#/ sorry its so long !!!

[wisegirl25]

Arcane High School AU Headcannons

Jinx

-Shows up to class once a week (forced to by Silco)

-Somehow has the best grades in almost every class (100 in science, 99 in tech, etc.)

-All the teachers hate her because she constantly breaks the dress code and makes fun of teachers when they try to discipline her

-Just doesn’t show up for detention

-She and Ekko graffitied the back wall of the school and everyone knows it was them but nobody can prove it

-Ignores Vi whenever she tries to talk to her

-Has BEEF with Caitlyn and pulls pranks on her through her locker

-Says she hates kids but she’s always babysitting Isha

-She and Ekko constantly bicker in the hallways so people thought they hated each other until someone caught them making out under a stairwell

-Gives people piercings in the bathroom (it is NOT sanitary at all

-Blasts punk rock and metal music through her headphones so loud she can’t hear anyone

-Is on the Robotics Team, does drama (but she only helps make the sets), and refuses to join anything else

-Nobody knows that she and Viktor are secretly super close-they argue like siblings

-Sells drugs behind the school but doesn’t really take them herself

Vi

-Has dated half the female population of the high school

-Has okay grades (b’s and c’s) but has the best grades in phys ed

-Will scream at you in PE if you don’t pass her the ball

-Annoys Caitlyn all class

-Plays cod mobile or brawl stars instead of doing her work

-Gives Jayce HORRIBLE dating advice (he thinks that because she has a gf she would have good ideas)

-Gets into fights like every other day

-Will punch you if you say anything bad about Jinx

-Threatened to beat up Ekko when he and Jinx started dating (he knew she would never)

-On every sports team ever

-Somehow is the only girl on the male football team

-Failing the one class she has with Jayce

Ekko

-Soundcloud rapper//Jinx helps him produce his music

-Skateboards to school

-Always fighting with Jinx to have the highest grades

-Gets pissed that she doesn’t even put in the work and still excels

-Also on Robotics, plays basketball but nobody has the heart to tell him he’s too short

-Volunteers at a food bank and a homeless shelter every week

-Gaslit Scar into thinking he hated Jinx for the entirety of their freshmen year

-When Scar found out they were childhood besties he was like what

-Ditched prom with Jinx and got happy meals at mcdonalds

-Art club

-Draws Jinx in his sketchbook but won’t let her see it

-Ditches school with Claggor sometimes

-Pretends to hate Caitlyn because Jinx does (bf duties) but lowkey ends up having fun with it

-“Adopts” the weird kids from all the younger grades and forms a little Ekko fanclub indirectly

Caitlyn

-Her mom is on the school board

-Was homeschooled by tutors most of her life until she convinced her parents to let her go to public school

-Straight A’s

-Student Council Vice-President (going to be President after Mel graduates)

-Does track and archery club

-Hated Vi when they first met but warmed up to her

-Tried to get along with Jinx for Vi’s sake until Jinx blew up her locker with a huge project in it and now she has beef with her

-Tries and fails to break up fights

-Breaks the rules but gets away with it because she’s sneaky about it (I hate when ppl make her a goody-two shoes like she wasn’t constantly undermining authority in the show)

-Doesn’t understand why Ekko hates her

-She introduced Jayce (her childhood friend) to Vi and has regretted the decision ever since

-Gossips with Mel in the bathroom

Jayce

-Co-president of robotics team

-Has all a’s in every class except the one class he has with Vi which he is failing

-Will ditch class to go annoy Caitlyn

-The teacher either love him or hate him no in between

-Tried to get onto Student Council to impress Mel

-Plays sports

-He will constantly argue either Ekko, Viktor, and Jinx during robotics

-Bi king can’t decide if he’s madly in love with Viktor or with Mel (ends up with Viktor tho)

