#theres 5 work outs per week

[wonderwomantobe]

I have started Natacha Oceane's 'Cut' program by the way :)

[artisanalpeanutbutter]

Ughhhhhh i want access to a bar so bad

[aroaceacacia]

HI!!!! sorry if you've already posted about this before, but i'm aware you help maintain a vod archive - we're trying to do this for another server and were wondering if you had any tips for useful tools or ways to go about this? thanks and sorry for bothering !!

yes ok!!! here r my tips

1. Have some sort of location where all the VODs are accessible from, for people who may want to find them. For us, we have a spreadsheet, with dates & labels; this could also take the form of a YouTube playlist or an archive.org collection

2. Having only one way to download VODs probably wont be able to cover every scenario you encounter. Here's a list of a BUNCH of resources and tools, many of which you might never need, and most of which I've never heard of. In terms of programs to download VODs, I personally use a mixture of three: Twitch Downloader, 4k Video Downloader, and Twitch Recover. (I use Downloader to access most Twitch VODs, 4k for YouTube videos/streams - although it also does Twitch - and Twitch Recover for when a VOD has been recently deleted*.)

3. TWITCH DELETES VODS !!!! unless a vod is saved as a highlight, those suckers go KABLOOEY at a certain point! the exact amount of time will vary, depending on whether ur streamer is affiliate, partner, or not, so knowing your streamer's status is very helpful. I think non-affiliates and affiliates have a week, and then partners have 60 days. Note that Twitch Recover does not work on VODs older than 60 days, so this time limit is REALLY IMPORTANT.

4. If you're able to get in touch with your streamers in some way, that is really cool and epic! Not necessary at all, but sometimes it's nice being able to remind streamers theres a demand for an official VODs channel, or asking if they have any spare VODs lying around

5. HAVE FRIENDS TO DO THIS WITH !! you said "we" so I assume theres probably a team of some sort already, but division of labor is HUGELY helpful for VOD archiving, because those GB start adding up fast. (It's about 2.5 GB per 1 hour of video at 1080p quality, and generally you want the highest quality possible, so VODs can get pretty chunky.) Oh yeah I guess storage space is useful too. Remember to do spring cleaning also every now and then and make sure you dont delete anything that isnt already backed up elsewhere 👍 but yes. Teamwork. Communicating with the group about who will do what, being able to mobilize in a potential crisis, and making occasional public calls for additional hands on help are all super important, I've found.

6. YouTube is a copyright bitch! While it's better for watching vods back on, it will occasionally block a vod for copyright. YouTube is great, I upload all my MCC vods there unlisted, but I also recommend getting familiar with archive.org. archive is a little slower to upload but it won't hide a VOD worldwide because it had a copyrighted song or three in it. Having mirrors of uploads is a good tool for peace of mind - one of my friends has been on a kick of double mirroring VODs lately, even ones that will eventually be up on a VODs channel, but that's also a lot of uploading and slows him down

7. Being aware to at least some degree of the contents of what you're archiving is a good thing. Sometimes you need to censor out an accidental doxxing or worry about an IP leak, and I find it makes me feel more confident in my work if I know what I'm preserving. Like, I archive plenty of MCC POVs I havent necessarily watched, but they're all MCC, and I know what happens, and I sometimes hear details from other people - but a random server VOD from a guy I don't watch much of could contain anything. Sometimes I worry I've accidentally stuck deeply personal information into the internets biggest document repository. And maybe I have. But having some familiarity helps the peace of mind

8. Have fun with it and take pride in your work! You're helping to prevent something you love, the hard work of others, from becoming lost media! That's sooooo epic and sexy and cool of you, actually, and more people should do it - either on their own for their own personal purposes, or in the context of a larger project, like me and you

tl;dr its work but it boils down to communication, having the right tools, and having a team that is willing to adapt and cooperate in order to get stuff done! best of luck in your efforts

[homochadensistm]

Saw the bodypic on your sideblog and hot DAMN! Any workout+nutrition tips for us peasants to get like that?? I'm a hardgainer myself so I would appreciate the advice!

lmao shouldve sent the ask there then :(

important disclaimer: I look Like That largely thanks to good lighting and the fact that I had a mad pump. I dont look like that 24/7, nobody does. If you remove me from that specific spot under the gym lights and wait 10mins for my pump to disappear Id look entirely Normal.

As for hardgaining, youre not gonna like the answer but - just eat more. We like to think we eat a lot already (because it feels like that, because most of us have tiny stomachs) but if u actually took 1 week to record everything u eat, including its nutritional values (mainly macros - carbs, protein, fats, etc), youd see youre probably lacking and/or eating exactly at maintenance (i.e., maintaining your current weight, nothing less and nothing more). The best way I found for myself to eat more is to split my meals, so instead of eating 3 big meals a day, I eat 5-6 smaller ones, and I make sure each meal contains a decent amount of protein (at least 10g). And yeah I wasnt kidding - record what u eat for just 1 week, itll help u see where/what ur lacking.

As for protein - I dont use powders. I find their texture disgusting and most of them give me stomach issues. Personally I view health and fitness as something I should enjoy so Im not gonna do things that actively make me feel like Im suffering or forcing myself, hence, no powders. You dont even need powder to eat a lot of protein, too. Lots of idiots will tell you you need to eat 1gr of protein per 1lb of bodyweight to get larger, but thats protein powder marketing bs (unless ur like, an olympic athlete). Normal people need around 1.2-1.5g of protein per kg of bodyweight to grow muscle mass, according to almost all studies on the subject (again, unless ur an olympic athlete), so for me, weighing around 55kg, thatd be between 66-85g of protein per day. As I mentioned before, I structure my meals so that each contains at least 10g of protein, so right off the bat I start at 50-60g on avg. My lunch (meal 3 usually) is around 40g on its own (blessed Pork steak & greenbeans), so I easily get to 85g of protein a day, and maybe a lil more. Meat shouldnt be your only source of protein, theres a variety of foods to choose from and if u enjoy cooking then ur gonna have a great time! The price of not using any icky powders is learning how to cook lol. If you still want to use powders thats fine, theres nothing wrong with them, but just so u know that eating more protein wont necessarily help u grow, cause ur body has a natural cap on how much it needs/wants to use of the general amount u give it, the rest itll shit out. So, if eating more is difficult to u, I suggest avoiding the powders and just restructuring ur meals to fit you.

As for working out - if youre a woman focus more on volume (higher reps, lower weight), if youre a dude then the opposite. If youre doing more reps at a lower weight make sure that the weight is still somewhat challenging to you though. The distinction between male and female here is important because our bodies respond differently to training so if ur purpose is building the big mooskles and ur a girl - lighter weights will get u there faster. If you want to maximize strength gain as well - dedicate 1 day a week to heavy weights (so less reps but increasingly challenging weight). Im not gonna delve into the types of exercises or workouts u should do cause idk u or what ur experience is but theres enough content online abt that.

The most important thing about the eating and working out is the consistency. ur muscles grow because they respond to stimuli, they adapt to the pressure ur putting on them. theyre not gonna adapt if this stimulation is momentary. Try to work out 3-4 times a week, even just for 30mins each. Get in those reps per muscle group, train each group about twice a week and ur good. Youll see longterm results once eating+working out becomes a habit.

Last thing I wanna touch on is cardio. Theres this weird belief that, if u wanna gain muscle mass, you shouldnt work on cardio. Idk which lazy cunt invented that but its not true! Cardio is important for ur heart, health and ur ability to lift heavier loads! You dont have to run for cardio, theres many activities you can pick from: swimming, boxing, jump rope, dancing etc. Hell, even walking is really good cardio (and is actually better for you than running, longterm) and you can easily do that if you got 1hr to spare twice a week. Developing your cardio will not only make you feel better and healthier, its also detrimental to your strength gaining journey, to avoiding plateaus.

goodluck!

