#with all due respect to max being possessed

[pjohoo-reclists]

Masterlist of Recs

Here are all the rec lists I made, listed in alphabetical order. Enjoy!

Buzzfeed: Requested. Mortals discover demigods via buzzfeed, and go nuts over the conspiracies.

30k+ Completed Percy Centric: Requested. Good, long, finished stories that focus on Percy. Any variation, other than him killing everyone. No Percy/Nico, Percy/Jason or Percy/Rachel.

Criminal AU: Requested. Crossover fics where Percy and/or Annabeth interact with mortal criminals and police, either by being the suspect or being part of the police or FBI.

Crossovers

Percy Jackson goes to Hogwarts: Requested. Coming soon.

Harry Potter Crossover: A list of fics that have wizards and demigods crossing paths. Coming soon.

Marvel Crossover: A list of fics where Percy (and friends) cross paths with the avengers and other characters in the MCU. Coming soon.

Dark Percy Jackson: Requested. Completed fics with dark and powerful Percy, most of which he controls poison or/and blood.

Deity Percy Jackson: Fics where Percy either is made a god, or ascends under his own power and becomes a god. Coming soon.

Earthshaker Powers: Requested. Fics where Percy has the ability to create earthquakes. Coming soon.

Good Luke Castellan: Requested. Fics where Luke is good to Percy and other demigods, where he redeems himself (time travel fix it) or where he double crosses the titan lord.

Outsider POV: Requested. Mortals get glimpses of the greek world and/or demigods.

"Poison Bending is Okay.": Fics where people comfort and tell Percy that it's okay for him to have and use his power of poison.

Powerful Percy Jackson: Fics where Percy is abnormally powerful, but not dark or evil.

Relationships: Familial or Platonic

Amphitrite & Percy Jackson: Percy & Amphitrite's familial relationship as step-mother and step-son.

Clarisse La Rue & Percy Jackson: Percy and Clarisse's platonic friendship. [Part One]

Grover Underwood & Percy Jackson: Percy and Grover's platonic friendship. [Part One] [Part Two]

Hermes & Percy Jackson: Percy and Hermes's platonic friendship. Coming soon.

Nico di Angelo & Percy Jackson: Nico and Percy's relationship as friends, cousins and/or brothers. Coming soon.

Paul Blofis & Percy Jackson: Percy and Paul's father-son relationship.

Poseidon & Percy Jackson: Percy and Poseidon's father-son relationship. Different tropes: [baby/young Percy] [Hurt/Comfort] [Fluff] [possessive/scary/godly Poseidon] - Coming Soon.

Sally Jackson & Percy Jackson: Fics that have Percy and Sally's mother-son relationship as the focus.

Triton & Percy Jackson: Percy and Triton's relationship (and rivalry) as brothers. Coming soon.

Tyson & Percy Jackson: Percy and Tyson's relationship as friends and brothers. Coming soon.

Relationships: Romantic

Annabeth Chase/Percy Jackson: Long fics (30k+) with Percy and Annabeth's romantic relationship set in alternate universes. Mostly wholesome/comfort stories.

Annabeth Chase/Percy Jackson: Percy and Annabeth's romantic relationship. Angst edition that shows conflict due to their respective traumas and personality clashes. Coming soon.

Apollo/Percy Jackson: Apollo and Percy's romantic relationship. Coming soon.

Artemis/Percy Jackson: Artemis and Percy's romantic relationship. Requested.

Jason Grace/Percy Jackson: Jason and Percy's romantic relationship. Coming soon.

Nico di Angelo/Percy Jackson: Percy and Nico's romantic relationship. Coming soon.

Rachel Elizabeth Dare/Percy Jackson: Percy and Rachel's romantic relationship.

Reyna/Percy Jackson: Requested. Long fics with Percy and Reyna's romantic relationship.

Sally Jackson/Paul Blofis: Fics where Sally and Paul's romantic relationship is centric to the story.

Thalia Grace/Percy Jackson: Requested. Percy and Thalia's romantic relationship.

Roman Percy: Requested. Fics where Percy is roman or part of Camp Jupiter's army.

Tartarus: Fics where Percy travels through Tartarus alone, with Annabeth or Nico or Jason and pushes his powers to the max to survive.

[ethicaltreatmentofcowplants]

Probably not the best first impression you're making on Strong Jawline With Shades there, Simone.

Simone aged up kind of goofy looking (genetics, why are you so cursed for masc Sims?) and I made him look more like a normal guy. So my idea for him was that of a nerd whose famous dad was the 'norm' to him and he could only understand on an intellectual level what the big fuss was about? His mom's everything and Thorne's Just Ken. Plus, yanno, raised by a single mother who created her own nectar empire out of nothing - even if sexism were a thing in the Simsverse, he'd be downing that Respect Women cactus juice by the gallon. (Nothing else will quench ya! It's the quenchiest!)

strangerville story spoilers

And so with some of his growing up bonus traits (TOP NOTCH TODDLER plus HEADSTRONG more specifically - also GOOD MANNERS which helped him introduce himself nicely to all the right people*) and his stereotypically geeky interests, I unintentionally created the near perfect hero for the Strangerville storyline. With that perk to skill building, he's already nearly maxed out PROGRAMMING, LOGIC and HANDINESS - and fortunately I'd sent him on enough jogs while waiting for the Possession Hour to hit to give him some FITNESS to impress the military personnel from whom he needed to grab a keycard.

Was Thorne Bailey's lovechild becoming the Strangerville hero the twist that we all saw? Maybe not, but it was the one I surprisingly needed xD

Plus also getting this doofus to eat the strange fruit (high intelligence, low wisdom much?) ended up actually working for us because of how the Possession Hour replenished his needs. Also do we really want to defeat MOTHER? Being possessed between 1 and 4 am where I run around like a headless llama but basically am otherwise harmless only to end up fully refreshed? Sign me up. The MOTHER is the Strangerville hero in our hearts.

I still need to complete the final stages of the challenge (vaccine three people, recruit three people to defeat MOTHER etc) and with a household of three conveniently sitting right next door to him - guess who's going to be cheated STEEL BLADDER asap? Also due to their Possession Hour meetups and chats about flora, Leslie Holland has become his best friend in the Eclectic Arts household.

Here's one final shot of the Chiara/Thorne Bailey genetics after I 'fixed' him (ie. made him look less cursed, not 'good looking' per se). His eyes are a nice colour and he has Chiara's mouth.

*TOP NOTCH TODDLER: makes you build all adult skills faster.

HEADSTRONG: makes CONFIDENT and FOCUSED moodlets last significantly longer.

GOOD MANNERS: will unlock the POLITE INTRODUCTION interaction, which will give the Sims a nice relationship boost and sometimes even make them instant friends, depending on how compatible the traits are.

[madmazmind]

Maxiel week, day 7/7

Daniel didn't expect to actually live full time in Monaco, he didn't expect to be pulling out Red Bull team merch of a box, ready for team commitments, he didn't expect to be moving into the same building as Max. A different building from last time but still, the same concept of being a few floors up, shouting distance from each other's balconies. It seemed fruitless because Daniel would basically be living in Max’s flat. Having a physical home wasn’t familiar to him, so he just chose the place closest to Max. 

He pulled another box of clothes onto his bed to unpack and was amused by the number of shirts that were Max’s, their basic wardrobes starting to merge together with neither of them minding. Daniel loved it. Like he was starting to own a little more of Max’s heart. He wasn’t sorry for being possessive. 

It was already January, and Daniel had spent almost a month with his parents in Perth without Max, face-timing him from the sim in the UK or after engineering meetings. Every time another Red Bull employee had noted that they had something important for Daniel to help with, something that would make the car better or that they needed his experience for. He was excited to start. He was excited to feel useful and wanted. Like his skills were needed. 

Max was due to fly back into Monaco any minute now and Daniel had promised that he was going to look after him. To play the WAG for the next two weeks before his contract with Red Bull started. He threw his headphones on and started his productivity playlist, building up a sweat unpacking the last of his clothes and making the bed. He tried not to cringe at his own merch filling up two drawers and didn’t panic at the idea that nobody would buy them anymore. He had gone a bit quiet on social media, but people still seemed to be drawn to the content they were being given. He was going to be fine. 

Daniel’s phone vibrated on the bedside table. 

Maxy: Hey, just landed. Need anything on my way over? 

Daniel: Nope come straight to number 78, I’ll order dinner now. 

Daniel put his phone down but immediately picked it up again. 

Daniel: I can’t wait to see you. 

Daniel walked over to his open laptop and found the website of their favourite bistro, filling his basket with everything he had missed in his month away from Europe and clicking order. 

The order beat Max to the flat by a few minutes and Daniel took his time scooping the food onto plates, lighting a candle and laying the table properly. 

Daniel wasn’t proud of the way he sped to the front door when Max knocked. Max was still in his Red Bull gear and a small suitcase in hand. Daniel dragged him into the room and kissed him. 

“Did you miss me?” Max asked, sliding his arms around Daniel’s waist and holding him tight. 

Daniel nodded into Max’s neck. 

“Why is your living room bigger than mine?” Max asked, pulling away and strolling around the room. “Oh, Daniel, dinner looks amazing.”