-Somehow super popular even though he was a loser in middle school

Viktor

-Has been hopelessly crushing on Jayce since middle school

-Hits people with his cane

-Mostly quiet unless something he’s passionate about comes up

-He and Caitlyn get along really well and ditch Jayce and Vi whenever they start to act stupid to go gossip with Mel

-Secretly has a Youtube account with 100k subscribers but all he does on it are video essays and random rants

-Gets asked “are you gay?” every other week

-He is but he won’t admit it

-Robotics Co-President, Debate team, student council

-People don’t make fun of him because he will literally find ur address and somehow get the police at your door

-The Robotics club becomes his cult and the younger kids worship him

Mel

-Super popular

-Good grades

-Student council president

-Everyone is lowkey scared of her

-Sprays her vanilla coconut body mist everywhere

-Everyone knows her because her mom is some super famous politician

-President of the Debate Team

-Model UN

-Gossips in the bathroom

-Manipulates the teachers into getting her the grades she wants when she doesn’t wanna do the work

-Only dated Jayce for the popularity points and to piss off her mom

-Is lowkey queer but doesn’t know how to label herself so she just ignores it

-She’s really sweet if you actually get to know her and is the friend that buys everyone super expensive gifts

-Buys kids toys to give people she doesn’t like as gag gifts

Sorry it’s so long but I have more…

[max0chist]

"dad, it was only one time, I didn't even smoke that much." But i don't care. i drag you into my room, throwing you onto the bed. "this is what happens when little boys like you want to act all grown, when you want to disobey your father" i grind my bugle into your crotch showing you what a real man's penis feels like, pulling my pants off to let my manhood free. "this is what happens when naughty slutty boys like you decide to get high, when you decide to make yourself vulnerable, you wanted your father to rape you didn't you?" you would try and protest but i just laugh at you as i push my strap into your sweats right above your needy hole, dripping and aching from how horny the weed has made you. "dad please" you squirm under me, trying to escape, but it just grinds me deeper into your hole, pushing your boxers into your wetness. "Please, what? hmm? please rape my slutty hole? please punish me for being a bad boy? hmm, please, what?" i thrust my hips forward, soaking your boxers and sweats, a small wet patch forming above your hole in your sweats. "Please, dad, stop," you gasp and pant with me humping you, my oldest son. "Stop? stop what, teasing you and just put it in already?" i laugh at your pathetic attempts to free yourself, tugging your sweats down just enough to let your bush out. i dip my fingers into your boxers, circling your tdick while you writhe in pleasure and shame beneath me. "dad, dad, stop." Your voice betraying you coming out breathy and whiney. "Why should I stop? I need to show you that actions have consequences. " i shove 2 fingers deep into your aching hole with no warning, you moan loudly, your back arching off the bed. i pull your sweats the rest of the way off, laughing at how your legs are already shaking, how wet and tight you are, just for me. i pull my fingers from your hole, noting how slick and shiny they are. "open." i hold my fingers to your mouth, but you keep it firmly shut. "open" i say more firmly, slapping your exposed cunt with my other hand. you open my mouth to cry out, but I shove my fingers down your throat, forcing you to taste your own arousal. I line up my strap with your hole. "Ready?" I don't wait for an answer before burying myself inside you, watching you choke out sobs of pleasure "dad, please, it's too much, I can't, I can't take it, please dad, take it out." I pull out only shortly before thrusting the whole thing back inside you, fucking you slowly and deeply while my hand plays with your little tdick. I watch intently and you grip anything to make the burning pain in your cunt lessen. "dad please, please stop, I'm- I can't" I listen to your desperate pleas as you get closer, but I'm determined to make you cum on my cock, to go through with my punishment. "I can't, kiddo. you have to learn to behave, ok." I lean forward, kissing your forehead and playing with your hair as I rape you in my bed. I kiss away the tears that fall down your cheeks as I bring you closer and closer to orgasm until finally you break. back arching off the bed, clinging to me tightly as you clench around me, shaking and crying harder as I thrust into you harder. "There you go, there you go. let it out, boy." I slip my strap out of you, holding you close, rubbing your back. "I didn't want to do that, but naughty boys have to be punished, ok. you can't go around getting high, it's dangerous, someone might take advantage of you, ok." I press a soft kiss to your lips before carrying your shaking, crying self into your room, tucking you in, kissing you goodnight.

