing. 

“Tell it to me proudly and with no shame, huh?” His grip was tighter, his smile had joy in it. Not like a joke, but with pride. “Can you carve out your own aorta then? Give it to me on a platter.” 

Your face burns as blood rushes through, but you nod. “I will.”

“Good.”

-

It was a week after your first kill. Your first kill of your accord. Ronin seemed to act more romantically towards you. He was also acting kinder to you in his own sadistic way. He even brought you to his killings as dates. Everything seems to be going your way for months. Until March 10th. The day you return back. 

You were feeling sentimental, you didn’t know if you were going back yet. You were laying on Ronin’s bed, next to him. He was surprisingly asleep, he was busy the day before working at his job, late as well. Some rich guy needed his car fixed right away. Paying double to get it fixed right away. 

He was holding you to his chest, his hand was in your hair. Your arms were around him. You were wishing to stay there in his arms. The clock was ticking down, closer and closer… Your eyes shut, it was only Ronin’s breathing that filled the quiet. 

Then Ping!

You were back in your uncomfortable desk chair, in front of the screen.

『00:19』

You felt nothing, any sweet moments you had with anyone were gone again. No one knows, no one that can help you. You felt despair. The moments with V, him holding you, or tending to his animals with, Angel, helping her manage, or just doing her makeup for a video. Misaki, the moments planning an assassination, or having dumb, loveable dates with them. Or Ronin, learning how to fix a car and giving him tools, or playing on his Gameboy with him. 

They felt nothing to you. If this was timeloop, repeating over and over. You are gonna take control, not what ifs anymore, you want to see how far this can go. Killing Angel’s manager way too early to support her, or sending Misaki anonymous messages on their assassin request board that they are great and to keep it up. Helping V by capturing the killers he was planning to find and tie them up for him. Except for Ronin, and for Ronin. What if you carve out aortas and left them in his alleyway. You want to see how chaotic you can make these timeloops be. Because whoever put you here, you won’t be trapped with them, but they will be trapped with you. No matter how insane you get. 

* ‧̍̊˙· 𓆝.° ｡˚𓆛˚｡ °.𓆞 ·˙‧̍̊ * ‧̍̊˙· 𓆝.° ｡˚𓆛˚｡ °.𓆞 ·˙‧̍̊

I have more to come, wrote a few already but thought to share what I have. Sorry if it seem dramatic or confusion. It was meant to be that way. (1/?)

Words: 2,233

[covid-safer-hotties]

Hi there, I ordered some of the Jackson duckbill N95s from the sale at JB Tools you were posting about previously. They just came in the mail and they expired in March 2022! I expected them to expire soon since they were on clearance, but not three whole years ago! There was no indication of their expiration date from the sale listing. That is terribly unsafe. (I don’t blame you for this, btw.) I just want to get the word out to people who might have ordered. The expiration date was only printed on the box for me (I ordered enough that they shipped in the original box). If they were repackaged for shipping in smaller quantities, I was worried that people might not be able to tell if they are expired. I left a comment on the original post, but was concerned that might not draw enough attention. Please share (or not) as you see fit. Thank you for all you do!

1% difference in fit factor of 10-year-old N95s compared to new N95s

[simstationdance]

HAPPY BIRTHIVERSARY part 1 - THE SIMS 2 IS 20???

FUN FACT: The Sims 2 (2004) was released 3 days before the date upon which I was released from my mother's womb, therefore making me younger than The Sims 2 by 3 days as of September 14th 2024, but objectively older by 6 years as of September 17th 2024. The march of time is inevitable and frightening! Let's celebrate!

Admittedly I didn't have very much to give when it came to sharing content for the Sims 2's anniversary because I've been battling the Chronic Exhaustion Demon, but then I realized I still haven't released those hair colors I showed a while back. And then I realized I could share EVEN MORE content by spreading it out across a few days instead of condensing it into one day. And it just so happens that, as stated above, there are two special occasions (for me at least... lol) close together on the calendar. SO. HERE'S SOME COOOONTEEEENT.

Today's bundle is mainly a resource for creators who use GIMP 2.x, and includes 11 UNNATURAL HAIR COLORS in the form of Curves that can be used on just about any texture you want, as long as you use it on a Volatile base These only come in Curve form, but if anyone would like to convert them into Photoshop actions, you're more than welcome to.

The colors are named, in order of appearance above: Sapphire, Tanzanite, Azurite, Alexandrite, Moonstone, Aquamarine, Bloodstone, Ruby, Entropy, Blue Moon, and Lily. You can read more about them under the cut.

DOWNLOAD (sfs)

(btw I made the Gemstone colors and the Alien black and brown a year ago, and I made Ruby and Lily this year, which is why they're in separate folders in the .zip)

The Gemstone colors were inspired by, of course, gemstones. They were my first attempt at making a hair color palette of my own. Out of them all, Moonstone, Bloodstone, and Alexandrite are my favorites.

I wanted to go for something fantastical. I also wanted to push GIMP's Curve function to the limit and see how many shades I could put into one color without it looking like garbage.

I use Bloodstone, Moonstone, and Aquamarine as Red, Blond, and Grey respectively in my (still hypothetical) Alien hair color family.

Entropy - intended to be alien "black", a very desaturated indigo color. since Alien sims born in game typically have black hair genetics (unless using a pt mod that changes this), I wanted it to really stand out against both the Maxis mint green and any alternative Alien themed skin tones despite its overall 'plainness'.

Blue Moon - intended to be alien "brown", I wanted to go for a color that was strange and unsettling in comparison to human brown hair. I think I originally intended it to be more blue but it came out more desaturated teal instead. Attempts to change this made it too similar to Entropy for my liking, so I left it as it is.

These colors were originally created and named after the sims I specifically made them for, and I was going to use them only on a small handful of hairs. But I liked the shades so much that I decided to incorporate them into my personal palette. And so, with that in mind, it didn't feel right to keep them to myself.

'Lily' maintained its name as a color, but 'Ruby' was renamed to what it is now. In my game I bin them as Brown and Black respectively because they're meant to be considered 'dyes' in-universe and I wanted to be able to make their associated sims in CAS without having to make them go to the mirror in-game every time I put them in a new hood, but you can do whatever you want with them lol.

[acheronist]

hold on WHAT i was lovingly invested in peglarmitage and all the updates as like. my beloved ghost blorbo-in-laws from you but can we. if that was the speedrun can we snail crawl. can we go back to literally all of that how do i learn more??