Daniel grinned. “I’m here to make you happy, Maxy.” 

“You do make me happy,” Max responded, turning to face Daniel so he understood the weight of the words. “I have of course missed you. It has been boring without you. I am not looking forward to travelling without you a lot during the season.” 

Daniel wandered over to the dining table and took the seat next to Max. “I’ll be busy working on making you even faster.” 

Max smiled. “I know you are looking forward to being home more, I will just miss you being there all the time.” 

“I don’t think how I’m going to feel,” Daniel admitted, putting some of each dish onto his plate. 

“If you are very sad, I will convince Christian to have you at all the races,” Max suggested. 

“Not on the grid?” 

“If you are then also very sad, I will convince Christian to have you in Checo’s car every week. I expect you in for 2024 but if you want it for next year, I’ll work on it,” Max replied with confidence. 

Daniel shook his head. “We respect contracts in this house, Maxy.” 

“Only if they benefit us,” Max snapped back. “I want you to succeed and be happy.” 

“I am happy,” Daniel said. “I’m relaxed, I spent lots of time with my family, I feel fit still and I’m excited about this year.” 

“So you’re still feeling ok?” Max asked. 

“Yeah, I’m ok,” Daniel assured. “Are you ok?” 

Max nodded. “Yeah, I’m good, I still have you.” 

“Yeah,” Daniel agreed. “This really does help.” 

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Thanks for reading this little series! Hope you feel a little Daniel joy!

Previous days: 

Day 1: https://at.tumblr.com/madmazmind/maxiel-week-day-17/i2rmx7r61jtd Day 2: https://at.tumblr.com/madmazmind/maxiel-week-day-27/2m2wdwvi1vye Day 3: https://at.tumblr.com/madmazmind/maxiel-week-day-37/dzy3m5zw7sjy Day 4: https://at.tumblr.com/madmazmind/maxiel-day-47/fze5nv9zny2g Day 5: https://at.tumblr.com/madmazmind/maxiel-week-day-57/u3ivccs0jyrt Day 6: https://at.tumblr.com/madmazmind/maxiel-week-day-67-slightly-nsfw/sdyedvz0uaae 

[ikevamp-shrine]

Who do you think Leonardo would let in on a threesome or giving a hall pass to let MC just so she can feel the pleasure of a vampire bite?

Arthur is a definite no lol. Just because he tends to talk of more... mature... things like it's an everyday casual occurrence (which for him I guess it is). The poor overprotective Papi's blood would boil just at the thought of Arthur discussing his Cara mia's affections so breezily.

Comte is another definite no… for the biting part at least. I feel like if biting wasn't involved Comte would be his first choice due to him knowing the man inside😉 and out. Purebloods can feel each others' emotions, strong ones at least, so Leonardo would be able to monitor Comte more intimately than the lessers. Plus Leonardo knows while Comte tries his damn hardest to keep up his 'gentleman' presona - the man is an absolute beast in the sheets and would make MC scream. And the thought turns him on to the max when he pushes down the initial burst of unbridled jealousy and possessiveness. This guard dog doesn't like others touching his bone but he trusts Comte more than most, even if he is another pureblood. (Purebloods are inherently jealous and possessive creatures so the thought of Comte touching what's his causes his protective nature to sky-rocket.) Comte’s a massive switch and while Leo leans more towards being a top, he’d gladly fold his hands and bend his knees for the resident golden mommy when the situation demanded it. So while there might be a few tense moments when it comes to sliding into their roles, they’d eventually figure it out and blend deliciously like gold dusted dark chocolate and strong whiskey.

Isaac is a no because Leonardo would be too worried about him losing control and hurting MC. If he wasn't an adverbant Leo would be all for it. Besides he would get a kick out of seeing Isaac all blushy and whimpering for MC. (It would make him proud of her lol)

Jean is a yes if he would get over his 'I'm a monster' deal. Leonardo knows he would be gentle and treat the lady of the mansion like a queen with how respectful and protective of her honor he is in his everyday life. He also has a very strong hold on his blood lust so Leo wouldn't have to worry about him losing control. Jean, being a switchy creature of midnight, would be submissive towards both Leonardo and MC so there wouldn't be a power-play struggle. It’s a win win in Leo’s mind.

Dazai is a probably not just because the man is a blank page that randomly flashes with neon colors. Basically, he's too hard to read and sporadic for Leonardo to feel safe putting MC in the way of his fangs.

Shakespeare is a maybe leaning towards a strong no. He's too shady and has too many secrets for comfort. But he's also an extremely respectful gentleman that drinks his respect woman juice every morning. If Leonardo was in the mood for a tense and horrendously kinky fuck session with passive aggressive phrases and burning glares he would be okay with it.

Leonardo knows Theo is just a big teddy bear with thorns but there's still a constant worry in the back of his mind that Theo would be a little too rough with her. MC is also pretty sensitive (at least in Leonardo's route) so he would be afraid of Theo saying something that was somewhat too harsh to be considered teasing. Leonardo teases her, don't get me wrong, but it is entirely different from Theo's sharp-tongued borderline bullying quips and nicknames. Leo would also be aware of the fact Theo is hung like a horse (and while Leonardo is too, Theo is a loootttt thicker than Leo) and might be too much for MC to handle (at least at first). Theo would be grumpy about it and would talk sooo much shit but he would 100% submit to Leo. So Theo is another maybe if mister Italian pride is okay with taking turns (cause like unless MC is a freaking bottomless pit there ain’t no way in hell she takin both of ‘em) and keeping Theo’s mouth under control.

Mozart is an eh. He might piss Leo off with his cold and bratty attitude which he most definitely would have if he was having to share MC with Leo. He might take his frustrations out on MC by overwhelming her and Leonardo really doesn't feel like breaking a pianist's fingers. So eh.

Sebastian couldn't bite her but Leonardo would be down for a threesome.

Napoleon would be an easy yes. He knows how to please a woman, is on good terms with Leonardo, doesn't have an overly rough personality, and is very respectful and protective of MC. The ex emproer checks off almost all the boxes besides the submission thing. He wouldn't necessarily submit to the dirt old Italian but he would work with Leo to overcome a goal which would be to take away MC's ability to walk but whatever. Napoleon could surely get his noodle wet if he wanted to.

Hunky pasta man wouldn't hesitate when it came to Vincent. I mean come on. What wouldn't he do right? He would immediately submit and would have only the purest -but still naughty- intentions when handling Cara mia like the richest piece of treasure. They could also collaborate and use MC's body as a canvas (of course using flesh-safe paint). MC's wellbeing and pleasure would be the only thing on Vincent's mind so Leo wouldn't have to worry about him losing control or overwhelming her. The only downside is how Theo would blame the elder vampire for 'corrupting' his precious boer. He might also think about Vincent getting addicted and wanting more than a sexual relationship and then overstepping boundaries Leonardo is uncomfortable with. They would be a great combo though... I mean the demanding and commanding, frustrating and incredibly filthy words being soothed by a warm smile, gentle touches and sweet whispers of encouragement is just a beautiful cocktail of sex that just washes over the tongue and makes your toes tingly.

[georgi-girl]

Fury Road

Original meme belongs to Archangel470

I really wanted to do a Fury Road recast and since I couldn't any official ones, I used the Action Movie Cast meme (which was inspired by Fury Road)

The cast is this...

Hero: Larn (Fire and Ice) in the role of Max. He was separated from his tribe and was trying to find them when a posse of war boys captured him. Now he's caught up in a high-octane power struggle.

Hero's Love Interest (platonic, not romantic) : Marina (Sinbad; Legend of the Seven Seas) in the role of Furiosa. She was stuck working for the Warlord and plans to get the hell back to her ancestral home The Green Place. And she's bringing some friends with her.

The Villain: Jafar (Aladdin) in the role of Immorton Joe. He's the tyrannical Warlord ruling over a canyon oasis. His prized possessions are the unfortunate women he's chosen as his brides.

The Sidekick: Taron (The Black Cauldron) in the role of Nux. In this verse, he's called Tarry Black due to his black hair. He adores the Warlord with all his soul, and is distraught when he constantly fails him. Being with the freedom convoy gives him a new, better purpose in life.

The Traitor: Snow White (Happily Ever After) in the role of Cheedo. One of Jafars' former brides, she's called Snowflake due to her pale skin and fragile demeaner. When a big chase kills one of her fellow escapees, she panics and tries to run back to Jafar. (She's stopped though)

The Villains' Bodyguard: Mr. Hyde (The Pagemaster) in the role of Rictus Erectus. Jafar's oldest son, deform in body and mind, his one purpose in life is to lead his father's army.

The Hero's Superiors: Amalthia (Last Unicorn) and Yum-Yum (The Thief and the Cobbler) in the roles of Dag and Toast respectively. Called Shiny and Yummy, they adapt to life outside the quickest. When Snowflake tries to run back, they tackle her together. They've never met a man like Larn; when they tell him to do something, he does it with no argument. They quite enjoy that.

The Redeemer: Kaley (Quest for Camelot) in the role of Capable. Everyone calls her Dame. When she sees Tarry Black crying in the back of the rig. She comforts him and encourages him to keep living.

The Villains' Henchman: Dr. Vigglestien (Nightmare Before Christmas) in the role of the Organic Mechanic. Jafar's private doctor, and the only other man allowed to touch the brides.