[thedragonbubbles]

Made a pair of my ocs. They're totally a thing.

Tissanga is the Silkwing on the right. She's always dreamed of being a fashion designer as a dragonet, but was unable to due to the Hivewing suppression during Wasp's time. After the fall of Wasp, in the new Leaf-Silk Kingdom she started her boutique.

Apple is the Leafwing on the left. He grew up with the Sapwings with his family. He was taught how to use his weak leafspeak to enhance the flavor of the fruits and veggies in his garden. Now in the new Leaf-Silk Kingdom he has opened a bakery where he sells his delicious pastries.

[dishesoap]

listen. im not saying the Avatar Yangchen duology is the most serious, heartbreaking, well-written, or adult story ive ever read. it isnt. but it also took me by fucking surprise. the torture scene? yangchen's successive breakdowns? jetsun's death and fate? all the deaths?? that one dead kid? (and all the other dead tortured child army kids??) the slow endless horror of the avatar cycle? being literally haunted and fucking lost in the countless incarnations of yourself and the knowledge that you have to dirty yourself for eternity with guilt, failure, death, and sin to save a bare few in the face of a world that will never stop trying to kill itself? having to make peace with that?

yangchen is so compelling to me. everyone loved her brief moment in the Avatar show, because of her stark "You have to abandon your own spiritual needs for the betterment of the world". but the novels drive that home in an interesting way.

yangchen is faced with greed on an unparalleled scale, and it is tearing the world apart. she is so desperate to do some good - shes so haunted by her countless past lives and desperate to at least not have regrets the same way they all do. she builds a spy network from nothing before she's even a teenager because she cant trust anyone, and at every step she is betrayed over and over by literally everyone she cares about, every choice she makes hurts or kills people, she spends almost the entirety of the second novel hopped up on enough drugs to would kill an ordinary person just so she can stay awake bc shes so terrified of hesitating for a single second. i cant figure out if haunted or chronically ill is a better term for whatever is happening in her brain but its. its fucked.

in a lot of ways she is objectively terrible at both avatarhood and being a spy, but she is exactly what the world needs. she so desperately loves her people, her culture, mercy, pacifism, and systematically cuts every tie to these things, no matter how much it hurts. she gets her hands so fucking dirty, she abandons her principles in every circumstance but one (the last Unanimity), she lets murderers and torturers go free and takes immediate economic control of half a world to abuse it.

and its the right decision. i know she gets flak because of how hard kuruk had to invisibly work the next cycle to fight the spirits yangchen pissed off, but yangchen's whole character is about balance, even more than aang's ever was, imo. aang gets a nearly perfect happy ending (which is good! there were good morals and a great story about culture and peace and genocide in the show, im not criticizing it) but yangchen's story really is wholly about balancing the world and the sacrifices you make to keep it even. for all that shes not a great avatar, shes actually a perfect avatar. she fixed it.

alao, kavik is fascinating. im putting him in a terrarium and shaking it. and the stark criticism of the white lotus the entire time... the implication they caused the platinum affair... ayunerak and do flatly admitting they will let (and even help along) the nations crash and burn in an apocalyptic war without fighting to stop it if it means they have control and can pop out of a bunker at the end to reshape society.... augh.