[sn4pozu]

how Richard Trager uses Instagram (yes, he would use Instagram):

this is Pre-Engine Rick because realistically post-engine Rick would have other things to worry about besides instagram

30 stories a day, from dawn till dawn again this man is addicted to the layout

doesn't use stickers because hes a grown man BUT HE DOES HAVE A BITMOJI THAT HE USES RELIGIOUSLY

its half office reels, half food pics, and a quarter just rants

overuses tags to hell, even randomly mid sentence , example: "#Amazing day today at @MurkoffOfficial ! this #Work ain't doin itself 📋💻👍🏻 #Workday #Monday #Officeday #ADayInMyLife #Job"

sometimes thinks that Murkoff should totally have a social media account, he knows its dumb but he cant help wanting more followers 😔

"Suns out guns out! #Sunday with my bud @JeremyBlaireOfficial" and its a picture of them in a golf cart holding champagne (not gay, just besties)

Not to sneak in my RickJer agenda but in my minds eye they signed eachothers golf clubs

tags the location if he could he would

username is something obnoxious like 'RichardTragerOfficial' like nobody know u lil bro 😭😭😭

buys likes and followers to feed his ego

4k followers thats like 85% bots

" @McDonaldsOffical Never fails 😂😂😂 #hangovermeal #NoRegrets" and its a fish fillet with the most inhuman bite you've ever seen taken out of it

WOULD POST A SWEATY GYM MAT AND TAG THE GYM AND IT'D HAVE A DUMB CAPTION LIKE "Workout Wednesdays! 🏋🏼‍♂️💪#Wednesday #Gym #Exercise #GymPic #Muscles" HE LACKS SELF AWARENESS DONT LAUGH

would 'ironically' comment "Hot! 🔥🔥🔥" on a mans gym pic and would slutshame a womans gym butt pic

"he hurts every woman hes ever met because his true soulmate is a man" - Sock-rates

he would unironically use hashtags in a sentence for fun, also urges Jer to be more active on Instagram

imagine the most white grown man, now add curly blonde hair, uhuh now give him a gay sweater, now make him homophobic & gay, yep .thats him officer

HAS gotten scammed on instagram, he threathened legal action and got his money back and deleted their account after a week tho

weekday streaks exist to him, no hes not a middle schooler hes actually 30

look at me in the eyes and tell me he wouldn't make fun of feminism in the comments section of those LibzDunked accounts

his Close Friends stories are just aftermaths after nights out, its either him drunk posting or filming himself talking to the camera about his hangover

its just Jer and a few other friends but it has the same intimacy of homosexuality

theres one video where hes drunk and actually tripped and fell so comically its been 7 months and Jer still makes fun of him for it (laughs along but actually hates it like viscerally)

he has 3 phones, both iphones and one is a samsung flip (he wanted the hype), a work phone, home phone, and his normal phone, why does he need so much? why is he not robbed yet? we will never know....

replies to those awareness posts about war in the middle east and goes like "damn.. thats unfortunate 💔 hearts goes out to them 🙏 @Chriswalker89"

most menacing instagram white man, cyberbullies as a past time and has 5 alts just focused on Harrassment+ Stalking people

he'd doxx which hospital your mother is staying in with no shame

"If you don't take that back I'm injecting your mothers spine with brain eating parasites" and he means that for real

would post corny atheist memes & misinformation

induces paranoia as a hobby "Yes ma'am i am a licensed doctor vaccines Do cause autism" as a treat

he fucks around too much one day his main gets suspended and he calls Instagram customer services

if you wouldn't think he'd try to hook up with an instagram influencer you are a liar

weekly self-help book recommendations that he doesn't read and actually just gets payed 7$ per link

im not saying he would make an alt to just hype up his own photos but he would.....do that.....

also gets blackmailed his own dick pic but whatever that was in the past

on a side note Jeremy does have a year old instagram account that only has 2 pictures (both just bar pics of him posing with a glass of wine like an idiot) and his entire Tagged section is just RICHARD TAGGING HIM IN ANYTHING

[lunarfeat21]

So with the yandere tugs, theres the Dark room? Is anyone in anyway sympathetic, maybe help get someone out of there early? Can you be heard from inside there or are the tugs not supposed to talk to anyone in there? And what sort of misbehaviours lead to what length of the stay?

Sorry for the many questions lol

Pretty much, yeah.

Using a dank, dark, small room and isolating y/n is the Z-stacks’ way of controlling disciplining them to unwavering loyalty and silent obedience.

They love you dearly, but they don’t like you having a voice that makes them feel threatened. So why not making y/n’s world smaller ‘til they got them instead, and the Z-stacks would be with y/n… forever…

Is there anyone feeling sympathy towards y/n? Yes, there a few, namely Zeebede, Zug, Zip, & the Star Fleet.

Zeebede really yearned to help y/n in any way or lessen their suffering, he always be by y/n’s side and he is the only Z-stack that y/n would trust.

The Star Fleet, in the other hand, are already working on negotiating the Zero Fleet for y/n’s freedom (but it has yet to come as the Z-stacks are really hot-headed and unwilling, not to mention that they were almost as crazy as the Z-stacks)

Zug & Zip dislike y/n being the Dark room. Y/n seem like a fun person to be with and it sadden them. They try not to show it towards the others or they would be in dry dock.

Aside from Zeebede, Zip, & Zug, the other Z-stacks can hear you and dropped you food and a bit of water per request (plus ignoring your pleads of getting out). They don’t mostly talk to you, but they can for your mental status (bonus if they chase anyone who dare to approach their territory or be heard having a screaming match with the Star Mob).

For the misbehaviors (in the Z-stacks eyes), the most offensive is y/n wanting to return home (y/n’s homeworld, cause y/n came to theirs via golden portal).

Mentioning their family/friends and comparing them to the Z-stacks, food strikes, snappy attitudes, shit talking, anything to get under their skin.

Shit talking and the snappy attitudes fall under 4 hours of stay

Comparing the Z-stacks to the Star Tugs, then comparing them to their family and close friends, I say 4-9 1/2 hours of stay

Attempting to escape is 10 hours to 3 days

Literally Escaping is a 5 days to a week

The Z-stacks tried to be patient and refrain themselves from harming y/n, and this is the way to protect their Little Z from them.

Are they brutes and have violent tendencies? Yes, they are. Have one of them hurt y/n? Yes, Captain Zero slapped them once and promised to never let it happen again.

These are the reason why they put y/n to the Dark room, who knows when they lose their temper again. In the meantime, they’ll keep going with their current method.

[miloomilk]

“ so its you? “

secret admirer ! 💌

scaramouche x fem!reader | modern AU

( the word “you” is used too much im sorry)

“y/n! theres this new clothing store that opened yesterday!” was what the text read. it was from lumine, your best friend. you too were excited and wanted to check out the clothes that they were selling so you decided to go and check it out.

amazed by all the pretty looking clothes that you wanted to buy, your smile soon faded as you took a peek at the price tags to see very expensive prices. “aw man..” sighing and deciding to just go shopping another time since you were on a budget.

*click* the door opened. you were soaking wet from the strong rain outside. even though you knew it was gonna rain, you stll didnt bring an umbrella. it was a long and tired day of school. you wanted to reward yourself with maybe 1 or 2 bags of clothes but you ended up going home empty handed.

the only reason you wanted to work hard at school was to become rich so you could buy most of the things you wanted. snapping out of your imaginary state, you got up and went to the freezer to get a snack but to your surprise its empty. “wha..?” “there were atleast three apples here” letting out a soft sigh after.

all you knew was that you were on a budget, then suddenly you have no food in your fridge. having no choice but to starve yourself until you find a good paying job. scanning the streets, looking for open jobs you see one shop with only one employee. “looking for baker.. hmm ..” you were still thinking if you wanted to apply there because you already knew how to bake and of course, loved to do it but couldn’t continue because you couldnt afford it.

