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i have taken 2 animation classes

[stela20]

I'm sorry if my English is not good, I use Google Translate

This is my story from the Quotev website, so I wanted to write it and publish it here and enjoy ❤

Author: I want to say something. The story will be outside the game. I mean, the story I will write about Ichiban will be very different from the game’s story. The second thing is the meaning of the name Ichiban in Japanese. It is number one, but I just wanted to clarify. The important thing is to leave you with the story ❤

Y/n's pov

Ichiban and I have been friends since childhood. I have known Ichiban since we were young. I was 5 years old and he was 6. He and I had some common characteristics, such as our love for video games, movies, reading stories, and many other things, and I always loved to… I spend time with him a lot to this day. We have now graduated. Ichiban loves Kira video games to the point that he opened a channel on YouTube and became very famous. Ichiban now has 8 million subscribers on YouTube and has become very popular. I used to love writing and composing stories, so I started writing. Stories and I try to be as famous as Ichiban. I and I are roommates and we do everything together, but each of us has his own room. After time has passed, I have come to love Ichiban very much. He likes the same things that I love, and we have a lot.We have common characteristics and we understand each other a lot. Other than that, he is my favorite type… After a year,Ichiban has 10 million subscribers, and I want to celebrate with him, and this is a good opportunity to confess to him how I feel about him.

ichiban: Hey, y/n, where are you?

y/n: Yes, I'm here. Is there something wrong?

ichiban Saeed: I'm going to buy some new video games so I can make videos with them. Do you need anything?

y/n Saeeda: Yes, before you come home, I want you to call me and inform me that you are coming, okay?

ichiban: Mmm why ❕

Saeeda y/n: Just do what I tell you, okay, and don’t make me wait… a minute, okay, just take your time, but do what I tell you, okay ✌🏻

ichiban Saeed: Okay, okay, I'll do it. Goodbye

Ichiban went and this is my chance to decorate the living room. I put decorations everywhere and brought the cake so that we could celebrate. I am happy that Ichiban did not smell the cake. I wanted to make it a surprise. Now I put the cake on the table and brought candles. I placed one candle in the shape of a number 1 and the other a number. 0 And I brought one in the shape of the letter M, and thus we became an abbreviation for the word 10 million subscribers. I brought him a gift, which was a new watch, red in color, because he loves the color red very much. I ordered pizza, and now it is my turn. I wore a camel dress to be ready.

Your clothes :

Your hairstyle + makeup :

Now it's ready and now I'm impatiently waiting for Achiban ❤

Ichiban's pov

Finally, I finished buying the toy I was looking for, and I remembered Y/N. I have to buy her something, even if she didn't supply this. I always like to surprise her. How much I love this girl so much. She always encourages me and stands by my side in sad times. How brave she is, and all. One day my love for her increased and I always did the same thing. I always encouraged her because she was always very diligent. I brought a luxury diamond ring to ask her to marry me. I want this girl to be my future wife and the mother of my children ❤

The ring:

And now I'm going to y/n, but before I go, I called y/n and told her that I'm coming, and after I reached the door of our apartment, I hit the door bell and Y/n opened for me, but before I entered, it was in y/n's hand. A piece of cloth and I closed my eyes with it

Ichiban tensed: y/n what are you doing why are you closing my eyes

y/n is happy: well it's a surprise

Y/n held my hand and took me to the living room, and after a few seconds, Y/n removed the cloth that was in my eyes, and I saw the living room decorated, and I saw a cake on the table, and after that, I saw Y/n, and she was extremely beautiful ❤

ichiban smiled: Wow, y/n, you look great

Shy y/n: Mmm thank you. Congratulations on 10 million subscribers. I did this for you

Shy Achiban: H really

Shy y/n: Yes….can I tell you something?

ichiban is happy: Of course it is

Achiban Saeed: Me too, my love ❤

Y/n's pov

Since then, Ichiban and I have been together more than necessary. I am happy that this nice man appeared in my life and we are now living our lives happily ❤

❤ The end ❤

[honorarycassowary]

for the bingo: sauron and melkor

Sauron

Every so often I think about that tumblr post that went something like, "If you don't want people to ship your villains, you need to leave them unseen. Nobody writes slash fic about SAURON." (The rest of this post is Sauron slash fic justification.)

The #1 thing I think about re: Sauron is his basically entirely offscreen character arc. There are so many moments when he could chosen to do things differently! And the fact that so much of it is just stated to happen and has to be viewed through inference is actually a bonus for me, since it allows so many contradicting headcanons and fanfic to develop.

He was one of Aule's most powerful and trusted Maiar - how did his departure affect the other Maiar? Did any of them choose to follow Melkor because of him?

What were those early years with Melkor like? Tolkien wrote about Melkor gradually becoming more twisted into hate and cruelty and weakening as he poured his power into distorting Arda. I imagine the early years as Sauron and Melkor pushing the boundaries of what God intended, doing forbidden mad science, etc.

Then Melkor is captured and goes to naughty angel jail and Sauron singlehandedly maintains all his evil operations waiting for him to return. He didn't know Melkor would come back! Was he experimenting and developing the desire to rule the world in his name? Keeping everything in perfect stasis for his master? (This is also a character dynamic seen over in my Transformers ships with Megatron/Shockwave, which also abbreviates to M/S. COINCIDENCE??? Most certainly.)

His change of heart after the War of Wrath. It's FASCINATING to me that he spent millennia doing horrible sadistic magic science and then stopped! Was this purely out of fear of the Valar I think he genuinely intended for this to be a new leaf, but "I want to do good things now. No I don't want to think about any of the bad things I've done or help fix them or unpack any of that. Let's just act like this didn't happen." is an inherently untenable framework for a redemption. That said, I do wonder who he helped and when he went back to his old ways. The first time he ran into humans who weren't overawed by his divinity and questioned him? thearrogantemu's These Gifts That You Have Given Me proposes that he made it all the way to Ost-in-Edhil with good intentions which is so compelling to me.