TAKE MY HAND !!!!!!!!!! COME WITH ME

ok so fair warning a lot of the dates are accurate bc i'm a freak & i can get screenshots of all the lines henry wrote if you want, but i'm lazy and this answer is already going to be long as FUCK so lmk if you want to see those later. and also i'm looking at this whole thing with my rpf goggles SECURELY FASTENED bc i like my yaoi historically accurate and well cited. ok buckle in for this snail crawl thru the approximate timelines of their lives.

december ?? 1805 - thomas armitage born

april 24, 1807 - thomas armitage baptized

february 22, 1812 - henry peter peglar born

november 29, 1813 - henry and his older sister elizabeth are baptized in a two-for-one dunk'em special in westminster. their family lives like a 3 minute walk away from the abbey.

january 9, 1821 ~ march 27 1822 - thomas working as shipsboy on hms bulwark. he is sixteen.

march 28 ~ december 5 1822 - thomas working as shipsboy on hms gloucester

december 6 1822 ~ november 30 1823 - thomas working on hms briton and goes from ships boy, then seaman (dec 1 1823 - august 31 1825)

august 4, 1825 - henry is admitted to the marine society "for destitute boys and training seamen". he is thirteen. his dad owns a gunsmithing shop but clearly they are a working class family. his dad votes for politically radical figures (politician who thinks workers deserve some say over the land and work they tend to, rather than abiding by traditional english landlord/farmer dynamics)

september 1825 - henry is assigned to hms solebay as an extra shipsboy for training after a single month in the navy's charity bootcamp for miserable boys who can't afford their own dinner.

december 14 1825 - henry is discharged from solebay with good character and gets sent to hms clio. within months he's transferred again to hms magnificent, which was a hospital ship, and he works as a shipsboy. he sailed to jamaica for the first time

1826-1827 - henry works on hms rattlesnake. in his career account he mentions working on hms serapis (stationed in port royal) but there are no ship records / musters which include him being aboard at this time. its ok though i trust him. he should have seen inagua, port au prince, havana, montedo, santiago de cuba, chagres, bermuda, and halifax.

october 26, 1826 - thomas armitage (bachelor) and celia murray (spinster) married in gillingham parish (his parents are their witnesses. presumably no one in the family is literate as they all sign the wedding certificate with Xs. (this is the same parish that the hartnell brothers attended btw which has nothing to do with anything but i think is interesting. neighbors!)) thomas is twenty one.

july 6 1827 - thomas and cecila's first child (also named cecila) is christened

september 1 1827 - henry is paid off from hms rattlesnake at woolwich dockyard. here's some maps for your context and interest

september 3 1827 - henry joins hms perseus at the tower of london.

september 14 1827 - henry is sent to hms prince regent in chatham.

end half of 1827 - henry is involved with Something (the portion of the page in his account where he talks about this is straight up missing / disintegrated due to damage from the arctic) involving an apprentice, and thusly he is discharged from prince regent as a consequence (?) for it. no source no facts no evidence but i suspect he was supposed to be training someone in the rigging and they fell and died on his watch.

april 29 1828 - henry joins the east india company aboard the marquis camden heading for st helena, mumbai, and china. henry writes that the ship was struck by lightning and he sees a sergeant and a private killed by the lightning strike. henry is seventeen. the marquis camden stops by paracels, singapore, and krakatoa before returning to the english channel in july

july 1828 - henry joins the blockade ship ramillies, which was investigating smuggling btwn england and france. the captain of this ship is a notorious sadist who issued crazy numbers of lashings as punishment like they were nothing and henry said Okay fuck this i'm out, and moved to the tender ship hms antelope which was also involved in this smuggling investigation work in the same area at the same time.

december 3 1828 - thomas and cecila's second child (gabriel) is christened

1829 - henry returns to the navy abord hms talavera. the same sadist captain from the ramillies takes over the ship and henry gets spooked. probably from all the lashings.

september 15 1829 - henry writes to be discharged from talavera and rejoins the marquis camden

october 20, 1831 - thomas and cecila's third child (elizabeth) is christened

february 14 1832 - henry's still on on the marquis camden (sailing for st helena, mumbai, penang, singapore, and macau)

january 1833 - henry does NOT include this year in his account of his career due to the fact that he was disrated from foretop captain to ordinary seaman, confined in irons, and punished with 2 dozen lashes for drunkenness and mutinous conduct and probably didn't want FE searchers to think badly of him for this. he DOES write that a chief mate was shot while he was aboard tho. #hesinnocent #freepeglar #solidarity

may 12 1833 - thomas and cecila's fourth child (joshua william) is christened

april 4 1834 - henry joins hms gannet, but somehow, gets disrated four times in four years. so he's going from foretop captain -> gunner crew -> coxswain -> able seaman. later on in the arctic, while writing his career account, henry claims that he "joined tom ship gannett" while running out of space on the page, which isn't quite accurate bc henry was aboard gannet first and then tom arrived, but russell potter and i both think this may just be a reference to the fact that their friendship started around this time. and he literally has brain scurvies :( he can misremember a little bit its fine i trust him.

may 7 1834 - thomas joins hms gannet (gunroom steward) and signs an X (still illiterate) for his allotment to be sent home to cecelia.

christmas thru NYE 1834 -> 1835 -

!!!!! RPF SPECULATION ALERT!!!!!!! but in the wallet henry mentions a party that happened in "the old sitty of cumanar" i.e. cumana venezuela. this is the only point in his entire career where he's spending time in cumana. he crashes a beach christmas party which is hosted by some american girls, one of whom is quite hauty and reminds him of queen caroline (who got very publicly divorced in westminster in the 1820s and he probably remembered well from his childhood). another fragment from the wallet mentions "the party wot happened at trinadad" which is the next nearest port, and again, this is the only time in his career where henry would have logistically been able to stop and visit and party at this port. its literally the holidays who fucking careesssss. Another page from the wallet mentions "[...] trinadad laying in asham bay" and is likely also in reference to this period of his life. so anyways i think this is when he and tom started having an affair & part of why henry was getting disrated so often is part of his 'punishment' for getting caught screwing around with thomas.