The One Who Dies First: Odette (The Swan Princess) in the role of Splendid: Jafars' favorite bride and carrier of his next child. known as Golden, she's the bravest of the escapees. She's killed during the chase that freaks out Snowflake and strands Tar on the rig, and her baby dies with her.

Also starring...

Grumpy (Snow White) in the role of Corpus Colossus

Tala (Brother Bear) as the Keeper of the Seeds

Grandma Fa (Mulan) as Miss Giddy

All characters belong to their respective companies.

[bbeeohazardd]

this is Casey! Rory's (now ex) childhood best friend, they've known each other since they were toddlers and were very close friends for a very long time. But Casey had issues, he didn't like Rory hanging out with people other than him and basically didn't respect Rory a lot, acting very possessive of him.

Rory didn't really know how toxic of a person Casey was and kinda just put up with everything, even running away to New York with Casey and living in an apartment with him. During this time Casey used Rory for his musical talents, exploiting him while treating him worse (lots of manipulation and obsession on Casey's part).

Rory put up with this for a year until he broke under the pressure and blew up at Casey for using him, this resulted in him being kicked out with only enough time to pack his bags. Casey couldn't let it go, he became much more obsessive but couldn't find anything on Rory due to him moving to another city.

Three years later Casey found info on Rory due to him getting in the local news for helping the Freelance Police. He started looking more into the FP for info on Rory and eventually found an obsessive fan site that had recent pictures of Rory due to him hanging out with Sam and Max now.

He started frequenting the locations in the pictures until he found Rory again and started following him, finding out the apartment he lived in and starting to stalk him. Rory didn't tell anyone about what was happening, mainly scared of his friends getting hurt or talking to the police due to his own job. His friends did end up finding out due to him hiding from Casey in a public place but still didn't press charges out of fear.

Things came to a head when Rory was attacked by Casey with a knife while out on a night walk, he managed to get away but was pretty fucked up. He ran to Sam and Max's place due to them living close to where he was and due to generally not knowing what to do because of the dissociation and panic. He was able to tell them a bit about what happened but went catatonic on their couch after they had patched him up a bit.

Sam called the cops and told them about what Rory had told them while Rory was out of commission and he stayed with them while all the shit with the police went down.

[doodleybugg]

"fight to survive or white guy in 1985", a game me and my sister decided to play with the st characters lolz (let's just invalidate everyone's trauma rq) (not to slam any characters i love everyone)

st4 spoilers and also me just being a dick to each and every character so please just take this as a joke

mike: white guy in 1985 (like yeah will was attacked and possessed by the mind player but this guy's biggest issue was that he was uncomfy saying ily to eleven)

eleven: fought to survive (i mean really)

max: fought to survive (everything with billy, her mom, her dad and stepdad, just a lot of struggles and ofc vecna curses her to top it all off)

chrissy: fought to survive (me and my sister fought about this but she had an ed right?? she wasn't just 'sick'?? am i crazy or am i correct? because there was the puking, the food obsession, the using drugs to cope with memories of her mom calling her a fat pig and her dad pretty much being forced into submission, much like she was)

will: fought to survive (do i have to explain the entirety of seasons 1-3 to you?)

eddie: fought to survive (mans witnessed a childhoods friend die, spent the next couple weeks - a month hiding from the cops, scared to death, half starved, and died in the upśide down due to some weird ads bats)

steve: fought to be a white guy in 1985 (season 1 steve, total douchebag, but i have to give him points as a single mom of 6 for the entirety of the show)

dustin: white guy in 1985 (oh no, his cat died ://)

lucas: white guy in 1985 (oh no, basketball playing straight boy)

erica: white guy in 1985 (oh no, related to basketball playing straight boy)

nancy: fought to be a white guy in 1985 (she lost her best friend in season 1, but really what else went on? some doomed love with steve, a bit of drama with johnathan?)

robin: fought to survive (lesbian, neurodivergent, and mentally ill (i think) in the 1980's)

johnathan: fought to survive (his brother went missing, then his brother almost died, then they needed to move away from everything to esca- oh wait that all basically happened to will too, if not more intensely)

joyce: fought to survive (did you see her in season 1? and 2? and 3? and 4? like jesus give my girl a break okay)

hopper: white guy in 1985 (yeah his daughter died traumatically but like-- is that really an excuse for him and his actions and his drinking issues? maybe a lil bit but i don't think so, i just liked his speech in s4 so i'm giving him pity points)

billy: fought to be a white guy in 1985 (yeah, he was abused, but he only continued a cycle of abuse by passing it onto max. he only really respected her after she drugged him and almost crushed his balls, and even then that wasn't long before he tried to take over the world with his flesh demon army, oh and good job for NOT sacrificing eleven i guess you get an unnecessarily sad death now?)

[balillee]

thinking abt the implications of how people act before they turn into a werewolf in the quarry >>>>

so nick is the first to turn and immediately before that he turns into an absolute dick. like for the entirety of the game before he gets bit he is like just a normal guy with a crush on abi but after he gets bit he becomes a Grade A asshole. possessive over abi and simultaneously a dick to her. if i'm putting forth a good faith interpretation of this, this is just that stereotype of boys being mean to girls that they like. he really likes abi, but he's incredibly afraid that she doesn't reciprocate that so in a moment of heightened insecurity and aggression due to the curse he is rude to her to push her away to protect himself. or, if i'm taking a less good faith interpretation, maybe he's just a dickhead. he probably does like abi, but he's one of those guys that fucks around with girls and easily gets bored with them.

jacob my boy. my son. love u. absolutely did not deserve anything that happened to him. before he turns he is just a ball of self-loathing. he's so incredibly insecure, especially after emma breaks up with him and out of nowhere begins to be rude to him, he has no idea how to take that like a champ. throughout the entire game he's trying to do stuff to make himself look cool and likeable, and people make him the butt of the joke. all he wants is the basic respect of other people - he wants them to like him and he has no idea how to do that. he thinks that because he's the butt of the joke that everyone hates him. jacob deserved so much better. i'm a jacob custos apologist i do not care

emma is two things - terrified, and self absorbed. very much one of those kind of unbearable confident personalities, but one thing i can say is that she does care a lot about abi, and wordlessly, abi knows that she needs to fucking run.

max becomes like, weirdly aggressive. it's strange, because from the little we see of him, he's actually very light-hearted and doesn't take the fact that he's been fucking cursed to become a werewolf and kidnapped by a creepy sheriff seriously At All. he's more of a wet cat than a person. he's a lovely little guy who looks like chucky and will choose to wear his girlfriend's clothes over his own. so the aggression seems off. i don't know if i can come to a real conclusion considering how little we actually see of him.

laura gets flirty as fuck with ryan, to the point that it's very uncomfortable. but, this isn't how she acts just before she turns - just before she turns, we see her angry at herself because 'now is not the time'. she seems like the sort of person who likes to be in control of herself, and of the situation. she gets a lot more visibly angry than max during her time at the police station, even though max is the one infected with the curse.

dylan is actually so sad. like it's fucking depressing what he goes through either way. either he loses his fucking hand, or he dies, or he turns - and when he does, he seems to be one of the few who is able to fight the aggression to some degree. he is definitely verbally aggressive by shouting and swearing, but his care for the other counsellors with his knowledge of the situation overrides that, and he yells at kaitlyn to fucking run. worlds sweetest boy done nothing wrong ever.

[kurt-wagner-official]

Post #96: NM issues 51-52 and NM Annual issue 3

In a new asteroid belt where the planet that Magus cracked used to be, the Starjammer floats in space while the crew makes repairs and Xavier scans his students' memories to get updates on Earth. He learns of the massacre that killed so many mutants and traumatized his youngest students, of the injuries that have crippled half of his second class, and of how his oldest students have become X-Factor, who to the new Mutants' knowledge are villains. He tells Lilandra he has no choice but to return home and try to set his house right. Back on Earth, Max is building a dam for a seaside community, happy to be using his powers in a peaceful way. He and Ororo discuss the dilemma he's facing- whether to accept Shaw's offer and become the White King. It mirrors Ororo's recent crisis about her own morals; the alliance could protect the school, and give Max a chance to have a positive influence on the Hellions, but it could also consume Max and make him fall back into villainy. Illyana is having a similar dilemma. She recently had the villainy purged from her, and chose to take it back, but part of her is now regretting that decision. She's acting out and threatening to strand her team on the Starjammer. Xavier, against Dani's cries to stop, orders Xuân to possess Illyana so he can look through her mind and see Illyana's. She's terrified to teleport because it means going back into Limbo, and every time she's there it pulls her closer and closer to evil. And just like that, all the good will I had towards Xavier is gone. Once again he's a dick who uses children for his own purposes and refuses to respect anyone's privacy. Before Dani can properly chew him out, though, Xavier detects the minds of Deathbird's soldiers approaching and warns the Starjammers, who dodge their lasers just in time. Xavier realizes that without him, Lilandra's rebellion will fail, so he decides to stay. This doesn't really make any sense, to be honest, because Lilandra is just as powerful as him, but I'm okay with that because it means Xavier stays out of the book. He orders Xuân to possess Illyana again and teleport the team home. When they get there and Xuân releases her hold, Illyana is pissed at all of them and ports back into Limbo, swearing they'll all be sorry. This actually might be the worst thing Xavier's done. Illyana reclaimed the darkness in her, but hadn't fully reached the point she was at before, and had a chance to be pulled back from the edge. But Xavier pushed her back off, and what's worse is he used her friend to do it. And now that Limbo has fully rebonded with her, she no longer has any qualms about going there, so she hops back in and continues her descent. Not knowing their students have finally returned to the mansion, across the city, Max and Ororo have entered the Hellfire Club. Max is accepting the offer on his own terms- he's taking the throne jointly with Ororo, and dressing in his own clothes rather than Hellfire garb. Up until now, most of Illyana's slow downfall (post defeating Belasco) has been due to arrogance. She's always known the darkness was inside of her, and she's scared of it, but she also believed she could control it. But in this story, she reached out for a helping hand and didn't find one. It's a small wrinkle in her arc, but it adds a whole other layer of tragedy. Yes, she may be engineering her own destruction, but that doesn't mean she couldn't have been saved. And it's the same with Max. Rather than take the throne in arrogance, he chose to share it with Ororo. But soon, Ororo will abandon him, and he'll start to give into his worst nature again. I really like when this book and Uncanny have thematic links like this, which unfortunately is gonna start being a lot rarer since they won't have the same writer soon.