* bling bling * the small bells above the doorway ring as you enter. “hello, may i know more details about the open job?” asking the employee you saw earlier. “sure. here.” he hands over a paper with everything all the details. it payed.. 10k per week. the only problem is, this the first time you were gonna apply for a job so it was a bit awkward to ask. “i would like to apply” “yeah sure hold on.” the employee goes to the staff room and rings the telephone. “someone already wants to apply” “thats amazing!-“ they had a long convo but you couldnt really hear them cause they were in the other room.

the employee returns and tells you to go to a certain building at wednesday 5:30pm. “alright thats it. thanks for applying.” he said after, with a cold tone. “wednesday 5pm huh? i think i can go”

wednesday —

“i have to look my best...” you say staring at the mess you made while trying to find and outfit to wear. time was passing by quickly so you just decided to go with a trench coat and a turtle neck underneath (ik its basic idk what else to make her wear💀).

“oh so your the one who applied!” the tall man said “yeah haha...” you awkwardly reply back. “shall we begin with the interview now?” he asks” “alright” the interview went well but you felt embarrassed because you kept stuttering. “theres no way im gonna get that job” you muttered

laying in bed and listening to music, suddenly you got a text from your boss. you were nervous cause who knows what that text says. opening the text, it says : “good afternoon y/n, as of the job you applied to, you’re hired! first day of work starts next week. make sure you wear your uniform as of then. — boss” oh. my. god. you wanted to scream in excitement. 10k per week will surely be able to pay off all those lacking resources (and maybe some of those clothes)

the stress of getting hired was gone but then your social anxiety started to pile up. what if customers hate you and get made at you for getting their order wrong. “oh no..” you decided to maybe take a short nap and thatll come you down surely (it didnt) waking up to a pile of your own sweat

first day of work — ✉️

“you’re in early” he wasnt using his cold tone today but how he spoke was really bland. it was non-other than your co-worker. “is my unform okay? i just wanna make sure im wearing it properly so i dont make a fool out of myself” asking nervously. “pfft you didnt have to weark the uniform yk” he giggles at you. “but-“ “but boss said? HAHA you dont have to follow everything he says. i mean look hes fine with me wearing whatever i want so i guess you can too” he just kept making fun you “oh so shall i change then?” . “i mean if you want to i dont really care.” he says

there were a lot of customers that came that day. “my my i never knew a pretty girl worked here” a sweet old lady commented “oh haha thank you..” you say blushing. it wasnt common for you to receive such compliments. even the other customers liked you. after most of the customers cleared out, you let out a sigh of relief. “hmm perhaps we should make you a mascot so we can attract more people” your co-worker says teasing you. “hey um i never asked for your name” turning over to face him. he was leaning on the glass display case, one hand just hanging over it and one hand cupping his face. “kunikuzushi” he says accidentally. “i mean- scaramouche you can call me scara if you’re having a hard time pronouncing it.” he says nervously. “whats the other one for?” “huh?” “the other one you said uhh it starts with k” “nothing its for nothing.”

it was a long day of work just a while ago so you decided to make some coffee and watch your favorite show. while you were watching, the thought of scaras other name just latched onto your brain. why was he ashamed of saying it? was he trying to hide it? zoning out a bit, you didn’t realize the episode was almost ending already so you replayed it and decided not to think any much of it.

“good morning!” you say waving at scara. he just looks at you and rolls his eyes while letting out a sigh. instead of wearing the usual uniform, you decided to wear a knee long baby blue dress with little decors stitched on it. scara notices it and decides to make fun of you “PFFFT what are you WEARING” he says. “what about it?” “this is a cafe, not a nursery” he snickers. his laughing was unstoppable. “oh.. does it look ugly? i thought it would look nice on me” your smile faded as you faced the ground ashamed of the outfit you chose. “wait- no i meant like- *sigh* you dont need to change it, it looks fine” scara says, darting his eyes towards a wall as his face reddened . “are you sure?” you ask unsure if he was just saying that to make you look bad infront of the customers. “mhm” he replies, still not facing you.

anyways, the customers weren’t as many today. it was a normal day and you were happy about that. no stress no nothing.

“y/n when can we go out sometimeee you havent texted us in like weeks” lumine texted you and not so long after, kazuha too. “y/n, how are you? wyd nowadays?” kazuha asks. “oh sorry for being inactive guys haha i just got a job and im kinda busy” replying to the groupchat. “OHHH im so sorry y/n we didnt know 😭😭” “we are truly sorry for spam texting, we wont interrupt you anymore” both of them text. missing the days when you used to chat with them daily.

it was another busy day at work when two familiar faces walked their way over to you. it was kazu and lumine! “hello y/n! we wanted to see you again so we came here!” lumine says with a smile “aww thank you guys, but how did you know where i worked?” you replied with a confused look on your face. “your boss posted a picture of you standing next to the cake display and added the location” kazuha says with a :] face. scara just stared at all 3 of you for a second and went back to doing his work.

“theres gonna be a festival here later, wanna come with?” kazu asks “sure!”. it was the first time you didn’t have to worry about the budget since 50k was already in your wallet. “alright, see you there then, goodluck” kazuha leaves with a smile.

“who are they?” scaramouche suddenly asks. “oh they’re my friends! ive known them since kindergarten” “i see.” the convo was a bit awkward cause he just asked that out of the blue and ended it with a bland tone. strange guy.

maybe youll get to know him sometime.

“theres so many food here!” you tagged along with kazuha and lumine to a local festival. it was HUGE. there were so many people and stalls. half of your school was there too.

there were clothing stores too, so y/n being y/n, you go with lumine and ganyu to buy some clothes. there were SO many cute tops and pants and- oh my god, when both of you walked out, there were like 4-6 bags in your hands.

“someone had a fun night” lumine giggles. it was the best week ever. kazuha bought you food after. he said there was no need to pay him back though.

* ding! * it was your phone. someone had sent you a message. it was 2 in the morning so who could it be? “huh..?” yeah lets just reply to a total stranger that messages you at 2am

user1029181910 : hey

“whos this?”

user1029181910 : guess

god this dude was dry.

“umm im sorry i dont really know”

user1029181910 : haha im glad but youll find out soon

what on earth..?

“do i know you in real life?, are you one of my friends?”

user1029181910 : i cant say lol, if i do ull find out quickly

“why dont you want me finding out?”

hows he gonna respond?

user1029181910 : thats still a secret

“everything is a secret” you roll your eyes behind the screen

user1029181910 : i promise, youll find out soon :]

oh he hated using emoticons but hell do anything to make you feel safe talking to him

its been so long since you’ve seen the café, even though you enjoyed the 1 month vacation, you also missed your job.

“whats your coworker like?” lumine asked “oh well i dont really know. sometimes hes cold sometimes hes bland sometimes her okayish. his name is scaramouche by the way” you add. “hey isnt he in your class?” lumine replied “huh?” she then sent you a picture of scara sitting in your classroom. he looked really different cause he didnt have any tattoos (well he probably covered it up because it wasn’t allowed) and piercings. were you really that ignorant of your surroundings? does he know your his classmate

lumine and kazuha were busy cause they got included in a competition so they needed to study and you felt lonely so maybe you can try talking to that anon guy

“hello! do you wanna see the clothes i bought? i have lots to show”

user1029181910 : is that so? can i see?

“ * 5 attachments * “

user1029181910 : they look amazing :] i assume you enjoy shopping since thats a lot of clothes you bought

“yeah i do love shopping :]”

“also did you know-“ you sent a long text to anon talking about your day

both of you just kept talking until it reached night time

“i loved talking to you but i gotta sleep now”

user1029181910 : ohh its alright, goodnight though :))

something about this anon user just felt.. comforting.

you’ve been talking to this anon user for months now and you’re desperate to get to know more about them.

“hey since we’ve been talking for a long time already, can i know the reason you texted me in the first place?”

user1029181910 : okay look, yes, you know me in real life but the thing is, i really like you y/n, ive liked you for years.

“so you’re my secret admirer?”

user1029181910 : i suppose so, but dont go around calling me that alright? its a bit embarrassing

it was a bit obvious he had a tomato red face behind the screen

“alright dont worry :]”

placing your phone down on your bed and staring at it for a few seconds, you jumped onto your bed hugging pillows while your feet were kicking in the air. its the first time you had a secret admirer.

everytime something happens, youll message anon right away. sometimes, you think “what if im too annoying”

but actually, he enjoys talking to you a lot

it was time to go back to work now. just a day without texting anon, you miss him already.