Celebrimbor. Sorry dude you would not like to be OTPed with the guy who murdered you but them's the breaks. I love all permutations of their relationship. Sauron scheming to murder him all along? Give me all the dramatic irony. Sauron coming in with evil intentions but deciding Celebrimbor is so fascinating they should be bound together in a parody of love? Sure thing. Sauron actually loved him, flipped out when Celebrimbor was less enthused about loving a guy who enabled the murder of at minimum hundreds of people he knew? Delicious.

It is fucking hilarious to me that the Valar couldn't capture Sauron after the War of Wrath and Numenor - a kingdom of more-or-less regular old humans - kicked his ass so hard he had to go live with them as a prisoner. Comedy about an angel as old as the universe forced to hang out with Iron Age courtiers when.

That said, there is so much horror in you know ... capturing the head of a foreign kingdom and they're not human, they look human but they're wrong, and their very soul is permeating the land you live in and changing it.

Also I'm interested in the whole Melkor-worship thing he had set up. This certainly was a way to destroy and humiliate Numenorean culture, but I wonder if he thought/hoped that sufficient worship could be used to free Melkor.

There's some really good meta out there about Sauron forging the ring fundamentally preventing him from ever growing or changing any more. This is made physical when his 'death' after Numenor prevents him from shapeshifting but fundamentally it was there before; when he made the Ring to concentrate his power, he concentrated his soul as it was at the time - bent towards conquering, towards deception, towards Melkor and his domains - and made it static. After this, he can't redeem himself, even in the halfway, eyes-averted way he did after the First Age. Jewelry: not even once.

There's not a good place to put this, but I love the Finrod vs. Sauron song battle in the Lay of Leithian. Hands down my favorite part.

Melkor

I'm first and foremost a Sauron fan and therefore pretty much all my Melkor thoughts are already written up above. If I was invested in the other Valar, maybe this would be different - I need multiple characters to bounce around together like upsetting pinballs for real fannish thought to happen, and unfortunately for Melkor Sauron is better at interacting with other people.

[pomrania]

[Twitter thread by Rebecca Makkal @/rebeccamakkai, about the shared etymology for "nacho" and "Nazi". Transcription follows.]

This is a thread about a) how the word "nacho" and the word "Nazi" come from the same source, and what it has to do with this guy; and b) one of my biggest historical accuracy pet peeves.

[picture of a monk or saint]

First of all, the guy in the picture is St. Ignatius of Loyola, who helped popularize the name Iganatius and its various forms (Ignaz, Ignacz, I guess eventually Iggy) around Europe.

BUT, since he was Spanish, his actual name was Inigo.

[image of Inigo Montoya from 'The Princess Bride']

One of the reasons he's a saint is that he had visions when he was in the hospital. He saw something that "seemed to have the shape of a serpent and had many things that shone like eyes, but were not eyes… When the object vanished he became disconsolate."

Good enough for me! Make that man a saint and name a bunch of colleges after him!

Anyway, the name remained popular. (Also as a last name. My Hungarian grandmother's last name was Ignácz, so I've got a horse in this race. Or, like, a snake in this hospital.)

Okay, so nachos first, and I think more people know this part of the story: This lovely man, Ignacio Anaya Garcia, went by the logical nickname Nacho.

[black-and-white photo of a man]

He was working at a restaurant in Texas near the border and in 1943 a bunch of hungry army wives came in, but the chef was out, so Nacho threw a bunch of stuff together and they loved it, and then there were nachos throughout the land, hallelujah.

But MEANWHILE, in Germany…

…the name Ignaz (pronounced Ignatz) had somehow become a pejorative nickname connoting an uneducated peasant. Basically, it was the "Cletus" of early 20th century Germany.

Or rather -- sorry, I'm tired and wrote that wrong and I won't pay Elno for the edit option. Ignaz as a name was commonly used. But its common nickname, Nazi, was the Cletus equivalent.

There was (and still is) a left-wing German political party called the Social Democratic Party of Germany (but, like, in German). As an abbreviation of Sozialdemokrat, members were called Sozis (pronounced Sotzis).

Enter the Nationalsozialisten (National Socialist) party. (In German, that would be pronounced nat-zi-o-nal etc.) You might know them from such members as the very short Joseph Goebbels and the one-nutted Ad*lf H*tler [sic].

People quickly realized that a great way to mock them was to abbreviate their name to parallel Sozi -- which made them "Nazis", AKA Cletuses.

In the early days of the party, a few members embraced it -- kind of like Trumpers calling themselves Deplorables on Twitter. But you know who had absolutely NO sense of humor about this stuff? Mr. One-Nut.

After he came to power, Austrian anti-Nazis continued to use the term (because they got the Cletus joke) and then it spread to the US and elsewhere. But using it in Germany would be asking to get shot.

When referring to themselves, Nazis would use the term Parteigenosse (m) or Parteigenossin (f), meaning "party member".

And the party itself they would have called the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (National Socialist German Workers' Party) or NSDAP.

This brings me to my huge historical pet peeve, which I want to put out there for anyone writing historical fiction or a screenplay or whatever: Nazis DID NOT CALL THEMSELVES that.

Now that you know, see how many times you're watching a movie and some Nazi official is like "We are proud Nazis!" or "Here in Nazi Germany…"

But I also fucking LOVE that neo-nazis who call themselves that are unwittingly insulting themselves. It's really kind of perfect.

I'm normally a "call people what they ask to be called" person, but in this case it's pretty great that those guys will forever be remembered with their pejorative nickname. It's like if in 100 years everyone thought Trump's real name was Mango Mussolini.

Oh, here's a fun graphic that I did not make. I like it, but it leaves off the nickname-for-Ignaz part.

[flowchart which shows "Sozialist" (socialist) leading to "Sozi", which along with "Nati" and "Nationalsozialist" (national socialist) leads to "Nazi"]

Let's put a moral on the story. When you find yourself living through the 1940s, you can either be such a dick that the world will forget your real name, or you can melt some cheese and be a nice guy and make the world better.

[black and white photo of a man, presumably the same person as the earlier photo]

(He had a better mustache, too.)

[the following is a reply to the above thread, by big richard ii energy @/angevin2]

"Fascism" and "fajitas" also come from the same root! The root in question being the Latin fascis for bundle of sticks (primarily but not exclusively the one that served as a Roman symbol of authority). From this comes Spanish 'faja' for 'strip' and thence the diminutive 'fajita'.