[thfckhappened]

Here's a head canon of mine: all of the clubs parents actually love/prefer Jerry (except his own) like Pete and joshes moms love him cuz he's skinny and can eat like hell and when the club goes over to joshes and Joshes mom only seems happy to see Jerry and offers him some treats and stuff but I think this is more obvious with Pete's ma cuz she will like buy candy and stuff specifically for him when he comes over and encourages Pete to hang out with Jerry to the point were she has invited him to dinner (and Pete's brothers still make fun of him for this saying stuff like "it was sooo bice to meet your bf" and shit) but there Jerry met the only parent that doesn't like him Pete's dad and he's never invited again, I think this could also be a reason they meet in bills basement at night yea it has space and stuff but they also don't want Jerry around there parents

[unknownbookworm]

I am here to hear you out about Leah. I dont think Ive ever seen anyone super passionate about her so please explain. I actually married her for my first playthrough but ended up divorcing her 😅

OOOO ALRIGHT. I'll try my best to keep this coherent because I genuinely wanna do her justice! However I make no promises This will contain heart event spoilers so I am going to do a keep reading, here we go!

Leah was one of the first people I befriended on my first save file and I immediately was like OMG womans <3. Like shes very down to earth and came to pelican town to get away from a very shitty ex and chase her real passion. She loves the forest and nature, is constantly going around to different spots to sit there and sketch, loves doing her craft, and stands up for herself against her ex! I just appreciate her so much and she gives you a whole ass art piece????? WHAT I FEEL ABOUT FARMER??????? THATS SO SWEET!!! She spends time dedicated to making something for the farmer, and is always offering to have you stop by because shes lonely. Like shes so sweet and chill, also its an extremely popular headcanon that she is STRONG, like look at leah art and you will come by one of buff leah pretty easily. Shes so pretty and ?????? Look she is THE cottage-core lesbian material.

Look its hard for me to like place all my thoughts on her in a digestible way without running over my own words, but tldr I really appreciate her story and how far shes come. She realizes she wants something else in life, realizes shes in a shitty situation, and moves out to a town where she knows no one to do her own thing. She is independent but so very kind, and I love her. Its a shame that people just say shes budget Robin, and often find her a bit dull. And other marriageable in sdv (especially bachelors) often get more of the spotlight because more people tend to love their characters. I get it, they are pretty cool and I have some different save files where i go for them, but I always come back to my wifey Leah. She likes all foragables, so it wasn't that hard to just friend her over time and I really enjoyed seeing her in the game. Her character arc in the game often has people saying its not as impactful as others, which yeah when compared to Haleys and Shanes (for example) it doesn't have the same impact. But like, Leah's arc is like a sequel arc, she already got away from her ex and moved to the new town, she is figuring out what she wants to do now and its where she is in game. No hate to anyone! This is not me being bitter against the other marriagables at all, simply me trying to say my piece about Leah. Because lets be real, she doesn't get a lot of hype. It's not that anyone hates her, or thinks she is terrible, its more of shes just "okay" to many people. Which is fine, everyone is entitled to their opinions and preferences! I just choose to appreciate my badass artist wife whose lonely and just wants someone to talk too.

[cluedoenthusiast]

Bits I liked from The Alligator Hour with Joshua Homme and Alex Turner

[michael-dont]

New fit in Roblox, thought I'd draw em'. Whatcha all think.

And btw that's their name, at the bottom of the drawing.

Yea, ik, what kinda name is, I'm Scared, Terrified Even.

A good name, that's what....

Maybe I can abbreviate it?

...

...

...

Idk, maybe I'll come up with something eventually.

If any of you have any ideas, please, share them :)

[ryaworld]

don’t get me wrong im a huge fan of Lana del Rey but I just watched the demo video for Lolita and i don’t really like how she used clips from the movie. the movie was a gross representation of the book and made it a sick love story instead of what it was. not saying that she’s a bad person or to cancel her, I just think every body in the nymphette/coquette community should understand that it is a cautionary tale. this really isn’t about Lana, I’ve just seen too many people romanticizing the book/movie probably without watching and understanding.

[occudo]

helooo

im binge reading your gertrude au and i got kinda curious

what happened to mike? does he still become an avatar of the vast or does he just run for his life every end of shift? is the fractal monster dead👀?