.......meanwhile…......

january 2 1835 - thomas and cecila's fifth child (harriet) is christened

june 23 1835 - thomas leaves gannet (i suspect as punishment for screwing around with henry)

june 24 1835 ~ march 14 1836 - thomas joins hms serpent as captain's steward

march 5 1837 ~ january 14 1839 - thomas joins hms hercules as gunroom steward. his character is noted as good.

february 1838 - henry gets discharged from hms gannet and joins hms temeraire as an AB seaman. his service and conduct is "indifferent". he probably loses this job bc temeraire (despite an impressive record of never dying at sea or in battles) gets ordered to be broken up. here's a beautiful painting by jmw turner FROM 1838!!! OF THE SHIP!!! so this is what it looked like when henry was there :)

1838 - henry briefly joins hms ocean to reclimb the rank back up to captain of the fo'c'sle.

february 11 1839 ~ october 14 1839 - thomas joins hms cleopatra as gunroom steward. his character is noted as good.

november 22 1839 ~ may 6 1839 - thomas joins hms fantome as captain's steward, and then works as ship's cook from may 7 1842 ~ december 31 1842, and then commander's steward from jan 1 1843 - october 20 1843. his character is noted as "very bad" (!!!!!!!) while aboard fantome.

december 2 1839 - hms wanderer heads for the west coast of africa to work in anti-slavery patrols along the west coast of africa. there's a looooooot of british colonial powergrab nuance here which you can look into on your own time. i don't want to speculate about how henry felt during all of this so i shall simply say: #yfip

august 1842 - wanderer sails for india and then china and sees some heavy action in the first opium war. george hodgson and william gibson are also aboard wanderer at this time #bestievibesonly there's malay pirates and chinese sailors trying to kill these british fuckos and everyone gets incredibly fucked up and a lot of people almost die (not henry tho. he gets a promotion and is officially captain of the foretop again. his character is very good). another great instance of #yfip can someone please get the callout post drafted already

june 27 1844 - henry gets discharged in england from wanderer. he spent a few months on shore FINALLY and i hope he got to see his family a little bit at least but it seems like he was most likely busy trying to purchase a pub in westminster so he could retire from being used and abused by the imperial navy war machine, and then ran out of money. he's a real one for sure.

july 8 1844 ~ april 25 1845 - thomas working as gunroom steward aboard hms dee. his character is noted as good.

march 11 1845 - henry signs onto hms terror as foretop captain under captain FRANCIS RAWDOG MOIRA CROZIER. henry leaves no allotment so he was keeping his paycheck for himself.

april 29 1845 - thomas joins hms terror as the gunroom steward he DOES leave an allotment so his paycheck is getting sent home to cecilia and he still signs off on this with an X (still illiterate). i can't even begin to imagine how fucking crazy it must have felt for them to see each other on the deck of terror for the first time and realize they've got the next several years stuck together on the same ship in the arctic. l m a o.

winter 1845 ~ 1846 - the expedition overwinters at beechey island. jorrington and jartnell and liam die and get buried. jarts and liam were erebus' problem, but it's very very very likely that thomas was helping out peddie and mcdonald on terror and acting as an in-situ nurse/assistant while torrington was sick and dying. i like to think maybe henry had some useful advice for tom from his time as a shipboy on a hospital ship (magnificent). rpf is fine. henry begins writing his backwards ass diary somewhere around here.

april 21 1847 - henry writes the open c poem

september 1847 - henry writes down another page and to be so real with u i can't tell if it's poetry or if it's a journal due to a big ass hole in the center of the page. but he wrote it! and the top is dated september __ 1847

april 20 1848 (probs) henry writes a coded diary page about what's going on aboard terror / officers are promising the men new boots (likely their normal seaboots with nails stuck thru to act as cleats on the ice) before they all abandon ship and begin walking / how he thinks tom has left clothes out that wont thaw in time / someone who looks like a marine is getting bossy

1848 ~ EARLYYYYY 1850 I'M NOT GIVING THEM MUCH MORE TIME TO LIVE THAN THAT TBH - henry continues to write poetry about sailing on open water, and writing backwards diary entries , and archiving his recollections of his time in warmer climates when he was young and handsome and attending parties with fruit where people were singing and dancing. there are several references to tom in his journals, most notably is a tangent thought in the middle of a sentence abt smth else where henry refers to him as 'all my art tom'. henry notoriously has difficulties with knowing where Hs actually go in words, and he likely meant "all my heart tom". at some point he is so concerned about the potential of being lost and forgotten in the arctic that he wrote down an account of his own career and he keeps it in his wallet next to his navy ID papers. at some point henry dies, probably from lead poisoning / scurvy / the cold / etc. it was awful to live thru and we know this. thomas survives him, and carries henry's wallet as the surviving men continue trekking south under crozier's command. i imagine initially it was a "i'll make sure this gets home for you" sort of thing based on their history together, and then turned into "oh god i'm not getting out of here either, time to bet everything i have on keeping his writing safe for when someone finds our dead remains in the future"

1850(ish i think) - thomas leaves terror camp in just his steward's uniform, with a clothes brush, a folding hair comb, a six pence coin, a half sovereign coin, no shoes (?), and henry's wallet containing his poetry (safely wrapped in newspaper and leather and tucked against his chest) and walks to the south shoreline of king william island. he probably admires the ocean for one last time, presuming it wasn't frozen over, and then lays down on top of the wallet, facedown, and dies.

march 3 1854 - all franklin expedition personnel are declared dead. his arrears are given to next of kin (i can't figure out if they're sent to his older sister elizabeth or his mother sarah)

may 25 1859 - francis mcclintock (my fucking enemy. me in hell like WHERE IS MCCLINTOCK.) is searching king william island at the behest of jane franklin for clues about WHAT THE FUCK HAS HAPPENED. he comes across thomas' skeleton, disarticulated but still face down along a ridge peninsula known as gladman's point. these are the only human remains within a 30 mile stretch from the last sign of terror camp at washington bay. mcclintock takes henry's wallet and the comb/brush/some surviving buttons/tom's neckerchief with him back to england but leaves thomas' skeleton behind. here's an engraving of mcclintock finding tom + a stenograph of the artifacts they took from him (left hand side, you can see the clothes brush getting moved btwn shots). the folding hair comb initially had brown hairs still caught in the teeth, but the hairs have since disappeared </3 but thomas and henry both were listed on official paperwork as having brown hair. make of this what you will.

??????????????? idk. thomas skeleton continued exposure to the elements :(

july 20 1973 - the 1st battalion royal canadian regiment is doublechecking mcclintock's notes and refind the skeleton. they take photos of thomas' bones in situ and also after they'd been arranged on a piece of plywood. they decide somehow the partial skeleton was a guy that was 6 ft tall which is generous but technically in line with thomas' height considering he wasn't fully there and there's some room for error. they find some cloth covered buttons, a pearl button, and some scraps of wool coat. they then shipped his bones to the canadian museum of history in ottawa. allegedly the museum received the bones. they make a cairn tho + put up a plaque on the spot though

hi tom.