It's kind of amazing that there are no less than two instances in which horrible dictatorships and delicious Tex-Mex cuisine are etymologically related.

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[kelkat9]

Hi!

24, 11, 15, 17 for fic ask.

11. Which OC of yours do you think is the most similar to you? Which OC is the most different? Why?

Ohhh none of my OCs are anything like me. I'm pretty boring. I try to write characters that are gorgeous, brave, adventurous and daring.

15 Which fic that you’ve written relates to you and your personal life the most?

Broken (Tentoo/Rose) was a very personal story. My oldest brother died suddenly and it was a really hard time for me. Writing this was kind of therapy and working through grief. It's also one I received some unpleasant comments on which hurt.

The Lord Storm series was my personal fascination with the world of fic, ratings, fandom abbreviations, how people tag things etc.

17. What has been the proudest moment for you so far since you started writing?

I was very proud of my first project which was over 200,000 words long. I mean it wasn't all that and it was too long, etc, but I was proud that I wrote a series like story. I tend to think in longer story/emotion arcs so short has never been easy for me. I prefer novel length. I think keeping going even if I didn't get reads or comments and finishing long projects is something to be proud of. Too many fic writers give up. I think you should follow your passion even if it doesn't fit the current mood of fandom. Always be proud that you birthed your fic baby.

22. Which fic of yours do you wish people would ask about more? Why?

Hmmm this is a toughie. For me, I think I might enjoy the process of developing and writing a story more than people may reading it. Sometimes it's the thing I just write without much thought that readers glomp onto and I"m always why LOL.

I am a little curious why people didn't enjoy the sequel to the Blessing. I had a few readers who stuck with it (God bless them), most of the comments were from friends who I've chatted with before and chat via stories sometimes so that's not the same. The reads were really down and low compared to other things I wrote. I tend to judge by reads vs kudos etc. So that one just didn't get read like other things I've written. I think I lost readers after a couple of chapters. I think I know why but I"m not entirely sure.

Thanks for asking!

Ask Meme

[shippingmclennon]

I'm late! but anyways, 🎤fave line in a fic you wrote? and 🕶canonverse or au? AND 📒any fics planned? (👀👀👀)

Thank you, dear! And I'm a bit late too, I think 😬 so sorry. (My power has been out so... Limited wifi for me, haha)☹️. Also, thanks for writing these out 😂😂. Ok...

🎤Fave line in a fic I wrote

I had a lot of trouble finding an answer to this, and I will probably have an "oh shit!" Moment as soon as I post this, but! In the meantime, idk why, my brain just remembered in an older fic I wrote, "I want to tell you," John is about to confess his love for Paul, but freaks out and then jolts, and as he runs off, bumps into George and begs him to distract Paul so he won't find him. So George does... vvvvv

“Eh…” George panicked, but decided quickly and grabbed Paul's hand to drag him to the other room, being sure to take his time despite Paul's rushed self, acting like Johns information was super secretive. Paul followed George to the other room, waiting for George to spit it out already.

“Aright, Geo, what is it?”

“Eh… It’s really big.” Paul nodded. “Are uh… are ye sure ye wanna know?”

“Yes, for chrissake just tell me!”

“Ok ok eh… John… told… me… Ugh Paul ‘m really sorry you have to hear this.” Paul was dying with anticipation. “Just know I am so sorry, I would not be saying this if he didn’t look like he was gonna cry.” Now Paul was more worried. “Ok, ‘m really sorry but… he told me to distract you…” Paul blinked at him and shook his head rapidly.

“Wait… What!” George looked upset, and almost scared for angering Paul.

“”M really sorry okay. He made me, I had no choice. He looked so sad,” George ranted.

“Yeah I know he looked sad! That’s why I was trying to follow him!” 

That one just kinda made me crack up a bit when I read it, so, that could be a favorite for now, haha

🕶️canonverse or au?

Hmm... Both?? Probably au, but I've definitely experimented with both. I feel like I've written more canonverse, but au's give you the opportunity to get really creative with a story, so I prefer that one. I would really enjoy writing more au's and... Experimenting different storylines, if you will.

📒any fics planned?

Plenty, haha. But, if you're looking for detail, I will say

1. I am always working on continuing the teddy boy experiment saga (it's time for an abbreviation) aka TBES. Usually weather I get requests or not. I've got some of my own "topics" for it too (one is coming out real soon!! Should I say what the theme will be?? 🤔 Idk... I won't for now, unless someone insists, haha)

2. I'm working on a little fluff "challenge". Just a short, cute thing to post every once in a while between fics. My goal is around 500 words for each, so it's really nothing huge or serious.

3. I am experimenting with a new au, probably leading towards college/university au, but, as you can see with how little I know about it, I am no where near started with it, let alone near finishing it, haha. So don't expect it anytime soon. Again, I would love to work on more au's. I think I have a bit of trouble coming up with some. That being said, PLEASE SEND ME AU PROMPTS AND I AM HAPPY TO WORK ON THEM SINCE MY UNCREATIVE BRAIN CAN'T THINK OF ANY ITSELF.

4. Idk if this counts, but I am always open to working on requests. Of any kind, not only tbes, or one shots, which is what I usually get.

Anything your heart's desire that you wanna see from me, please feel free to ask. I love requests bc it gives me the ideas I can't come up with on my own, and I love writing them, so 🤷 it's a win win, right?

But yeah, I can't imagine rejecting any request I receive. It would have to be a really f*cked up one for me to not feel comfortable writing it 😂. And if y'all don't already know, I can be into some real rough shit 😳 so send away, haha! And if anything, I just won't post it, right. So, it's worth to ask!

ANYWAYS!!! Thank you so much to my anon for this! I'm a happy to hear you are interested. I love all my dear friends and supporters ❤️😘🥰❤️😘🥰. Anything you'd like to know, ask away!!

[cynicallystiles]

Marry You

Disclaimer: Gif originally posted by me.