Hi

I imagine him as an avatar of the vast, I can't take that away from the boy. But I think it's funny that he also got a day job.

The fractal monster is most definitely dead.

[hypovile]

how did ur party discover jackie daytona vasili von holtz? im a dm that wants it to be a cool reveal, but not impossible to deduce

CAUTION TO THOSE WHO NEED IT— this will contain spoilers, both explicit and vague.

In this, I’m explaining our Vasili’s whole thing and how it made us suspicious of him. It’s just a big ol’ dive into him and my thoughts as a player. I also just fucking love talking about our campaign so I ramble like hell. If you just wanna skim through the whole thing— which is totally fine— i did add a little tl;dr at the end thats a little more question-specific so you can just go there :~]

When the party was off for about a week with Ismark and Co., Vasili, as he claimed, walked through the fog and entered the town of Barovia. He was a charming man who decided to take it upon himself to help the town, which was falling into ruin from the werewolves that ran amok every night.

He also took it upon himself to, by some miracle, revive Kolyan. This, I think, was the second red flag. The first was the normal suspicion that comes with a random stranger who claims to have walked through the fog and was suddenly Kolyan’s right hand man after only a week.

I think everyone was also very quickly suspicious of Vasili because the party +Ismark had expected his house to be completely empty. It was definitely a shock to hear laughter coming from inside.

When the party did go inside they had quickly decided to do an arcana check on him and very conveniently rolled well. So, we understood that inside Vasili was a suppressed dark energy, along with a dull sunlight. Vasili also referred to the sun god with a different name.

I think at this point, or a little further in, we had been saying that Vasili was Strahd. The more we said it, the more it became a little bit of a joke to me? Obviously, I considered the fact that Vasili was Strahd and kept it in my head as a definite possibility, and even argued in favor of it a few times in private with the DM (they were doing a very good job pretending to not understand why I thought Vasili was Strahd honestly), but I had never fully convinced myself that Vasili was Strahd.

I think the main reason I was never fully convinced was… actually because Vasili was very reciprocal with my characters flirting, and even initiated it somewhat (…yes, they slept together, and my character woke up to Strahd above him telling him he was a broken man 💀).

But anyways, after that first night, when everyone regrouped back at Ismark’s house, Kolyan refused to let Ismark come with us to find Doru. Vasili quickly volunteered himself to go… half of the party didn’t like that, but decided to let him come anyways.

After a day of travel and an experience with Strahd himself stealing the symbol of ravenkind while one party member was on watch, my character realized that he was missing his special item from Ezra. Everyone was instantly suspicious of Vasili and had my character go search him in private. As my character was about to touch him, he said “touch me and I fucking kill you,” in a completely different accent. There’s a bit of back and forth, but my character promised that he won’t tell anyone in the party. That was when Vasili morphed back into Strahd.

And, again, I was still shocked even though we had been saying Vasili was Strahd the entire time! I think that was part of the fun of it, being suspicious of him and making jokes about it and such.

But the shock isn’t only that Vasili is Strahd, but also that Strahd made his alter ego look exactly like Sergei. It’s a big double whammy that really emphasizes Vasili’s character and the meaning behind him.

TL;DR bullet point list on what made us suspicious of Vasili, leading to his… honestly surprisingly quick reveal:

Vasili’s sudden appearance and seemingly quick relationship with Kolyan in the time we were gone

Directly because of that initial suspicion, the various (and conveniently high-rolled) checks we did on him basically told us that Vasili was hiding something, not necessarily that he was Strahd, but that he was working with him

Him referring to the sun god with a different name (i think; maybe not necessarily important but i think it definitely made some of us a little confused)

An important magical item that connected one of the characters to Ezra going missing around the time they re-entered Barovia. This one only really added suspicion on Vasili because we already were suspicious that he was, at the absolute least, working with Strahd (also due to some conveniently high rolls).