2018 - i watch the first ep of the terror by amc and get bored bc its a lot of white guys who look the same. i have college to be worrying about at this point lol

2020 - i finish watching the terror by amc and go Hey was that subplot about the gay dude with the wallet real or what. can i see what he actually wrote? not really? damn thats crazy ok anyways whatever time to be really depressed

2022 - thomas' skeleton whereabouts are still "unknown" by the canadian museum of history in ottawa when current FE researchers start asking Hey what the fuck man

2024 - i rewatch the terror and get SERIOUS about a facsimile, and start blogging about my descent into madness <3

2025 - actual historians start helping me out with sourcing legible copies of the papers inside the wallet so i can do the facsimile. i continue blogging like an insane man trying 2 spread the good word about these dead dudes. and you're up to date now congrats

[redjayson]

Hi! It's almost time for the progress report again! I was going to ask next week, but my parents are visiting so I will clean the entire house and forget about stuff due to stress soooo.

You posted a new chapter of Baby's first SVSSS fic (which was really great btw) and the febuwump (which just occasionally haunts me). How are you doing with the big bang? We're finally in the time frame where stuff is getting posted and most people have posted a teaser before that. Are you going to post a teaser too? I am so curious about what your fic will be, so I figured I'd ask!

No pressure obviously, I'm pretty sure the word count of your big bang entry is the size of an entire novel (or two)

end of the month means progress report tiiime. was about to respond to this post all "woe is me I've not written much this month" but then I actually checked my spreadsheet and it turns out I've written 25k so far and there's still a week left so ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Baby's First SVSSS Fic (I've got 2.2k of chapter 5 written already, yay!)

blood and seafoam (I'm going to finish this fic in february, goddammit! I swear I am. chapter three is currently 9k + like 1-2k in my notebook that I need to type up. it may well end up being split into two chapters to post; the three chapters was a guesstimate on my part)

big bang fic (I'm still putting in a good amount of work editing it; total word count is still hovering in the 120k range, but there's 21 chapters total and I usually add to my word count while editing lmao. I have an official posting date, though! march 9, mark your calendars, everyone. I'm going to post the first 5-6 chapters then; I may post a teaser beforehand, but we'll have to see)

omegaverse jinlan city fic (added a bit to this, so now chapter 3 is 3.7k)

shrine maiden au (about halfway through my big bang fic I wrote something that made me go 'hey that base idea could be used in another fic' and thus the shrine maiden au was born. I wanted it to be short and fun and almost immediately porn but you know me. it's currently 5.5k and binggeyuan have only just kissed)

I signed up for Fandom Trumps Hate (with two offers) and the MXTX Remix 2025, so that's three guaranteed fics at some point! obviously I don't know any details for them yet (and even once I do I won't be able to share much until the fics are posted), but that will be happening this year :D

[emilydorp]

I got some questions about GTOP dmed and thought, "Hey, these are pretty good, Imma make a post to make up for the fact that I don't post as much as I wish to! :)) Alllllll of this is me making educated guesses btw. And is looooong and full of me rambling (all my posts are me rambling tbh). And also, full of my sass, none of which is directed at the absolute SWEETIE that asked me these questions (I'm sorry).

a) So basically, I'd like to know about them from the start, before their debut? Were they dating at the time? Or did they start dating in 2010-11?

-> Since I'm planning to make this post as complete as possible, I'll try and attach almost everything that I can find for now and everything that's CREDIBLE. There's many things I have no receipt for (cuz like I said in my first post ever, I started after watching the Secret Garden Parody, so very un-seriously), I apologize. An anecdotal piece of advice; read Ruinwyn's fics, she spent a while researching GTOP to write her canon fics realistically and also has future telling abilities.

www.tumblr.com/couleursdautomne/37333885043/toptopia-for-062518-host-top-first-top

(omg I lowkey wanna play that agree/disagree game she did here but don't dare to ask y'all.. so I'm asking here XP Do you wanna play this game? Pretty please say yes :"")))))).

Btw Tabi later confirms that he first met GD in 2000.

GD confirmed anecdote 6 himself via an Insta like (but a version where Ji held his hand and walked off instead of him holding his waist.. which just shows that these things can be true but are also over exaggerate a lot, like how 20 is possible because it can be that the fan account is over exaggerating this interaction) and confirmed other anecdotes from a few of the sources within this anecdote list + many of them are from reliable sources BUT! The disclaimer in the beginning is true, there are a few that aren't real yet get spread around (for example, 4... seriously, they'd never (imho).. and also they don't fight like cats and dogs, they themselves made it clear that their friendship was NEVER like that).

Also: YB posting this for the translator (not in relation to this post).. tears in my EYES so sweet (Honestly, if GD wasn't such a fabulous relatable honey bun, YB would've been my bias; the man he is).

But really, pre debut is mysterious for me as well, since I started in 2014~2015 and have been on-and-off since. I do know things since I've tried digging up this stuff even tho a lot of it was deleted (I went to LiveJournal of all places.. I'm too young for that!! TTOTT No legit idk how that site's supposed to work Fam) and I am friends with old VIPs that have been around since 2008-2010-2012 but they very casually and/or didn't shipped GTOP, and were iVIPs, so I can only ask them to confirm receipts, like the fact that GD really DID post the words "Take Me (I'm Yours)" to his Instagram in 2014 and that was a REAL thing he did and therefore a valid receipt that this song is for Seunghyun. So yeah.

I don't think they were dating pre-debut and honestly do believe that 2010 was the year they actually started dating each other. I think so for a few reasons, here's the ones I remember: GD&TOP volume one was written in 2010; GTOP fan service shifted dramatically in 2009 and in that year Ji even (allegedly from the fan accounts and discussion I was able to recover) got pissed at shippers, especially Topnyong, EVEN THO he started Nyongtory (yes, he started it... unfortunately... gosh Ri you f-cking RAT).. honestly GD's fan service is unmatched. He later changed his mind and liked shippers again (obviously) but his sudden and brief shift in opinion is interesting.. especially since GTOP had very nice fan service and real moments (but like.. since Ji had a crush on Tabi.. it was more like GD service lmfao.. check out pre dating GTOP it's GLORIOUS) which changed and later reduced dramatically; Tabi dated a different woman per-debut, he 100% was with her and even spoke about her (while Ji looked like he wanted to jump off a cliff)(honestly she looked like Hyori Lee, Tabi's celebrity crush (he has a GIANT crush on this woman, y'all Tabi is y/n he got to kiss his celeb crush on stage TTOTT)) AND he most likely also dated Shin Min-Ah from 2008~late 2008/2009, so he was taken before 2010. There's other stuff but honestly, Tabi being taken is a big indication that this was all Ji being in love (and maybe Tabi subconsciously).