Author: @cynicallystiles

Request: @laurs-x :  Request for Tom Holland x Reader where they go to visit Tom’s family and reader just kinda falls in love with all of them as a family and in the middle of that night reader asks Tom to sneak off to the court house/chapel to get married and they do and it’s just v sweet and romantic?? love you babeeee 💗

Warning: SO MUCH FUCKING FLUFF.

Notes: I LOVE YOU, TOO! So, I changed just a little thing at the end. But, I got SO SOFT writing this. So, thanks for making me channel those fuzzy feelings. Comment or reblog if you enjoy! I love writing Tom fluff.

Pairing: Tom Holland x GenderNeutral!Reader

Abbreviations: y/n=your name, y/m/n=your middle name, and y/l/n=your last name

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You clutched the armrest on the plane for dear life as you just so happened to hit a patch of bumpy air. Your white-knuckled grasp along with your shallow breathing drew the attention of the man you loved most in the world.

"Relax, darling. It's just a spot of turbulence. Nothing to fret," he soothes you in that oh-so-charming accent.

You smiled anxiously at him as he placed his hand atop yours and rubbed circles along your knuckles with the pad of his thumb. If only he knew the real reason you were scared to death right now. You were on a plane headed across the Atlantic to meet his family for the first time.

He'd already met yours long ago during the early stages of the relationship. It was a rather lackluster affair as you only had your dad and his wife, plus the two little balls of energy you called your step-sisters. Though you were well into your 3rd year of being together, you were still terrified of meeting his family.

Thus, your death grip on the poor armrest. As if sensing the elevation of your unease, he turned in his seat toward you. "What is it, love?"

"Imaybesortascaredtomeetyourfamily," you mumbled out low and quick. A tiny bit of relief swelled in you from just saying it out loud. But, your beloved hadn't quite heard you.

He leans closer with a chuckle as he asks you to repeat it. "I'm sorry, I couldn't make that out. You're speaking too low, darling."

Rolling your eyes and giving a sigh of resignation, you repeat it slightly loud enough for him to hear. Although you said it at the same pace as before, "IMAYBESORTASCAREDTOMEETYOURFAMILY! Okay?"

Your cheeks flushed with the color of embarrassment that you were this nervous. But he simply leaned over and kissed your temple, putting your nerves at ease.

"There's nothing to be scared of, y/n. I've told them loads about you and they love you already," he says reassuringly.

You scrunch your nose at him. "What if I don't live up to the hype?"

"Just trust me. I love you so so much. They have to love you, too," he whispers adoringly in your ear. You smile and rest your head on his shoulder as you release your grip on the seat and replace it with his hand.

Just like that, all the tension had left your body. You were no longer filled with anxiety, but with anticipation and excitement of meeting the love of your life's family for the first time.

Time flew by and before you knew it, you found yourself outside of the Holland household. Tom moves to ascend the steps but stops, noticing that you aren't right behind him.

"We talked about this, love," he reminded you.

You roll your shoulders as you take a deep breath. "What? Yeah. No, I know. I'm just-I just need a second to remember all the names," you admitted with your brows furrowed in concentration.

He rolls his eyes as he comes back down the few steps he's taken and grabs you by the hand to pull you along. "I will introduce you first, y/n. It's not a test," he assures you once again through a chuckle.

"Yeah. Okay. No. Yeah, I can do this. I've got this. It's just the names of my future family right? They're not gonna be offended if I mess it up the first twenty times..." you continue to mumble to yourself as Tom has already opened up the front door and led you inside.

You're still repeating the names and trying to attach them to faces you've seen in pictures when he stops and you stumble into his back. You peek out from over his shoulder and see the whole gang except for his mom standing around the dining table.

"What's going on?" You whisper.

He leans his head slightly toward you as he whispers back, "I haven't the faintest idea." You saw his mouth twitch up ever-so-slightly, and you knew he was fibbing.

"For an actor, you're not very good at keeping secrets," you say as you step out from behind him.

He clutches his heart and feigns a hurt expression. "Darling, your roasting hurts," he says over-dramatically.

"There's a reason Marvel doesn't give you scripts! I mean you just posted the title for Spider-Man 2 on your Instagram and Twitter," you remind him with a giggle.

He shrugs before taking your bag and setting it down next to the stairs. Suddenly, his mother comes around the corner delicately balancing a tray on both of her arms. "Is that a cake? Tom, why does she have a cake?"

"Well..." he says taking you by the hand leading you closer to the table. "I told them that it was your birthday just last week and they wanted to throw you a little party."

You put one hand over your heart as you watch Nikki light the candles. "Aw, you guys didn't have to do all this," you say with your voice full of soft emotions.

His mother smiles brightly at you. "Nonsense! You're family! We celebrate every member’s birthday 'round here," she says in such a mother-like tone that your heart melts further.

After blowing out the candles and everyone having a slice, you slowly mingle with each other while eating more cake. You were talking with Nikki and Dominic while Tom had started to play-fight with his littlest brother Paddy.

You can't help but giggle as you watch him exaggeratedly fall to the ground in defeat. God, you loved him more than anything. Excusing yourself from the two, you head over to make introductions with his brothers.

Paddy was the easy one to get along with. "Just call me Pads like the rest of the family does. You're one of us now," he says with a goofy little grin.

You smiled brightly back at him. "Okay, Pads." You made a show of annunciating his name and he went back to the table for more cake. Turning to Tom, you open your mouth to say something when there's a loud stomp right next to you accompanied by a scream and hands on your shoulders.

You squeal in surprise and turn to see the twins doubled over laughing. "Oh, you guys are real clever," you say as you fall into the laughter with them.

Tom joins you with an arm around your waist and begins to make introductions. You cut him off quickly, wanting to prove that you could remember the difference. "Okay so...you," you say pointing to the one with the slightly darker and longer hair, "are Sam and that makes you Harry." You point at the other as you finish proudly.

The two share a silent glance with unreadable expressions. Your face falls as the first one speaks up. "Actually, I'm Harry and that's Sam," he says with a sigh.

Wide-eyed, you turn to Tom. Your expression falls into that of annoyance as you see him snickering. "Oh, you boys think you're so funny," you say as a mischievous smirk takes up residence on your lips. The two nod while holding back laughter.