“hello!” your usual happy self said “hi.” scara replies coldly. he also missed you, even though you never really talked to him at work or at school, he still missed you. “you went shopping?” he asks referring to your new outfit. “yeah! i went on a huge shopping spree with my friends last month” replying with a huge smile. “hm. sounds like you”

scaramouche was the barista and cashier so you wondered why he always looked so perfect. you only had one job which was taking the customers order.

“wooh.. that was a workout.” twisting your torso as you speak. “mhm” scara replies. geez hes so boring. “hey, you know i never really got to know you, wanna go somewhere next week?” you ask curiously. “go somewhere? of course not.” he says, eyebrows furrowed. “alright, sorry.” you say embarrassed. why would you even ask him? you already knew the answer you were gonna get. being a sensitive person, you always looked sad whenever you got a cold response. this made his heart ache. “actually, ill go.” scara adds. the smile forming back on your face was enough to make his heart pound.

“goodmorning! sorry im late” “its alright” scara says. “hold on i need to text someone” you reply “who?” “its a secret hehe”

“i just got here now! ill talk to you later :]” you texted anon one more time.

*bzzzt * scaras phone buzzed just as you sent that message.

“scara...?” looking up at him. he puts his phone on the table showing you the message you just sent to anon. “well who did you think it was” he says with his tongue out. scaramouche is your secret admirer! he laughed at your wide eyes just staring at him. “im sorry if i wasn’t what you were expecting” his smile faded. “well, i wasn’t expecting it to be you but im so glad its you!” you reply with a smile. his face turned a light shade of pink m. “i didn’t recognize your typing cause you always used those cute emoticons” you add. “well i used those so you wouldn’t suspect it was me” he says embarrassed. “i think its cute” you giggle.

(an) im sorry for the grammar errors😭 its my first time writing a fic this long

[slayvangelion]

employment as a system.

note this is just our system’s personal experiences and it’s not all-encompassing.

all three jobs we’ve held, we were aware we were a system. keep in mind:

• we had the same main host for all three jobs.

• all jobs were part-time (no more than 35 hours a week).

• all jobs were food service.

with our first job, no one really worked except for me (our main host, 🎸). our headcount was low and we didn’t have nearly as many issues as we do now outside of work, so i was able to work in peace. my job was relatively easy, and although i didn’t get breaks, i worked very short shifts (4-5 hours per shift) and i worked about three days a week. i was “laid off” (pretty much fired) due to poor management. i wasn’t worried too much about pay because this was our first job.

our second job was most definitely the worst. at this point we formed an alter to specifically front for work (🦊) and to hold information related to work (tasks we needed to know how to do, information to clock in, information for employee apps, etc). this job was horrible. i worked occasionally but the customers were so entitled that i was too triggered to work 90% of the time and was crying in the back-of-house throughout my shifts. we were also forced to stay until past close/our scheduled time to leave, even though our management knew we were in school and worked school nights. we ended up quitting because pay sucked shit and we were running ourselves ragged just to be able to pay for what needed to be paid for. we were so tired, mentally and physically, that we were dissociating more than normal.

our third (and current) job is the best out of the three. our managers and coworkers are wonderful, our schedule is good, we get enough money + paid adequately without being too tired, so on and so forth. we have two work helpers now (🦊 and 🍻). we get debatably worse comments from customers now than we did at our second job, but the work helpers are equipped to either completely ignore said comments + protect alters who shouldn’t be hearing them. the only complaint i have is that the company is conservative and doesn’t allowed dyed hair, visible piercings (besides ears), and visible tattoos.

i will say that at our three jobs, none of our coworkers and/or managers knew we were a system. to them, we just look absentminded on occasion + forgetful. we still perform up to their standards though so i don’t care. the work helpers are there so we can prevent a “i just fronted and i don’t know what the hell to do” situation.

do i recommend getting a job as a system?: only if you can handle it on top of what you’re already doing, unless you depend on a job to survive. if that makes sense.

advice on holding a job a system: i often use the excuse of “lol i have bad memory/im so forgetful” early on in my job so that in the future if theres amnesia, its not a startle to my coworkers/managers.

feel free to ask more questions in my askbox if you think of any.

- 🎸

[lessrthanthree]

Rules: Make a new post and post your latest line from your WIP and tag as many people as there are words.

Tagged by @mobbothetrue

Thanks buddy im shitting myself at this. Skin… It seems lovely. Eloquent wordage. I do not know what is happening in the slightest and I am thoroughly enjoying it

Also tmnt splatoon???? I would love to hear more about this, I do not care if it is “overly self indulgent” because tbh that is the best kind of media to be enjoyed. /sends a side glance at my mysme splatoon crossover/ uhhhhhhh yeah. I dont have bias or anything for this reasoning of thinking.

Speaking of mysme is line totally isnt from a mysme fic or anything that ive been working on since. December? Making like uhhhhhhh one or two lines per week. I’m a good writer hobbyist. My time management is excellent. I only have 2 and a half chapters done. Since December. Anyway this line is from march.

“Even if you don't,” you continued instead, “all you need to know is that we do. You’re our family. I wouldn't change that for anything.”

For all those waiting on this, I PROMISE ill do more in the summer and finish this third chapter. This semester sucks ass man. I desperately need to get back to indulging in overly-self-catered media but I Do Not Have The Time. But for now, this is the most recent line. And will likely stay that way for a few more weeks. Oops.

But mobbo thank you so much for the tag i love stuff like this. Everyone go check that other post out. Now i tag uhhhhhhhh. Who are other mutual who write. Oh god theres 15 words in that quote i dont know 15 people. Hey @snicker-snacc @yu3s @imeverycliche can you all be 5 people at once to total us to 15? Ok cool thanks, love you guys-

[oflgtfol]

ok so for clarity im making this post in two parts because i had originally saved the original post as a draft but now something else has happened to complicate the situation but i feel like you still need to see the original post to know my feelings over time

[original post, drafted on august 29th:]

anyway i need a bit of a reality check on this like am i being weird and overthinking it or what

so my store has traditionally been all or almost all entirely women. the most we ever had was like 1, at most 2 guys working replenishment. we’ve had several long stretches where there was not a single male employee

my new SM is, well, a man. and we have many many problems with him for reasons that i wouldnt say are sexism but is mostly just that he’s a bad manager and the store is falling apart because of it and we’re bearing the brunt of it. especially weird dynamic because hes a 50 year old man and the entire rest of the store’s staff are all young women, at most mid 20s, and a sizeable number still literally in high school. our two full time managers, one in her mid 30s and the other in her 60s, have left for various reasons, which means that there is no sort of mediator to advocate for us anymore. its just this middle aged man overseeing a bunch of young women. add on how overbearing and bad he is as a manager in general and its like toxic lol

and so now hes finally started hiring for seasonal and its…. As far as i can tell, literally the only people calling the store saying they have interviews, have been guys.

and so i feel weird, and i feel weird thst i feel weird about it, that we’re now hiring like 5 men. but i also feel kinda justified in feeling weird because i almost feel like this is the SM pulling more weird shit. that he doesnt like this all female dynamic and is now trying to like, idk

IT FEELS WEIRD verbalizing it but hes a very condescending guy and the store is falling apart and so it almost feels like hes now giving up our current all female staff and trying to bring men in to fix it?? like he cant fire any of us women bc we’ve been here longer than him but now hes gonna bring in his own people for the first time and its all men? fundamentally changing the dynamic of the store that has been here for years longer than he’s even been with the company, and to further establish a disconnect between him and his young female staff ?????

am i overthinking it and reading condescension/superiority/whatever the word is into this. like i feel weird for being put off over hiring more than 1 dude per season but also this SM is backhanded like that so i really cant discount that there might be some weird vibes or motives behind this

[original post’s accompanying tags for the full picture:]

