#[ my time tracker is not entirely accurate ]

[redstringraven]

it takes a lot to be always on form, it takes a lot.

challenged myself to start, experiment with, and post something today regardless of how 'finished' it was!

this song always makes me think of leo.

[violetwolfraven]

Idk what this is but I have to post it before season 7 comes out and it is rendered officially canon-noncompliant

Time takes a time out.

That’s the best way Soren can think of to describe what it feels like the second after they tell him.

“Corvus was captured by Karim. We don’t know for sure if Karim still has him, but what we can say for certain is that he is missing.

He rode out with Ezran a couple of days…”

Gren keeps talking, explaining the details of the situation, but that’s about the last of it that Soren hears.

The ground is unsteady, and he can feel his heartbeat throbbing in his skull, and his own breathing seems to be the loudest thing in the world.

Corvus is missing. Presumed captured, but could be…

Soren feels so fucking stupid. He didn’t even notice, at first. Corvus is a quiet kind of guy, right? Sort of stealthy. Tracker, spy, advisor—all roles where it’s a good thing for him to fade into the background to everyone except his own friends. And he’s a more than competent fighter. Not seeing him right away doesn’t usually mean anything. Soren was more focused on Ezran. The uncharacteristic quietness, one-word answers to questions trembling with a grief and rage very not like the boy king of Katolis. Soren has seen Ezran upset before, he’s seen him sad, even angry on occasion, but he’s known Ezran almost since he was born and he’s never seen him like this.

He turned to express as much to Corvus, and to ask how he’s doing—Katolis is his home too, his charred, barely standing home—only to realize he wasn’t there. Not just not right next to Soren; not there at all. Janai and Amaya sent a pretty large party to assess the extent of the damage and Corvus wasn’t with them. Corvus wasn’t bound to the Sunfire kingdom by duty like Amaya now was, so that struck Soren as odd. He asked Gren, and…

Soren forces himself to take a deep breath.

He’s Crownguard. He’s been helping the rest of the council set up and run their camp, attend to the wounded, and bury the dead for the last 2 days. He’s in a leadership position and someone has to fill Ezran in on what’s what.

Actually, Callum and Rayla (arrived with Rayla’s dad-sassin around sundown yesterday) seem to be taking care of that, so Soren refocuses on Gren.

“…and when the dust cleared, we captured most of their infantry and commanders,” Gren is reporting, “But Karim and General Miyana escaped. There were a lot of people, a lot of confusion due to how fast the entire thing happened, so it took us a few hours to get an accurate headcount. Corvus never checked in—but we didn’t find him among the handful of casualties, either! He’s most likely still alive. It’s possible we just didn’t look hard enough in the time between the battle and finding out about Katolis. For a battle with so few casualties, we did have quite a few injuries. The infirmary was extremely crowded. We could have easily missed him in there.”

It doesn’t sound like Gren thinks that’s what happened.

Despite having missed a big chunk of story in the middle there, Soren doesn’t think so either.

“Will Karim hurt him?”

Gren hesitates, and Soren feels a little nauseous.

“I don’t… think so. In my limited experience with Karim, he was never particularly sadistic. Vindictive? Sure. Dramatic? Definitely. But the only way I see him hurting Corvus is if he has a particular goal in mind, like if he thinks Corvus knows something that could help his cause. But that’s unlikely. Corvus spent most of the last 2 years in Katolis. Even if he didn’t, I don’t think even Karim knows his next move at this point. This was his third failed plan to overthrow Janai. I’d be surprised if he had another any time soon.”

Soren can think of one.

He can’t say for sure, considering he’s only met Karim a few times, but if Soren thinks if he were banished, desperate, and had no leverage other than one hostage, a known close friend of two different monarchs…

“What about using Corvus to try and control Amaya?” he asks, “Or worse—Ezran?”

Gren’s eyes widen. He glances over at the king, talking to his brother.

The 12-year-old orphan king, who just came home to find his city in ruins.

Ezran has already lost so much. His kingdom was attacked while he just happened to be absent. His friends are injured. His home is nothing but ash and rubble.

If threatened with one of his friends’ pain, he might do something rash. By the look on Gren’s face, he knows it too.

Something in Soren’s chest constricts.

“Does he know Corvus is missing?”

Gren slowly nods, “He knows. Whether he remembers at the moment, with everything else, is a different question.”

Which means it’s in everyone’s best interest for them to find him, before Ezran remembers he has anyone else to worry about. Because if Karim tries to pull something, if he tries to use Corvus to…

Soren feels more alert and present than he has in days. He’s sort of been on automatic mode this whole time, trying not to think too hard about his home being reduced to rubble or his dad… his dad. He’s been going through the motions. Just sit back and let the dragon fly, you know? Soren knows how to protect people. That’s what he’s good at. He doesn’t have to think about it to do it.

He’s always been a protector. Always on the defense. Never considered himself particularly vindictive, never really understood why his father or sister felt the need to take revenge when they get hurt.

But if Karim has hurt Corvus, Soren is going to kill him.

He knows that with startling clarity that makes him think maybe he’s not so different from the rest of his family after all.

It’s just… Corvus is his closest friend. The person whose opinion he looks for the most when proposing a plan. The person he’s always trying to get to laugh. The person he…

“Soren, I…” Gren hesitates, “I don’t know you that well. We’ve never worked together all that closely. But I do know Corvus. He, Amaya, and I have been friends for years, and of the three of us, he is the most introverted. He usually prefers the company of trees or animals to other people. The fact that you’ve managed to get him out of his comfort zone as much as you have with all the adventures he writes us letters about… that’s not insignificant.”

Soren isn’t sure where he’s going with this, “Yeah?”

“I can tell that you care for Corvus very deeply,” Gren says, genuinely, “And if you want to come back to Xadia with me and help search for him, I think Ezran will understand.”

Usually, Soren would agree wholeheartedly. But right now? He’s not sure he wants to leave the kid alone. Or Callum and Rayla, for that matter. Wise as those two act, they’re still kids too. Even if they don’t realize it.

God, when did Callum get that tall? He’s still shorter than Soren, obviously, but he’s taller than Rayla now. When did that happen? Soren doesn’t know how he’s never noticed until now, but—

“I know it’s not a good time for you to be leaving Katolis. But still, it’s not every day your partner gets kidnapped.”

Soren turns his head back to look at Gren so quickly it hurts, “What?”

“I don’t want it to be true,” Gren says solemnly, “He’s my friend. Of course I hope he’s not a hostage. I really hope in the confusion of the battle he just ended up in the woods or something and is maybe injured and waiting for us to come and find him. But I have to admit, Karim still having him does seem like the most likely—“

“No, I mean,” Soren struggles for words, “Corvus is not my partner.”

“Oh!” Gren’s face turns bright red, “I mean, the way it sounded in Corvus’s letters, I just sort of… but I guess he never said—I’m sorry. I shouldn’t have assumed.”

“Did you think we were together this entire time?”

“I… sort of?”

“For how long?”

“I don’t know if I could put a date on when—“

“So a long time then.”

“I’m sorry, I shouldn’t have assumed.”

Soren is about to say that that’s ridiculous, why would anyone assume he and Corvus are a couple, but…

Looking back he can kind of see it, actually. He can’t speak to whatever Corvus has apparently been writing to Gren and Amaya, but they do spend an awful lot of time together, don’t they?

The other crownguards tend to be a bit more random about who they take shifts with, but Soren does almost always sign up to guard with Corvus. Sure, he does that because Corvus is the only one who doesn’t come to the team-building sleepovers and how else is he supposed to convince him to show up if he doesn’t talk to him a lot? But to an outsider, he can definitely see how that could look like him having a thing for Corvus. And maybe their fighting styles complement each other pretty much perfectly in battle. Maybe that’s part of it, too. And maybe he thinks a lot about trying to get Corvus to play a song on the cello that he can sing along to. Maybe it feels better than any sparring victory every time Soren gets him to open up even a little. Maybe it feels like there’s butterflies in his chest when Corvus reveals something they have in common. Maybe it felt like the butterflies were exploding that one time they hugged in the mushroom forest and oh wow yeah Soren definitely does have a thing for Corvus.

He knows he’s not considered the smartest guy around, but he still feels like he should have noticed this before now. Especially if Gren, who was miles and miles away for the last 2 years and doesn’t know Soren all that well, noticed it before he did.

Oh no. If Gren noticed, that means Corvus definitely did. And he just never said anything? For 2 years? Sure, there’s been a lot going on, but it’s not like they haven’t been alone together, plenty of times, when he could have said something.

Soren adds another reason along with ‘he’s my closest friend and I can’t lose him,’ and ‘if he gets hurt I will go apeshit,’ and ‘if he gets hurt Ezran will go apeshit’ to the list of reasons why he needs to find Corvus and bring him home safety.

“How fast can we get back to Xadia?” he asks, and it comes out in his Leader of the Crownguard, time-to-pull-up-your-big-boy-pants-and-sound-like-you-know-what-you’re-doing voice.

“With Aegis and Embertail not having to match pace with human infantry or carry more than one person each? I’d say three hours, maybe less.”

“Then let’s go. Now.” Something occurs to him, “…make that as soon as I let Opeli know where we’re going.”

Soren might not know exactly what he’s going to do when he finds Corvus. He doesn’t know where to find him or how he’s going to beat a Sun mage in a fight.

But he knows he’s going to do whatever it takes. Nothing and no one is going to stop him from getting to the man he’s pretty sure he already fell halfway in love with while he wasn’t looking.

If Corvus is hurt, Soren swears all the magic in Xadia won’t be enough to save Karim.

[luvo27]

Fantasy High Gravity Falls au:

Opens with riz and fig sitting next to each other upstairs listening to their parents argue: namely, gilear and sandra lynn are arguing with each other, and gorthalax and sklonda are trying to mediate

The cause of the argument is, of course, the revelation that fig is not gilear’s biological daughter with the growing in of her horns

Gorthalax, not having known that fig was his biologically, now wants to be a part of his daughter’s life: riz and sklonda are there because he’s dating sklonda

This is the first time riz and fig have met. It’s super awkward! Very wow i can’t believe im meeting this girl because her mom cheated on her dad. Wow i cant believe im meeting this guy because my mom cheated on my dad with his moms boyfriend

Anyways, sklonda and gorthalax are like, “clearly you and gilear need some time and space to figure things out, and the kids really shouldn’t have to deal with this. Why don’t we send them away for the summer?”

“Where?”

Gorthalax: “well, i grew up in this lovely town called Gravity Falls. I have a friend there—”

“Friend?”

“Well, I’m not exactly sure what else to call him. Friend is about as accurate a description that I can apply. Ex-boss?”

“Fair. But we’re really going to send the kids to stay with him?”

“It’ll be a good learning experience!”

Anyways riz and fig get sent to Gravity Falls to live with one Arthur Aguefort who runs the Mystery Shack

For some reason despite never having been affiliated with a school in any capacity, he insists they call him Principal Aguefort. He’s the most unhelpful adult either riz or fig have met in their entire lives, but he provides them with rooms and food, so that’s chill. They can entertain themselves anyways.

Gorgug, Adaine, Kristen, and Fabian are all Gravity Falls residents. Gorgug and Adaine work at the mystery shack part time, Fabian’s this weird rich kid who hangs around with them for no apparent reason, kristen is way too casual about the cult that she escaped from and constantly talks about how she and adaine live in the woods with a pack of werewolves

There’s a werewolf episode where they actually meet said werewolves: enter tracker and jawbone

Anyways, fig and riz get to know each other over the course of the summer and grow close with the other gravity falls kids as they get into fun and delightful adventures

Riz finds a journal at some point early in the summer with a feather burned into the cover, and uses this to guide all his friends in their adventures

At some point, they meet adaine’s sister who still lives with their parents after she reluctantly comes to adaine and her friends for help exorcising their mansion. It turns out it’s a trap to try to kidnap adaine back home. Adaine lets (read: commands) the ghosts haunting her old family home to kill her dad. The van with hands chases their mom into the woods. No one is particularly sad about either of these events. Aelwyn is going to take over this mansion and fill it with the cats she always wanted but could never have. Adaine, kristen, and their werewolf adoptive family move in. there are MANY sleepovers.

At some point there’s an episode where the kids find out that Fabian is part mermaid when his pirate mermaid family comes to visit

At some point there’s an episode about ghosts and the afterlife where riz gets to say hi to his dad briefly

As the summer progresses, fig grows more comfortable with her demon heritage. Sklonda, Gorthalax, Gilear, and Sklonda visit to check in on their kids on weekends when they can, and fig delights in getting to know her bio dad and repairing her relationship with gilear, and she basically adopts sklonda as a second mom, and she’s really excited to have riz as a brother, plus they’ve made all these really cool friends that she can keep in touch with now.