"Well, Fred and George," you say menacingly as you slowly pick up your piece of cake in the palm of your hand. "Let's see if you think THIS is funny!"

You launch your cake filled hand at Sam. The cake and icing smush into his face so satisfyingly that you start to laugh uncontrollably. "Oh, they've started a war now!" He chuckles out.

You squeal as he runs to the table and grabs another fistful of cake and throws it at you. You deftly doge to the left, leaving the only thing in its path...Tom. You point and laugh as it explodes all over his throat and chin.

"You think that's funny, yeah?" He says with that smirk and you know you're in trouble. The whole dining room falls into chaos as cake is flying and landing every which way and soon you're all out of breath from laughing and yelling so loud.

The cake looks like it exploded from how many hands have just dug into it. You can't remember the last time you laughed or played that hard with family. After a long shower with Tom to scrub the cake off of each other, you settle into bed with his arms wrapped around you.

"So was it as scary as you thought?" He hums lowly into your ear, sending shivers down your spine.

You shake your head as you bite your lip to contain your grin. "Not at all. In fact...I'm surprised by how much it felt," you pause, looking for the right words.

"Felt like what, darling?"

You smile softly. "How much it felt like home," you let out a short content laugh before continuing, "how much they felt like they were already family. I realized tonight that no matter where we travel...I'll always be home. You're my home, Tom."

"You're my home too, love," he reciprocates as he plants kisses in your hair.

You turn in his arms so that your noses are an inch apart and you’re staring right into his hazelnut eyes. “Let’s get married,” you whisper happily.

“That’s my line,” he says as he rubs his nose against yours. “I accept, nonetheless. We’ll go down to the jewelers once we get back to the states and pick you ou-“

You cut him off by quickly pressing your lips to his. After retracting, you speak again, “No. I don’t wanna until we’re back in the states!”

“Well, I suppose we could find a chapel sometime later this wee-“

“THOMAS STANLEY HOLLAND,” you say his full name to grab his attention.

He looks at you quizzically.

“I cannot spend another second not married to you,” you say as your smile grows wider.

His lips turn upward as well. “It’s the middle of the night, y/n. What do you propose we do? Where are you going?”

You’re already up and out of the bed slipping your shoes on with one hand and googling something on your phone with the other.

“Don’t just lay there! Put your shoes on and call Haz! We’re gonna need a witness...” you begin to mumble as you walk around his room for looking for something, not really knowing what.

He’s totally lost but follows your lead all the same. “Even if I get Haz, who’s gonna marry us at this hour?”

“Are your parents heavy sleepers?” He shakes his head and opens his mouth to speak but he’s cut off as you start yelling. “EVERYBODY WAKE UUUUPPPP!!!”

Tom can hear your yelling getting further away as you leave the room and run through the house. Sleepy and grumpy boys shuffle from their rooms rubbing their eyes. While Nikki and Dominic, look concerned as their door flings open.

“What’s going on? What’s happened??”

You turn around quickly to face them. “Tom and I are getting married tonight! And we want the two of you to marry us!” You announce.

Everyone’s faces fall into shocked expressions. Tom finally comes out of the room, phone pressed to his ear. Presumably, on the phone with Harrison.

“Give them whatever they want. We’re doing this thing,” he chuckles as he looks at you adoringly.

You beam proudly. “Okay so you two just click this button right here and you’ll be ordained to marry us!” You jump excitedly with the phone, making it hard for them to press.

It doesn’t take long for Harrison to drive over in his pajamas, still not believing Tom when he said he’s getting married by his parents at 1 in the morning. But, when he walks in and sees you all standing in the wedding positions in the living room he grins.

“So this is a real thing?” He claps Tom on the back as he stands next to his dad and mom. He simply nods, beaming with excitement.

You’re practically vibrating out of your pajamas, you’re so ecstatic. The extremely small ceremony begins and you blush the whole time, eyes never leaving Tom’s.

Finally, and mercifully, it was time for vows.

He looks surprised. “I have nothing prepared-“

“You always do best when you improvise,” you encourage him.

He smiles gratefully at you, seemingly knowing the exact words he’s gonna say now.

“Y/n...you have never once questioned or doubted my ability to do anything. And I mean, anything. Like even the things I was one hundred percent sure I couldn’t do. Just as you have absolute faith in me, I have absolute faith in you. I am one hundred percent sure that you are the only one for me. You accept and love me for who I am, and not what I am...”

You can’t help but tease him a little. “Frog and all,” you giggle. He rolls his eyes, chuckling.

“Frog and all...When I’m with you...we have crazy adventures with lots of laughs even in what seems like a boring situation. You are the only person I would ever want to get married to at 1 am in our pajamas in my living room because you are absolutely the only person I know that would roast me during our vows. I promise to always be your home, even when we aren’t together. I promise to love and support you as you do me. Forever.”

He smiles softly at you. You sniffle, not being able to contain the pure happiness you felt when he said those things. “Don’t cry, love. You’re gonna make me do it, too,” he warns.

You take a deep breath, composing yourself in order to be able to speak.

“Tom...I have never once questioned or doubted you because you have never once proven me wrong about how amazing and wonderful you are. You do those things that you’re one hundred percent sure you can’t and you show me that the impossible is possible. I’ve never met anyone as kind or as understanding as you...”

Your lip quivers and you take a breath again.

“Even though we have crazy adventures and lots have laughs...you don’t stop loving me when I have bad days. The days that I can’t see anything but gray, you sit with me in silence until I can see the colors again. You are the only person who would let me roast them during our vows and yet love me more for it. Your promise is already kept because you are my love, my heart, and my home. I promise to be yours as well. And I promise to love and support you as you do me. Always.”

He reaches over to swipe a tear off of your cheek with his thumb and you do the same to him. You both lean into the other’s hand as they continue, noticing how misty-eyed everyone else has become.

“Do you, Thomas Stanley Holland, take y/n y/m/n y/l/n to be your partner and companion, as long as you both shall live?” Nikki asks trying to keep her voice from faltering.

“Oh, absolutely. I do.” He chuckles.

You begin jumping a bit in your spot, the anticipation killing you.

“Do you, y/n y/m/n y/l/n, take Thomas Stanley Holland to be your partner and companion, as long as you both shall live?” Dominic asks you, having the same quiver in his voice as Nikki.