All in all, your players will always surprise you. What may have been a red flag for us may not necessarily be a red flag for them. I think we were a little lucky with getting information on Vasili because we were rolling fairly well during our interactions with him. And I will reiterate, even with everything that made me suspicious, I figured that Vasili worked closely with Strahd, not that he quite literally was Strahd. And even though I guessed that he wasn’t as good of a person as he tried making himself seem, he still was technically making an effort to help us in our travels, which i think was also important.

I can’t give you very specific advice or anything because I don’t know anything about your Strahd or how your players view him. All I can say is to defy their expectations enough to make them think he’s somewhat of an ally, but keep some hints of Strahd’s key traits so he’s not a completely different character. Maybe there’s a little something Strahd is known to like or dislike and Vasili is unable to hide it. Maybe, if Strahd has already met some of them, Strahd dislikes or likes one of the pc’s more than the others and Vasili subconsciously reflects that!

Final reflection: Vasili, to me, has an inherent disconnection from other people. Whether it’s due to entitlement or due to just a flat out lack of understanding how other people work, there’s a disconnection. That’s what links him to Strahd, because when you don’t truly understand other people, it gets hard to pretend to be someone else. Unless, maybe, the thing you’re pretending to be is something you’ve always wanted... I also find it a bit comical

Whatever you come up with, no matter how it turns out or how fast your players solve it, I’m sure it will end up being very fun :~)

[greyish-cheddar]

The Writer.

When I was a little kid,

I always wanted to be writer.

Making up stories, putting pen to paper

It always made hard times seem a little brighter.

As I grew up, and life got harder

It became my escape.

Some sort of armour.

As I grew, I slowly learnt

How easily people are able to disappoint you.

I learnt to block.

I learnt to deflect.

I learnt to watch where I stepped.

I pushed away love,

Because it only came with hate.

But you can’t blame me, right?

I was just a kid

With a lot on my plate.

I couldn’t see the damage I did.

Most things in life are unknown.

That’s how many people live,

Having the unexpected hit them, like a cyclone.

But I’ve always been writer,

Used to control.

I’ve always known how the story was ending.

I never had to anticipate what the future was impending.

When things turned bad, or became too hard.

I’d retreat with my pen and paper

And write stories as a guard.

The one’s around me said

When I run and when I hide,

My words become shallow 

And my eyes seem hollow.

I’d bottle my emotions with a sense of pride.

I let myself be vulnerable,

Just one time.

Blink and you missed it

Just like the perfect crime.

What I learnt from my experience,

Something that became a matter of fact;

Is that, finding new ways to hurt eachother

Is what we are all good at.

They say don’t fall in love with writers 

because their poems are messy, 

and their letters are empty words that are dressed up to be pretty.

[ihopeditwouldbeyou]

Kate Stewart, the head of UNIT, felt a searing pain shoot through her body as she was sent hurtling into the air by the force of the explosion. Her ears rang with the sound of shattering glass and splintering wood as her home was torn apart around her. Kate's mind raced with fear and confusion as she struggled to comprehend what was happening.

Moments before, Kate had been just about to open her front door, when they was a clicking sound she started to step back and then she ran a few feet before they was a blinding flash of light and a deafening explosion. Kate had felt herself lifted off the ground and thrown into the air, her body slamming against the floor with tremendous force.

As Kate lay there, dazed and injured, she realized that she had narrowly escaped an attempt on her life. Her home had been destroyed. Kate knew who could be responsible. Kate knew that she needed to act fast to protect herself and uncover the truth behind this terrifying attack. With a deep breath, she tried to steady herself and assess her injuries, her mind racing with questions and suspicions.

She made two calls and sent a text before she snapped her phone in half. Kate knew she couldn't go to family, not even friends. She definitely couldn't risk trying to get to her husband and their child.

Kate doesn't know how long she had been out here . hours, days, maybe weeks. She is starting to

Kate felt the early signs of dehydration starting to take hold of her. Her mouth felt dry, and her tongue felt thick and heavy, making it difficult to speak. She felt a nagging headache creeping up on her, and her movements felt sluggish and lethargic.