While the rest of the New Mutants try and fail to train against Marauder simulations in the Danger Room, on the orders of Max, who's grounded them all, Illyana is fighting a war against S'ym. She's very all or nothing; she wanted to avoid this war, but since she can't, she's fully embracing it. Max confronts her for constantly teleporting off when she's grounded, so she brings him to Limbo to show him. She tells him that Kitty and Peter were the ones inspiring her to hold onto humanity, and now that they're gone she doesn't see the point. But Max tells her that he's felt the same way, and he chose to keep fighting to be better. He offers to help her against the rebel demons, which surprises her. She tells him that she has to fight this battle alone, and he accepts that. But it also makes her realize that she can still have earthly ties. After last issue, she assumed the New Mutants were enemies, but she now realizes it's more complicated than that. They can't understand the turmoil inside her like Max can, but they still care about her, even if they can't save her. But maybe that can give Illyana the strength to save herself. This issue right after the last one proves that Max is a way better mentor than Xavier. I do have one big complaint about this issue, which is that half of it was devoted to the Danger Room session at the beginning, leaving the meat of the story squished down to fit a page count. The last issue also had pacing problems, to be honest, and despite the interesting themes, it made Illyana's story seem really rushed and flip floppy.

This annual is very weird. It's about the Impossible Man, who was in the scavenger hunt Uncanny annual, and like that one, this is a random comedic story, but it has even less of a plot and Warlock's acting really out of character. The Impossible Man shows up and says he's bored so he wants to challenge the New Mutants to a contest. They aren't interested until he says they must be cowards, which apparently makes Warlock really mad. Even though he doesn't care about petty insults like that, and he fully admits that sometimes he is a coward and that's necessary. Anyway, he and the Impossible Man start transforming into a bunch of different super beings and fighting, wrecking a bunch of stuff, which is also really out of character for Warlock. This goes on for like 40 pages until Warlock changes color, which the Impossible Man can't do so he gives up. And that's it. It doesn't make any sense and it doesn't affect anything, which isn't necessarily bad, but in this case the writing just kinda sucked. The art was cool though. Claremont is a good writer but comedy is not his strong suit, especially when he tries to do it in a forty page annual and forgets to write a plot. I feel like I'm being overly critical; this wasn't offensively bad or anything, there's just not much good to say about this, and not much to say overall.

[deenoss]

Dreamcatcher Chptr. 45

A few weeks later...

Days when Clark would visit his mother after school, he couldn't bring himself to look at her in the eye and say that he failed her, that he failed his father.

It was merely out of the kindness of his heart that he checked up on his mother who was worried sick about the sudden disappearance of her daughter. She'd already lost her husband, and now she was terrified she'd lost her daughter too.

In spite of him being a nuisance for not treating David, his step-father, with a modicum of respect prior to the last big argument between he and Chloe, Clark had fully set his attention on David under a different light. Once upon a time, he'd actually bothered to care for the ex-soldier's struggles, but now he absolutely loathed his presence in his and his mother's life. But only for the fact that she made him happy, did Clark consider that the only reason he hadn't unleashed all of his hatred for the man.

Clark had become distant with those he was close to, even his best friend, Kate. She knew all too well that something was wrong but she didn't dare to push him for answers.

Even in his classes, Clark had lost focus and was always zoning out.

Times when Max tried to talk to him, she was given the cold shoulder. It hurt all the more to see Clark so cold and distant; even more so that she could do nothing in her power to help him. So she took an alternate route instead of trying to approach him directly.

She decided to seek his friends to see if they could help her with her queries. Going out of her way to get out of her comfort zone, Max sought out one of the boys she saw Clark connect with the most.

On a Thursday, Max spied the friend in her English class and plotted how she would approach them. It wasn't exactly ideal to just go up to them and speak without any thought of what she would say. So every moment she wasted was a moment she devised the means of coming off as friendly.

Surprisingly enough, the friend also had her on their mind.

At the sound of the bell, Max packed her things at a calm pace whilst subtly glancing at the friend who was still doing some work right before they would leave so that they had less homework to complete.

A boy with messy brown hair and a blue t-shirt that had a box on it with an illustrated speech bubble that said 'Meow,' had been so focused on his work that he failed to notice a captivatingly timid brunette approaching his reserved desk. The eerie presence of a figure standing next to him ominously startled the boy to tear his attention away from the book in front of them, to find Max Caulfield itching to start a conversation with him.

"H-Hi there. Hey. You're Max, right? I'm Warren Graham." The boy waved coyly.

Max was a bit iffy when she suddenly found herself momentarily incapable of speaking. In an attempt to speak, all that came out of her mouth were stutters and judders until she found comfort when he offered his hand for her to shake.

By taking his hand, she grabbed it with minimal effort for a firm grip. But to her surprise, Warren took ahold of her hand very gently and with care as he stared deeply into her eyes.

"I'm Max. M-Max Caulfield," she introduced herself sheepishly.

"Do you watch a lot of movies, Max?"

"Umm, n-no. Not quite. I don't really have time for that stuff." She confessed shyly.

Max raised a hand up and rubbed the back of her head out of embarrassment. Her biggest hobbies were photography and music, as well as being perceptive of the world around her rather than participating in social events and such due to being quite introverted and also being nosy at times too. Some would assume that at first glance, Max was just another weirdo. They weren't wrong, of course, but she was intellectual.

To his surprise, Warren made it clear about his fictional interests in visual illustrations of novels and comics as well as science, to which he possessed a high degree of genius for somebody his age - a boy who was sixteen yet attending a senior school for his high GPA score.

Max chuckled nervously.

"Sounds like you're very passionate about this... stuff," said Max.

"Oh yeah!" Warren exclaimed happily. "There's even a movie coming out soon, next month. That'll be after the Vortex Club party, though. It's a drive-in theatre."

"Vortex Club party?"

Pursing his lips, Warren nodded his head.

"Yeah. It's the biggest social group in school. According to the Vortex Club home page, it was founded around the 1980's as a safe haven for people suffering from peer pressure; people who sided with the rebels against the yuppies in the Regan era. But now it's become some sort of cult for most of the popular people at Blackwell. Principal Wells allows it - for some reason or other - and there's nothing that can be done to shut it down. Of course, the only reason being that Nathan Prescott is one of the more notable members, besides Victoria Chase and Hayden Jones, to name a few. You can see some of the posters around the school."

"Oh. That's interesting."

Max pursed her lips and nodded her head along to what Warren said to her regarding the Vortex Club. At first, she didn't intend to pay much mind to it, up until she brought up familiar names, to which she suddenly desired to know more and understand all that she could about why a group that was originally made to protect others from bullying and side-lining and such, turned into a social group for bullies.

However, Max felt there was something else foul going on with the Vortex Club. And she intended to uncover exactly what it was.

She and Warren continued to converse, this time outside of their classroom and took their time heading to their next class. It was Max's suggestion that they stay in contact and exchange phone numbers. Warren was more than happy to give Max his number and vice versa. He did, after all, sustain a crush on the brunette.

When they parted ways, Max headed off to her next class, which so happened to be Physical Education, followed by lunch, Music and then Cultural Anthropology.

Using the map of the school, Max directed herself to the school gym where she was to have her next class. Thankfully, she recognised some faces heading to that class. One of whom was Kate Marsh. She shadowed Kate into the girl's changing room until she started to walk at a slower pace, for by the time she was in the same room as the other girls, most were already half-changed or fully in their PE clothes.

Nobody noticed Max when she appeared at the doorway into the room. The next thing she did was she located her locker which had been given a specific number for her to easily identify it by. She then approached that locker which was directly in the centre between two classmates of hers, Brooke Scott and Alyssa Anderson.

Little by little, the classmates began to file out of the changing room and into the school gym.