“Forget as long as we live! You can’t get rid of me that easy, Holland. If I die first, I’m haunting you, and I expect you to do the same!” You chuckle.

Dominic clears his throat a little.“Oh! Yes. I do, I do, I do, I FRICKING do!”

Speaking in harmony his parents close the ceremony. “You may now kis-“

Like supercharged magnets, Tom’s hand finds the back of your neck to connect you to his lips in the softest yet most passionate kiss the two of you had ever shared. Your family claps and cheers in the background as he dips you, kissing you deeper.

“To think...you were scared of meeting my family, y/n,” he says as he looks deeply into your eyes after lifting you up.

You shrug, the giddiness on your face evident. “You’re the one that told me I had nothing to fret. They’re our family now,” you say with a happy sigh.

He rests his forehead against yours as the two of you fall into a fit of giggles.

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[nom-de-plume-system]

I'm sorry for whoever @'d me that I didn't respond in a more timely manner, considering Thanksgiving is very soon coming for me, life has been a bit hectic (in a good way for the most part!), and generally this stuff was on a low priority list for the most part.

A lot of this post is going to be a bit personal but I figure since this is an important topic, I think that's a granted. This ALSO includes a small bit of medical information. I also apologize if this seems disjointed, I kind of didn't know how to flow everything together and just went by points.

Some quick stuff right here: M is an abbreviation of a name for another ex-friend (not Mint) that one of the hosts had a thing for Serrate I think? I was writing and realised I never introduced them but I have no clue how so, here you are.

Serrate was a headmate of mine, now dormant, who is my ex-BIL. also apparently had a thing for me and I was super blind abt that.

And Nightmare also was a headmate of mine, also dormant, who is my ex-brother.

I suppose I'll start off by saying that this situation did happen in 2023, I was 20 and Mint was 17 turning 18. Most of this stuff happened when they were 18, I think we only knew them for 2 months before they turned 18? I know it's small potatoes, but in no way they would be 17 while simultaneously I being 21, unless time-space ripped apart.

I can understand if Mint was uncomfortable. That's perfectly fine, and things like that happen. If Mint never wants to speak to me because they are, then that's their right; anyone can do that for anyone else, and it's entirely their right. I can speak or not speak to anyone I wish, and the same goes right back. But this has gone public, multiple times, and others have come to bother and harass me. Why couldn't they have had a conversation about how Nightmare and Serrate made them uncomfortable when I was fronting before going to the nuclear option..? I understand the discomfort, but it would have done me such a personal favour to figure out what those two were running around doing while I was recovering in headspace (forced miscarriage Nightmare gave me and from Serrate raping me, even with my guardian regeneration those things are super emotionally heavy.)

Honestly I do wish I had the space to apologise to Mint in private/semi-private (it feels weird apologising in public) (feels less Personal and more Performative) but make no mistake, if Mint wants it and if someone can deliver, I would apologise. (The only reason I haven't is because the only person who asked if I apologised said that Mint didn't care for one, and I think forcing one on them would do more harm than good.) (Do my brain words translate well here? It makes perfect sense to me and Silver. I hope you get the gist). I don't want to ever be friends with Mint again, with all the bad blood and bad experiences on their side now, but I'm not allergic to apologizing to them.

But, something I can't understand, and neither can my datemates, is that M and the others were saying that this situation is just as bad as one with Jasisbest, a man who groomed a minor for years while he himself was a 27 year old when it ended and it came out when the victim just turned 18. It just seems hyperbolic to call someone who goes to someone who is 17/18 while they are 20/21 a pedophile, and to call it as bad as a situation where someone almost middle-aged has sex with a minor. Am I wrong? I really don't think so, it just seems incorrect. Could it be questionable? Reasonably, but Mint and I are also in the same age group (just finishing high school/freshman in college & a freshman/sophomore in college). I'm not a 30 year old man who's looking for someone young, and if anything I'm in the same age range for a hypothetical 30-year-old man to consider young.

Not to mention that Mint and Sarco’s friend M used to date someone who was 14/15 from 17 right up until M turned 18, which seems to be the exact same age gap, and if anything could be considered “worse” since that relationship produced a child. Do they pick and choose what's bad? Because it's either THAT is grooming, or THIS isn't. It can't be mutually exclusive, and if they say otherwise, then I suppose their morality lies elsewhere. (There is a screenshot, yes singular, that confirms this relationship exists by the 14/15 y/o's own words, since the only other evidence was either over vcs I wasn't in, chats/dms I do not have access to, or just. evidence in their headspace via a bio kid. which like… you can't use AS evidence in the same way. Unfortunately without much access to all that I don't want to go all out with a public callout post, and I feel like posting that singular screenshot publically would unnecessarily affect one party and could also identify them- however I will shell it out in dms, especially if I know you.)

Moving on, fun facts I learned about the word “cunny”, that I didn't know despite using it for years:

It has been in use since the 17th century.

In the 2010's it apparently grew in popularity for Lolicons, which is something I did not know and probably would have never known until this post, considering I don't go into Lolicon spaces and don't really watch anime. All things considered we probably picked it up from Onelook Thesaurus (A rlly good site for finding specific words or words that mean the same things) or Ao3 when we used to be in the MHA fandom when we were 16 thru 18. Super unfortunate bc it's actually a good word as a writer to use to avoid sounding repetitive, but better to know then to not in this case.

As for how the situation affected me? Well, it was pretty mixed, but the takeaway from me is that I:

Got on anti-depressants,

Got into therapy (my therapist actually knows abt this entire situation too, lol),

Doing a lot better personally

Finally, I know what I'm doing in my life???

Generally, now I don't interact with minors in private as best I can, not out of ‘temptation’ but just as good practice. Overall I can't really relate to people who are younger than 20 anyway, so it's not really any skin off my shoulders, but generally I think it's perfectly reasonable to do; kind of like male teachers not going into private with female students. Even if nothing is actually happening, it's better not to make it seem like there could be. (Does that make sense? I hope it does, similar to not wording things in a way that could make it sound wrong.) The only exceptions are my daughter and my son as well as any future kids, for obvious reasons, lol.