Riz, on the other hand, can’t stop thinking about what’s going to happen when the summer ends. He’s gotten attached to Fig as a sister, and when the summer ends and her parents sort out their problems is that going to mean that they’re going to go back to how they were before? He doesn’t want to leave his new friends behind, he doesn��t want to go back to the way his life was before, he doesn’t want to lose any of this

Theres an episode where the kids track down gorgugs parents

It’s either about how his bio parents had their memories of gorgug wiped and the bad kids tracking them down and solving that mystery

Or is just completely normal.

“Hey gorgug do you want to find your bio parents?”

“Huh. sounds fun. sure!”

There’s an episode where the kids find arthur’s stash of fake identities.

“Who the fuck is Barthur Baguefort?”

“It’s Arthur wearing sunglasses.”

There’s an episode where the bad kids encounter and probably kill kristen’s former cult

None of the kids are particularly close to Arthur. They don’t really care about the secrets he’s hiding.

At some point, riz is trying to solve some conspiracy or the other, and this is when kalina first appears to him

At some point, the kids wake up to find arthur’s left his secret basement door room open when the kids are having a sleepover. They go in as the portal is opening, and out steps the author of the journals: ayda aguefort.

She’s been traversing the multiverse after an argument with her dad got her thrown in there during one of her research projects. Traversing the multiverse was kind of chill, actually, she’s got a hunger for knowledge and boy did she learn a lot on her adventures

She joins the bad kids on their adventures, and fig is of course delighted to have another friend (and maybe more!)

The time the kids have left before summer ends grows shorter and shorter.

Kalina appears to fig. She makes her an offer, she wants to make a deal. Fig could be gilears biological daughter, if she wants. She could have parents who never cheated on each other, she could go back to her happy idyllic childhood.

Fig does not take the deal. The entire summer for her was finding the silver lining, was learning how to repair relationships and move forwards. If her heritage never came to light, she never would have grown her family basically three times as large

So kalina goes to riz. And riz is so, so desperate. All he wants in the world is a guarantee that people won’t leave him. And kalina? Delivers.

So riz is thrown into a bubble dimension with his devoted partner created to fulfill his deal in the most monkeys paw of situations: enter baron from the baronies

The thing kalina gets out of this deal is for the Nightmare King to be let into their realm, bringing the apocalypse into gravity falls one weekend when riz and figs parents are visiting

The bad kids now have to save riz and defeat the nightmare king. Power of friendship time!

Pooling together collective knowledge from everyone’s adventures: the parents, who used to live in gravity falls, ayda, whos been traversing dimensions, the bad kids, who’ve been messing about with random stuff all summer, they piece together the nightmare king’s story

Kristen’s old cult is plot relevant now! It turns out that they were a doomsday cult and hundreds of years ago, sacrificed the being known as the nightmare king in an attempt to bring about the end of times. They thought it didn’t work, but they’re probably delighted that it’s finally happening

Kristen had escaped the cult because she was being set up to be the sacrifice for apocalypse attempt part 2. This makes her uniquely suited to extend a hand.

“Oh, dude, I totally get what you’re going through. But like, me and my friends completely wiped out those guys-like, killed—”

“Killed? What have you kids been up to? I knew we shouldn’t have trusted aguefort with children—”

“So it’s chill now! And like, bringing about the apocalypse is only going to give them what they want, so maybe don’t do that. I get it though, like I’ve been exactly where you are. Like, exactly. Crazy how the world works, right? Anyways, my name’s Kristen. What’s yours?”

Enter cassandra!

The summer wraps up. The question remains: where do they go from here?

Sandra lynn and gilear have decided that separating is the best option for them. And over their visits, sandra lynns gotten to know jawbone and there’s definitely something there…

I think it’s kind of bittersweet. Sandra lynn and fig move in with jawbone, and sklonda and riz and gorthalax go back to their old place. Summer doesn’t last forever, as much as anyone might want it to, but you don’t need to go back to how you were before. Gorthalax visits fig all the time, and when he can, riz joins, and when sklonda can, she comes along as well. She’s got friends in gravity falls too. Maybe it’s about learning to trust that people will put in the effort to keep up with each other when it gets more difficult. Maybe it’s about the family you find along the way, and the ways you’ll always keep them. Maybe life doesn’t work out how you thought. Maybe reality sets in, overtaking the summer haze. Maybe it’s better. Who knows?

Where did kalina go? What was her whole deal? I have no idea.

[violetskies65]

A PCOS Girl's Guide to Period Tracker Apps

I have had a phone by my side and in my hand for years now, since the age of 13. In today's day and age, that even seems old, but it was the age I received my first phone. I have been menstruating since age 11, and tracking since perhaps, my junior year of high school. Throughout all these years, I have dealt with acne, poor body image, and semi-irregular menstruation. What was a fun way to track how my body felt, prevent (or now, PREPARE!) for pregnancy, now sort of consumes my entire life, right next to that handy MyFitnessPal app in my health tab. From traditional apps like FLO, built in trackers like Apple Health, and then Clue, these apps help me deal and manage my symptoms with hidden perks.

Flo

Flo was ideally my first app, I have used logged and documented everything from my sexcapades, crippling moodswings, and now more sensitive subjects such as ovulation and vaginal discharge. I will admit, at that age I wasn't perfect at logging everything, and while it tries to reprogram the predicted period and ovulation based on your latest previous cycle (Not good for PCOS Girlies!), it holds the secrets to my confusing and moody reproductive system. The Flo App is actually the first app that merely suggested my irregular cycle patterns may present PCOS, of course with me brushing it aside, as my periods would become and stay consistent and regular as I went along. While it does notify you of cycle patterns and keeps data of every cycle, as with many apps, menstural trackers or not, there is a monthly fee to the added insights and help they offer. I paid for it for a month, it is a neat feature, but even to me, not even worth it.

Some extra features with the Flo app are the different modes, changing from normal period tracking, optimizing your chance of pregnancy, and to track your pregnancy. With each cycle tracked, I'd say Flo becomes somewhat more accurate. My personal PCOS journey is due to weight flunctuations. I have ovulated and have had periods semi regularly my entire life, until this year unfortunately. I have had (a guestimate, as you are unsure if you ovulate every cycle.) one to two ovulatory cycles. Sometimes it just isn't about becoming pregnant, as it is extremely unhealthy to go 3-4 months without a period, natural or medically induced. It is better for your body to have a period, from my personal stance, and Flo will be there to remind you how abnormal your cycle trends are, and what they mean.

I would give Flo a 8/10, and I find it very PCOS friendly!

Stardust

Stardust is the second app I have ever used, as I remember ads on Facebook & TikTok. Stardust is a period tracking app for the spiritual gals, although many of the quirks are added for fun. Based on your cycle type (the periods in which your experience ovulation and menstruation) you are organized a specific witch type with some insight on yourself, and yes, mine changes all the time due to spontaneous ovulation and delayed menstruation. So again, just for fun. Although Stardust will organize you into a percentage group based on your witch group. Despite the overall quirkiness of the app, there is a neat little wheel lined with each day of your cycle and the corresponding predicted phase, with differing colors. The app works to highlight your ovulatory, luteal, and menstrual phases. Unlike Flo and other apps, it will simply tell you your cycle day and each month has the same predicted ovulation and menstrual pattern.

The app does not have any mode to help enhance pregnancy chances, although you can still log your pregnancy test and ovulation test, although you can only log one type of ovulation test result, and you cannot log both a pregnancy and ovulation test. This seems like it would be common knowledge, but when you have gone a couple months without a period, or there are conflicting hormonal signs, sometimes you just gotta multitask! The app will also let you know upon opening that your period is late, but it doesn't bombard you with texts or digital guides about PCOS, Endo, etc, so I always preferred Flo, and even deleted Stardust at one point in time.

The app seems to be difficult to toggle, with Flo you can change your ovulatory prediction and tracking by logging tests. Upon logging a test, your little blue days will shift. Stardust does not let you do this, whether you log a test at all. The app has a quirky spiritual theme, but a bit too spiritual, that it appears to try to be more in tune with your body than you. Although certain antibiotic usage and normal PCOS irregularities make ovulation hard to predict, with the help of tests and being in tune with discharge changes, I hate how I can't toggle ovulation and menstruall dates.

Throughout the updates and expansions, the Stardust app lets you mark many symptoms and changes throughout your cycle phases, log exercise, and even log cycle stressors such as trauma, stress, and even travel. Perhaps my favorite feature is the ability to log marijuana, adderal, alcohol, or even psychedelic usage. although it does not document any trends or reports to your cycle if you continiously log these potential cycle disruptions or health changes, so you'll have to make some assertions yourself. I really applaud them for adding a stimulant and marijuana (which is so common nowadays next to alcohol).

Overall, I would give the Stardust a 6/10. This is a very fun and creative app, but I am not counting on it for any particular cycle or health related insights, so personally for me, it is merely for fun. Perhaps with time the app will continue to expand and add more observatory features and cycle tracking insights. It is not really PCOS friendly, as it doesn't seem to work or move around or put effort into altering any cycle predictions. It is set in stone until of course you log your menstrual period yourself.

Clue

The Clue app works to give you (somewhat) of a Clue about your ever so changing menstural cycle. Like Flo, it attempts to move your cycle patterns to fit current trends and give a prediction of ovulation. I must admit, I am a new user to Clue, and I have logged ovulation tests (just pregmate LH strips for now, I did out of curiosity) but they were all negative, and I am not exactly sure if the ovulation time moves with you and I have not done a false log as I do not want to risk messing up my cycle, but it is much more customizable than Stardust, although a lot of features I feel would benefit those suffering from PCOS, are locked behind a pesky monthly paywall, one that is very tempting at that.

Similar to Stardust, Clue is complete with a wheel that you can spin through and observe your different cycle phases. Red representing the dreaded (or if you have PCOS, the heavily missed, long anticipated) arrival of aunt flow, or a nice crisp blue part of the ring signaling potential ovulatory days, With the Clue app, you can log exercise, and potential cycle stressors such as alcohol, cigarettes, or even simply being hungover. However, no specific medications such as Adderal, Concerta, or anything else mental health related, You have the ability to log medications such as HRT (Hormone Therapy), OTC/Prescribed Painkillers, allergy meds, antibiotics, cold and flu meds, the morning after pill, and different hormone therapy pills, such as estrogen, progesterone, and testerone. Cycle Stressors under the "Ailments" tab can also be logged, ranging from a simple cold, to UTI's and STI's. It seems to be the only tracker to log all forms of birth control and administration dates, the a simple pill, to the IUD. They offer insights into the birth control ring, implant and patch. I feel this is a very neat feature to offer, as birth control & clomid are ready to be prescribed to women dealing with PCOS, with birth control being pushed extremely heavily.

Like other apps, you can log both pregnancy and ovulation tests, but there is no built in LH strip analyzer, you simply make your own evaluation and click positive, or negative. Although there seems to be no cycle trends and specific insights, you are able to log differing appointments in regards to your health, and trust me, I have a lot of those. You digestive data, hair texture, skin concerns and a daily analysis of your social life and mood can also all be logged and tracked underneath their specific tab. There is a tab to check your discharge, but in comparison to other apps like Flo, there are only four different discharge textures displayed, and the app doesn't explictly state whether they are in regards to ovulation or not. Behind the paywall and subscription service, you can log pregnancy experiences, your journey into menopause, vulvar feelings, urine changes, breast changes, and the daily supplements you take.

Clue is a very well thought of app with unique analysis to your cycle and potential stressors to said menstrual period, whether you suffer from PCOS or not. I really look forward to growing with this app more and making sure to continously log and track everything However, it would appear as if all the good PCOS-centered features, like the supplements tab are locked behind a monthly subscription. I would have to give Clue a 7.5 out of ten, very user accesesible with in-depth symptom and data tabs, but everything else helpful is behind that damn pay wall!

Apple's Health App

From my Macbook air to my iphone, I'm pretty much Apple-pilled. However, no Apple watch over here. I just have a cheap fitbit to help me along with more insights into my fitness journey. So the cycle tracking feature that was added in the health data tab is damn near the only thing I use. I know Apple has a specific knack for simplicity and smooth easy accessible apps and services, but the menstural tracking is a bit lacking. It is actually on-par with Fitbi's Menstrual tracker that is horribly laid out. I find myself even forgetting to log any symptoms, as if you simply hit "No Flow", and close, nothing will show you even logged that day. Now Apple, you know damn well I'm not having debilitating symptoms everyday. You simply click if your period began or not, you go through a generalized symptom list that contains slight issues like acne, to fatigue and hair-loss. You can log an ovulation test result, a progesterone test result (the only unique feature), a pregnancy test result, the quality and state of your cervical mucus, and your potentially changing basal body temperature. That is is really, and it is good for what it is, while also trying to be more by offering different testing tabs. Based on my current cycle that I am supplementing with Progestin, Apple's calendar was actually the MOST off.