The large room was decorated with thick blue mat with half as one large map and the other half combined together. There were spare mats stacked up on one side of the room alongside other workout equipment such as parallel bars, training bars, pirouette floor bar, balance beams, rings and so on. One the furthest end of the room was a basketball hoop and from the ceiling were ropes evenly spaced for the purpose of being climbed.

Those who were keen to get involved in using the equipment provided eyed that equipment, all the while the rest of the class couldn't even be bothered to improve their physicality, and yet those who weren't eager felt motivated enough to at least give it a try.

That was when the teacher walked in.

"G'day, class!" A masculine voice boomed from behind the group of students.

A man in his mid-fifties walked at a quick pace to the centre of the room so that he was in the line of sight of all of his students, holding a list of the names of the students in his class. He carried a strong Australian accent when he spoke. Some detected the accent almost immediately whereas some debated about where it belonged.

"My name is Mr Fisher and I am your sub PE teacher. Now, what we're going to get up to today, is doing the Fitness Pacer Test, followed by a game of volleyball. Next thing we gotta do, the roll. You blokes know the rules: I call your name, you respond."

The room became silent except for the sounds of people clearing their throats and sharing inconspicuous conversations and snarky comments about the Australian teacher.

"Alyssa Anderson," the teacher called.

"Here."

"Max Caulfield."

"Here, sir."

"Victoria Chase."

"Whatev's."

"Daniel DaCosta."

"H-Here, Mr Fisher."

"Evan Harris."

"Yo."

"Kate Marsh."

"Present," she replied sweetly.

"Luke Parker."

"I'm here."

"Zachary Riggins."

"Not here."

"Logan Robertson."

"Yo-yo!"

"Brooke Scott."

"Here."

"Sarah Swanson."

"I so don't want to be here right now."

The teacher sighed and muttered under his breath.

"You're a real smart alec, aren't ya, ya cheeky bugger?" Mr Fisher grumbled. "Dana Ward."

"Present!"

"Courtney Wagner."

The purple-black-haired girl made a loud disgusted noise which the teacher took was her response to having her name called.

"Juliet Watson."

"Here."

"And lastly, Justin Williams."

"Hey, hey! We're all here!"

Mr Fisher nodded his head and ticked off all of the names. With that now done, he brought his full attention to the group of bored teenagers and young adults.

"So, what I want you all to do is to do your best in the Pacer Test. I'll put down these cones so you know where the border is, and you'll all line up and run as much as you can to match the beep." Mr Fisher commanded as he went to grab some cones to set up the area where the students were to take part in the test.

"Uhh, Mr Fisher. What's even the point of this?" Victoria questioned lowly.

"The reason, Victoria, is to determine all of your stamina."

The blonde scoffed in offence.

"Let me tell you something, you kangaroo-herding Canadian. My parents did not spend thirty-two thousand dollars to get me into Blackwell - a place that I've come to mostly for the art - just to get me to figure out how fast I can run. I mean... this is ridiculous! I want to become a famous artist! I did not sign up for this, nor will I be taking part in it." Victoria rambled irately.

The teacher stood still as he was subjected to listening to her ramble on. Once she was finished, he had the audacity to raise his voice at such volume in order to get her to submit to his orders and get involved in the activities he had planned for the lesson.

"I don't know who the bloody hell you think you are, Victoria, but you will not talk to me like that! Do you understand?! I'M THE ONE IN CHARGE HERE! YOU NEED TO PULL YOUR HEAD OUT OF YOUR BLOODY ARSE AND DO AS YOUR TOLD!! NOW SHUT UP AND LISTEN!!"

To have a teacher raise their voice at such levels was never something any of the students had seen nor experienced before.

For someone as egotistic as Victoria, she felt mortified and powerless that there was no whim in which she could persuade the sub-teacher from favouring her and keeping her out of physical strain.

"Now... now that we've got that understood that I am the one in charge, let's get cracking with the Pacer Test. Everybody line up!"

Doing as they were instructed, the students lined up horizontally, facing the furthest end of the room and hunched over slightly with their dominant foot in line with the invisible line the cones they measured up with. While Mr Fisher set up the audio for the Fitness Pacer Test, he set the volume to maximum and watched his students follow along with the rules they were familiar with. They didn't go along with it without making a fuss, judging by the spread of murmurs and grumbles from Max's classmates.

A loud beep followed, which in turn the students initiated the test by jogging towards the boundary just several feet apart.

"This blows. Now I know why the others weren't so happy doing this." Max thought to herself as her jogging pace slowly turned into light sprints.

One by one, the youngsters were removed from the Pacer Test as the loud beeped intervals decreased faster and faster. Those who felt completely disregard for the test dropped out very early on for their lack of initiative, whereas those who did put in an attempt lasted far longer than even they anticipated.

The longer the test went on, the more exhausted the students became to the point they had to surrender from the activity. By then, everybody had contributed to the test, pleasing Mr Fisher to some degree.

The Fitness Test was turned off and Mr Fisher continued to scribble down the length of time in which his students lasted before they dropped out. Once he was finished writing their records, he then asked Logan and Zachary to collect the cones while he and some other students brought out a net they were to use in order to play volleyball.

Excitement aroused within the students - even those who felt compelled to refuse any physical activities. As the net was set up, the teacher addressed his class and instructed them with following his orders and the rules he had to explain to them, even those who were aware of how the game worked.

"Alright boys and girls, now let's get on with the game. Team captains: I'll pick... Justin aaaaannnddd Max." Mr Fisher yelled as he clapped his hand a couple times.

The pair whose names were picked to be leaders for either team were instructed with picking out people whom they'd favour to be apart of their volleyball team.

Had there been an even quantity of both sexes, it would have been interesting to see how things would play out, boys versus girls. But given the fact that there were more girls than boys, the teacher had to resort to more reliable judges to allow the game to pan out.

Hesitantly, Max emerged to the front of the group two metres away from Justin where he was asked with picking somebody to join his team.

One by one, the people in Max's class took their place in their allocated teams. It came as no surprise that Victoria was one of the first few to be picked to be on Justin's team, but what seemed quite hurtful was how neither he nor Max gave Kate a place on either team until the very end, in which it was her and Daniel remaining. She'd been so caught up thinking about broken hearts that she hadn't properly registered the one she would imminently shatter for her lack of consideration for the girl who'd caught Max's eye.

"Oh gosh. How could I have been so neglectful? I'm sure Daniel's a good player, in spite of his physique. He does like to draw, I think? But then again, I do like Kate. I don't want to convince myself nor her than I picked her solely out of pity. Dammit, Max."

"We'll take Daniel," Justin announced and waved the chubby boy over to his team.

The teacher nodded his head and said, "Seems you guys get Kate as your member. Alrighty, everyone! Justin's team go on the other side, Max's stay on this one. Have a good game, everyone. But if I see any shonky business, you're out."

As the dirty-blonde Christian girl accompanied those on Max's team, Max caught Kate giving her a strange look that didn't bode well with her.

Without any further thought on that, the game was in motion.

[senzacaponecoda]

my conlang iḿ never satisfied with

C:

p t ts c k ħ 2

b d dz j g 3 h

m n ń

l ĺ

r

w y

Oral obstruents are realized as fricatives in codas and phrase initially. (p irregularly changes place from bilabial to labiodental. c is x tS, j is x dZ, 2 is ? ie glottal stop, 3 is \? ie a pharyngeal fricative. ń and ĺ are palatal nasal and palatal lateral approximate. r is a tap, trilled when geminate). (t d) are dental. Orthography is based on whatever's convenient really though; Vp is usually f, ħ might be 7, ipa is fine, whatever.

Each can be uvularized. (k g) become q ġ in these environments. Technically l is uvularized n, as the two are in complementary distribution. However this relationship is historically reversed word initially, and opaque enough that natives consider them separate sounds.

All non-palatalized consonants are slightly palatalized before i.

Non-uvularized consonants can be palatalized before i.

V:

u i

(e) (ë) (o)

a

Each vowel can be long. Short a is naturally close to ə

In the environments uvularization occurs, vowels can be realized with -ATR (RTR). The effect sounds like English centralization/lax vowels. Might be the same phenomenon. -ATR a is back; +ATR a is front, close to English æ

e and o are primarily allophones or allomorphs (short e and o from long e and o) of ay/aw. ë is inserted by a process breaking clusters late in phonology. Phonetically it's closer to ɨ than ə due to short a crowding the space.

Phi:

Feet are left aligned and iambic at the word level. The rightmost H spreads over every leftward µ. Phrasally, non-lexical H is deleted over the leftedge µ, and, if the rightmost µ is open, 2 is inserted on the end. Phrase final t debuccalizes.

ë is inserted on non-edge CC clusters from the right. Phrase edges basically allow deleting an unaccented nucleus permitting CVCV edges to be realized as clusters. If this happens the upstep of the accent is kind of smushed over the entire initial CCV(V) syllable for something like Swedish's acute accent.

Syntax:

Categories:

C - Indicative, Interrogative, Consecutive, Imperative, Admirative

T - Ø, Past (aux), Future (aux)

N - Adverbial with DPs, statives. Auxiliaries with eventives.