[new addition on september 3rd]

so now i just found out that this guy, who was literally the guy in the break room having his first day on august 29th, is being considered to be promoted to a manager

which is killing me because theres been all this talk among the managers for literally almost a year now about making me a manager and ive been indecisive because i dont know if i want to or not but ultimately its just been a “what if” situation to me because the actual SM hasnt said a word to me about it! he has never given me an offer. he has never even vaguely mentioned it to me. the only reason i know about it is bc im friends with the other managers and they tell me that hes been thinking about it for a while now

and my framing manager told me that this new guy was being considered as a new manager and i said “well. im actually kind of offended now that hes only been here for a week. meanwhile here i am” and she said “didnt SM give you an offer though?” and i told her that no the SM has not uttered a word to me about this and she was shocked

and its just. this kid has been here literally five fucking days? what the fuck? what the hell is going on. like yeah i am kind of offended actually. i still dont know if i would accept if given the offer but my indecision comes from whether i’d get an adequate raise and i cant come to a final decision without being able to negotiate my raise, which i cant do that if i havent been given the offer !!!! ive been here over two years i know pretty much everything in this store im cross trained on everything and everyone else in this store looks up to me as a non-manager superior and ive been told multiple times by the non-sm managers AND my non-manager coworkers that i should become a manager. meanwhile this guy has been here five days, ive interacted with him for two minutes, and of those moments i spent near him he barely spoke a word to me, and im sure he doesnt have the trust + camaraderie with my other coworkers yet as well, and yet SM wants him to become a manager like five days into him being hired ?!?!?

and again i dont know if i’d accept so thats why i feel kind of stupid for being offended but also like it’d still be nice to have offer ! especially compared to the guy who just started five days ago!!

[dontcrybecauseitsoverr]

update

Im about to graduate omggg, as usual, no one knows about this tumblr in my life, so that’s cool. Kaylee can know idc lol. But, somethings in  my life just don’t add up. I have a gf who I do love, and adore and all of this, but man our communication sucks, on her end, she just doesn’t text me or snap me for hours sometimes… for no reason lol, but snap score goes up but she doesn’t reply? Hurts a bit, I don’t feel like a priority in her life, she isn’t open with me about things, I have to fight to get answers out of her, and she just doesn’t tell me stuff. We’ve been dating for 5 months! Like what! Lol! I just don’t get it.so like what do i do...were not going to see each other for the entire summer. this is my longest relationship, as yall know they dont go too hot lololol. so many posts on here about gf’s and shit, i would be ruined if anyone found this, but this name is not associated to anything else of mine, unless someone like reverse searched the image, who knows. this is just my thoughts as they are thought of on paper, im sitting here listening to taylor swift, deciding about big things in my life. im going to maine for the summer month and a half or so, either i can have all the sex up there with my ex, a threesome, my bff cas who ive all fucked before lol, so thats funny. BUT, 3 months without her :L i wont even be able to see her at allll her dads a dick. i swear to god if we aren’t able to FT like 1-2 times a week, that is really gonna take a hit. theres no reason to not be able to ft me with airpods in, and all this shit, like come onnnnn do u really not want to talk to me. i just feel like this is going to end up in a text break up, i really dont want it. but shes stuck with me and my quirks and issues for 5 months! thats a long time! so who knows, i want it to work but it just may get so unberable at some point, im gona talk with her tho at least. also i just was reading up about how the brain processes near death experiences, and how wack the gamma rays are or something. and i recalled the time in senior year, when my friend was driving and making a turn into school across a busy road. (two years later a family of 4 got killed in the crash, actually by someone i knew in the dmv auto club, he went to jail, my friends and i did the math on the car crash - guy was going 125 mph when he hit them. 1 girl survived out of the family of 4. terrible) but, a car was really going fast coming towards us, and i thought it was gonna clip us, and i was in the backseat, i swear i had a marvel intro style play in front of my eyes, just flashing through life events, i couldnt even see the car coming per say, just the images that i cared about most in my life. and then we passed...and it was like nothing happened. this got off topic, but so do all my other posts. i just dont know what to do. she failed out of her student teaching this semester, and i felt i was at cause, but i dont think so. she said her mom was very upset with her, after the school stuff, and failing the driving test. but all she does all day is sit and watch tvvvvvv mannnnnn, ive tried so hard to get her to do things, and be productive and get her out of the dorm because i know what that life is like, failing out, and having no prospect, because ive been there so many times. ive been to 4 colleges! and she just doesn’t want to involve me, or just seems like she cares about me. i want it to work, i mean god, what breaking up for a month and a half just for a crazy sex summer? seems like an issue to meee lolol. not really looking forward to maine, but gotta do whatcha gotta do. fucking hell i graduate in 10 days what the hell its taken so many years im just numb to it i feel, everyone else cares way more than i do, and its gonna be a shame to try and express happiness and joy when im more just like thank god lol. anyway thats my late night talk i guess, lol goodnight?

[khalixascorner]

Debt Paid in Soul Part 5

Summary: Tony fully intends to go to the Parker residence simply to claim his latest acquisition, one Peter Parker. When he finds out Peter is in fact his soul mate, things change in ways Tony couldn't have planned or expected. Not that he's complaining. Instead of just another worker for his clubs, he found a smart sexy omega that he's going to keep for the rest of their lives. This is an omegaverse hybrid mob au with a different bingo prompt per chapter.

Tags: Mafia AU, Mob Boss Tony Stark, Soul Bond, Soulmates, Soulmate-Identifying Marks, Hybrid AU, Serval Peter, Black Tiger Tony, Dub-con first time, Soulbonds made them do it, Lots of spice and smut, Some fluff too, Dark Tony Stark, Alpha/Beta/Omega Dynamics, Intersex Omegas, Tony is not a nice person, except to Peter, mention of sex work, Human Trafficking, In that tony makes people pay off debt while working for him, and some of those people work in sex clubs, Size Difference, Tiny Peter, Large Tony, Mild milk kink, Breeding Kink, Dom/sub Undertones, stuffing kink, Size Kink, Tony loves how huge his cock is and making Peter take it, Nipple Play, I don't know, theres lots of omegaverse typical sex tropes, eventual kidnapping and rescue,mild angst but always with a happy ending

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Peter took longer to verify that he was pregnant for sure, but given how pleased and protective Tony was being, he had sort of guessed it was the case. On one hand, he was ecstatic, because he had always wanted a bigger family and being an omega came with the expectations of kits. On the other, he was worried that he was too young and that people would talk. Worse, how would he tell May that he had bound his life closer to Tony’s when she barely tolerated his presence to begin with.

“Something bothering you, kid?” Bucky, one of Tony’s men, asked. The alpha had been assigned as his guard after Peter had gotten the official pregnancy test back with a positive. It had only been a few weeks, but he had already grown to like the alpha, even if he was a bit surly on the outside.

“You can already smell it, can’t you?” Peter asked, a hand going to rest on his belly even as his ears flattened. “I’m supposed to have my dinner with May and I just– I don’t know how to tell her. She’s still so mad about our mating and I want to share this with her but I’m scared of how she’ll react.”

The last was said with a whisper, and Peter wondered if he really should even be telling Bucky, because Tony had assured him when Bucky was assigned that the alpha would remove any threats. Tony had meant it in a positive way, but what if Bucky saw May as a threat?

“Yeah, kid, the scent is noticeable but we can use a neutralizer as long as you don’t stay much past dinner,” Bucky said, his voice careful like he was worried about spooking a stray cat. “You can probably buy yourself another week or two before it becomes obvious. More if you say something came up with school and you miss a dinner or two.”

“I’m gonna lose her, aren’t I?” Peter sobbed. Bucky was quick to gather him up, trying to soothe him even as the tears came faster. Peter tried to get in under control, but the harder he fought to not cry, the worse it got.

Distantly, he heard Bucky calling out, but it was like he was underwater, and everything was garbled and muted. He wanted his kits and his mate, but he wanted his aunt too and to be able to go to school without people whispering about him.

He wasn’t sure how long he cried for, only that when he finally calmed down, it wasn’t Bucky holding him anymore.

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“There’s my kitten,” Tony murmured as Peter looked up at him with watery eyes. “What’s got my omega so upset?”