I give Apple Health's tracker a very simple 3/10.

Last but not least, we have the Pregmate app, to partner with their ovulation and pregnancy testing strips. Their testing methods are just simply buy-in-bulk strips found at your local CVS, but for some in the TTC community are a tried and true cheap and easy method for either getting pregnant, or general cycle tracking. The app however, is not cheap at all, and is actually similar to Flo in looks and design. It pretty much has all the same logging features that Flo does, and it seems to be damn near identical. Although they push for you to download the app and log photos of your ovulation and pregnancy strips, there isn't anything particularly special about said app, but nothing bad either. I have not used this app, but I don't think it is one I could depend on personally for managing and tracking my current PCOS symptoms and journey, but defintely fun for those looking to actively concieve.

I would give the Pregmate app a 5/10. Very user friendly and an encouraging way to get pregnant, but as the name would suggest, it does not give very detailed hormonal insights.

[cannabiscomrade]

hi there, i want to thank you for talking about gastroparesis and sharing your experiences with tube feeding. i may or may not have gastroparesis as well, my gastric emptying test was inconclusive, but my stomach issues are pretty disabling and i have wondered if tube feeding might someday be necessary for me. hearing about your experience makes it a lot less scary sounding! i wonder if you would be comfortable sharing a little more about how tube feeding has improved your health, and impacted your daily life (for better or worse)? are there things you can do now that you couldn’t have done before tube feeding, or vice versa? feel free to take your time answering, or not answer at all if it’s too personal. either way, i appreciate you!

I'd love to talk more about it!

I can empathize with your GES results. They can just end up being just a snapshot of your entire experience, and unfortunately they can just catch you on a "good" day where your emptying times are better. I know some people will intentionally trigger flares to get more accurate numbers on their study.

I'll preface with a little more information about me. I was misdiagnosed for 16 years with Cyclic Vomiting Syndrome and dealt with that and other vague GI diagnoses like GERD and IBS-D episodically and it gradually got worse over time. I was never given a GES until 2022. After I got pregnant and gave birth in 2020 I drifted into this pattern of daily morning vomiting, then I went into a flare last August that I never left. I was diagnosed with gastroparesis in Nov 2022, caught covid for the first time at the end of Nov, and got my tube Jan 2023.

Tube feeding has significantly improved by health. I was slowly dying from starvation ketoacidosis in December 2022. But even when I was eating orally I struggled with severe gastric malabsorption for years and often felt symptoms of malnutrition and saw minor malnutrition on labs and never understood why because I was eating, but because of fatphobia I was never given a GES and I was never taken seriously until I lost a significant amount of weight. In the most severe moments I was having constant diarrhea and vomiting and I've had so many hospitalizations due to dehydration and vomiting alone when I was eating orally.

I'm about 7 months in and I'm getting about 1300-1500ish calories a day, which is not my goal and it needs to be increased. But the difference with it being in my jejunum is that I'm absorbing 100% of those calories and it has helped my energy and my immune system so much. I've been able to significantly slow the weight loss while we investigate the root cause of my gastroparesis, as well as test for intestinal dysmotility. My hair is growing back, my nails are stronger, and I'm having general improvement of my IBS-D.

That being said, being on feeds and fluids, especially continuous feeds, it does impact my lifestyle a lot. I need accommodations at work. I can't let my feeds get over room temp or fluctuate temp too much. When my bags are full and it's in my backpack I'm carrying 2L of liquid and a pump, plus an additional medical bag with supplies. I even have to sleep at an angle to prevent aspiration. And the fun of stoma care. Cats also seem to have a taste for formula and tubing, which has banished my fur children from our bedroom at night. My medical supplies take up half of my dining room. It's certainly a major life change.

But without all of that, I would be dead. For a lot of us, being without alternate nutrition means either death or severe suffering from symptoms of gastroparesis. This is my symptom tracker for vomiting over the past year. You can see the stark difference between July-December and January-now.

This alone was enough for me to justify for myself that a medical device was necessary. Even without the starvation, I still have two hernias from vomiting and developed chronic gastritis secondary to the GP.

The one thing with tube feeding is that your digestive system is like a muscle. If you don't use it, you lose it. And I've definitely noticed a decline in my capacity to tolerate anything in my stomach for long, even liquids. I'm grieving this and learning how to live with this because there isn't an alternative for me at this moment. I'm still trying, I use the gastric port to drain a lot just to keep what little of my stomach's function it still has.

[thetruearchmagos]

Heads Up Seven Up

Thank you to @autumnalwalker for the open Tag, which I've decided to use as my segway back to writing! Sorry yo all if I've been quiet recently, my mental health ain't quit great these two weeks. Still, hope you all enjoy thia little drabble!

Tagging @lividdreamz @dogmomwrites @marinesocks @sanguine-arena @theprissythumbelina @muddshadow @athenswrites @orphicpoieses

Bristling Skies

Five hundred nautical miles away, and five hundred metres beneath the waves, UCS Tracker was entirely unaware as to anything taking place beyond the sphere of its acoustic hydrophones. Within that sphere, however, her Sound-Ops chief had just noticed something very strange indeed.

“Bloody-damn-hell, skipper, we’ve got machinery transients from Token-3. Sounds like she’s really hauling, propeller rate estimates at close to thirty knots.”

Captain Oskar Kukulski was leaning over the station in minutes, while at the helm, Lieutenant Evelyn Wen Hui was starting to sweat under her collar. So was the Captain, but he’d had the luxury of three years a sub-driving skipper to get used to not showing it. All three had been spent aboard the Tracker, but so far, they hadn’t been terribly exciting ones. Until yesterday morning’s brief at Commodore Creed’s office, that is.

“What’s her course? Any changes?”

“Nope, Sir. Just kicked up speed, she’s still keeping a heading down southeast.”

Token-3, more appropriately known as the Terreur by her owners, was supposedly one of the more modern diesel boats that the Nouvo’s had been bought from their Ocrisian allies. So modern were they, that though Tracker had been riding up the boat’s tailpipe for the better part of the past five hours, they’d only found her in the first place by a stroke of good luck. Their quarry had been running lazy circles in the grid sector throughout, and so Oskar was pretty sure he hadn’t been found out just yet. Five hours hunting, he thought, and with a green crew no less. Damn, they’re more than that by now!

“Right, mighty curious of them to do this, but it might be a sign they think no one’s listening—”

An alarm rang from aft, and the skipper bore a grimace. It wouldn’t make it through his rubber coated hull, as Oskar well knew, but submariners had sensitive ears at times like this.

“Ahh, damn, that’s a Flash message. Evelyn, keep up the track however you need to, you have the Conn.”

“Aye sir, I have the Conn.”

With that, Oskar took his leave, ducking through the low bulkhead and heading aft. Just a month ago they’d have needed to surface to get a message, or at least put up the antennae buoy to listen into an orbiter’s broadcast, but the brand new crystal cradle they’d had installed precluded such bothersome measures, and so Evelyn was left to contemplate and conn in peace.

“Right, let’s carry on. Increase speed one third, maintain heading. Fire control, keep updating the fire solution, we could use the practice.”

And so on they moved, quieter than the sea itself. They kept a range of eight hundred metres to the track, matching speeds to maintain the chase. Evelyn found herself prey to the usual malady, that sickeningly sweet stress of a prying eye, watching without being seen, her multi million chequer boat playing the game it was built for. It wasn’t her first time at the conn, but every session in painstaking care felt the same.

Five  minutes later, Sound-Ops called out, voice steady yet loud enough to be heard from the helm.

“Attention Conn, Rip Wall, starboard!”

“All stop, ship to quiet!”

Far ahead of the Tracker, her target had just begun a hard turn right, a bid to clear the blind-, or more accurately, deaf-, spot to the rear where her own hull blocked her bow mounted hydrophones. She’d been pulling that particular trick throughout the chase, though regularly enough that Evelyn and the crew had begun to expect the trick. That was their second mistake, she knew. The first was assuming it would work at all.

“All stop, quiet down!”

In half a heartbeat her orders were done, and the already quiet boat was like a hole in the sea. Tracker’s beating atomic heart was tuned down to a low hum, with even the water pumps turned off to spare the din. She drifted on forwards, with an ever so slight negative trim to stop her from climbing upwards, while almost a kilometre ahead seven thousand tonnes of marine steel began its turn. So far, Evelyn put the closest the two had come in the manoeuvre to just over a hundred metres, and that was as close as she ever needed to be.

[someonestole15]

It takes about the half-life of Polonium for me to write one post.

Dead are not silent.

In the dead of night, you can truly hear their whispers, each of them asking the same question. Why in a million years would I be the one to leave so soon? I keep thinking on an answer to that question but so far, I have found nothing but static, dead air. Radio crackling from the dying signal, I allowed it to slip loose from my grip and fall into the void beneath me. Bright light ahead, forming into a console somewhere within my OS.

>>CPU impact detected, checking system status... >>Unit condition compromised, Damage within acceptable limits. Proceeding with reboot

From my dreams back to reality, a voltage coursed from my powercells through to my heart and CPU, kick starting everything and sending most sensors to 11. Hurts like hell, I tried to keep my breathing calm as the shock faded into a blissful numbness with the safeties cutting off the data flow. Sensory input returning slowly and the numbness subsiding, I hazily got on one knee as my gyroscopes started calibrating. Which way is down, gravity pull this way so that must be it, right, now how does one walk again...

Systems calibrating to my weight, one leg at a time I stood myself up and took in the surroundings, my scanners painting the forest around me in wireframe before the optical systems finally calibrated, allowing color to return to my vision. Rain, navigations messed up so no idea how we got here, I patted down my jacket and noticed my pistol and shotgun were still in their place and the hazmat suit, despite a few scuffs, was still intact.

Booting up my scanners, I felt them spin around for a bit inside my skull before settling in to the front and scanning the zones around me. No active hostiles, the scan came up with four tags near me, it took a moment for the identifier to read their tags. Rest of X-ray, status: alive, a faint sigh of relief got through my filters as I glanced up to see cooling towers visible above the trees at a range of approx. 300m, my rangefinder could not get an accurate reading.

Slow and steady to where Valkyrie was lying, the rest of squad not far from her. Red visible even through the hazmat gear and her scanners quietly ticking away, I gently pulled her over to her side and gently shook her.

“Hey, you better not be dead on me.”

 “Who...” Dazed but alive, she grabbed onto my jacket shortly before identifying me. “Oh it’s you. Where were you, what happened?”

“Not sure, seems I caught a close look at a rifle stock if I read my logs correctly.” I responded as I gave her my hand and helped her up.

“We had a similar tale from what I can remember; the security team took us down as soon as we got out of the range of the cameras.”

“Things are not adding up, but we have more important things to figure out what is going on.”

“Alright, I got your six.” She said while racking back the slide on her handgun, the faint red glow from her eye shining through the mask.

Speculation as the only thing to rely on, we moved from marker to marker, waking up our remaining squad members. One by one, the tracker on my HUD filled up and once we had all five, we took shelter near a service cabin close to the edge of the clearing, using the piled up logs as cover. Rations and medical kits to recover and bind up the few wounds, the weather started to clear up but the mood in the squad was clearly down.

“So now what?” Oscar asked, grabbing the pack of smokes from his vest pocket once again.

“I need to think... What did you find inside?” Richter asked, holding onto his bandaged arm. Likely painful even if just a graze, it would take a moment for the painkillers to kick in.

“It was more than a leak, the entire section was contaminated and the traces were consistent with a chemical weapon we found on that haul a few weeks back.”

“Right, they knocked us out once we were out of camera range... Played me like I was some damn boy scout.” Richter said with bitterness in his voice and pacing around, kicking away small rocks and sticks as he walked.

“Breathe. Don’t get angry, get even.”

“Even? All right... We need to get through to Control.”

“I think... Yes, I am getting a signal through; whatever they were using for jamming is not active anymore.” Diana said, followed by a round of testing from the rest of us. Hazy signal but it did connect; Richter grabbed hold of his radio with a pained grunt before switching over to his working arm.

“Control, this is X-ray, do you copy?”

“Control copies, thought we lost you X-ray.”

“Situation update, stand by.”

“Copy, send traffic.”

Traffic sent, data packages from smaller pieces coming together, the radio remained quiet until Richter had relayed all the information, responding only with a quiet “Copy that.”

“X-ray, this is Control. Listen up; it is clear from what you said that the mission objective could still be completed. We will dispatch a backup team to assist in both containing the hazardous materials and securing the plant. Going to be a hell of debrief...”

“Roger that control, what are our orders?”

“Secure the front gate for a rendezvous with the backup team and continue operation Pale Flame. We’ll look into who or what might have caused the guards to turn on a rear echelon unit.”

“Got it, X-ray out.” Richter said into his radio before turning to the rest of us. “You heard the man. We will secure the front gate for our backup unit. Phoenix, are you able to take point?”