A - Imperfective (morphological): Continuous , Progressive, Inchoative . Perfective (morphological): Perfect, Stative, Cessative

v - Ø, Causative, Passive, Middle (accidental, non-agent subjects), Antipassive

D - definite (aux), indefinite (morph)

P - 1 2 3 (morph)

Num - Ø (mass), sg, pl, col, du

G - Ø, f

Generalizations:

Head initial, relatively strictly until morphology. Fusional. Focalizing. Mildly topicalizing as well. Marked Nominative but splits between the eventive and stative; patterns like English, French, but not German, Russian, etc for eventive verbs. Patterns like Basque for statives and eventives derived from statives (causatives).

Verb merges with v, A, T, and C somewhat.

Max string: C_ (Focus) T_ A{v.V}=s=i=o S O I Adj

Verb raises to merge with voice. This is merged with Aspect which determines the phonetic stem. This combines with Ø T. If merged with T and C allows it, this whole thing can merge with C. Pronomial subject, indirect object, direct object are realized as particles. Adj is adjunct, not adjective.

DPs: P D N.n _ D Adj.n _ D RelC.n _

Adpositions are preps. They communicate case. They are themselves also adjectives that can agree with nominal heads.

Nouns raise into the slot of the possessor to create fusional forms. The adjectives and relative clause particles agree in this respect.

Case marks nominative, accusative, and a genitive and oblique form. Verbs agree with the phi person, gender, number of subject DP.

There are multiple degrees of genitive. Compounding handles semantic compounding, possession with 3P dps, and some other things. A nisbe-like deravation handles attribution (of origin, etc). The prep ni "of" handles the rest.

Verb-thing morphology:

pc-voice-{aspect}-derivation-mood=personal suffixes

pc being the prefix conjugation person markers and accompanying voice, {aspect} being the aspect stem. - is essentially agglutination or agglutination with metathesis, {} means supplementation or the miwok-semitic nonconcatenative morphology thing. = means basically enclitics.

Noun morphology kind of weird:

def: art-case=num-{noun/num}-derivation

indef: num-{num/noun}-derivation-art-case

Semantics:

Verbs are semantically verb framed. The equivalent of gerundives are communicated by a sort of verb chaining of two fully conjugated verbs; this is only grammatical if both verbs share the same coindexed theta arguments. This principle is also extended to for some atelic-telic verb pairs, as semantically the language strongly distinguishes eventive and stative verbs. It can also apply to certain semantically similar verb pairs.

It can be grammatical to coerce eventive verbs to conjugate as statives and vice-versa. This is the typical way to derive the eventive infinitives/participials; much rarer the other way around, some statives coerced this way can take on eventive meanings outside the causative morphology.

The stative is also the typical way to communicate gnomic and habitual aspects.

Certain common moods communicated by auxiliaries or morphology in other languages are communicated with adverbs due to being in an awkward point in grammaticalization. Desire, potential, moral/ontological necessity, for example. This is in addition to the kinds of adverbs called modal adverbs in German, that might actually just be a language universal thing that people who don't teach/learn German just aren't sensitive to. Words like "even", "just", etc in English.

Conhistory

Descends from Proto-Afroasiatic and is extraordinarily conservative in many respects. Rough history, given my unorthodox opinions.

6500 BP - ish, proto-Afro-Asiatic period. Spoken between Amhara and Khartoum.

6000 BP - Green Sahara collapse, relexifying Nile. Common ancestor of non-Ethiopic AA moved north along red sea coast and nile.

5500 BP - Sister to pre-Egyptian. Doesn't merge most of the consonants. Similar vowel length rules. Maintains the prefix conjugation and the m- participials.

5000 BP - Predynastic Egypt. Parallels the palatalizations of the OK. Some of Egyptian's mergers from PAA spread. Follows in the aspiration of the voiceless series. Grammaticalizes -yan- "say" as a kind of consecutive mood after Egyptian.

4500 BP - Old Kingdom. Distinct enough not to be a dialect anymore, by any means. Follows in developing new focus pronouns. Develops a parallel consequential (if-then) mood. Similar constructions, syntax. Follows in deglottalizing the ejectives

4000 BP - Beginning of Middle Egypt. Strong areal influences in syntax and phonology; most non-core vocabulary is calqued or borrowed from ME, especially agriculture, religion, art, high culture words. Egyptian d not yet glottalized, borrowed as t.

3500 BP - Second intermediate begins and the culture breaks off from Egyptian influences. By now the right edge is very weak and parallel vowel changes to proto-Coptic have taken place. Borrowed the dynamic preverb iw to develop similarly to coptic. Serves as a basis for a topic - focus paradigm.

3000 BP - Wander the desert instead of rejoining Egypt. Pick up some Cushitic influences similar to Beja's. Middle Egyptian like vowels recollapse. Essentially pAA's have rotated; i -> a -> u

2500 BP - Develops a pitch accent system and redevelops length in contact with tonal Nilo-Saharans. New suffixes cause vowel harmony effects radically relexifying the language. Most nouns get diminutive and "temetive" derivations. Verbs get parallel frequentive/durative derivations.

2000 BP- Settles in fictional oases south of Siwa. PA system becomes like modern. Vowels rebalance length. Picks up serialization.

1500 BP - Strongly influenced by a dead Northwest Afrasian crown language. Picks up or calques certain features associated with Tuareg and Tamazight, especially lifestyle words. Aligns the verb system to the stative - imperfect - perfect system. Analogy causes the split of the stative into continuous and stative-perfect forms. Tenuis develops into emphatics that spread harmonically over a stem. Uvular fricatives turn into pharyngeals but are redistributed back into k/g. Begadkephat like Hebrew, many NWAA, etc takes hold in the middle of that process.

1000 BP - Strongly influenced by Old Nubian, partly relexed chiefly in trade goods. Pitch accent reinforced by new tones. Admirative mood borrowed; inchoative aspect borrowed. e and o develop but don't quite take hold. Cessative evolves in analogy to inchoative. Picks up Nubian article en. Develops case.

500 BP - Influenced by Siwi, picks up double datives. L/n split. Oddly rebrackets the Northwest Afrasian article onto the Nubian article which fuses with case. Number also awkwardly follows the article rebracketing to the front of the NP.

0 BP - Influenced by Egyptian Arabic most dominately, English secondarily for Islamic and modern technical vocab. EgyAr also supplies a lot of modern/city lifestyle terms; cinema, pet ownership, politics, etc. MSA influences pseudo-etymological Arabicization of the phonology causing e/o to be perceived as low prestige

Went from ag to basically bedouin to basically what the Siwi have in terms of lifestyle. Daily life used to be mostly raising goats or chickens with the occasional raid in desperate times. Now it's become something of an urbanized lifestyle involving a lot of wage work and stationary living.

Extremely pragmatist culturally, basically libertine in so far as it doesn't get in the way of things. Known for liking to play small pranks on outsiders by outwitting them; British, Egyptian, whatever. Not really a please and thank you culture. Not an ask permission culture. Albeit authorities tend to either come down with extreme force or not at all. In ways both extremely embracing and rejective of feminism; on one hand, brings in money, on the other, how can the children be raised or the food be cooked or the textiles repaired etc? Similar laxness on at least bisexuality like pre-modern Islamic world; generally would be considered homophobic by our standards, in the sense that people who can't be in a heterosexual relationship (Iran like takes on trans people though) are considered defective, selfish, degenerate, disgusting, and either worthy of pity or something to laugh at. Not really the roman top/bottom thing though, though macho notions do show up.

Uncommonly pay both a dowry and a brideprice, but typically in gender role´d goods; so a bride gets cookware and textile tools and such from her mother in law, a groom gets livestock/etc from his FIL. Tradition also pays out to the youngest son before the oldest at the time of death, since it was often the case that a father would die after his eldest sons had married and established themselves; the language reflects this by calling the youngest brother the "first" brother, the second youngest the "second", etc. Elder siblings would pay out the dowry/brideprice for their youngers in the event of a parents' death. Those without either were generally considered almost unmarriageable, on about the level of a houseless person in America would be in America.

Almost have a national epic. A poem/recitative prose that tells of a story of a meek king. Betrayed by his brothers and exiled, he wanders the wilderness/desert until encountering an old hermit man who serves as a kind of mentor. Work switches into wisdom literature for a while, before returning and telling the story in reverse; King meets his encounters and defeats them, until reentering his city-state and taking it back with ferocity like Odysseus. Of course local music, food, etc. Though mostly supplanted by Egyptian styles.

Managed to maintain a secret folk religion descended from Egyptian religion with folkloric influences like West African religion in West Africa; only recently has mainstream Muslim influence grown strong enough in the community to try to stamp out traditional medicine as witch craft and those aspects of the folklore/the secret actual belief among some members of the society as shirk.

[loosekraken]

“A civil society is founded on respect for the law. If every citizen chose to break the law, we would have no society at all, at least not a civil one. It is this respect for the law and of the law enforcing agencies that, somewhat paradoxically, ensures the freedoms recognized in the Constitution.” Steve Bannon possesses no more immunity from the law , from the consequences of their conduct , speech , expression than any other individual in america....Steve Bannon must be sentenced to the max allowed , 2 years in prison run back to back in a federal prison...He must not be permitted to be free on bail pending appeal as our prisons are stuffed full of non-violent offenders denied that right , who sit in jails & prisons for years & decades before being released as 'not guilty' of the crimes accused...most often due to corrupt DA's , Cops , Court Appointed Attys who face no consequences for their felonious acts...UPON SENTENCING Steve Bannon must be immediately taken into custody & remanded to a federal prison for Two (2) Straight years...Give Steve Bannon his 'Medieval' give him his 'Misdemeanor from hell'

[whumptober]

Whumptober 2020 - Updated

Welcome to Whumptober 2020! We’re doing things a little differently this year so please make sure to read the Event Info carefully. We are also excited to announce the addition of an AO3 Collection, which can be found here.