(I've read fan accounts from iVIPs since they share, and unfortunately most iVIPs I've been able to encounter (more like encounter their posts lol) started after 2010. Omfg I read one talking about how she spent a week stalking BB alongside kVIPs and was "shocked" at how close GTOP were and kVIPs just shrugged and said "They have a special relationship".. and another one from a Dutchie (who threw her morals out the window real quickly when she got the chance) where she exclaimed that they were "CLOSE CLOSE CLOSE" in all caps and that Tabi spent all his time around men and avoided the women completely XP These are fan accounts so mind you, you never know with them.. but goddammit there were so many GTOP fan accounts of them being close, these are the ones that got stuck in my head, it's a lot, and many of them didn't really ship GTOP either.. also bragging about being low key crazy and then lying about what you saw is a low I pray nobody has reached). Anyways, here's video evidence of his crush:

b) I saw some tiktoks that said they had a very on and off relationship, cheated on each other and were abusive? I didn't believe that tt but I think I can trust you and based on your Tumblr posts I can see that you've been here much longer and know a lot.

-> Hun, don't turn into a naive FaceBook grandma that believes everything she sees on the internet. If your ears are hearing one thing but your eyes see another, believe your eyes (I don't mean this literally in the sense of eyes and ears ofc). This is all very false information (and written by SHyuk cuz he wants Ji to himself / big joke). What are they even alleging? Goodness me *rolls eyes*. Send it if you want, always down for rambling :))

c) Do you have blogs translated from older kvips, you said in your post that they withheld a lot of information.

-> I don'ttttt, I don'ttt have old blogs I wish I did anon I really do :"(( Even tho my Korean is good for nothing and if I was dropped of in Seoul I'd do nothing except yell "AIRPORT" in Korean at the top of my lungs and understand what is written on signboards.. and maybe some accent and dialect free Korean (dialects are horrible, they make learning languages so much harder), I'd try to translate for y'all. I translated the entire video of that palm reader that predicted Ji's 2017 crashing and burning (and gave some nice indirect GTOP) for @deliciouskamepi at 3 A.M. lmfao. Weibo is/was also very good, but I'm not going to attempt that. Lmao this part is just a lot of me going all "I don't wannna TTOTT" hihihi am I a bad shipper?

A LOT of GTOP content is gone, it isn't even funny. The last time I went to Kmedia sites and "Korean Reddit", as I (and MissMangoButt) like to call it, I fled the scene and haven't had the guts to return (I just don't like toxicity, I'm sorry, I've been in the kpop fandom for too long to even pretend like I can bear this BS for longer than 10 minutes). Maybe if GTOP have legit rumours of a sighting in S.Korea I'll go back. But right NOW they don't have more information than us since they've stepped away from their toxic ways (there's a LOT of rumours tho, and I don't wanna read them, cuz they're malicious and destroy Ji and Tabi's characters and like I said, I only want to write credible/plausible things in this post). Remember, these are the people that wanted Ji to kill himself over "pLaGiArIsM". But in the same breath, I must say that these are the people that went as far as stalking Ji's elder sister for tea on him, so they 100% know a lot about the past and Ji's life. And guess who kept denying Jiko like their lives depended on it? These very. same. knets. Which brings me to:

d) "In fact the Jiko relationship is FAR from this long term important relationship in GD's life (for which I could write a second speech)." You talked about this as well, I believe the long term relationship you are referring to must be TOP and GD's. Anyways there is enough proof that GD did date Kiko. I'd love to hear your speech about that haha.

-> Jiyong Christ dear! TOT Okay, so Jiko is frustrating ngl. I didn't have a blog or social media account back in 2014 but it was frustrating. Here's stuff you gotta read + I'll add things I haven't seen mentioned.. I was GONNA write a speech but Jiko is tiring, tiring, tiring, I'll just repost this absolute QUEEN's posts instead.

-Doing a second ALS ice bucket challenge is so so extra, especially when the point is to do it publicly.. this dude. Also, why is his friend being STUPID and replying to like TWO snarky comments about how GD didn't nominate her lmfao.

--kwonaventure.tumblr.com/post/110425166539/gds-2nd-als-video-that-mentioned-my-dear

--https://kwonaventure.tumblr.com/post/114187861904/do-u-know-kiko-can-speak-korean-or-not-people#notes

--www.tumblr.com/sabrinete/71955816415/you-know-everytime-jiko-rumours-emerge-i-always?source=share

--kwonaventure.tumblr.com/post/120278220119/mina-isnt-it-logical-that-jiyong-allows-dispatch(read it via copy-pasting cuz Tumblr hates me and wouldn't allow more links :"(()

- If he didn't want to be caught, he can be discrete. We'd only seen YB's current wife after YB decided to reveal it and never saw any of Dae or Ri's girls (unless it became a scandal, like Ri's).

- Both Kiko and GD kept denying their relationship, before the ALS challenge leak and after, even tho the hate was unbelievable. Anyone in such a situation would've just revealed their relationship, especially if even half of the tabloid rumours are true. Also I'm pretty sure Kiko and Ji looked straight at the camera a few times during their photoshoots lmfao.

-These tagssss:

-GD, in the year of our lord 2024 (or 2025 lmfao) liked reels about this second ALS ice bucket challenge, just laughing about how silly he was being, yet hasn't liked post about the legitimate leaks of his PeaceMinusOne account. Idk tbh, maybe it's all about the past being in the past? But he hasn't liked a single post that was a legitimate breach of his privacy to this day (for as far as I can see). So either Ji has made complete peace with the past and he doesn't care about the ALS leak OR the ALS leak was BS anyways (love the Tabi pfp, what a coincidence).

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BUT he liked this post that used this image in passing for a split second (there was another one that I THINK (using my memory here) used a clip of Tabi in this situation for like 2 seconds (towards the ending (?) so his alleged ADHD brain could've scrolled) but I can't find it.. so maybe I made that up outta trauma since people really liked making "edits" of Tabi's trauma (yuck, this isn't a kdrama, both GD&TOP are active netizens so they'll SEE these things, you absolute bitches).. but trust me, if you had a folder of Ji's likes (of 2025 ALONE) you'd never find shit again either).. so umm tbh maybe he is going all "that's the past y'all"? (Really idk what to make of this like but since that entire incident is a "breach of privacy" I needed to mention it since I alleged he didn't like any posts that exhibited such behaviour... but it is a split second...).

[yourlocalartsonist]

MONTHLY MFIP UPDATE✨✨

9/24 | Month 2 | Next Month | Month 1

Hey folks 🦐 I finally got the chance to make this month’s MFIP Update cuz god damn life was kicking my ass. College is fine for the most part tbh, just a lot of reading and writing cuz of the specific classes I chose. HOWEVER I have 💥FUCKING PMDD💥 so um skill issue on my part but it’s why I’ve been kinda exhausted as shit this week and was late with the update so my bad folks! (Also for more info on PMDD, click here! I don’t wanna spend this post yapping about it but wanted to leave a resource to spread awareness just in case :3). Also, Imma be tagging some of y'all who have been reading/supporting MFIP consistently just for this post, so yk you guys actually know these updates exist. I was gonna do that for the first ever update but as with many things, I forgor, so I'm doing it now! They’re supposed to come out on the 18th of every month, but yk sometimes life happens and I’m a lil late. It won’t be any earlier than the 18th tho so look out for these once it hits that date! Anywho, cheers to this month’s update!