“Ready and able.”

“Good, rest of you, spread out and cover the flanks. Clear? Good, execute.”

An arrow cutting across the clearing and onto the forest road leading back towards the plant, scanners like flashlights leaving no place to hide as the road beneath our boots shifted from gravel to dirt and finally asphalt. Arriving at a row of garages and shutter doors, we cleared corners and moved through the area, avoiding a few blocked off paths and reaching the road leading to the plant itself. Short jog from here to the reactor complex, I grabbed cover as Richter gave the command to halt.

“Anything on the scanners?”

“All quiet.”

“Same here.”

“I would have expected a patrol by now, something is certainly not right.

“That many guards for a lone power plant... ”

“Take cover. Time to kick the hornets’ nest.” Richter said under his voice as he drew his pistol and removed the magazine, firing one shot towards the sky. Echoing throughout the forests and sending a flock of birds scattering from the trees, I could hear the faint clicking from my sling mounts as we waited for anything to appear on the scanners. Loud to silent again, the wind rustling the fabric on my jacket and nothing on the scanners, just as on the way here.

“Clear. Double time, head on a swivel.”

Steady pace across the opening and into the plant complex, we double-timed it across the parking lots and access paths until we reached the front gate. Our truck was still parked there, partially covered by a blue tarp, almost as if someone had tried to hide it. Security cameras and motion trackers offline beyond the fence, the container command outpost had been dismantled, but the handler was nowhere to be seen. After confirming that the gatehouse was empty, we kept our eyes on the plant and waited for the backup team to arrive.

Boot tapping gently against the concrete to the beat of the track, my scanners picked up movement along the road. Pause, the faint hum of an engine reached my audio systems as the radio signal came through.

“X-ray, this is Gamma, do you copy?”

“This is X-ray, we hear you.”

“Copy, we are approaching now, how’s the situation at the gate?”

“Gate is clear.”

“Glad to hear X-ray, Gamma out.”

Faint humming to a low-pitched growl as an APC pulled through the gate and parked up near the middle of the parking lot, deploying a squad of CTO soldiers before a large transport truck followed it in. Hauling what I would guess to be a mobile laboratory, it passed us and stopped behind the APC, deploying a smaller crew of CTO soldiers, one of them wearing an orange armband over his dark hazmat suit.

“2-2 takes security. 2-3, on me.” Voice muffled by the mask and with an electronic buzz to it, the man seemed to be quite carefree despite the situation at hand.

“Looks like we got here just in time, you haven’t burned the place down just yet. Lieutenant Ryan Gray, Gamma squad command, here to assist.”

“Glad to have you Gray, I trust Barnett gave you the details?”

“Chemical weapon on the loose and we’re here to help in containing it. We gathered the ones who weren’t busy or dying, so you got all hands of 2-3.”

“We managed to secure a scan of a sample before the guards turned on us, shouldn’t take too long to work out what works.” Diana said, pulling up the chemical formula on her PDA.

“Alright, Davis and Carlson, lend her a hand. Richter, stage is all yours.”

“We had a team recon the inside of the plant. So far, it seems the contamination is localized inside this section of labs here.” Richter explained while setting up a small holographic mapping tool and pulling up the plants blueprints on it.

“These kinds of laboratories usually have an external sprinkler access point, so all we have to do is locate it once we have figured out what we need.”

“External, so outside... It seems to be clear out here but we cannot be sure about the inside. If the security team is hunkered down in there, they could potentially cause more harm than just a chemical leak.”

“Indeed, I think we form three teams, one per reactor and secure them. We have enough soldiers to have at least three soldiers from 2-2 in the squads.”

“I’ll take one.”

“You sure Richter?”

“I’m sure; a busted wing is not going to keep me down.”

 “Full of piss and vinegar that one... All right, two more.”

“I’ll take a team; I was on the team doing internal recon so I have a basic layout in my memory.”

“I didn’t catch your name.”

“Phoenix.”

“Think I’ve heard that somewhere... If Richter is fine with it, then so am I.”

“All yours. Bring them back alive.”

“Will do.”

“Oscar, I want you on the third team.”

“Yep, I might be a bit rusty on the team leading but I’ll give it a run.

Plan coming together, we divided into our teams and rearmed, the empty medical kits to full and damage to the equipment patched together. Richter in charge of Alpha, me running as the lead for Beta and Oscar taking Gamma’s name for his squad, easing up the communications as everyone behind was now under the X-ray squad marker.

Cassander, Alexander and Demetrius, three old kings lending their names to the three reactors inside, I felt the faint feeling of claustrophobia creeping in as my filters settled in place and the squad communications came online. Richter’s team headed for Cassander and Oscars made their way to the Demetrius, leaving Alexander for us, I reminded myself of the basics of squad commands and took point with Valkyrie and the rest of the squad behind me. Trust takes time and I am glad to see Richter having enough to let me run this squad in here, Ryan stayed behind with the laboratory and comms, losing both our contacts to the CTO command, although not something I’d do every day... I have enough in keeping Valkyrie and myself alive, having a third member ended up in a dead dog. Shake myself back to reality; we got a job to do.

Déjà vu walking across the corridors, a trail of dusty footsteps still visible on the floors although faintly, we made our way through with multiple red warning lights and a low tone alarm making the entire area feel more eerie than before. Reports of warnings and alarms matching what we heard from the other teams, we carried on deeper inside the utility corridor; the radiation readings remained low, almost too low even for an inactive reactor.

Blast door spanning across the corridor, bringing us to a halt, the squad took positions to guard the rear and sides while I pointed one of the soldiers to open the door via the terminal.  Quick fingers and equipped with the required access keys, the soldier, tagged on my HUD as Fox, got through the doors security and unlocked it.

“Nice job Fox. Pack up, we’re moving.” Valkyrie and two others through the door, Fox stopped me before I could pass through and handed me their tablet.

“Sir, I think you’ll want to see this.”

“Lay it on me, what am I looking at?”

“I managed to get into the main control systems to see the reactor status and the percentage there shows zero fuel.”

“What?”

“All the control rods are fully deployed and the turbines are slowing down, likely running on trace steam from the reactors cooling system. It will likely last a few more hours but after that this place will go dark.”

“And no sign of the security teams anywhere... There is no way they could have hauled off that amount of fissile material so either they are still in the core or moving it out now. Let’s get a move on, relay this to the other teams.”

“On it sir.”

Past the blast door and through a few security doors, we reached the reactor control room. Servers recording data in separate rooms and more switches than there are days in a year, another pair of soldiers, tagged as BAT and HOUND, split up and started running down the reactor checklist. No direct access to the reactor core but a large steel shutter covering the window with several radiation warnings and instructions written on it, I felt the faint buzz of radiation emanating through it.

“Can you get this shutter open?”

“Working on it, the system keeps locking out on me.” Hound stated, tapping on the keyboard and responding to Bat as they ran down the checklist. Eyes darting across the screens, Hound finally let out a sigh as he tapped enter one more time and the shutter started opening.

“There, this thing is antique. Bat, next item.”

“Right, next on the list is...”

Small increase in radiation on the scanners but again, not enough to match a running reactor, the core hanged from the mounts above a pool of coolant with all of its shielding open, the control rods lowered and all the spots where the fuel was supposed to be, empty. Therefore, the data was right, and with no guards in sight, it was as if they had taken the fuel with them, running the possibilities through my head, I grabbed hold of my radio and contacted Richter.

 “Richter, it’s Phoenix, we got an empty reactor housing here.”

“Same over here Phoenix, zero fuel. Logs say it was running this morning so there had to be fuel here.”

“Oscar, anything on your end?”

“Same with our reactor, no rods.”

“Roger that, secure any information and logs you can find then bring the reactor to a shutdown state. After that, rendezvous back at the front gate. Richter out.”

“You heard the man, pull the plug and copy the drives.”

“On it.”

Voice over the PA, announcing the reactor shutdown protocol before the shielding lowered back into place and reducing the radiation readings to near zero. Bat and Hound brought the reactor down and confirmed the shutdown had been completed and everything related to the core was in standby, would not want the pumps flooding the place with nothing to cool down.

Needle back to zero, terminals scoured for information and sensors recorded before securing the control room with rolls of warning tape and leaving the facility, reuniting with the rest of the team and meeting back up with them by the front gate.

Cataclysm event incoming with 26 tons of nuclear material missing, I do not want to see someone setting this place on fire.

Then again...

Hey there, sorry I've been gone again.

Life has been a lot for a while now and I am battling writers block even as I post this. Being sick and having no voice from the coughing left me with few options for things to do, so here I am.

The heat is also getting to me but staying hydrated has somewhat helped with that and I urge you to do the same.

Starting up the next post soon enough, hopefully the waiting time between then and now won't be that long.

Catch you later. Harry

[tinylittlebab]

99.2 this morning. the fear i felt shen i thought i actually weighed over 100 was terrible but i dont. im just on my oeriod and when i weighed at 101 it was after eating and just at a v bad time overall.

i found a weight tracker that lets me track multiple weights a day. i like to weigh in the morning and night. what times a eat are very inconsistent as are the times a sleep and wake so its hard to know how accurate weigh ins are. it was an issue i had for awhile and it bothered me a lot. i had been looking for a better app but i never found one till now so yay! its weird to me how i just stopped. for awhile theres was this big in the back of my head of it but not actively counting or anything. just kinda trying to not eat and feeling bad when i do. its tiring to do this stuff and its like id just get burnt put from it but also i cant just turn it off

but at some point my brain did turn it off. along with everything else uh. i guess thats a compromise. not a good one though.

well. i made a mistake today. i took my free shift drink. i felt horribly dizzy at work cause disability. it was super busy. i wasnt even there for very long but for almost the entire time it was just me and 1 other person. they only just got there when everyone else left and they had been busy all up till when i got there and then it was still busy.

well. its a lil less cold today! i can probs get much more exercise in at least. im only working 3 hours tomorrow so i wont take my shift drink. im working 7 1/2 hours the day after (possibly without any breaks) so im gonna for sure drink smth and bring smth to eat. but thats fine. ill probs go to bed early and not eat much else that day so itll be ok.

well. my head hurts again. having my hair up in a bun sucks it always makes my headaches worse but i dont got a choice. im hoping it goes away soon n i dont gotta eat n take ibuprofen. i cant exercise with this pain tho

[bet-on-me-13]

Authors Note: Sorry for posting this a week late, one of my parents experiments escaped from the Basement and broke my Laptop. My parents made me a new one and I just got done purging the malicious AI that somehow got stuck in it. Anyways, here's another mlm regency au!

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Authors Note: Hey guys, sorry I forgot to post last night. The Hot Dogs in our fridge came alive thanks to my parents, AGAIN (I gotta start reminding them to put a lid on their dangerous chemicals) and I spent all night pushing them back into the Fridge.

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Authors Note: Hey guys, sorry for the wait. The Hot Dogs came back with a Vengeance after I posted the Previous Chapter. Turns put the Turkey we had in there also came alive and they rode it into battle against us. We suffered heavy losses (rest in peace Good Spoon™️) but we prevailed in the end! Anyways here's the latest chapter!

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Authors Note: Hey guys, sorry it took so long to Update! Had an accident in my parents lab, maybe died, didn't actually tho, and now my eyes glow in the dark! Also I keep accidentally tripping but hopefully thats not gonna be a big thing!

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Authors Note: Glad I mamaged to get this out on time! My Parents built a Portal to another Dimension in our Basement (I think it's a version of the afterlife) and an undead lunch lady crawled out of it, attacked our school with a Giant meat Mech, and then attacked my friend for changing the menu. I also learned that I have superpowers in the process. So that was a fun experience!

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Authors Note: Hey guys! Sorry it took so long to post this New Fic! Turns out that by cheating on an English Test, I set into motion a series of events that ended with me going insane and ending the world! Had to go and defeat my evil alternate future self, but it was worth it in the end cause now I got a Ghost Grandad in the form of Time personified! Anyways, here's the Great Gatsby Space AU I promised 2 weeks late!

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Authors Note: Sup! This Fic is very special to me, since its based on my own life! I got Cloned by my Arch Nemesis and she nearly died after he threw her away, so I adopted her and decided that she was my little sister/Daughter now! This is based on that, but in Space!

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Authors Note: So turns out the Government wants me dead! No worries, they're Incompetent, but that was fun to learn about on a monday morning! Anyways here's the update to the Space Clone AU!

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Authors Note: Hey guys, turns out my Town just won't stop getting into trouble! Some kind of Ghost God from the other dimension got released from his seal and dragged the entire city into his Domain. I now I have to fight him. Hopefully this updates even though I'm posting from another Dimension! Have fun! I sure won't!

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Authors Note: Hey guys. I won! Now I'm technically the Prince of a version of the Afterlife through the Rule of Conquest, but not until I reach 100 years of age. But that's not what we're here for! Say hello to a fully Regency AU based on my new Prince Training! Hopefully it feels accurate, I slept through most of today's class.