We hope you’re as excited as us to watch the Whump Community come together once again for a month of bone-crunching creativity and collaboration!

(All 31 Themes + Prompts, Event Information, and FAQs are posted below the cut!)

No 1. LET'S HANG OUT SOMETIME Waking Up Restrained | Shackled | Hanging

No 2. IN THE HANDS OF THE ENEMY  "Pick Who Dies" | Collars | Kidnapped

No 3. MY WAY OR THE HIGHWAY Manhandled | Forced to their Knees | Held at Gunpoint

No 4. RUNNING OUT OF TIME Caged | Buried Alive | Collapsed Building

No 5. WHERE DO YOU THINK YOU'RE GOING? On the Run | Failed Escape | Rescue

No 6. PLEASE.... "Get it Out" | No More | "Stop, please"

No 7. I'VE GOT YOU Support | Carrying | Enemy to Caretaker

No 8. WHERE DID EVERYBODY GO? "Don't Say Goodbye" | Abandoned | Isolation

No 9. FOR THE GREATER GOOD "Take Me Instead" | "Run!” | Ritual Sacrifice

No 10. THEY LOOK SO PRETTY WHEN THEY BLEED Blood Loss | Internal Bleeding | Trail of Blood

No 11. PSYCH 101 Defiance | Struggling | Crying

No 12. I THINK I'VE BROKEN SOMETHING Broken Down | Broken Bones | Broken Trust

No 13. BREATHE IN BREATHE OUT Delayed Drowning | Chemical Pneumonia | Oxygen Mask

No 14. IS SOMETHING BURNING? Branding | Heat Exhaustion | Fire

No 15. INTO THE UNKNOWN Possession | Magical Healing | Science Gone Wrong

No 16. A TERRIBLE, HORRIBLE, NO GOOD, VERY BAD DAY Forced to Beg | Hallucinations | Shoot the Hostage

No 17. I DID NOT SEE THAT COMING Blackmail | Dirty Secret | Wrongfully Accused

No 18. PANIC! AT THE DISCO Panic Attacks | Phobias | Paranoia

No 19. BROKEN HEARTS Grief | Mourning Loved One | Survivor's Guilt

No 20. TOTO, I HAVE A FEELING WE'RE NOT IN KANSAS ANYMORE Lost | Field Medicine | Medieval

No 21. I DON'T FEEL SO WELL Chronic Pain | Hypothermia | Infection

No 22. DO THESE TACOS TASTE FUNNY TO YOU? Poisoned | Drugged | Withdrawal

No 23. WHAT’S A WHUMPEE GOTTA DO TO GET SOME SLEEP AROUND HERE? Exhaustion | Narcolepsy | Sleep Deprivation

No 24. YOU’RE NOT MAKING ANY SENSE Forced Mutism | Blindfolded | Sensory Deprivation

No 25. I THINK I’LL JUST COLLAPSE RIGHT HERE, THANKS Disorientation | Blurred Vision | Ringing Ears

No 26. IF YOU THOUGHT THE HEAD TRAUMA WAS BAD... Migraine | Concussion | Blindness

No 27. OK, WHO HAD NATURAL DISASTERS ON THEIR 2020 BINGO CARD? Earthquake | Extreme Weather | Power Outage

No 28. SUCH WOW. MANY NORMAL. VERY OOPS. Accidents | Hunting Season | Mugged

No 29. I THINK I NEED A DOCTOR Intubation | Emergency Room | Reluctant Bedrest

No 30. NOW WHERE DID THAT COME FROM? Wound Reveal | Ignoring an Injury | Internal Organ Injury

No 31. TODAY’S SPECIAL: TORTURE Experiment | Whipped | Left for Dead

Alternate Prompt List

Alt 1. Punctured

Alt 2. Falling

Alt 3. Comfort

Alt 4. Stitches

Alt 5. Stoic Whumpees

Alt 6. Altered States

Alt 7. Found Family

Alt 8. Adverse Reactions

Alt 9. Memory Loss

Alt 10. Nightmares

Alt 11. Presumed Dead

Alt. 12. Water

Alt. 13 Accidents

Alt. 14 Shot

Alt. 15 Carry/Support

Event Info

WHUMPTOBER is a month-long, prompt-based creation challenge (think: Inktober, but whumpier). There are 31 Official themes this year - one for each day of the month - which can be used, skipped, or combined in any way you’d like. They are meant to serve as inspiration without being taken literally (e.g. you don't have to include the exact wording into your work). Additionally, there are 3 prompts for each theme.  These are optional suggestions and can be used in conjunction with the theme, or as options/alternatives.  We want to give everyone as much creative freedom as possible, as well as increase event accessibility for folks with triggers and squicks.

Creators can PRODUCE work in any media they choose, including but not limited to: writing, visual artwork, and photo/video/audio edits. Creators can PARTICIPATE as much or as little as they want (i.e. you don’t have to do ALL the prompts if you don’t want to) and prompts can be used in any order. They are also free to use even after the event ends.

When uploading Whumptober content to your blog, be sure to tag the with:

#whumptober2020 …..(the event tag)

#no.1, #no.2, #no.3, …..(theme number)

#bruised, #stabbed,  …..(the theme or specific prompt you chose)

#fandom or #OC

#medium …..(gifs, fic, podcast, art, etc.)

#teeth, #etc …..(trigger warnings & any additional tags. Keep in mind not to add “tw” in front but only use the word/trigger itself, because tumblr sucks)

#nsfw, #nsfwhump …..(only for nsfw content)

PLEASE BE DILIGENT WITH YOUR TAGGING. Only properly tagged posts are considered for archiving on the official @whumptober2020​ blog. They must be tagged in the order above.

Unfortunately, due to the sheer number of participants in recent years, we cannot guarantee your work will be archived. A random selection of properly tagged posts from all genres will be reblogged each day.

Whumpers who produce content for 31 total theme days are considered event completionists and will be tagged in a masterpost at the end of the month.

Questions not addressed below can be directed to this blog as well.

Thanks for reading, and happy whumping!

Frequently Asked Questions

Q. What kind of content can I make? Can it be NSFW?

This is a MIXED MEDIA event! You can write fic, post meta, doodle or paint, create a gif set or photo edit, link a song, or get crafty with video - anything goes. As for NSFW, make what you like, we just hope that you’ll tag your work accordingly so that others participating in the event can stay safe :)

Q. Do I have to do all 31 Days? Can I post early/late?

Participate as much or little as you like, and post whenever! Just be sure to tag your posts properly (ex. #no.11, #psych101). Combining prompts into one piece of work is okay, and posting late is as well so as long as it’s in October.

Q. What if I don’t understand a theme?

Send us an ask! We’re happy to help clarify. That said, the themes are entirely up for interpretation :)

Q. Can I combine Whumptober with other creation challenges?

Absolutely! That’s like shooting two whumpees with one bullet :)

Q. Can I upload/repost my whumptober content to other social media platforms?

Of course! We’ve created an AO3 Collection to archive any fics posted there. The archive can be accessed here. The blog is the official archive, so please respect the boundaries of any closeted whumpers in your social circle :)

Q. Can I use prompts to write a new chapter for an existing fic?

Yes

Q. An existing fic I am currently writing contains many of the Whumptober prompts, can I use it?

If you are actively writing this fic at the moment with the whumptober prompts in mind, yes. If it just conveniently checks the boxes, then please don’t. You can, however, add new chapters answering one or more of the prompts.

Q. What kind of characters can I write for?

Fandom characters, OC characters, human, furry, alien, cyborg, whoever you like.

Q. Can I use a prompt multiple times?

Yes,  but it only counts once

Q. If I’m not comfortable with one day's prompts can I use a prompt of a different day as a substitute and still be a completionist?

Yes, but please do not use a specific prompt twice. We have also created an alternate prompts list that you can draw from [here].

Q. Where can I post my work?

Post where and how you want. You don’t even have to (cross)post it to Tumblr. Just keep in mind if it’s not on Tumblr we will not be able to add it to the blog archive.

Q. Can I start posting early?

You can, but this is an October event and wouldn’t it be more fun with everyone doing it at the same time? That being said, you can post early, but we won’t be reblogging any work predating October 1st.

Q. Do I have to finish a fic I started/can I post WIP’s.?

Yes you can post WIPs. And you’re not obligated to finish it in October for it to count towards being a completionist.  

Q. Is co-writing allowed?

Yes, absolutely, and it would count towards being a completionist for both/all of you :)

Q. Do I have to create 31 standalone pieces to be considered a completionist or can I write one continuous story?

One continuous story is fine.  The challenge is to write something for 31 prompts. If that’s spread over 31 fics or just one, you are still considered a completionist. (The same goes for every other media you choose.)