As Kate struggled to focus on what she needed to do, her thoughts felt muddled and her attention span felt shorter than usual. She found herself becoming irritable and easily distracted, struggling to maintain her usual level of productivity. Despite her best efforts to push through, Kate felt her energy levels starting to wane, and a sense of fatigue began to set in.

The tell-tale signs of dehydration were becoming increasingly apparent on Kate's face and body. Her skin looked dry and tight, and her eyes looked sunken and tired.

Kate began to stumble as she tried to walk, to find food and water. She couldn't afford to be out of action. Her very life depended on it. But not just her life but the life of her team and quite possible the universe itself.

That's when she felt her knees buckle under her and everything went black.

@xtimelxrd

[they-might-be-ultramen]

announcement (not bad, nobody panic <3)

uh. i suppose this *should* be done with some sort of decorum, but its 2 pm on a monday and im exhausted (didnt sleep last night) and its been so long its probably not going to surprise folks much so

i am going to, lets say, discontinue my twitch vtuber account and close that stuff down. i may, at times, still decide to stream playing viddy games, because i think thats fun and i like doing it, and i have a computer that can do it now (yay!)

dont get me wrong, i enjoyed streaming with my avatar and i SUPER appreciate everyone who contributed to that being a possibility and doing art and stuff, and im happy with V-Shen to continue to exist, but in the future when i stream it will probably be on a different account and without an avatar or anything. just low stakes, chill streaming.

i think honestly the idea of being a vtuber was getting to me a bit; like i felt like i HAD to have a certain number of views, and i was down on myself when i didnt, etc. stuff like that. it stopped being about streaming for fun and started being about streaming "correctly" and "efficiently" and stuff. so i think i need to step back from that aspect of it, personally. but! i love that it works for some people and i had a fun time trying it out. it just turns out it probably isnt for me, and thats ok!

sorry this got so long. just wanting to let people know im stepping back from "vtubing" so to speak, but i may stream at times in the future! just, in a different manner.

again thank you to everyone who made V-Shen a reality, it was very fun to do and i couldnt have done it without yall.

especially the amazing @catastrophic-crisis. V-Shen quite literally would not exist without you, and i truly appreciate your work on him (with me? lol idk how to say it) so much <3

[just-a-little-dragon]

GBA Idea

Albus stared at his older self. Who looked.... much different.

"I died."

"Yeah. But hey we got a wife and several kids out of it. None of them ours though. Yet." His older self laughed.

"And Vinny... loves us?" The words sounded so foreign to him. The thought of anyone loving him didn't make sense. He was a bastard and a whore.

"Yeah. Weird right?"

---

"You stole a ship from father and are now pronounced dead by the triad?!" Devlin shouted. Eyes wide with shock as his older self sighed and nodded.

"Well. Albus was dead for a while. And the sister threw away everything to get Corano back. And we succeeded in the end."

"Albus?!" Devlin shouted.

"Thats my name." Devlin spun to see his brother and a demon walking side by side.

"You bastard! You corrupted a sister of the knights and me!"

"Hey now!" The older Albus sighed. "I didn't corrupt Faithful. You. Yeah I take points for that one."

Devlin opened his mouth to say something but a shrill scream of agony rang through the air. He turned to the the tolder sersions and they both sighed.

"The sister?"

"Definitely faithful. No doubt the younger one as well. Let's go see what slurs she saying." Devlin followed in curiosity of meeting the sister that would change his life so drastically.

"You gave up everything?!" Albus stared at the two woman facing off. One much more laid back. "Our faith, legacy, everything?"

"Well it was either save the child or live in the family."

"And you chose the child. OH! And fucked a bastard and ship worker while you were at it."

"I didn't fuck Devlin. Albus was the one to teach and on that Hello there. enjoying the show?"