“Everything,” Peter replied with a sniffle, and Tony wondered if part of it wasn’t just hormones too. The little omega had been so fragile since his heat, worried about everything and anxious.

“It’ll be alright, ‘mega,” Tony promised, nuzzling at their bond mark. “You know I’ll take care of everything.”

“But you can’t make May stay or people not stare,” Peter retorted, ears flicking in irritation. Tony bit back a chuckle at the glare that accompanied it. His poor omega tried to be fierce but ended up looking more adorable than anything else.

“It’s true, you’ve expressly forbidden me from interfering with your relationship with your aunt, though I think you’d find that I could create common ground if you let me,” Tony said gently. “But I definitely can keep people from staring. I’d just need to make an example of a few of them and no one would dare.”

“I don’t want people hurt because of me,” Peter practically hissed. Then the younger man sagged in his lap. “I just want to have our family. Why is that a bad thing?”

For just a fleeting moment, Tony regretted the path life had put him on. In another time or another universe, maybe his mate would have just been the happy soul mate of a tech mogul or whatever job position Tony would have been. Hell, he was handy around cars, maybe he’d have been a mechanic. If he had, the things haunting his mate wouldn’t have been an issue.

And yet, Tony couldn’t truly regret it because it had brought them together. It had given Tony the resources to provide for his mate in every way and to ensure that his mate was safe from anyone that would try to harm him.

“It’s not a bad thing at all, kitten,” Tony said firmly. “And anyone that can’t accept that doesn’t deserve to be a part of your life. You’re an omega, mated to your soul mate. This is the natural course of things.”

“I know you’re right,” Peter said, leaning his head against Tony’s chest, ear pressed right over Tony’s heart. “I just wish it wasn’t going to come to this.”

Tony gathered Peter in even closer, his tail wrapping around the boy’s waist as he did.

“I love you, sweet omega, and I would go to great lengths to keep you happy,” Tony said, nuzzling the top of Peter’s head. “So tell me how I can help? How can I make this better?”

“Will you come with me? To dinner tonight?” Peter asked. “I’m- I’m scared to tell her by myself.”

“Of course,” Tony said, already pulling out his phone to make arrangements. “And regarding the rest, have you considered doing a home bound learning during your pregnancy. There’s widely documented situations of Omegas preferring to be closer to home to reduce anxiety. I’m sure Columbia would be willing to let you finish the semester at home and then take a leave of absence until the kits are born.”

“You’re sure they will because it’s in their policies or because you’ll make them?” Peter asked wryly.

“Does it matter?” Tony asked, an eyebrow raised. Peter just huffed in response, and closed his eyes as he relaxed into Tony’s arms. Tony let it drop, instead focusing on the work Pepper had sent to him.

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“Go ahead and arrange it,” Peter said suddenly a few minutes later. “Leaving our den makes me feel sick and anxious anyway.”

Tony nodded and also made a note about getting Peter to see Cho. It couldn’t be good for an omega to be that stressed so early in the pregnancy.

“As you wish, kitten.”

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They cuddled the rest of the day, waiting until the last minute to get ready and head to May’s. Peter didn’t call ahead to let her know he was bringing Tony, but he figured they could always just give her the news first if she objected to his presence that much.

Climbing the steps to her apartment felt odd despite having done it for so many years. Already, it didn’t feel like home, and instead put him on edge. He fought to keep his ears from going flat, as the last thing he wanted was either her or Tony interpreting it wrong. Especially since Bucky was trailing behind Tony while watching Peter closely.

Tony had said he was just bringing him in case Peter wanted to stay without Tony there, but Peter couldn’t help but think it was something more. Still, he tried to put it out of his mind as they finally reached the door. He knocked and then waited patiently for May to call out if it was unlocked or if he should use his key. It didn’t feel right just walking in anymore either.

May’s voice called out from the other side of the door so Peter pushed it open and stepped in, expecting to find May in the kitchen waiting for him.

He didn’t expect to see a bunch of alphas in dark suits sitting around the living room. For a moment, he was thrown back to the day he met Tony, and he stumbled back into his alpha as panic caused him to freeze.

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Tony growled as he saw the waiting alphas, and Bucky was quick to slip past them and put himself between the strangers and Peter.

“What is going on here?” May demanded as she came out of the kitchen. She froze briefly when she saw Bucky placed not so discreetly in front of a shaking Peter and a furious Tony.

“That’s what I’d like to know as well, Mrs. Parker,” Tony bit out as calmly as he could. The pheromones pouring off of Peter were making it hard to stay civil, but he doubted his mate would appreciate him lashing out in his aunt’s apartment.

“If I may, Mrs. Parker?” One of the alphas, a canine of some sort, said as he stood. “This actually works in our favor. Mr. Stark, you are being charged with the kidnapping and rape of an omega. There are clear concerns of abuse and until the courts have determined you are not a danger to the boy, we will be taking him into protective custody and putting him in with a foster family.”

For a moment, Tony’s brain froze at the sheer absurdity of the situation.

“I’m sorry what?” he asked, tail twitching behind him. “Buck, did I just hear right? They’re accusing me of kidnapping, raping, and otherwise abusing my mate? And they think they’re going to be allowed to take him away and put him in foster care?”

“That is what they said, Boss,” Bucky replied with feigned disinterest.

“Mr. Stark, I would appreciate if you would respect the charges you face,” the canine started, only to stop when Bucky took a threatening step forward. “Mrs. Parker is suing for custody of her nephew.”

“Peter is literally of age and my soul mate. We bonded and mated on his 18th birthday, and all of the appropriate paperwork was filed to support this,” Tony bit out. “Per federal and New York state laws, that means there is no custody to issue to debate as he is old enough to consent.”

“Mr. Parker is clearly underdeveloped given his size, and any court could see how unhealthy your relationship clearly is when he immediately panics just because he meets a new alpha,” the canine argued and Tony didn’t bother to bite back the growl.

“I’m not afraid of Tony,” Peter declared, lifting his face from Tony’s chest. “He protects me. And I’m not underdeveloped either, I’m just a serval breed. We’re small by nature.”

“You don’t have to defend him honey,” May said, stepping closer only to freeze when Bucky turned his hard gaze to her. “I’ve seen how upset you’ve been these last few weeks. These alphas can help.”

“I’ve been upset because I’m pregnant and I didn’t know how to tell you because this is how you treat my alpha,” Peter shouted, stepping out of Tony’s protective arms. “I’ve been trying so hard since we bonded to get you to give him a chance and you’ve already decided he’s a villain. He’s my soul mate, May. Don’t you understand that? He isn’t just my alpha or my mate, but literally a part of me.”

“You’re- pregnant?” May asked faintly. “Why would you- with him?”

“Because I love him,” Peter said quietly. “He makes me feel safe and he takes care of me. I know you don’t approve of him but that’s how I feel.”

“Baby, you can’t- if you do that, I can’t get you back,” May said, her voice tight.

“What do you mean get me back?” Peter asked, voice suddenly flat.

“I was just trying to do what’s best for you, protect you,” May tried to explain. “There’s laws where you can take legal custody of an Omega to save them from a bad mate.”

“How could you?” Peter asked, his heart breaking. “I, we came here today to tell you about the kits, and to try to mend things between you and Tony. Because I wanted you to still be part of our lives. But this whole time you’ve been going behind my back to try to take me away from my mate.”

May started to speak but Peter just shook his head and put up a hand to stop her.

“I’m sorry, I just, I can’t do this anymore. I thought maybe you’d come around but I can see now that you’re never going to,” Peter said, tears filling his eyes. “This isn’t healthy and I have to think of my kits now.”

“I know you don’t want to hear it but he’s not good for you and you can’t keep those kits or I won’t be able to say you,” May said desperately.

“If you’re talking about the mated marriage laws, then you already can’t,” one of the suited alphas said, voice resigned. “If he’s pregnant and they really are soul mates, the courts will never award you custody Mrs. Parker. They won’t take an omega and it’s kits from the husband if the omega is unwilling to leave.”

“Husband?” Peter asked, his voice trembling as he turned to Tony. “What are they talking about?”