Q. Is there a min/max limit on word count?

There is no limit

Q. Can I combine prompts? Is there a limit on how many?

No limit and combine as many as you’d like.

Q. Is a hc/angst focus ok?

Of course!

Q. What’s considered nsfw?

See this post

Q. What's whump?

See this post

Q. My interpretation of the prompt isn't whumpy at all, does that count?

No, sorry, but keep in mind that whump [see definition] is something very nuanced and different for everyone and emotional whump/angst is just as much part of it, as is physical whump and torture. So before you dismiss your idea, think about this.

Q. Can I start working on the prompts before October?

Absolutely! That’s why we posted the prompts a month in advance. We recognise how difficult it can be creating for 31 days in “real time”.

Q. How do I tag triggers?

tw at the end of the word, ex. emeto tw

Q. Do I have to use your tags?

Yes, if you want your work archived on the blog. If not, feel free to use whatever tags you want.  

Q. Does combining prompts count towards completion?

Yes

Q. Can we @ you?

Yes but we mostly rely on the whumptober2020 tag

Q. Is there anything we are absolutely not allowed to write?

There are no rules, just be sure to properly tag your trigger warnings. And keep in mind Tumblr’s policies if you are posting it here (or the policies of whatever site you use).

Q. Where can I go for brainstorming help?

Here on Discord

Q. My characters are minors, is that ok?

Yes, but as with everything else, tags are your best friend.

Q. Can I cross post on other blogs?

Yes, multiple platforms and blogs are perfectly acceptable. You can also post different works to different accounts under different names, without posting them everywhere at once.

Note: This is a creation challenge, please don’t repost your old work under our tags (unless it’s been changed or edited for the event).

[killingitreservoirdogsstyle]

prompts, rules, and request/ask guidelines for @killingitreservoirdogsstyle

Request Prompts and Dialogue Prompts ( Updatable ):

SITUATIONS: ( Please choose one )

Romantic Relationship

Co-Parenting/Parent

Platonic Relationship

Enemies To Lovers

Sworn Enemies

First Encounter

Friends To Lovers

Lovers To Enemies

Siblings

Polyamorous

Allied For A Job

Waitress/Waiter

PROMPTS: ( Please choose up to two per request )

Doing a job with the Dogs or Pulp Fiction crew

Being their child

Them confessing their love to you

Them with a younger partner ( LEGAL AGE )

Hanging out at your favourite place

A heist or car chase scene

First date, second date, or third date

Getting drunk with them

The first kiss you share

Breaking up with them

Finding out their true natures

University/high school alternate universe

Getting married to them/your wedding

When they go to prison

Goofing off with them as friends

Insert into a scene of a movie of your choice ( Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, etc. )

You or they die ( SORRY )

Having breakfast with them

Going to an event of your choice with them ( rave, concert, ballet, party, etc. )

Travelling with them

Having children with them ( adopted, surrogate, or natural birth )

Going to your therapy with you

Them with an artist/writer/musician/dancer/singer partner ( or whatever other thing you want <3 )

Them with a disabled partner ( physical or mental, I have autism and Asperger’s so I get it somewhat )

Going through COVID with them

Making out with them

Them with a partner of your Myer-Briggs personality type

Going for a drive with them

Fight and make-up with them

When you get your period ( for all my girls out there, lol )

When they get jealous

Their pickup lines and how they go about hitting on you

DIALOGUE PROMPTS: ( Please choose up to two for any character )

“ This is really cool, Y/N! ”

“ Hey, why the sad face? ”

“ Not as gorgeous as you, hot stuff. ”

“ Look, I don’t mean to be brutally honest here, but…”

“ That’s my girl/boy/kiddo, right there. ”

“ Man, that’s fucked up. ”

“ Hey sexy, how you doing tonight? ”

“ I’m so proud of you, Y/N. ”

“ Well, ain’t you clever? ”

“ Don’t f**king touch my pancakes! ” ( I HAD TO, I HAVE NO REGRETS )

“ Abort mission! Now! ”

“ You don’t know how happy you’ve made me, doll. ”

“ No, you can’t leave me! ”

“ Goddamn, I love you. ”

“ Can I borrow your—ITEM OF CHOICE—please? ”

“ Just shut up and kiss me. ”

“ Dance with me? ”

“ May I have this dance, darling? ”

“ Aren’t you a sight for sore eyes? ”

“ Sometimes I wonder if you even care! ”

“ Doth thou knowest how thou has wounded me? ”

“ Bad idea. No way in hell. ”

“ How did I ever score you, huh? ”

“ Just… just meditate on it, do me that one favour. Think about it. ”

“ I’m not asking for much, I’m really not. ”

“ What demon has possessed my sweet Y/N?! ”

“ What a drag! ”

“ ( song lyrics you like here ) ” FOR SONGFIC STYLE PIECES

“ Suck it up, buttercup. ”

“ You’re so dead! ”

“ Don’t ever change, you hear? You’re perfect the way you are, Y/N L/N, always and forever. ”

“ ( a reenactment of a scene from RD, PF, or KB, with you involved ) ”

“ Stop being dramatic, you are not Shakespeare. ” ( I SAW THIS ON A SHIRT AND LOVED IT, LOL )

“ ( pickup line of your choice ) ”

“ How are you so talented? Seriously? ”

“ Aw, don’t cry, baby… ”

“ That isn’t weird. Everyone else is weird and you’re normal. ”

“ Screw him/her/them, honestly. Don’t listen to a word of what she/he/they said. ”

“ Go to your room! ”

“ Wait until your father gets home, ha ha. ”

“ The power of Christ compels you! ”

“ How dare you! ”

“ You f**king gremlin! Oh my god! ”

GENRES OF FIC: ( Please choose up to three ) OPTIONAL

Fluff

Light Smut ( VERY LIGHT, Due To Personal Preferences of Mine. Please respect this rule )

EDIT ABOUT ABOVE: I will now do smut, but I will judge what is too uncomfortable or smutty for me!

Angst

Hurt-Comfort

Enemies To Lovers

Headcanons

Drabbles

One/Two Shot

Fanfiction ( max of 5000 words, expect a long wait because of my busy schedule, sorry )

Seasonal Request ( specify which holiday, please )

Songfic

Script Format Fic ( one scene per request )

CHARACTERS FOR @killingitreservoirdogsstyle ( choose up to four )

Reservoir Dogs, 1992

Mr. Pink ( Jeremy Davidson is the name I’ve given him on this blog )

Mr. Blonde/Vic Vega

Mr. Brown ( Johnny Campbell, another one of my names )

Mr. White/Larry Dimmick

Mr. Orange/Freddy Newandyke

Nice Guy Eddie Cabot

Pulp Fiction, 1994

Vincent Vega

Jules Winnfield

Mia Wallace

Winston Wolf

Jimmie Dimmick

Pumpkin/Ringo

Honey Bunny/Yolanda

Kill Bill Vol. 1 and 2, 2003—4

The Bride Beatrix Kiddo/Black Mamba

O-Ren Ishii/Cottonmouth

Vernita Green/Copperhead

Elle Driver/California Mountain Snake

Bill/Snake Charmer

Budd/Sidewinder

Rules of Requests and Asks ( PLEASE READ )

What I WON’T Do/ I Ask You To Respect This List, Please

NO heavy lemons or anything overtly sexual. This is because of my own personal preference. I don’t mind innuendo, implied, or make out scenes leading up to the act, but I won’t be writing pornography on this blog anytime soon.

EDIT: I will do situations for character x reader, but I am limiting character x character to Eddie Cabot x Mr. Blonde and Mr. White x Mr. Orange. I’m sorry, I did put this in the original post, but my Tumblr has been acting funny and deleting random parts of my posts for some reason? To people who requested character x characters before this update, I will do them and fulfill that commitment to you because I did drop the ball.

NOTHING racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, ableist, or anything in general that is negative. I do use slurs like f****t in my writing, but I am not doing this to sensationalize or be intolerant. I am LGBTQ+ myself, so I do use those insults in joking and earnest. I will put trigger warnings for EVERY fanfic I do if needed.

NOTHING involving non consensual situations, underage scenarios, violence against minorities, or disgusting things like that.

Please understand that I have a course overload in college along with many other activities, so I might not get to requests immediately. This is not because I am ignoring you, nor it is it because I am ungrateful for your support or selfish. I apologize if that seemed arrogant, that was not how it was intended. I only meant to establish that ahead of time.

Difference Between Requests and Asks

As of this date—January 4th, 2023—my requests are CLOSED and asks are OPEN. Please only submit one at a time, following the guidelines I gave above. I should discern what the difference between the two are.

Here are examples of them. You don’t have to ask exactly what’s in them, these are just samples of how they should look:

REQUEST: Hi! Could I please request headcanons about Budd Sidewinder, Mia Wallace, and Mr. Orange in a friends to lovers situation, with a first kiss? ” ( you can pick dialogue to go with it too, and you don’t have to specify genre unless you absolutely want to )

ASK: Hello, what is your opinion of the theory that Pulp Fiction is the prequel/sequel to Reservoir Dogs?

Thank you so much for reading, and I look forward to hearing what you have to say! Happy New Year at this time of writing!

- @killingitreservoirdogsstyle