Alrighty folks we be starting with the Art~!

Alrighty so obvious new thing, WE GOT RAPH’S REF SHEEEEEEEET TEEHEEEEEEE

BRO IM SO HYPE ABOUT IT! It turned out so genuinely amazing and I’m ridiculously proud of it! Especially cuz I honestly thought Raph was gonna be a harder design to figure out yk? I’m not used to drawing his body type, I wasn’t as familiar with his outfit, and even tho I’ve sketched him a few times before, I was just a bit nervous with Raph. Funfact, he’s also been the hardest to figure out how to write back when I was first starting MFIP. I genuinely don’t know why, but I got there eventually (I actually really love writing him now—) and same thing happened with his design!

Since MFIP’s taking place a few months after the Krang invasion, i’m able to take creative liberties and update the boys’ designs more! For some clarification btw, in my story’s lore, the invasion took place in September 2020, and MFIP starts on March 2021. Anywhizzle, my ideas for the boys’ designs is to combine their movie look with their show look, cuz while I do LOVE the black on them, it doesn’t feel right to me to not make them still unique in their own ways. These guys are all about authenticity, so why make their gear exactly the same, ya get me? I basically recolored his show gear to be black and red (and added a lil asymmetry on his legs) cuz I think it makes Raph feel older and more sure about himself, just feels right for him! I also just think the red fade on the black is hella cool! Fun lil color theory i think application, the black is more of a really dark, inky blue, so it makes the red pop out even more! I decided to make a bow out of his mask tails, too! I don’t wanna spoil the entire lore reasoning for it yet (it’ll pop up in the story), but I can indeed say it’s intentional that it looks a little like a lunamoth with damaged tails :3 I also took a BUNCH of creative liberties with his sais’ handles, since we haven’t really seen it much so like idk gaslight yourselves into thinking it’s always been this epic✨✨

Also I gave him his shorts back because FUCK YOU I LIKED THE RED TRIMMMM—

OH I ALMOST FORGOT yes he has longer eyelashes! I saw he grows to have really pretty eyelashes in the future cuz of his turtle species, and I wanted to lean into that by showing they’re starting to grow now :3

Bullshit Gag Because Yes‼️‼️

There ain’t shit to say about this, I just pulled a silly. I saw the fact Donnie was supposed to have a “Doctor Donatello” persona in the deleted episode where Dale turns into a werewolf. I’m really heavily on the train of Leo being the team medic and into medicine in general. I don’t think it makes sense for Donnie to be the medic judging by his sensory issues and this mf being as much of a germaphobe as my mom, and in my opinion it felt too stereotypical anyway to have Donnie be the medic. Ofc, to each their own, and this is just my interpretation of it, but I thought it’d be funny if Donnie still had this persona and was passionate about it, but was like horrifically bad at being a doctor. I made this dumbass sketch that I’ll finish sometime in the future (it’s gonna be a chapter in Arc 3 probably) and I just wanted to share it with yall~

THEY’RE HUMAN NOW⁉️

My ass wanted to show off cuz I’m sketching out some ideas of what my human designs for the boys culd be. I already did Leo’s like ages ago so he’s not on here but I’m realizing as I’m typing this my dumbass forgor to post it so um my bad I will do that in a few days—

But I wanted to design (or more accurately, redesign cuz I did draw em once a while back but I’m not satisfied with them) and I think I ate so far so uh yea. There isn’t any logic to sharing this, I just thought it was cool😭

And actually, imma share them here too just so y’all can see my boy ;w;

(A lil outdated cuz I didn’t give him lips at the time)

Okay there we go~

As you can see, I want all the boys to look kinda etherial and like they'd turn heads, and I think I am SUCCEEDING SO HARD SO FAR CUZ DAMNNNN THEY'RE ALL PRETTY AS SHIIIIIIIT TEEHEE✨ Also am tryna make sure they actually look Blasian since that's what the canon of my story says they are. I'll talk about them more another time when I have all of them on here~

But yea that's all for art this time folks :> ONTO THE NEXT THINGGG

Chapter Progress Time Whoop Whoooop‼️‼️

I didn’t make much progress on anything this month due to college—again, it’s fine, but there’s a shit ton of time management going on in my part to just manage everything and make sure I’m on track—BUT I am indeed still working on chapter 10. We’re up to 20 pages now which is only two more pages written from last month, but it’s kinda cool writing Donnie and I feel like I’m getting a better understanding of him! One thing I’ve been tryna do is understand autism better as a condition cuz I do wanna acknowledge and show bro’s autism instead of just ignoring it due to a lack of understanding. Donnie ain’t Donnie without it, ya know? I don’t know everything and tbh I would say I still have A LOT to learn on the subject matter, but I’m tryna expand my knowledge every opportunity I get and experimenting with how to better show it! This is to say tho, I’M NOT A MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL, NOR AN EXPERT ON THE AUTISM SPECTRUM. This is what I’m finding and comprehending via my own research, and can tbh end up being wrong so please don’t quote me as a reliable source, I’m still learning ;v;

I remember one of the things I kept hearing about was autism leading people to struggle with empathy. The best way I heard it being described was someone bringing the example of when their friend was upset. That person can’t truly feel their friend’s emotions because they’re not the one experiencing it, so can’t properly understand how it’s making their friend feel. But they can see that their friend is communicating their sadness, and they still try to comfort them and make sure their friend knows they’re there for support. I understood it as bringing logic to emotions in a sense; collecting data and figuring out how to handle the situation based on the data rather than using intuition alone.

I’ve been using that to figure out how Donnie might handle more emotionally subtle situations, where he might try to rationally work through what’s happening and kinda substitute it in place of natural empathy. Like the little tidbit I gave above! Instead of just automatically being able to get vibes that the other person is upset, I felt maybe Donnie would instead notice the fact their tone is kinda different from before; it’s basically a data point. With that data point in mind, he could connect it to past experiences where a tone change could indicate a mood change, and as a result he might conclude that Salena’s tone change means she’s upset. I comprehend it as manually working through empathy rather than it being second nature, if that makes sense. Obviously and thankfully Donnie isn’t gonna spend the entire chapter playing a guessing game or anything with Salena’s emotions, it’s just one lil moment that I thought was cool challenge to myself with when writing him! I really love putting myself in the characters’ shoes when I’m writing them or their dialogue. I highly recommend it as a tool too, since it's helped me a lot with staying in character!