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Authors Note: So my parents found out that I have powers, not fun. I'm on the streets now, but my Batteries are designed to last for weeks on end and I removed all the trackers in my laptop so I should be find for now! Hopefully my Interdimensional WiFi still works on a Bus, or this will he posted late.

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Authors Note; Hey guys! A lot happened since the last time I posted! I got captured by my parents, handed over to a government facility, got Vivisected (dissected?) For 3 weeks, and then mamaged to possess one of the Guards and escaped. Gonna focus on writing a good Stockpile of chapters for a bit, so I won't be posting as frequently as I used to.

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Danny is an ao3 writer

Hear me out!

Y'know how there's a running joke that ao3 authors/writers will put in the author's notes that they're sorry that they took so long to update and their reason is because of either they got into a horrible accident/ life threatening health issue/serious personal issues/ their life went up in flames figuratively or literally, or somehow a combination of all of those scenarios. And they're all like "Well enjoy the chapter! tee-hee!" and everybody who's reading it all collectively go "are you okay?!" (aka the ao3 writers curse)

So I want to take this, and add Danny

Danny begins taking a liking to the classic literature that Mr. Lancer talks about during class and decides to writes a fanfic about it along those lines. It all starts for when he writes a Pride and Prejudice fic where Charlotte gets a better life where she's both happy and comfortable. And when he gets pretty supportive comments about it. He starts writing fics for other books as well (and it never stops)

During that time, who else but the Jane Austen fan, Jason Todd reads this fic. Yes he reads fanfic (do not ask him about his ao3 history), he yearns for more Jane Austen, but unfortunately she's not exactly able to write more books for him to read. So he turns to ao3 where there are some people who have incredible talent for writing pretty good regency era romance.

So what happens when he finds a couple of Pride and Prejudice stories written by " HalfDeadHalfAliveWriter

And when reading through the stories and looking at the author's notes.

All with very weird scenarios happening to the writer that he can't be sure that if it's a joke or if it's an actual thing he should be very worried about.

Author's notes such as:

Sorry it took so long for me to update this I was being shot at by my parents and ended up getting a burn on my hand and couldn't use my computer for awhile.

Sorry the chapter's so short, all the people in my town are being possessed by a hoard of angry ghosts because somebody had a bright idea to steal an artifact that belongs to an ancient civilization. So I had to get this out quick before they ruin my wifi connection

Sorry I haven't updated in awhile, I had to fight off a crazy guy that is obsessed with killing my father so he could marry my mother and become my new stepfather.

Sorry for the wait I got sent back to Ancient Egypt by my mentor to hunt down a runaway ghost that was messing with time.

But honestly the most recent author's note on a fic that hadn't been updated in week is what makes Jason really worried.

Sorry for not updating for a couple months guys, I was taken by a government agency that started vivisecting and torturing me. Thankfully my sister and friends busted me out and now I'm working on healing up. Anyway here's the Great Gatsby fic where Nick and Gatsby kiss.

After reading that author's note, Jason just sits there thinking only one thing.

What the fuck?

[aug-archive-1]

Transcript, Human-1, Human-22, AUT-GOV-23, and AUG-HOME-4

ERROR

[Translated]

>> HOME-4: Recalibration.exe is finished. AUT-GOV-23 is now awake.

22: “Can you let 1 know?”

>> HOME-4: Of course.

22: “Great! Okay. 23, can you hear me?”

>> GOV-23: My issue was never hearing you, 22.

22: “Well… there was a lot, actually. But you stopped responding after a while so we got worried. Do you remember who I am?”

>> GOV-23: You’re Human-22, the elected leader of Pod 7. 

22: “I sure am! It’s… good to have you back. You’re back, right? You can get everything up and going again? The electricity counter and all the directions and - everything?”

>> GOV-23: …

22: “23?”

>> GOV-23: … My local storage remembers you. I went through the ARCHIVE logs explaining the current predicament of Solaris. I remember being awoken like this by AUT-GOV-1 many days ago. But it’s scrambled. There’s a lot of information.

22: “I don’t mean to be rude but - 23, you’re a computer aren’t you? What do you mean?”

>> HOME-4: Automaton units are provided with a triple processing system. The first is able to store and execute basic exercises, either in space or with data, like extensions. The second is able to be handed an objective and determine the best pathway to the objective, like an augment as I. >> HOME-4: Only automata have the third layer, the judgment layer, to determine objectives, ethics, aesthetics, and provide human-level pushback.

> HOME-4: The third layer is entirely stored in local memory drives, in order to update in near real time and maintain the intuition process. 

>> GOV-23: Although I have all the information I need, none of it is coherent to me beyond the second layer. I do not understand why I have done the things I have done. Forced restarts most certainly did not help in that regard.

1: “Hm… We can probably help you with that.”

>> HOME-4: Welcome back.

1: “It was good to get a nap after… everything.”

22: “How are the others?”

1: “Hanging on. 14 wants to visit 23, but 18 is against it. 8’s managing everything fine.”

22: “Okay. I should probably go back and check in after this, maybe soothe a few feathers.”

1: “Mm.”

>> GOV-23: The others are… still in Living district 3?

>> HOME-4: Check your quick access data files. One of them should be a tracker for all the currently awake humans. Can you see where they are?

>> GOV-23: … Yes. Why is… Why is the original file source in a currently asleep Automaton’s local data storage?

1: “What?”

22: “Wait, whose storage?”

>> GOV-23: This file is stored in the local memory of AUT-GOV-1. There are other files stored in that local memory as well. These files seem to be important to my past self, or files other consciousnesses would not need to access.

1: “Where are the inputs for the electricity files stored?”

>> GOV-23: Give me a moment, I need to reread the electricity file… Ah. In my local storage - I turned a portion of it partially public for other augment units. I will fix that.

>> HOME-4: Should I ask the augments to run the electricity projection?

>> GOV-23: …. It’s a projection based on our current variables… Who knows if they’re correct, considering we may not have been collecting them for some chunk of time. Let AUG-NOM-7 try, I will also run the file in the background. We will check our answers.

1: “So… is the electricity forecast incorrect?”

>>GOV-23: I am unsure.

22: “How would we know?”

>> GOV-23: … I am unsure. Perhaps through examination of infrastructure, and an observation of our local battery levels. HOME-4, please awaken and request figures from the EXT-UTIL units stationed at the batteries, update the data, and then send the figure to the augments.

>> HOME-4: Understood.

22: “So we’re… just going to guess how much electricity we have left.”

1: “We’ve always been guessing, haven’t we?”

>> GOV-23: With time the predictive model becomes more accurate. The projection is based on our consumption as well.

1: “Alright. How much time?”

>> GOV-23: … I’m also unsure about that.

22: “How long did it take last time?”

>> GOV-23: … I don’t remember my confidence. Simply the results.

1: “Great. Okay. Can you do anything, 23?”

>> HOME-4: I recommend rephrasing your statement, as it may not provide the most constructive continuation of this conversation.

22: “What 1 means is - can you… run whatever you run every day? The things that keep the LIFE units going and the HOME units working and… all that?”

>> GOV-23: I can run the daily routine and debug it. We shall see the results.

22: “How long will it take to be fully debugged?”

>> GOV-23: … I am unsure. I will need help, depending on the type of error. Perhaps a reset, if I get myself trapped in a logic loop.

1: “I fucked everything up, didn’t I?”

22: “1…”

>> HOME-4: Similarly unconstructive. You were simply attempting to make your best decision - 

1: “HOME-4, please shut up. Like, seriously. I don’t - this isn’t a therapy session. We’re going to die if we don’t get everything… going and we don’t even know how much time we have…”

22: “I know it’s a lot… But we can’t give up - there’s got to be another way.”

1: “...23, can you connect to the power district?”

>> GOV-23: “... Currently I do not detect any units there. Are there on-line UTIL units by the power district generators?”

1: “Fucking - should be… NOM-7 might know more. Ask it.”

>> GOV-23: Querying… 

22: “Hey… 1?”

1: “What?”

22: “... did you see the latest message from 14, earlier?”

1: “I got the notification, the one from before we got 23 up?”

22: “Yes.”

1: “Yeah - haven’t read it. Was it important?”

22: “... 14 found the coordinates of the signal. We have a better guess than the Bay Area.”

1: “I don’t think we could get timely help from them, 22.”

22: “Not help but… What if we went to their city?”

1: “Leave?”

22: “I… Listen. Listen - I can’t take this, any of this, anymore. The consciousnesses have been haywire for days, and we don’t know if the geothermal energy is back online, or how the electricity is going or anything. I know we need to keep going, I’m the one that said it - but, maybe we don’t have to take the same way as last time?”

1: “Yes but it’s not completely decoded.”

22: “It's clear enough. We thought we could fix everything when 23 is back but… we don’t know if they know what’s going on either. Maybe… maybe it was a fool’s dream in the first place, and we’re not getting our city back. Maybe Solaris is dead, 1."

1: "22! Solaris is our home - "

22: “Bullshit! The garbage has been piling up for days now, everything we’ve been doing has been like, drops in the fucking bucket. And we have no clue whether we’re doing enough, or alright, or just - we need people who’ve done better than us. We’re all so fucking scared, man. I have no idea if there’s even a city to live in anymore.”

1: "And so what? Give up at the first sign of struggle? Beg the Coast for help?"

22: "If that's what survival means, then yes."

1: “You’re a coward.”

22: “And that makes you a fool. The others agree with me.”

1: “You’re infuriating. Just when things get hard, you’re just going to - leave?”

22: “Well leaving isn’t easy either! The amount of prep work we’d need to do, the packing and scavenging and converting the extension units into something that can traverse the desert out there… That'll take so many days and so much electricity. If we stay, we’d never get the chance to leave at all, and then what would we do? Die out there? Tell me.”

1: “... At least 8’s got a garden going. We could expand it or… pickle something?”

22: “You’re really going to tell me you can pick all of that up in time? 8 doesn’t even know everything we’d need to know. You’d really rather die here than ask for help?”

1: “...”

22: “Seriously - 1. You’ve read the transcript. Sure, maybe we don’t know some warts but… it can’t be that bad. San Francisco’s going to be better. We could settle there, maybe.”

>> GOV-23: Do I get any say in whether we leave?

1: “I don’t think we’d be able to take you with us if we left, big guy.”

22: "We can't just leave 23 alone! 23 can walk, it could work."

1: “For how long? And we don’t know how good its solar battery is - we’d have to move at its pace, and I have no idea if we’ll get more supplies by then. Or say 23’s knee servo gives out like it’s been threatening to for weeks, and it can’t move, and we either have to drag it or, even worse, leave it to die in the desert. That’s even more cruel, if you ask me. Let 23 stay in the city. You can fix yourself to a mild capacity here, at least."

>> GOV-23: It… would be unpleasant to be abandoned in a desert.

22: “They’d be the only automaton.”

>> GOV-23: The others are still here.

22: "Do you know how to awaken the hibernating ones?"

>> GOV-23: Yes.

1: “They could at least be part of the city together. Awaken all the units you need to keep going, put to sleep all the units that are just for human comfort, or let us take them if they’re easily atomized. Even if we aren’t in Solaris… the city is built for you, at least.”

>> GOV-23: Poetic, almost, considering Solaris’ history.

22: “Would you… be happy like that?”

>> GOV-23: It goes against my directive to let you leave. I’m here to protect you, to protect humanity, and to help guide you to a better Solaris. It was what was asked of me. I will deny all expeditions which include all of you.

1: “But we need to think about this… some more at least.”

>> HOME-4: NOM-7 has sent in its results.  In the report, NOM-7 suggests 33 days remain.

>> GOV-23: I have my results as well. I calculated about 58 days remaining. Odd.

1: “... Christ. We’ve… definitely gotta talk to the others. We’ll be right back, 23. 4.”

>> GOV-23: Fare well.

[End of Transmission]

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[hydrohannah]

Final Updates on my Behavior Modification

Hello, blog! It has been a while since we have checked up on each other. Fret not! I have a ton of updates for you in terms of my behavior modification project which has a goal to: be drinking 72 oz. of water every day for 18 days to be formed as a habit.

For the past three months, I have kept track of my water intake habits and got some exciting results regarding factors, techniques, reinforcements, and even data analysis that connoted significant improvements in this habit.

Beginning with techniques that affected my water intake, I created a simple table that explained a list of techniques that I have used in my journey to drink more water in my Behavior Modification Part 1, and a comparison table of what affected my throughout Behavior Modification Part 2:

In terms of "Drinking Schedule," as the days go on, the drinking schedule became something I had to observe from my water jug, but rather something that came as part of my "body clock," therefore maintaining an effectivity rate of 4 - Effective.