“Legally it’s like a common law marriage,” Tony said carefully. “It’s meant to protect the legal interests of the children and make sure alpha’s can’t just knock anyone up and then not take responsibility for them.”

“So you knew?” Peter asked, his voice small and hurt. Tony sighed and reached into his jacket pocket instead.

“Yeah I knew the law but I was hoping to ask you properly before it mattered,” Tony said, handing Peter the small ring box. “You had mentioned you wanted a proper wedding after all, and our mating was unconventional so I figured I could at least give you this.”

Peter broke down in tears again, and Tony drew him in close, trying to offer comfort to his distressed mate.

“I want to go home, Tony,” Peter said through the sobs.

“Alright kitten, we’ll go,” Tony said, motioning to Bucky. “You go with Buck and wait for me in the car.”

“Want you,” Peter whined, and Tony gave him a gentle kiss.

“I know, ‘mega mine, but I need to make sure we’re in the clear with the suits over there,” Tony murmured. “I’ll be down before you know it.”

It took a few more kisses and nuzzles before Peter allowed Bucky to pull him away, picking up the small omega in a princess carry. Tony gave a short nod to Bucky then turned back to the others in the room.

“I take it there won’t be any further issues gentlemen?” Tony asked pointedly, and the other alphas shook their heads and quickly excused themselves. Once they were gone, Tony turned to May.

“Bravo,” he said, giving a small clap. “I couldn’t have engineered this better if I had planned it all myself. You know, you do the loving parent bit so well, that even I didn’t expect the crazy kidnapping plot. But I know better now.”

“I was just trying to protect him from you, you monster,” the woman hissed, tail fluffing and ears going flat.

“I may be a monster, Mrs. Parker,” Tony said, his eyes hard and cold. “But I love Peter. He’s the other half of my soul and there are no lengths I wouldn’t go to in the name of protecting him and keeping him happy. You’d do well to keep that in mind.”

“Is that a threat, Stark?” May asked with a low growl.

“Just a friendly reminder. Because know this Mrs. Parker. I haven’t done a single thing to drive Peter from you,” Tony said. “I’ve let the kid make his own decisions and handle your how he wanted because he’s my mate and I want him happy. But now you’ve endangered him and our kits. So now, I will be stepping in. And it will be a long time before you see him again.”

“You can’t do that,” May argued.

“Oh but I can,” Tony practically purred as he stalked towards her, tail flicking away as he did. “You were so worried about me taking him away when in reality all I had to do was sit by and let you dig the hole deeper and deeper as I played kind understanding mate.”

“You bastard, I’ll get him back,” May spit, but Tony just grinned wider.

“And how are you going to do that?” Tony asked. “You’ve endangered him, tried to kidnap him from his mate. No one would side with you now. You’ve lost, Mrs. Parker. And you’d do well to accept that.”

“You can’t just-just replace me,” May sputtered. “I raised him.”

“And now he’s going to be raising his own family, as is the way of things,” Tony agreed. “He doesn’t need you anymore, and after today, he doesn’t want you either.”

May looked like she’d been slapped and Tony stepped back, satisfied.

“I see you finally get it. Enjoy the rest of your life.”

With that, Tony turned and didn’t look back. Bucky was waiting for him at the car, and Peter climbed into his lap sleepily for the ride home.

“Wha’ took you so l’ng?” Peter mumbled as Happy drove.

“Just had to make sure everyone was on the same page,” Tony said. “Now rest kitten.”

“M’kay, love you T’ny,” Peter murmured happily.

“Love you too,” Tony replied with a soft smile and a gentle kiss to his curls. Love you enough to do whatever it takes to protect you, even if you wouldn’t like it, Tony added to himself. One day, Peter would understand.

[snorfbin]

just a little eensy teensy rant about eso lately

im not looking for a discussion or anything like that, this is just a rant i couldnt stuff in the tags

eso is one of those games that i want to like but it feels like with each passing day i find theres more and more to dislike about it. sometimes i feel like im submitting a ticket every week bc theres something broken i come across. stuff environmental asset that were once entirely solid can now be clipped through which prevents people from getting loot the devs stashed ontop of it

lately theyve been celebrating the 10th anniversary jubilee, 10 whole years of eso, and of course they can even do that smoothly along with literally every other event theyve put on in 2024. it started out fine but shit soon hit the fan

they made an update to pts so players can test out the new dlc and some new pts features to test out higher level builds. things were going well until about an hour after the pts was brought back online when my server, pcna, was suddenly taken offline without any warnings. i had to hop over to the server to get some info which is where i learned that the pts update hadnt gone smoothly. zos somehow crossed the wires between pts and pcna where people could bring over their max level pts toons over to pcna and i heard people had billions in gold and trillions in loot. pts and pcna were taken down for this emergency bc it absolutely wouldve devastated the player economy to have that much money flowing around. speculation on how zos would handle this was grim on the forums, generally people were expecting a server rollback and all progress they had made that day would be erased. ill give zos credit, they didnt do a rollback but just locked the accounts of those who were affected by this pts exploit so the devs could dig through their inventory and xp histories to pick out the exploits; everyone else who didnt exploit the game would be fine to continue on playing when the servers came back online

pcna was taken down i wanna say around 7 am for me and was only brought back by around 11:30 pm so thats most of the day for the event gone. to my knowledge it took a couple days for pts to come back online. overall the issue didnt bother me beyond the time the server was down at that point. those with locked accounts would receive incredibly generous gifts from zos to make up for the inconvenience of being locked out during the event. theyd get...

-16k endeavours. they can use that to buy items from the gamble crates without spending any irl money. 16k is enough to buy like 400 of the bottom tier items or just 1 of the top shelf fancy as fuck items. thats about 10 months worth of constantly grinding for endeavours

-5 replica style pages released this year for the event. you can normally get these style pages through a handful of activities but the drop rates have become infamous for how abysmally low they are. ive heard of people running 700 dolmens now throughout the whole event and they have nothing to show for it. players whove been locked out get all 5 without putting in the work

-25 confetti scrolls to make the new jubilee horse mount. normally you get these by doing 1 daily quest to get a gold event reward box, you get 1 confetti scroll per box and the event was originally only meant to go on for 18 days, youd have to spend event tickets to buy more to complete the achievement to earn the horse

so locked out players get all 3 of these overwhelmingly generous gifts to make up for the time theyve spent locked out during the event. usually whenever zos actually feels bad about a blunder they just give us some ugly as fuck pity pet and move on with their shenanigans. theyre basically sucking the dicks of players here in my humble opinion. they even added on an additional 2 days to the event, instead of just 18 days worth of the event its not 20 days in total! hallelujah for that!

and then they decided to go back on the 2 additional days and essentially just make it 1 day for literally everyone on pcna. for the final day of the event, from 3 am to 7 am, pcna would be taken offline starting at 3 am when tickets are supposed to reset so that they can restore locked accounts. zos even stated that they expect the server to be offline for like 8 hours. just go fuck yourself if youre on pcna and were hoping to get the final 3 tickets and maybe some bonus rewards, those 2 extra days zos promised is effectively just 1 day and a broken promise

my gripe with the server being taken down is that it was scheduled for 3 am. thats when daily quests and tickets reset. if you werent already on and ready to get your tickets youre just fucked with no hope of getting your tickets, spending them, or earning any other rewards for the extra day zos promised you. they S E R I O U S L Y couldnt wait maybe another 10 mins so those dedicated to the event and to earning tickets could maybe actually have just a little bit more time to actually earn the final tickets and the last of the event rewards as well as buy event goodies from the impressario and indrik vendor merchants who are only around during events and tend to have items associated with specific events and seasons? they seriously needed to take the server down for the entirety of the final day of the event? players whove been locked out seriously cant wait just 10 extra minutes?