Last Lil Segment Y'all

Aight so, I wanted to try doing something cool if y'all are up for it. I really love rambling about my story and lore and characters blah blah blah, but I don't really know how to do so tbh. I'm not that familiar with how social medias work cuz I just never took it seriously, and I don't wanna just keep being like HEYYYYY ASK BOX IS OPENNNNN like I'm screaming from the top of the hill either. Sooooo insteaddddd

I think it'd be fun to do Q&As here! Or at least something similar. I'll open my ask box again and feel free to send any questions you want; it can be about the story, past lore, design questions, getting to know the characters, absolutely anything! Then when I'm gonna do my update for the month, I'll compile all y'all's asks, (prolly will have to tag to make sure you guys know I answered it, or if you ask anon then uh idk look out for the monthly update) and then answer them during the monthly update as the last section! I think it'll be a cool way to make this feel more interactive, and gives me an excuse to ramble. Don't be afraid to ask potentially spoilery questions either! If it's something I can't spoil yet or even give hints or vague answers about, I'll just say so in the update!

Anywhizzle, That's All Folks~!

I'm glad there was so much to talk about this month! I actually deadass thought it would be short but I should know better with my yapping' ass💀✨ But yeah, thanks for reading everyone! I hope y'all enjoy the rest of your days, and I shall see you next month~ Bye :D

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By the way, if you guys think you’d like to be tagged whenever an MFIP chapter is posted, lmk in a reblog or comment (no asks or dms plz, too inconvenient) and I’ll be sure to tag so it’s more reliable than tumblr notifs :3🫶

ROTTMNT: Moths Fly In Packs

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The heavenly yard blog infomine, part 10: Praeludium of Red, Praefacio of Blue, Q&A series

mothy's posting levels go down as he begins to pick up his workload, though he does engage in a series of Q&A sessions with blog commenters to make up for it.

20th October 2011 ~ 26th June 2012

---October 2011--- 20th

-mothy is partaking in a live broadcast on NicoNico to celebrate the release of VOCALOID3 editor

27th

-mothy's gotten VOCALOID3 since it's backwards compatible with VOCALOID2

-He announces that he's going to upload Capriccio Farce soon

29th

-mothy releases the Capriccio Farce PV

-He confirms that this is the 6th Clockwork Lullaby song, and that it is, in fact, parodying Ace Attorney (he doesn't say it by name but it's pretty clear that's what he means by "court game".

---December 2011---

2nd

-mothy announces that he'll be releasing Praeludium of Red at the end of the month, and Praefacio of Blue next March (his comments suggest he has not started writing Praefacio yet)

-Daughter of Evil and Servant of Evil are going to be in the Nintendo3DS Project Mirai game

-Mothy showed up in VOCALOIDP Life magazine in cosplay

-Servant of Evil is going to be on the VocaloGemini CD

-mothy hints at other things in the works that aren't public yet

26th

-mothy releases Praeludium of Red, and gives a little bit of a description of its contents (such as being after a 5 year time skip). He also shares a link to the announcement video for it (the one that has a remix of Evil Food Eater Conchita).

---January 2012---

11th

-mothy announces that he's going to be uploading Flower of the Plateau in a couple days.

13th

-mothy releases Flower of the Plateau on NicoNico

23rd

-He's in the final stages of writing Praefacio, and is eager to get back to making songs.

-Evils Court is available on Toranoana.

-He's going to be at a signing event at NicoNico

---February 2012---

3rd

-Mothy is attending VOCALOID Master 19 with JonetsuP

---March 2012---

6th

-mothy announces the release date for Praefacio and teases some info on it. It doesn't come with first-run bonuses like the other novels but that's because they're just included with the book this time.

23rd

-Praefacio releases! Apparently it had a promotional video in the Akihabara UDX, but the video was naturally uploaded online as well (this is the video that used Handbeat Clocktower, btw).

-Mothy also teases new developments to come as indicated by the notices at the end of the book.

30th

-Mothy uploads Handbeat Clocktower in full.

---May 2012---

20th

-mothy was interviewed by some Japanese video game commentary magazine (the link still works if anyone's interested). He talks about video games and also discusses the origins behind some of his characters' names as relate to video games.

-He also apologizes for neglecting the blog, and asks commenters to let him know if they have any questions or topics they would like him to talk about.

29th

-mothy holds a Q&A session based on the responses to his last post. I won't discuss every answer but a few highlights.

-Mothy confirms that he's making novels for the Seven Deadly Sins series, that it will be an anthology series with connections between them.

-He talks a bit about his writing process (outlining, building characters, working on worldbuilding, elements he wants in each story, dividing up scenes, etc).

-He really only sells his CDs on doujin shops or at live events.

-He does not play any real instruments, all of his music is electronically produced and uses digital sources.

-Mothy first started conceiving of the Deadly Sins series with Conchita, but it became clearer to him around the time he made "Abandonment" and "Re_Birthday".

-On character names, mothy takes a lot of them either as parodies of their VOCALOID name, or as references to games or anime. Venomania is a pun in "satyriasis" and "venom" of course. Margarita is inspired by Marquise de Brinvilliers. Kayo Sudou is a pun on "stalker" (sudo-ka yo). The rest are random.

---June 2012---

4th page 1

-Q&A session 2. Mothy says the development process for the Deadly Sins series is the same as the one for his other novels--rough outlining and planning mixed with seat-of-pants style writing.

-He has plans to release another album at Summer Comiket.

-There's a few comments asking about mothy's plans for future story beats in the Deadly Sins novels. He's mostly coy when it comes to answering these, though when asked about Pere Noel directly he does say that'll probably come up in Sloth.

-He confirms that though he is writing a new novel series he is also mostly making music.

-mothy types up his writing for his books in Word.

-The song that got mothy into VOCALOID was "Saihate".

-Someone comments on how mothy's work is a lot more cheerful than it used to be. He says that his life circumstances haven't really precipitated this in any way, it's just more about changing things up to keep it from being depressing and also a response to a rise in other people making similar dark-themed works.

-Mothy talks a little about the references to Conchita in DoE.

-Rin is mothy's favorite VOCALOID. Kaai Yuuki is his favorite non-Crypton-loid.

-The first Deadly Sins novel will probably be out by the end of this year.