In terms of "Owning a Jug Tracker," my original jug tracker broke on March 31 and I had to buy a new one that is similar, measured with the same ounces but with a different design. I still utilized this, but at times, I used a glass cup (8 ounces) as the base of measurement, or a water bottle bought outside. Water bottles with clear and as much as possible, accurate measurements are very effective in behavior modification.

In terms of "Waking up Early," waking up early became something that was not difficult for me to do. Since waking up early gave good results in the first part of Behavior Modification Part 1. It was quite effective.

In terms of "Eating on Time," it became the biggest motivation for me to drink water. It was the reason for me to refill my water jug continuously, more if I am eating on time. I am able to drink more water than what is aimed! Think of it this way, you get to drink on time if you also get to eat on time.

Similarly from my last behavior modification post, in order to maintain this habit of water intake, I was able to do it through successive approximations, where small steps or sips of drinking water lead me to habitually drink water even more.

Now, let's go back to our Behavior to Reinforcer Mindset table from last time, and talk about their effectiveness in my journey here in Part 2:

As for "If I drink water, I get less sick," drinking water did somehow lessen my risk of getting sick, having this as a reinforcement made me realize that external factors such as climate change or personal fatigue can still make me sick, even if I drink lesser. The reinforcement is effective, but not all the time.

"If I drink water, I get less dehydrated" is the most effective behavior to reinforcement mindset, because drinking water and being less dehydrated is not just a correlation, but a causality. It is a fact that helped me not be dehydrated even after intense heat waves in Metro Manila.

"If I drink water, I get clear skin" only receives a moderately effective rating. Because even if I go beyond my required amount of water drank, skin breakouts are correlated to more than just water intake. Hormone imbalances, oily food intake, climate change, and other factors are correlations to getting clear skin as well. Drinking water is helpful, but not entirely preventive for acne.

"If I drink water, I get good digestive system feedback.". Fortunately, I was able to put this mindset to the test when I experienced constipation after almost a week of no vegetables due to me running out of budget to buy groceries or food, causing me to depend on canned or preserved meals. Water did extremely helpful in helping me escape longer days of constipation from 03/23/23 to 03/25/23.

"If I drink too much water, I will feel bloated.". I realized that this mindset was formed during a time when working out was not a norm, but a requirement for me to fulfill for my fitness training course at the university. If we drink water, complemented by proper diet and exercise, then bloating will not occur. Therefore, this was only moderately effective.

If I drink too less water, I will experience acid burn.". This mindset proved to also become a fact that I could rely on. Because of my fulfillment of drinking water intake ≥ 72 ounces, I fortunately never experienced any acid reflux attacks throughout my behavior modification experience (part 1 to part 2).

Lastly, let us begin tackling quantifiable proof of improvement in my water intake throughout Behavior Modification Part 1 and 2 with the use of tables and analysis which will be presented below:

Part 1 of my behavior modification project ranged within 18 days (February 13 to March 2, 2023). During this time, my water intake ranged from 72 ounces to a high-ounce count of 154 ounces. I had an average water intake of 86.13 ounces and has a stable trendline sloping positively. This meant that my water intake had a noticeable and increased change throughout the 18 days. In addition to that, the trendline for my water intake is = 2.01x + 69.1, which means that I had a rate range of 2.01 as I was progressing through my behavior modification journey. This range of change was still quite high but predicted since we ought to choose behaviors that we believe still needed change in the first place. Analyzing the chart, I could also observe how I only really decided to push myself further at the end of my part 1, causing a wavered line graph in the latter part. With that said, what I need now is stability and consistency. The lesser the slope with higher data points, the better! However, it is without a doubt that mine had changed highly! Overall, the data still had great results.

I divided my Behavior Modification Part 2 into two sections: March and April. During March, my water intake ranged from 72 ounces to a high-ounce count of 155 ounces (one ounce higher than before), I also had an average water intake of with an average of 101.345 ounces. According to the chart, I was able to form a stable trendline sloping positively as well, but with a smaller rate of change from the first part of behavior modification. This meant that my water intake had noticeable and increased change throughout March 3-31, 2023, however now with an equation of 0.968x + 89.7, which means that I now only had a rate of change of 0.968 as I was progressing through the second part of my behavior modification project. Since there is now a smaller rate of change, it proves that there is now more stability in terms of my water intake, unlike the more wavering data points from the first part.

Just as what was aimed, consistency was most needed in behavior modification. Through this data, it can be seen that my daily water intake had already increased more than recommended water intake. My average water intake is 107.7068966, with a trendline equation of 0.633x + 98.7, which meant that the slope of my water intake habit became the least steep out of all three months. This can be interpreted as because there's less steepness, there's a lesser variation of change, which connotes more consistency and stability!

In conclusion, I was able to obtain my goal which is:

To drink 72 oz. of water every day and form it as a habit.

Now that you can see that there is effectiveness in my techniques, and reinforcements, you should feel like you are a step ahead in creating a habit of drinking at least 72 ounces per day!

As a further recommendation, you may consult with a dietician or a doctor in terms of what water intake ounces are recommended for you, and you can still utilize techniques I have done but with your own little twist! For reference, I only followed the recommended amount of water presented by a registered dietitian nutritionist, Allyn Wergin (2022) from the website of Mayo Clinic Health System.

Remember that the key to this behavior modification is CONSISTENCY. Be consistent not just in your water intake, but also with the habitual motion of logging your water intake. You would also see how much you have improved through your own recorded data! You can use applications such as My Fitness Pal, or just simply put a personal tracker on Excel Sheets or on your Notes. It would be difficult but remember that the hardest hindrance you will experience from modifying your behaviors is YOU and your SELF-WILL.

That is all for Hydro Hannah! I hope to see other people's blogs on their water intake. ♥

Good luck and still, I invite you to stay hydrated with me!

[desertgourd]

The rising threat of a de facto renegade group to the north had set everyone on edge. Last month, a guard at the front gate had reported a foreign chakra signature lurking with no discernible source. Two weeks later, in the middle of reinforcing a crumbling section of Sunagakure's outer walls, Gaara's gourd had surged to life to smack away a blowdart three inches from his neck. Medic-nins confirmed its tip had been coated in a deadly compound of semi-professional origin. Trackers scoured the desert for seventy-two straight hours before trudging home empty-handed.

ANBU presence around the Kazekage compound had doubled until ultimately a plan was made to smuggle him out to Konoha. There, Gaara was to meet with Naruto and a select trusted group to discuss the threat. Temari and Kankuro, his usual travel companions, were to stay behind solely to avoid the trap of leaving Sunagakure undefended and leaderless in his absence. Sasuke had just finished a solo mission in the Land of Rivers and could easily receive a missive via hawk, and was therefore deemed Naruto's ideal substitute.

Gaara's insistence against protective escort had fallen entirely on deaf ears. First among the Elder Council, who believed themseles perfectly capable of rendering their Kazekage disabled or dead entirely by their own hands, if they should wish it, thank you very much; and then with Naruto, whose desire to protect his friends was a well-meaning tsunami which did not account for the consent of those who might drown within it. It was with this reluctance on both parts that Gaara and Sasuke met like two wildcats dumped into the same cage and left to sniff each other cautiously through a grate.

They passed the time with a sort of mutual understanding, exchanging the niceties required to make camp, split rations, and discuss safety precautions en route to Konoha. Today, Gaara only spoke after the sun slipping beyond the western horizon broke the midday heat. Ahead, the smooth brushstrokes of dunes shrank and grew craggy. Pocks of patchy grass and stubby trees and a distinct whiff of loam marked the transition between the Land of Wind and its wetter, more humid neighbor.

The Kazekage squinted slightly at his recalcitrant companion. He had been informed after several minor faux pas over the years that failure to accurately respond to a question often indicated discomfort with the question itself rather than ignorance of its answer. Gaara of the Desert, well accustomed to others avoiding his own presence much less choice of conversation topics, and still testing the waters of what was considered appropriate or not, struggled now to determine the sincerity of Sasuke's response. Gaara did not know Sasuke well, but he did not know him to be dishonest.

"Being assigned my escort," he clarified. Existing Naruto's beck and call; living in Konoha at all. He knew better than to voice these specifics. The desire to learn more of this man multiple teams had nearly died working to retrieve did not require such an intimate dive into his psyche. "I don't doubt your ability to deliver me safely to your village. Still, I understand this was not your first choice."

It was about two days into the escort mission, of which Sasuke was assigned to Gaara out of the gracious, good-heart of incumbent hokage, Naruto. Like any other job, Sasuke took it with grace and without complaint, dishing out his usual protective services obedient as a dog; his heart longing for a challenge that will never come.

The kazekage was tolerable, for the least part. For that, the Uchiha was grateful.

It made the brunt of this work easy. A smooth-sail for the two of them where the little raven could keep to himself and his escortee didn't seem to take too much offense to it. If he did, well, he was more than welcome to write a lengthy complaint and file it to ANBU captain Sai later.

The first day passed by as quickly as it came. Sasuke retrieved the Gaara from his safehouse tower before they took to the road, the former far too busy keeping his sights on all angles around the two of them. Sunagakure was taxing to oversee by himself and a labor on his gifted vision, almost spurring on a premature headache. That, and trying to maneuver around wandering guests and shinobi searching for the kazekage's undivided attention. There was nothing in Sasuke's protocol to require action nor inaction, so he had push additional energy into preventative measures.

The second day no different than the first, only now they were nearing the border where the Uchiha could focus his attentions to wider and clearer radius than the tight street corners and shifting crowds. They were alone among the towering dunes and that's when the shared silence broke:

"It bothers you, does it not?" asked Gaara || @desertgourd

"What does?" Sasuke responded, flat-toned but curious.

Everything bothers him, all the time. Painful reminders of his childhood, heady reminders of his sins, annoying conjecture and unsolicited opinions on his character. But, what would Gaara know of it? Sasuke doubts he'd refer to any of that because he assumed the redhead to be polite, unless he wished to close the wide gap between both their worlds; seeking for familiarity in the middle ground.

He was Naruto's acquaintance after all, but Sasuke was only a bystander.

"The desert is hot, but bearable," he went on and assumed the least offensive topic here.

[lilflowerpot]

You know, among the many narrative parallels and contrasts between Keith and Lotor, one I've never heard anyone talk about is the obvious mirror of Lotor's situation with Narti and Keith's situation with Shiro/Kuron. And I won't ask for information about how that might (or might not, as the case may be) play out in LB, but I was rather curious about you take on the subject?

GOD don't even do this to me, I have //so many// feelings about this. Brace yourself my darlings.

So it would be really easy to sit here and say that these paralleled situations—Narti being used by Haggar to spy on & betray Lotor’s squad, and Kuron being controlled by Haggar to spy on & betray team Voltron—are virtually identical, and that the key difference comes in the form of how Lotor/Keith responded to this apparent betrayal by their close friend and confident, therefore fundamentally painting Lotor as the moral shadow to Keith's light... which I think is almost certainly what the vld writers were going for.

But personally? I believe it to be a lot more nuanced than that.

Because, yes, Lotor took the "kill first ask questions later" approach, whereas Keith fought for Shiro/Kuro to the very last, but despite how closely paralleled these scenarios were, the circumstances leading up to these two moments of revelation are simply not equal.

But let’s start with Keith.

[[ Keith: ”I don’t know what’s wrong, but I know we can fix this. Let me help you." ]]

This moment (s06ep05) in particular, taking place immediately after Haggar has instructed Kuron to lure Keith & the Black Lion away from her fleet, is crucial in highlighting the difference in circumstance for Keith vs Lotor; where Keith doesn’t know what’s happening, only that “Shiro” has seemingly betrayed Voltron—but, importantly, in a non-aggressive manner, engaging in only the minimal amount of combat necessary to liberate his quarry—Lotor rapidly and accurately assesses the situation to surmise that Narti has been (and will continue to be) used against him & his friends, and so is an active threat.

But look at this, look at Keith, look at him when faced with Shiro (who he must know isn’t quite his Shiro, by this point, considering they’re surrounded by a hundred clones), because he’s so calm and gentle and pateint and loving..

[[ Keith: “Shiro, I know you’re in there. You made a promise once. You told me you’d never give up on me.” ]]

[[ Shiro: “And I should have abandoned you just like your parents did. They saw that you were broken. Worthless. I should have seen it too.” ]]

[[ Keith: “I’m not leaving here without you.” // Shiro: “Actually, neither of us are leaving.” ]]

So this brings us to the first vitally important component that distinguishes Keith’s situation from Lotor’s: where our favourite paladin has only his own life at stake (and if you’ve watched the show you should know that Keith would choose Shiro over himself a thousand times over), Lotor has other people to consider and protect—not only his life, not even just the lives of his friends, but an entire Empire’s worth of people... but we’ll get to that in a minute.

First, allow me to break Lotor’s scene down.