i consider myself to have be very lucky to be nocturnal for the past while. i was able to be online before the servers went down. i prepped some daily quests to turn in for my last rewards and was ready to earn my final tickets. i got the event boxes and my tickets. not many other players are awake at 3 in the fucking morning on a weekday and had absolutely no chance to earn their final event goodies! they were also p damn fast at taking the server down too. usually it takes like 3-5 mins but ive personally seen it take as many as 8 mins for the server to go offline. my clock read 3:01 by the time the server was pulled offline. thats unusually punctual for zos in my experience over the course of 3 years of playing eso. players who were locked out wouldnt even be able to get the rewards of the last day of the event either

im just fucking pissed that they promised us 2 extra days of the event and then unexpectedly backtracked in the worst way possible by giving everyone on pcna only the slimmest of chances to get the rewards of the final day. this round of maintenance has turned the forums into more than a bit of a warzone too with players fighting each other over whos fault it is when its so very clearly the fault of zos. it feels like the whole fucking dev team is made up entirely of clowns keyboard smashing their way through some very delicate spaghetti code so its just inevitable that like 50 bajillion things break with each and every update.

i dont fucking care if youre one of the players who got locked out or if youre also mad about missing the final day of the event. i just need to fucking vent about how god awfully stupid zos is at least this one time. the only reason why i even continue playing eso is bc its the only source for tes content nowadays bc tes6 is never coming out

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The Scheduling AU - pt 3

Hi I am back and kinda just woke up so this might not be coherent. Anyway this part is about teacher numbers and what classes are available done by year group me thinks.

What classes are first so we can move onto teacher numbers within departments.

We will start with the 1st and 2nd years cause they have 5 set classes and a 6th that is two different smaller subjects on alternating days on a 2 week schedule so it fall nicely in numbers. They also rotate out each semester for ✨variety✨

Their subjects:

English

Math

Science

Social studies/History (this is rotated but semesters)

Art (this is mostly student lead so they can do anything from painting to sculpture)

Now onto the smaller things they get to have a taste of:

Music (again student lead and can be everything from learning an instrument to music production)

Home economics (I think thats what call it in america)

Languages (students are given a choice of 3, French, Spanish or German. They can make a request for something else and if enough students agree then they can get it changed. (One year they decided to learn Swahili))

PE (none of this running track and apparently deadly games of dodgeball. It is more about learning different sports and occasionally having fun little minigames (somebody ask, we had some great ones))

Right I will elaborate more on their schedule once I get around to making a spreadsheet because I don’t think this explanation quite makes sense buts that neither here or there.

Oh I might add at this point that most of the subjects above tend to split at this point for example science splits into Biology, Chemistry and Physics. Math splits into Calculus and Statistics. And you can choice either social studies or history.

Once you have the basics after the first two years you can move onto other things so heres a list of other possible subjects to do after year 2.

Other subjects:

Classics

Media studies

Design (this covers everything form photography to making ads)

Sewing/Fashion

Digital Technology

Accounting/Business studies

Botany (no I didn’t just forget that was the only class we saw in the show thankfully I can make an argument that because Wednesday is just turning 16 in the show she is one of the younger people in her year group and so that makes her a year 3)

Dance/Drama (this is more because for some reason year groups tend to side more to one or the other but it is possible for them to be two seperate classes)

Now it’s also possible to do other classes by correspondence and if theres enough interest then Larissa will try and get a teacher for that specific subject for how ever long there is an interest.

Right this leads onto teacher numbers but just before that because of the open style of choose your own subject, you can be at say year 4 but can get into a class at year 3. It just makes it easier if you didn’t want to do a subject one year but did the next and so people can work to their level. So most student have at least one subject where they are working at a different level of their own. (Yes this is a logistical nightmare, let me have my fantasy and also computers are amazing at figuring out schedules)

Right Teacher numbers. Because of the younger years having set schedule all of those subject have 3 teachers at minimum. One for each class and because the teachers all teach maximum 5 classes a day and all year groups have 3 classes in them. That means there needs to be a fourth teacher for the department and because I think Larissa is going to take as much pressure off as possible, I think she would go for a fifth. So for the “core subjects” (the first list) that makes 5 teachers per department.

For the second list following the same logic but because interest in those tend to be smaller and because of the rotating schedule there only 3 teachers for each of those.

And lastly the third list again because of the small student population and the amount of choice there only 2-3 teachers per department depending on what the subject is. Obviously the number can fluctuate depending on interest and what not.

Now this is where dorm parents come into play. So each department has a head teacher and they are the ones that go to meeting with Larissa and her deputies (chosen from the teachers that want to and who she thinks works best in the role). Head department teacher can not be dorm parents so that rules them out but anyone else that do not hold another role in the school other than teacher can do it.

So a bit of math for the number of teachers. First list - 5*5 = 25. Second list - 4*3 = 12. Third list I’m going to split in half for two or three in the department cause I think that makes the most sense. 2*3 = 6, 3*4 = 12. Altogether is 25+12+6+12 = 55 teachers total. Not to shabby.

Right thats me done for today next up is either the schedule or the support departments (like school counsellers of various things and the health team and whatnot).

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Inktober days 16-25

hi!! small scheduling thing I wanna say before we get into it!! if you just wanna see the art you can skip to under the cut!! where it says 'keep reading'!!

Im posting 10 (thats right, ten!) drawings today, and 5 tomorrow!! (hopefully!) that way, I can just post one final drawing on Halloween!! I didn't fully think this schedule out tbh... but thats okay! I think this'll work fine, Im just ensuring you all know :D

as for how I'll post after October... we'll have to see!! I *might* do novelember! but I also might instead of daily prompts combine them into one per week or generally do less, just because I can't write as fast as I draw! (glances at my finished but unposted scarian pt 2.... so maybe i can write fast but it takes a bit to be satisfied with it....) /silly

so I hope to see you again tomorrow and then on Halloween! enjoy!

(heres week one, week two, and week threes posts!)

I'll only list the prompts I used that day, but here's the key for acronyms n such;

wh = welcome home

hc = hermitcraft (I have 2!)

ink = official inktober

gore = goretober

(actual gore will be triggerwarned! so far none has any blood or violence!)

Day 16

ink: angel

life: yellow life

ehehehe... yes me drawing a scene from something I havent even posted LSVSJSVSK- but uh!! first time drawing ren!! yippee!!

Day 17

life: time

gore: plant growth

ink: demon

yes me planning out a little 4 panel angsty thing because the life series has my heart... and then cleo and tango!! I want to draw cleo in full one of these days...

Day 18

hc: meme

life: horse

the horse curse!! poor scar... not even a peaceful dinner pffft

Day 19

wh: bakery

hc: action pose

last year I drew/painted scar and grian baking halloween cookies on my sketchbook, so this is sort of a homage to that! I never posted it because it never got finished... but it was a bit silly too!

Day 20

wh: siblings

ink: frost

pearl and grian as siblings make my heart happy <3

also some subtle tango and grian shipping!! these are both silly drawings, but they were fun!!

Day 21

hc: hermit w/ a mob

grian and the sniffer are having a little mimir... and jelly and scar are hanging out too :D

Day 22

hc: star

life: wolf

I dont remember when/which life series this would refer to... but wolf pearl is cool!! (and of course we have miss ariana griande!!

Day 23

life: ocean

ink: crystals

the second one is actually a slight reference to this GIG(G)S phasmo fic! go check it out, its great! its a chat fic, and it still has a really good plot and interactions! :D

Day 24

life: canary

first time drawing jimmy!! the canary!! but also the sheriff!! I saw something on tumblr a while ago where hes literally like a little bjd (ball joint doll, I think!) and I think thats really cute! I fudged the proportions on that middle drawing, but thats okay lol

Day 25

hc: fullbody / celestial (sort of!)

I love this one the most I think- at least from this batch! watcher grian has always been something I love even though I havent seen Evo... and it was fun to play around with wing placement! and the pose was fun :3

my app crashed while I was drafting this so im sorry if anything seems stiff or rushed TwT

I had to rewrite it all! makes it feel like energetic I think... oh well...

anyways!! theres all of them for now!! I'll try to post 26-30 tomorrow... we'll see how many I actually post, but I will post tomorrow!! see you then!! 💜

heres week 5.1's post, and the last one (5.2) :D