"How can you be so calm about this?!" the older ALbus laughed at the girl.

"Compared to the shit we did to kill your brother. This isn't that bad."

"I do not want to hear it from a fatherless man." ALbus scoffed as the girl spat.

"I forgot how cute you were when you were angry." Older Albus laughed again.

"Hard to be angry with you two anymore." Fsithful chuckled. "Now. Shall we find out how to send them back?"

[mortallyfuriousbluebird]

Ok, I'm actually really proud of myself and I want to share it with the faceless void (the internet).

In March of this year, after an absolutely devastating breakup in October 2022 (my relationship of ten years ended, for a variety of reasons), I weighed 249lbs/113kg.

I was depressed, had no energy, and felt like shit all the time. The second lowest point of my life (first was when my mom died).

I told myself if I hit 250lbs I was either going to die or diet. I watched my mom struggle with weight related illnesses and disordered eating my whole life. It eventually killed her (I don't want to get into specifics, but her obesity directly caused her death, she was 62 years old).

I chose to diet and exercise.

Now, I'm 42lbs/19kg lighter. I eat healthier, I exercise, I feel better. I currently weigh 207lbs/94kg and I am 13lbs/6kg lighter than when I met my ex 11 years ago. I've put on a bit of muscle, my body fat is much lower. My stamina is so much better, I can go on hikes now that I wouldn't or couldn't before. I'm stronger than I've ever been, I can lift 50lb objects with ease. I moved a whole ass clothes dresser into a truck by myself with no issues.

My goal weight is 175lbs/79kg. I'll get there with time. That's what I weighed when I graduated high school in 2005 and I'd be excited to look, and more importantly feel, like I did then.

Being healthy isn't necessarily weighing less, but for me personally, it helped, especially with my mental health. If you are happy with your body and you're in good health it doesn't matter how much you weigh. But for me, I needed a change and this is what helped me feel better. You know yourself and your body better than anyone, so do what feels good and right for you.

If you do want to lose weight, for whatever reason, and to do it healthily, watch your calories and simple carbs/sugar, up your protein, eat a lot of veggies and don't stress if you eat fattier foods or have a big meal. It's ok, begin again tomorrow.

Stress and guilt are killer, and honestly, they don't help, only hurt and make you feel bad. Celebrate your victories but don't punish yourself for enjoying food. There are no bad foods, just moderation in all things. One day of eating more won't set you back like you think, I promise.

The biggest tip is figuring out your calorie expenditure and eating less than that. It really is as simple as calories in vs calories out. Get a calorie tracker app, there are several free and premium ones for both android and iOS and be honest with what you eat.

Under the cut is the formula for Basal Metabolic Rate (the base calories you expend just being alive) and the formula for your calorie expenditure.

I love you all and wish you good health and happiness.

Basal metabolic rate formula:

Men:

BMR = 88.362 + (13.397 x weight in kg) + (4.799 x height in cm) – (5.677 x age in years)

OR

BMR=66.47 + (6.24 × weight in pounds) + (12.7 × height in inches) − (6.75 × age in years)

Women:

BMR = 447.593 + (9.247 x weight in kg) + (3.098 x height in cm) – (4.330 x age in years)

OR

BMR=65.51 + (4.35 × weight in pounds) + (4.7 × height in inches) - (4.7 × age in years)

To find your Total Calorie Expenditure:

Sedentary: If you get minimal or no exercise, multiply your BMR by 1.2.

Lightly active: If you exercise lightly one to three days a week, multiply your BMR by 1.375.

Moderately active: If you exercise moderately three to five days a week, multiply your BMR by 1.55.

Very active: If you engage in hard exercise six to seven days a week, multiply your BMR by 1.725.

Extra active: If you engage in very hard exercise six to seven days a week or have a physical job, multiply your BMR by 1.9.

Source: https://www.healthline.com/health/what-is-basal-metabolic-rate#How-many-calories-do-you-need-every-day?-