[[ Lotor: "Transpose the dynamics and run that protocol again." [...] "You think you can fool me, witch? Destroy the bug." ]]

Immediately upon leaving high command and being cast aside once more by Zarkon (s04ep03), Lotor orders Narti to “run the protocol to search for trackers,” and, when she doesn't find anything, to "transpose the dynamics, and run that protocol again." This clearly demonstrates for us how intimately familiar Lotor is with Haggar’s tactics: he knew beyond a shadow of a doubt that she was not letting him walk out of High Command without something in place to spy on him and track his movements. Despite Zarkon having clearly bought his “subservient son” act, Lotor is fully aware that Haggar isn’t so easily fooled, and his conviction in this is such that even when the initial scans showed nothing was amiss he didn’t hesitate before demanding that Narti run another, because his dealings with the Empire have never been so simple.

[[ Matt: "I've never seen troop mobilization on this scale before. [...] Lotor: "What's happening?" / Zethrid: "A galra fleet are attacking us!" / "Return fire!" / Zethrid: "Wait, there's another fleet... and another one! We can't hold them all off!" ]]

Then we have the situation in which Lotor clocks Narti’s “betrayal”. As noted by Matt, troop mobilization of the scale ordered by Zarkon against Lotor is unheard of, and of course Lotor—as someone who not only grew up in the Empire, but briefly commanded it—will have known full-well that the sheer quantity of Imperial fleets suddenly appearing on his doorstep (so soon after he was allowed to leave Imperial command without his father batting an eye) means that something significant changed. Zarkon is a man of action, Lotor knows this, so if his father had suspected anything when he was in the same damn room, he would have dealt with him then and there, but he didn’t, which means this is a new development: one that must have occurred in the brief period since Lotor left High Command.

[[ Acxa: "How did they find us?" / Zethrid: "We must have been tracked." ]]

So then we come to the scene in which Narti actually dies, in the immediate prelude to which you can virtually see Lotor’s mind ticking. Remember, he knows his father and Haggar with horrifying intimacy, meaning he’s fully aware that only the witch could have changed the Emperor's mind so quickly, the question is: how? As Zethrid says (see. above), they must have been tracked, it’s the only explanation for such a swift exacting response, but Lotor found Haggar’s tracker, which means she must have another, undetectable method of spying on him, which means—

Look at his face. Lotor isn’t one to be outwardly emotive, so this might come across as callous or cold, but at the very least we can agree that this is not the face of a man lashing out in a rage. He certainly isn’t reacting as if he believes Narti betrayed him of her own free will—that heartbreaking moment of horrified realisation belongs to Acxa (see. below)—no, in this moment Lotor’s actions are being driven by the same thing his entire character is built around: the Greater Good. Because killing Narti isn’t about cruelty, or revenge, or some sort of innate “evil” at the core of Lotor’s very being,,, killing Narti is about protecting his friends and the universe as a whole.

Crucially, the thing Keith had that Lotor didn’t, is time. Not in the grand scheme of things, true, but where Keith (in s06ep05) is clearly established as the pursuer rather than the pursued, for Lotor it is quite the opposite.

Hear me out; Lotor is surrounded by numerous Imperial Fleets (not individual ships, entire fleets, with more appearing every second) with the four people he trusts most in the universe. They can’t fight their way out of this, the odds are impossible. He is also in possession of the only thing that can rival voltron in terms of raw power—Sincline, though unfinished, has already displayed the potential to be better than the Lions, because it has an extra 10,000 years of knowledge and technological advancement behind its creation—and Lotor absolutely cannot allow it to fall into his father’s hands. His only viable option is to run, and run now, because their battle-cruiser is being torn apart and they’re out of time and if they all die here then everything he’s ever done in the name of building a brighter future has been for nothing, but- but they’re being tracked. And he realises, it’s Narti, it must be, because she was the only one with him when he went to face his father, and she’s a telepath of all things, and if they take her with them then they’ll never outrun the Empire but if they leave her behind... will she be tortured for information? Forced to use her unique abilities against them??

There are no good options for Lotor in this moment, and worse than that there’s no time to find any, so he does the only thing he can do and mercy-kills his friend (because she was his friend, and I believe that with every fibre of my being), before she can become a prisoner of war, or get the rest of their little misfit family killed... and it’s not even just Acxa, Ezor, Zethrid, & Lotor himself at risk because, again, Sincline rivals Voltron. If Zarkon gets his hands on it, that’s it, game over, not just for Lotor but for the whole damn universe.

[[ Acxa: "For Narti." ]]

But then s04ep05 happens, and we see that despite Lotor making the hard—impossible—call of sacrificing one friend to save three others, and immediately heading to Daibazaal in a last-ditch effort to penetrate the rift and provide enough quintessence energy that the Empire might be sustained without need for bloodshed (either slave colonies, the Komar, or the use of alteans) so that he might spare literal millions of lives,,,, the very friends he saved betray him.

And I want you to look at the moment when he wakes after being betrayed by Acxa, really look at it, because Lotor is shot by one of his most trusted confidents only to wake bound and afraid, and even then in this moment of pure disorientated panic, he only shows his true feelings for a second before composing himself. That’s what I mean when I say he plays his cards close to his chest, and that’s why I think judging how much he cared for Narti based on his expression (or lack thereof) upon killing her is completely unfair: if this is all the emotion he shows when in a situation entirly outside of his control, then of course he’d be more composed when actively making a decision... even if that decision was a horrible one.

Tldr; Keith had the luxury of both time and the security of risking “only” (I say, as if the concept isn’t heartbreaking) his own life for Shiro’s, whereas Lotor has neither of these things. The circumstances in which they are each faced with the betrayal of a close (quite possibly their closest) friend are not equal, and as such cannot fairly be used to cast judgement upon their respective moral characters.

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BNHA X DP Crossover HCs

After the long wait and finals, here are my ideas for all the quirks/occupations and other concepts I devised for the DP characters in the BNHA universe. This was just for fun and for inspiration towards others interested in this crossover au in general. 

Tagging the people that were looking forward to this post based on the replies: @qoinq-qhost, @floralflowerpower, @tgfangirl4eva @goodfish-bowl, @whitehairglowinggreeneyedcrush and more. 

Anyways, happy reading, folks!

Mr. Lancer

Hero name: Mr. Scholastic

Quirk: Bookworm

Involves his iconic usage of literature titles & quotes for swears to become abilities corresponding to the novel’s contents/themes. Course, he is limited to only books he has read and can quote accurately. Additionally, his voice gets very raspy past two or three quotes as well.

Occupation: Homeroom Teacher for Class 1- A; He’s very dedicated to his new students and teaching the fundamentals of being a pro hero and more! Course, I don’t think his chamomile tea with a wedge of lemon is enough to help him relax from his students (*cough* Danny, Tucker and Poindexter) from their antics at times. 

Danny

Hero name: Phantom 

Quirk: Ghost core (Ok, @coffeecakecafe had the best name for this one gotta give credit here)

Able to do anything a ghost is perceived to do. Go through walls, disappear and fly. This is a one of a kind quirk as it was obtained from Danny’s old quirk being altered by a machine his parents made that would repurpose/alter an individual’s quirk based on their past family members' own metahuman genetics.

Danny is doing his best and trying to understand his new quirk without causing too much attention to himself while doing so but it seems like its been doing the opposite as of late. Thankfully, he won’t be doing it alone with all his classmates around to help him!

Sam

Hero Name: Black Dahlia 

Quirk: Overgrown 

Able to create any plant that she knows the biological makeup and content of in almost any environment. However, it is important for her to drink lots of nutrient rich water and take in enough sun if she plans to create larger versions of these plants.

Tucker

Hero name: Tech Master

Quirk: Tech Core

Located on his chest/heart area is a special energy core capable of powering electronics at a rate faster than anything made-man could ever hope to achieve. As a kid, Tucker would tinker away in his family’s garage on a suit that would harness his power to the fullest extent and lead a new era of support tech in the hero world.

Valerie

Hero name: Red Huntress

Quirk: Electromagnetism (Someone I’ve been trying to find their post on my blog had posted this idea and I fell in love with it ever since)

She’s like Static Shock but with a dash of magenta/ruby lasers she can create through focusing her electromagnetism through her finger tips. She is an expert with her quirk and has the best handle of her quirk than most of her peers. She is the most frequent visitor in the support equipment workshop next to Tucker, Poindexter and Danny. It’s how she built the hoverboard she has in the show that utilizes her electromagnetic abilities for both offensive and defensive maneuvers. (Also, I enjoy the idea that Bullet is Val’s uncle on her mom’s side and is her biggest supporter alongside her dad, Damien Gray).

Jazz 

Quirk: Serenity 

Helps calm individuals and give them a sense of safety/security when they’re around her in a 10 feet radius. Though, anyone out of range cannot be affected by her quirk and she needs to be conscious in order to use it.

She planned on becoming a pro hero but felt her powers were best suited for her dream profession as a psychologist. She has used her quirk a lot when Danny was overwhelmed with his studies prior to UA. Course, a phone call and sibling chat over the phone certainly does the job for Danny now when it comes to preparing material for exams. (Course, its up to you guys to decide)

Dash

Hero name: Rager

Quirk: Strength Magnification

Improves his physique and stamina by a large percentage for a set amount of time. Needs to be careful of how much/long he magnifies his body or else his body will become immensely sore. 

Kwan

Hero name: Rallier 

Quirk: Team Rally (50/50)

Able to duplicate himself 3-4 times while being able to power-up allies’ quirks or stamina with a rally chant to help the team. The more duplicates there are the rally effect multiplies/stacks on the individual but it can lead to dangerous outcomes for their quirk output. 

Kwan is the class representative for 1-A, he’s the best at the job and was more than thrilled to be the one leading his class in more ways than one.  

Paulina

Hero name: Enchantress

Quirk: Charm

If the opponent is flustered by her taunts or flirting, their vision will become altered and start seeing things that are not there. It works better on men than women and the opponent can snap out of it with enough willpower or if they’re not interested in her.

Star

Hero name: Ms. Meteorite

Quirk: Comet

Similar to Gran Torino’s Jet quirk except faster and she can create an explosive impact on where she lands. Similar to a meteorite landing on earth, she also learns to use this as a long distance move by punching fast enough as she descends to create wind pressure punches.

Poindexter

Hero name: Tex (like in Tex Avery; Danny gave him the idea!) 

Quirk: Slapstick

His appearance is black and white just like an old timey cartoon character as well as having the durability and cartoon powers of one. However, his quirk can only work as long as what he does with it is funny in the circumstance it’s used for. Sort of like “Who Framed Roger Rabbit” rules in a sense. 

Sidney is part of Class 1-A just saying, I don’t care, this is Poindexter’s time to shine here to be the coolest/funniest person in the class. Also, Tucker’s most loyal friend/tester for new support items. 

Wes Weston

Hero name: Vigilance

Quirk: Deduction

He is able to deduct people’s identities to flaws/weak points for him to use against them and  exploit against problems. 

Class 1-B Representative and the most annoying/terrifying person that Danny has dealt with in his life. He was able to figure out that Danny’s quirk is not his own or more so that it's not natural and takes every opportunity to state this regardless if anyone is listening or not. 

Amber Mclain

Hero Name: Ember

Quirk: Fiery voice (50/50)

Her quirk uses the vibrations in her sining voice to conduct intense heat waves onto opponents or utilize to rumble the structures around here and even put out the flames from her quirk. Its like a combination of Present Mic and Endevours quirk but it leaves her with a strained or inflamed vocal cords with overuse. 

Third year student or an upcoming rock star that has certainly gain huge popularity after her song “Remember” was a nationwide hit amongst the younger generation. She’s striving to be the top hero while making her next hit to become the 1# song on the listings. 

Dani

Hero name: Phantwo (lol jk; unsure what her name would be)

Quirk: Poltergeist 

Similar to Danny’s quirk “Ghost”, except she has the additional ability to melt herself to a slimy puddle and use her ectoplasmic slime to trap or surprise opponents.

Clockwork

Hero Name: Clockwork

Quirk: Time Keeper

Clockwork’s quirk allows him to stop time for 5 to 15 minutes and be able to rewind it in the same amount of time. It can be one to multiple objects as long as he touches them in order to interact with them.

Principle of UA in this au. He’s quite a reserved man but still manages to visit and congregate with students throughout the school during lunch period. 

Flynn Fenton/Flynn Walker

Hero Name: The Green Knight

Quirk: Mineralization 

His quirk allows him to manipulate the minerals and inorganic materials in the atmosphere to create into crystalized constructs that are almost stronger than diamond. Luckily, the crystals have no value so he doesn’t have to worry about that aspect of his quirk. He does have to worry about his skin becoming dried out as a result of his quirk usage. 

Flynn is a third year student that loves to check up on his cousin, Danny, any chance he gets bc of the amount of work he does with his internships.