-mothy confirms the naming scheme of Evillious' locations. Asmodean=Asmodeus, Beelzenia=Beelzebub, Lucifenia=Lucifer, Levianta=Leviathan, Elphegort=Belphegor, Marlon=Mammon, Retasan=Satan, HOWEVER Michaela's name is NOT taken from the archangel "Michael"

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-Q&A session 3. Contains some spoilers for his novels. Note--I don't know if it comes across in how I report what he says, but mothy tends to avoid making definitive statements when discussing later content that has yet to be made. Less "I will do this" and more "I'll probably do this".

-"the gallery full of junk" mentioned in Capriccio has no connection to the "junk" music box that Kiril made in his song.

-Someone asks if Last Revolver Gumi is Gumillia and mothy is like "what do you think?"

-Clarifies that Pierrot is set in a different time period to Flower of the Plateau.

-Someone asks if mothy will make the duel of Merrigod Plateau into a novel, speculating a little on what happens during it. He says he's not sure if it'll be in a novel but he might make it into a song.

-A few other questions about what the next novel might contain (some of it is asking about bonus stuff like artwork and timelines) and other questions about future content (like the events of Tailor) that mothy is understandably evasive about or has to leave up to his publisher.

-Confirms that wrath will be a Gumi song.

-Confirms the English spellings of "Allen", "Riliane", "Michaela", "Elluka", "Gumillia", "Clarith", as well as "Lucifenia", "Marlon", "Elphegort", "Levianta", and "Beelzenia".

-Mothy teases the short story about Gast Venom.

-Wrath will probably be the last novel in the sins series.

-A fan asks what Leonhart meant when he told Allen to be "careful". Mothy avoids saying it outright but suggests that Leonhart had cottoned on to the fact that Ney was a spy in the palace (or at least not who she claimed to be).

-A few questions on mothy's songs, including being able to do karaoke covers through JOYSOUND.

-A fan asks about Gammon's curse. Mothy confirms that Venomania is the source, but not if it's caused by the Vessel of Lust or not.

26th

-Q&A session 4.

-A lot of mothy's medieval and occult material for his work comes from personal interest and research that he does on his own time, including buying books on the subject.

-Mothy says it usually takes him about a week to make a song, but it varies depending on the song. It sounds like generating ideas is the difficult part.

-Apparently mothy wasn't able to publish "Letter She Kept Waiting For" or "White Brick and Black Mourning Dress" on one of his own CDs due to not having permissiong from K-Books, as it was published on one of their CDS. Not sure what that's about.

-Mothy apparently had a scrapped song for Josephine called "Horse of Evil" that details her living in the monastery with Riliane after escaping the revolution. I guess this is what he used for the short story.

-Someone asked mothy if he likes the moon given how often it shows up--he reveals that his real name has the kanji for "moon" in it.

-There are plans to make a complete album once all the sin songs are out.

-Someone asks if Allen has ever been possessed by a demon and mothy says "I wonder…In a lot of ways he's a pretty Irregular being" (so I guess the concept of "Irregulars" was around even back here).

-Someone asked if Madam Merry-Go-Round has any connection to Merrigod Plateau. Mothy says that Madam is best thought of as a "what if" to Evillious (I think), though it's not completely unrelated. There IS someone with the name of Merry-go-round in the setting though and they will show up.

-Mothy mostly uses Kaito so much because there aren't many male VOCALOIDS.

-Mothy plans to have a new song out soon.

[coffeestainedcamera]

Wasn't going to see Deadpool 3 bc I'm not up to date on the MCU and don't care to be. But I was at the mall for roach traps bc my landlord sucks, so I wanted escapism. Going to this and getting some top-tier ramen after was some nice short-notice therapy.

Good news: if you were a y2k baby and X-Men were your childhood, it's nostalgic AF. The only modern thing you need to know is that there's a bunch of time-space cops and they had a guy go rogue and try to off a branching timeline. Bc no Wolverine = sorry why do y'all exist again? Sadly, no, Hugh Jackman did not get a musical theater sequence he deserves.

But in general, it really was a hit of nostalgia for me. Like, seeing Deadpool dancing to Bye Bye Bye just really hit both those y2k radio and the "sneakily rented DP 1 at 15" points. There is still a lot of juvenile R-rated humor like defiling a corpse and stabbing below the belt to bubblegum pop. I also may have hyena-laughed at the "Disney won't let us do the marching powder" scene.

Tbh I initially wasn't on board with massively blowing up the scale of the conflict from 1 and 2, but it somehow worked with Deadpool's character devolution/recovery. Like yeah, he resigns himself to being a bit character that just sells merch to teens and college kids with utterly rotten sense of humor. And being a used car salesman (truly the 2nd grossest job after working for my landlord). And that bombed interview in the beginning was painful to watch. But it was sweet to watch him realize that he can still help people, even if he's supposed to just be a murderous clown that's an HR nightmare. And awwww, he helped Logan realize that he can still get a 2nd chance, even if he's supposedly the worst Wolverine.

The direction is... well, it's no Leitch with Domino's finessing in 2. But it's still largely readable, obligatory CGI f-fest of the last half aside. And I was suitably disgusted by Emma Corrin's character and the literal picking of brains. Can Levy go study under Raimi and drop a horror movie? I'd watch it! Anyways, imo the most memorable scene was probably the Honda Odyssey fight (aka incredibly obvious subtext for needing to get a room that the entire room caught). But like, guys, a beige af minivan, really? But ya, somewhere, people are pulling up keyboards and AO3.

Anyways, gonna go relisten to the soundtrack now bc mannnnn, everyone involved with music supervision and clearance here deserves cold pillows and perfect-temp coffee for life. Btw the Stray Kids single only appeared in the background as instrumental (but well, they got to film an MV with Reynolds and Jackman and also got that MCU bag).

[sailormoonandme]

Tuxedo Mask's roses were Takeuchi's idea

TOP: A page from the Sailor Moon Materials Collection which includes various early draft notes from Naoko Takeuchi.

BELOW: An excerpt from the January 1992 issue of Nakayoshi features a number of ads for Pretty Soldier Sailor V, which at one point was the working title of what eventually would become Sailor Moon. Note how the cat in the image is distinctly white, like Artemis, rather than black like Luna. You will also note the dark haired guy with his back turned is carrying a rose. The text connected to him reads something like:

A good-looking guy who's my type, could he be Usagi's sworn enemy?!

Remember, in the manga, Tuxedo Mask's alignment is questioned as early as chapter 4, where Luna and the others are uncertain if he is friend or foe.

Sailor Moon Chapter 1 was finally published in the February issue of Nakayoshi btw, so the change was apparently very last minute. However, the actual release date was 28 December 1991, with the anime episode adapting this chapter going out on 7 March 1992, a incredibly fast production period.

Evidently, the idea of Tuxedo Mask using a rose as his signature weapon was something Takeuchi was toying with and had in mind enough that the anime committed to it before she changed her mind.