And generally, since I'm not hanging around one person in particular (M), I'm not feeling like I have to “prove” that I am a “real Dreamtale Dream” headmate despite having a WILDLY different childhood from my source and feeling like I have to be exactly like him CONSTANTLY, which has done wonders for myself. Plus my therapist has helped me so much with trying to come to terms with the fact that my eldest daughter could have had an older sibling, what Nightmare/Serrate did to me, and the entirety of the friendship situation. (And truthfully, she has told me NM/Serrate have some grooming tendencies, but she doesn't see that in me (Dream), so I hope that stays that way.) And Silver is currently on a waitlist for therapy, so fingers crossed there 🤞

My therapist, Silver and I had talked a lot about Serrate and Nightmare, and while maybe in a few years I might allow myself to accept them coming back from dormancy for therapy, right now is a no-go bc I'm pretty sure my brain would eat itself if that happened at the current moment. And I'd probably never trust them to front again, especially not alone. (I couldn't even trust Cacao, my stepson, or Cross, my partner, the first few months to front and I love them both!) Not to mention, I'm still Super Unhappy(tm) with everything they did to others and me and the long-term consequences of their actions for both! Maybe once I steal all of Serrate's prev kids and Nightmare's firstborn kid and raise them as my own, lol…

How does this affect Emily's situation?

The thing that really grinds my gears is the mob mentality of “burn them, their friends, their family, and their little dog too”, because, as you may know, you don't control other people's actions and you shouldn't be blamed for someone else's actions, and those actions shouldn't implicate you unless you actively did the thing they did with them. We hated collective punishments as kids because it felt less like a lesson and more like adults just taking their revenge out on us, and I'm not sure why that, as those adults, we do that to other people. Does this make sense? Overall I don't think this should make Emily more “guilty” because they were very much distant from that friend group (considering Emily was in RW and most of them were in Undertale, nothing personal just different interests). It would be like saying that you are guilty of doing drugs/alcohol with your friend group when you didn't even hang out with them when they did that.

Personally, I think it doesn't affect it much. I just said my piece because I was in VC with Emily when they got a message from Azriel abt stuff, and I felt like my experience was important to share.

Overall? I don't think I really care what people think of me, personally, over this. If they feel uncomfortable, then that's fine, and (esp if they are a minor tho i don't know if any of my mutuals are minors) we wouldn't have been close friends anyway. Make of this situation what you will be, on what kind person I am.

Last but not least, because I know M will be reading this, since they extensively told me about how they obsessively stalk their ex-datemates and ex-friends, I will be addressing this to them. This is something that Silver would also say, I just put it into words for them.

Do you want to know why I wasn't kicked out and left destitute?

Well, here's one part of the equation you couldn't directly control (except for one person): Mom knew about this situation, heard all about it from Silver and I, saw the evidence, and sided with me.

The one part that you could, that could have even maybe swayed Mom?

SILVER.

MOM'S BIRTH CHILD. THE WOMAN WHO IS HOUSING ME?

The person you ignored and were all hostile to? The one who you accused of being a pedophile defender, before you even gave them an inkling of evidence, and even while you were gathering it, were a huge piece of doodoo to? The person you assumed, just because I live with them, wasn't going to immediately side with you, so you instead didn't give them any support and treated them less than human and like a little kid at best, at the time they needed your support to make a decision the most?

The person YOU ALL either ignored, blocked, spat hateful stuff towards (and then in one case, someone ended up getting butthurt because they dared to block that someone after HAVING ONE OF THAT SYSTEM'S HEADMATES DO THAT MULTIPLE TIMES EVEN AFTER THEY TALKED IT OUT. OH MY STARS. HOW SILLY DO THEY HAVE TO BE), and then going “oh well i won't read your messages but you can say whatever you want” when they were trying to resolve stuff, not about me, but about you and them as a friend, and wanted to have a discussion.

You could have had it all. You had it to the very end. But you put it in the potty and flushed it down, over and over, until it drowned and died a grisly death. You could have maybe gotten me kicked out of the house, left to be destitute, and yet you alienated the ONE. PERSON. who could have been able to give you that, only if you weren't such a horrible ‘friend’ to them. Nepotism could have won, Silver could have convinced Mom… and even if it didn't, considering how Mom looked at the situation, you could have said you tried for half a gold star.

But you lost that chance. And now you're paying the price for the pain you brought to them. I can encourage them to talk to you all day long until I'm blue in the face - and I have tried - but they don't want to. They aren't stupid, they see the way you saw them and treated them: like a child who didn't know what to do with themselves and who would only cause trouble, the exact thing you KNOW they hate to be treated like.

And not only that, all my datemates? You were horrible to all of them. You treated them like trash, especially Hope - the kindest person I know - I saw you bully for no reason, except for, what, you hated their takes on characters? Who DOES that?! I can understand not liking the takes, but they weren't saying stuff like Dreamtale's creator is a baby eating warlock or something!

Regardless, you say the situation is like this, but you treated it like that. You say it's SO bad, but then you treat it like you would a common plastic child's toy to a destructive child. If you had a bit more social finesse and a lot more care, then things could have turned out much more the way you wished it would. You're like a police officer harassing and stalking people and getting all pikachu faced when nobody reports things.

I hope that revelation was fun for you to find out. I hope the truth tastes as bitter as the way you treated Silver.

Anyway, I think it was about time to say anything about this, so hopefully, it was a clarifying read! (and hopefully, I didn't confuse anyone too much, I have a lot of emotions still in this situation, and it likely bled everywhere).