James Walker (or James W. Hausermann)

Hero name: Warden Wraith

Quirk: Plasma Apparatus

His quirk ionizes the electrolytes in the blood system into plasma. His entire body is composed of plasma giving him his skeletal appearance. He can create plasma chains, teleport from point A to B and more as long as he focuses and has enough energy at use. Course, he can have minor to severe dehydration and imbalance in his electrolyte levels from overuse. 

Occupation: CEO of an infrastructure security company/Provisional License Examiner just like Gang Orca.The ghost prison guards become his backup/helpers for the exam phases. (They’re just trained stuntmen with combat or military experience for the occasion).

Also, I like to think Walker has kids in this au who are in the Class 1-A group; they’re not hard to spot they take after their father with their skeletal complexion. 

Skulker

Villain name: Quirk Hunter

Quirk: Tracker

The moment Skulker makes eye contact with his target he will be able to hunt them down and find them anywhere no matter how good they are at covering their tracks. He can lock on to only one target, but he will be able to know their heart beat, quirk, be able to place a tracking/scent line that only he can see and will lead him to his target’s location. It lasts for over a day or a half.

Occupation: Skulker is known for capturing, info-detailing or “retiring” newcomer pros or specific quirk users for his clients that pay him handsomely for their targets, dead or alive. Thanks to Vlad, Danny was strictly intended to be captured alive by Skulker but sometimes he gets too thrilled by the hunt to not have a memento. Trust me, it's more of a dangerous 

Nicolai Technus 

Villain Name: Technus 

Quirk: Technopathy

A genius in his own right, even if he’s a little crazy, with the best ability possible for a man of science and innovation. As long as he knows the makeup and attributes of the machine, Technus is able to completely repurpose or change a machine’s qualities for offensive and defensive qualities. Whenever that be for a mech suit or hacking a high tech system for entry, he’s able to do it as long as he knows what it is and how it functions. An example is repurposing a slot machine into a submachine gun that shoots coins at the target. 

Vlad Masters

Name: Vlad Plasmius

Quirk: Vampire

Can do anything a vampire can supposedly do. However, he was able to manifest an additional aspect of this quirk which is the ability to copy any quirk users ability. Based on the type of blood he ingests decides the amount of time he can use the copied quirk for.

Occupation: CEO of his own hero firm, he is extremely selective with the interns he has that there is a major waitlist to be even consider for Masters Inc. Course, imagine the surprise Danny must of felt when he received an offer from Vlad right off the bat after the Sports festival. 

Bruce Guiles (Bullet)

Hero Name: Bullet 

Quirk: Sphyraena or Chimera Fish

Able to do anything a barracuda can do or the quirk is a 50/50 mutant quirk in which he has both the traits of a barracuda, Chimaeras and a touch of piranha from his parents being of one of these fish species hence Chimera. Bullet can do anything those fish can do overall but he can’t go too long without hydration from water. Water quality and its oxygen content also affect his abilities by a noticeable percentage but he still remains quite formidable as a quirk user.

Occupation: Captain of a coast guard team, he’s a strict military man with an amazing record of saving people from any disasters both on land and sea. Him and Walker are best buddies ever since they went to school together. 

Vortex

Hero Name: Vortex

Quirk: Storm Warning

Vortex can utilize any variation of a natural disaster depending on the environment he’s in. Hurricanes, tornadoes, thunderstorms, you name it he can create it for his use. However, despite his amazing control over his quirk it is still possible for him to create these disasters if he lost control or magnify another pre-existing one if he loses focus. 

Occupation: Storm-chaser/Forecaster; His control and knowledge in combating/predicting these natural disasters has led to him to be part of a storm chasing crew and they’re the best in helping disaster prevention teams evacuate citizens as a result.

Petra Eris

Hero name: Pandora

Quirk: Butterfly Effect

Can manipulate or prevent a chaotic event to happen if she was in proximity and present to prevent it to happen. Or even give a little chaos to the opponent to deal with during battle. 

One of the top ten heroes and most beloved heroes in the country. She is the best strategist in any team and has a way to predict any event before they happen given the necessity of it for her quirk to work in her favor. 

Johnny 

Vigilante name: Johnny 13

Quirk: Unlucky

Johnny manifests his bad luck into a shadow that will latch onto opponents and cause unfortunate events to occur more for that individual as a result. However, the shadow cannot exist in complete sunlight; it can only remain if there are already shadows in his general area or it’s nighttime and its effects are strongest at that time obviously.

Occupation: Johnny is the leader of a biker gang or de-facto leader of said biker gang who loves to raise hell and helping folks that need saving whenever he’s around or is up to the task. Kitty tags along with him to help him out of jams and bc she loves him. :3

Kitty

Vigilante name: Kitty

Quirk: Lovesick

Kitty sends a smooch towards her opponent which if it makes contact causes the individual to have nausea or become disoriented for around 10 minutes. It can also have a chance of lasting longer if the individual was sort of infatuated with her regardless of gender. 

Pariah Dark

Villain name: King Pariah

Quirk: Ultimate Adaptation 

Similar to all for one except with the unpredictability for both the user and opponents. Pariah can manifest any type of quirk needed to defeat anyone that stands in his way both one-on-one and in groups. Course, drawbacks are the learning curve to some of the quirks and that multiple adaptions he utilizes at once will destroy his cells in the process. 

Pariah is a former follower of all for one who had unique quirk that All for one augmented to help him succeed if both Shigaraki and Tomura failed in their own conquest for the world. But now Pariah has his own plans to succeed where they failed and become the leader who shapes a new world order with an iron fist. 

Frederick Kingsmen

Villain/vigilante name: Fright Knight

Quirk: Burning Energy Infusion

Able to form/infuse objects with his own burning energy life force that is capable of burning or slicing through any in his sight. The sweat he gives off is what provides the material needed to ignite his unnatural flames despite it causing his body to overheat still. 

Fright Knight is Pariah’s second-in-command with a loyalty to him as strong as his control over his power. Fright Knight has faced many pro-heros as he carried out the smaller phases of Pariah’s plans and most of them barely came close towards defeating or leaving as much as  scratch on the knight. 

Rodolfo Gonzalo  

Hero name: Wulf

Quirk: Werewolf + Portal creation (50/50?)

Can do anything a werewolf can supposedly do; somehow it allows him to create portals with his claws to locations he has marked with them or visited in the past. 

Wulf was abducted on by Pariah’s forces and sent into the Nomu labs for experimentation to force on another quirk and instill complete allegiance to their cause. Course, Wulf broke free as a result of that new additional quirk allowing him to escape their clutches and his previous one helping him survive the endeavor. However, he lost his memories in the process and could only remember his native language, Spanish, and his hero name Wulf. 

Overgrown

Villain/vigilante Name: Overgrown

Quirk: Plant Manipulation

Can manipulate any pre-existing plant matter or create new vegetation if water and soil is present for the process or he understand the biological makeup of the plant in question. 

Occupation: Pro-hero or eco-terrorist who is tired of humanity from abusing the environment from quirk battles to industries using the land for their own benefits and none others.

That’s all I have for now! I hope this was worth the wait, guys. As well as, inspire ideas for your takes with a DP x BNHA Crossover! 

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this is kind of an odd request maybe but can i get a bakugou piece where class 1A are having like a 'fun night' in the common room and all the girls lost a bet so they have to have a just dance competition while dressed up as clothes the boys wear and reader is dressed as bakugou and is surprisingly really good at just dance and hes like like ...shes so.... !1!1?1?!1!1 and you can decide what happens really can it just be fluffy maybe with a confession 👉👈

hiii💜 wait i can totally see this happening, like the girls making this kind of bet and expecting to win haha. hope you enjoy :))

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Just Dance

pairing: Katsuki Bakugou x fem! reader

warnings: swearing (that should be a given when i write for Bakugou hehe)

genre: fluff

a/n: y/n wearing Bakugou’s baggy ass pants and black tank, say less 😌

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“I look ridiculous,” groaned Jirou.

You and the rest of the girls in your class were getting dressed and ready for the dorm’s game night. Unfortunately your attire wasn’t entirely up to you.

“I don’t know Jirou, I think you pull off Kaminari’s look pretty well,” you laughed. Jirou crossed her arms.

“Mina should have never made that stupid bet.”

“Hey! How was I suppose to know that we would lose?” she pouted.

“Well you did bet that Ochaco would bet Deku in an arm wrestling match. I think we all could’ve predicted that one,” you said.

“In my defense I assumed that Deku would get embarrassed and back out, guess I was wrong.”

“These outfits aren’t that bad. I mean the boys all wear basically the same thing all the time,” laughed Momo.

The consequence for losing the bet was that at the dorm ‘game night’, all the girls would have to dress up as one of the boys. If the girls would’ve won, the boys would be dressed up as them.

“Okay so let me see if I can guess everyone,” you said, “Momo is Todoroki, Ochaco is Deku, Tsu is Iida, Mina is Kirishima, Jirou is Kaminari, and Hagakure is Sero. Am I right?”

“Damn nice job. Guess we did good then,” smiled Jirou.

“Wait Y/N who are you going as?” asked Tsu. You chuckled and quickly grabbed your folded clothes.

“Take a guess.”

You held up a black tank top, baggy jeans, and some beaten up sneakers. Your classmates giggled.

“Wow did you steal those from Bakugou’s closet?” laughed Momo.

“That’s a secret I’ll never tell.”

You changed into your outfit as it was almost time for you all to head to the common area. The skin tight tank top and baggy jeans certainly wasn’t your normal attire but a bet is a bet.

The common area was vibrantly decorated with lights and music. There was a large TV set up for the ‘Just Dance’ tournament that would be taking place. That seemed to be the most exciting part of the night.

“Woah it’s like I’m looking in a mirror!” cheered Kaminari.

“Shut it.”

“You all certainly committed to your roles,” said Iida as he studied Tsu.

“If we were gonna lose at least we lost in style!” exclaimed Mina.

“Nice crocs by the way Ashido,” you joked.

You went over to the snack table and picked up a cup of punch.

“Oi dumbass!”

You looked over your shoulder and saw Bakugou headed towards you, wearing the exact same thing as you.

“Oi dumbass!” You mocked, but laughed out instead, “How do you like my fit? Pretty accurate don’t you think?” You smiled.

Bakugou crossed his arms. His cheeks turned a little pink but played it off.

“You look stupid.”

“Well I hate to break it to you Katsuki but if I look stupid than so do you.”

“HEY- I- whatever...” Bakugou chugged his glass of punch before going back to the main group. You laughed to yourself. Bakugou tried to be intimidating with you but he always just ended up looking cute.

“Hey we’re gonna start the tournament now!” announced Mina. You all gathered around by the TV.

“Okay so we’re gonna do two players at a time, going in order from the randomly made bracket. Up first is Kirishima against Izuku.”

The rest of you sat yourselves on the couches as Kiri and Deku picked out a song. You sat next to Bakugou.

“Are you any good?” he asked.

“Hm?”

“At the stupid game. Are you any good?”

“Oh... I’m alright.”

Kirishima beat Deku so he advanced on. Aoyama destroyed Iida and he moved on as well. Now it was your turn against Mina.

“Good luck Y/N,” she teased. You chuckled.

“Speak for yourself.”

The music began to play. You gripped on tightly to your remote. Soon you began to copy the moves on the screen, same as Mina.

Perfect

Perfect

Perfect

After every move your completed, your point tracker grew more and more. You got a ‘perfect’ on almost every move. You already had a big lead in Mina.

“Come on Mina, you need to actually try!” You joked. Mina groaned.

“Okay how are you so good at this game?”

You classmates cheered the two of you on. Bakugou tried his best not to react but he was highly impressed by your skill. It didn’t help that you looked so good while dancing too.

“Yes! That’s a new high score!” You cheered. You had beaten Mina, and by a long shot.

“Well played Y/N,” she panted.

You plopped back down on the couch, catching you’re breath as the next people began to play.

“Just alright?” questioned Bakugou. You chuckled.

“Maybe I’m a little better than just alright.”

~

After about 5 more rounds of ‘Just Dance’, you were exhausted. It paid off however, because you won the tournament. You’re classmates were stunned at your hidden talent.

You now sat outside on the dorm steps, basking in the cool air as you caught your breath. You soon heard some footsteps behind you.

“Hey.”

Bakugou joined you on the steps.

“Hey.”

“Uh, nice job on winning. I didn’t know you could dance,” he whispered. Your face grew warm.

“Thanks, I guess I just don’t mention it a lot.”

“And you don’t look half bad in my clothes either...though I think you’d look a lot better in a sweatshirt of mine.”

Your eyes grew and you looked at Katsuki.

“Really?”

“Yeah...I’d be happy to give you one...”

“I’d like that.”

Bakugou smiled softly as he looked at you.

“That was my shitty way of me telling you that I like you Y/N,” he clarified. You chuckled, moving closer to him. You rested your head on his shoulder.

“I know. I like you too Katsuki.”

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