(sorry just had to repost this as I didn't realize how exactly reposting works on Tumblr aswell as made wording more clear

Updated the tags as well to be more relevant as asked to by the victim, apologies if anyone who didn't want to see this didn't have the TW tag blocked yet, please do so to avoid seeing this type of stuff if you just wanna avoid it)

Just wanted to point out that @nom-de-plume-system , someone who's been defending Emily recently is a groomer themselves, they had sexual conversations with a 17 year old who they had acknowledged was a 17 year old (refer to timestamps 0:16 through 3:54 in the video), talked about doing things to the victim in their sleep and dreaming about having relations with the victim (refer to image 1) made suggestive art of the 17 year olds oc (refer to image 2) and has used lolicon terms when referring to the victim (refer to image 3), along with these there were claims from another person who was 15 at the time that they were also groomed by them, although they have not provided any screenshots so this cannot be confirmed it has been said by the victim shown here that it is true so take that as you will. They are a friend of Emily's and someone who has been in contact with her since before and after (refer to image 4) the situation. https://youtu.be/SMD99e2uL_w?si=S21exX_Z-l7h2ZjJ

I was given permission by the victim to post these screenshots uncensored to show the full images of these. Nom-de-plume was around 21 according to the victim during these screenshots.

[kiragecko]

I'm assuming you mean 'what are Medieval Ligatures' and not something like 'which Medieval Ligatures are included'. If I'm wrong, please let me know.

Medieval ligatures are basically abbreviations where the abbreviated letters get written together. During the middle ages, a lot of European writing was in Latin. Vellum, the main thing to write on, was expensive, and using the space efficiently was important. Many Latin words end with similar sequences of characters, like 'dum'. Some words are used very frequently, like 'que'. Medieval writers would use a single character for these sequences to save space and write more quickly. For example, 'dum' was written 'ꝱ' and 'que' was written 'ꝙ'.

My keyboard includes most of them in sections 9.1.1 and 9.1.3. You write the full sequence out ('d+u+m' or 'q+u+e') and then press Ctrl+7.

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Modifier logic is a LOT harder than it seems.

I attempted to organize things by shape, rather than purpose, as much as possible. Upside-down characters are created with Ctrl+2, characters with acute accents are Ctrl+', etc. Even so, all the '/' modifications are based on the alphabets the characters come from, and the various curls/hooks are often sorted by what they symbolize. I also used someone else's keyboard as inspiration.

I can't immediately figure out the reasoning behind which modifier is used for what character in the link you gave me. I'm guessing it might have some relationship to the languages the person studies, and what seems like logical groupings for those languages.

I do know that when you only want one modifier per character you usually need to sacrifice some aspect of logic at some point.

Press:

E

>

is a lot simpler than:

O+E

Ctrl+7

Ctrl+Alt+Shift+6

The first is how the linked keyboard creates an 'ɶ', the second is how mine does.

My sequence is entirely logical! You type the two characters that historically combined to make an 'Œ', combine them, and then turn them into a small caps version. After learning this sequence, it's pretty easy to figure out how to make characters like 'ᴇ', 'œ', or 'ᴁ'.¹

But it's SLOW. It's unnecessary if you only have a few combination characters. And it's meaningless to anyone blind, or who's thinking more about sounds than shape.

A keyboard that's focused on IPA SHOULD use different logic than I did. My focus is completionism!

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Hope that helps. Thanks for your interest in my keyboard!

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¹ 'ᴇ' = e then Ctrl+Alt+Shift+6

'œ' = o+e then Ctrl+7

'ᴁ' = A+E then Ctrl+7 then Ctrl+Alt+Shift+6

IPA and More Keyboard

When I first got into linguistics, I decided I needed a keyboard that could support IPA¹. But I was studying Sanskrit, and switching to a completely different keyboard every time I wanted to add a dot below a character (the common Sanskrit transcription convention) was really annoying! Also, I hate the IPA character for a palatal nasal (ɲ), so I wanted to be able to use 'ñ' instead. And ... a thousand other tiny things, all requiring different keyboard layouts. Why wasn't there a keyboard that just let me type EVERYTHING?

Eventually, I designed my own. And that was fun enough that I expanded it. Over the last 15 years, I've been adding characters and streamlining it's use.

The current iteration is a monster. For an idea of what it can do:

this keyboard can type over 50 diacritics (accent marks)

it can rotate and flip any character that has a rotated/flipped Unicode counterpart, as well as replace them with smallcaps, superscript, and subscript versions

it can type most medieval ligatures and characters (though my research hasn't always been good enough to provide the most natural ways to do so)

it covers the whole IPA, of course, as well as historical symbols, extIPA, and uppercase forms when available

it can type any modern or historical click character available in Unicode (still waiting for Doke orthography support >:( )

it allows you to type Greek and Cyrillic characters (though it prioritizes IPA variants and isn't really streamlined for writing the language)

it allows you to transliterate Sanskrit, Ancient Egyptian, Chinese dialects, etc. that use discipline-specific characters/diacritics

it lets you add bars, tildes, slashes and curls to any character that has a matching Unicode counterpart

it can type most proofing and punctuation marks, modifier characters, as well as

alchemical, astrological, and gender/orientation symbols

and much more

For more detailed documentation on what this keyboard supports, and how to use it, here's the guide (PDF or Word Doc).

Here's the keyboard: IPAKeyboard dot kmp

Because it's designed to work for a LOT of characters, this keyboard is rarely going to be the simplest way to type a specific one. There are definitely IPA-only keyboards that will be more efficient for typing just IPA. And this keyboard isn't a font. There will be characters that don't show up - I've yet to find one that supports the entire range of characters this keyboard allows. Doulos SIL is my suggested font, especially if you use a lot of diacritics, but you might want to look around to find the one that supports you best.

But it's a powerful tool if you want to be able to switch between multiple transliteration and transcription systems in the same document, explore characters to use for non-human sounds, discuss the history of transcribing language, or quickly type special characters without opening 'insert symbols' dialogue boxes.

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This is a Keyman keyboard. You'll need to install Keyman before being able to use it. Keyman is a free program with some amazing keyboards, and a lot of supports for people designing them for underserved languages. I've been really happy with it for almost 20 years, now.

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For ideas about what else I could add, or suggestions for better key combos for specific characters, please contact me here, or at kiragecko at gmail dot com.

Things I'd love ideas for:

medieval ligatures (need to match them to logical character strings (words), but these are frequently NOT what unicode suggests)

mathematical, geometric, and/or scientific symbols (huge numbers of symbols, need a logical way of organizing them without too many key strokes)

Teuthonista symbols (very little English documentation, so I don't know what all of them MEAN)

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¹ The International Phonetic Alphabet, one of the main ways linguists indicate sounds.