#🪄 | spellbook

[littlestwitchsworld]

sorry if this is an odd req but could i get cg!shigaraki headcanons?? tysm

☆ - Not odd at all! Thank you for your request :)!!

! Headcanons below !

(🎮) → When Shigaraki first started taking care of his little he was very hesitant. Unable to bring himself to even lay a finger on them, even if he was wearing gloves. He was just to scared that he would hurt the little one.

(🎮) → But after some time passes, he ends up become a bit more physically affectionate. It’s always the small things, like holding their hand as they walk across the street, cuddling while napping, little hugs, and sometimes lay/sitting in his lap while he plays video games.

(🎮) → His favorite activity to do with his little when they’re two little for video games is watching cartoons/movies. It’s a peaceful activity for him since he’s very low energy. Shigaraki also uses this as a way to calm his little down so that way he can easily get them to sleep.

(🎮) → Another activity that Shigaraki likes to do with his little is go for a walk. He likes to ask them questions about things they can see, like the names of animals. It’s his excuse to praise and validate them for being so smart.

(🎮) → His favorite part of bedtime is reading a bedtime story. He lets his little pick out what book he should read. Sitting next to them, snuggling next to them, keeping his voice soft as he reads. And once they have fallen asleep he closes the book and kisses their forehead before putting the book away, and falling asleep next to them.

[tvickiesims]

Myshunosun's Witching Hour Set 4t2 Conversion

A 4t2 conversion of Witching Hour set made by @myshunosun. Includes a functional cauldron, a functional spell book (1 slot), a deco spell book (1 slot), a cabinet (6 slots), a rug, 2 functional book piles, deco herbs and 3 deco potion bottles.

Cauldron comes in 4 versions:

Tvickiesims_Myshunosun_ClassicCauldron - standard version.

Tvickiesims_Myshunosun_ClassicCauldron_CustomPotions - incorporates @midgethetree's Better CC potions mod (you still need her mods).

Tvickiesims_Myshunosun_ClassicCauldron_CustomPotionsFasterReagents - incorporates Midge's Better CC potions mod (you still need her mods) and her edited version of CJ's Faster Reagents mod.

Tvickiesims_Myshunosun_ClassicCauldron_FasterReagents - incorporates CJ's Faster Reagents mod.

Spellbook Stand incorporates @lamare-sims material fix for spellbook.

All objects are quarter tile placeable.

To have nicer looking water inside the cauldron, I recommend this water replacement by @pforestsims.

Special thank you goes to @lottes-little-place who made a very cool modern witch set that inspired me to convert cauldrons and spell books as custom objects.

Compressed, clearly labelled, picture and collection file are included.

✨🪄🧙🏻‍♀️Download at SFS🧙🏻‍♀️🪄✨

[ectoberweekofficial]

Ectober Week 2024

🪄 ✨ Welcome to the Ectober Academy where you will spend a week casting spells, making potions, and sharing your conjured enchantments for all to see! ✨🪄

Each day you have a choice between a short charm, or a longer incantation from your spellbook (or perhaps, for the most daring witches, you can combine them both).

Note: The one-word prompts are not limited to artists, and the two sentence prompts are not limited to writers. Both prompts are available to anyone who wants to try them.

The result of your spell can be in the form of a piece of art, a written story, a musical jingle, a tenacious craft, a silly meme, or whatever your heart desires. All content directly related to the Danny Phantom cartoon is acceptable for this magical challenge. Ships, non-ships, crossovers, angst, fluff—so long as it relates to the show, how you choose to represent these prompts is entirely up to you.

When you are satisfied with your creation, you may post it on Tumblr under the tag #ectoberweek2024 so that we may find it and reblog it here!

Happy Ectober! 👻🎃

[art credit goes to @faerynova - check out her blog and look through her cool art!]

Prompts:

October 25

👻 Graveyard Shift

👻 They found the corpse on a Sunday. So why was Danny Fenton still alive?

October 26

👻 Cornered

👻 Desiree makes all your dreams come true. And Nocturne handles the nightmares.

October 27

👻 Ghost Peeler

👻 He tried to stay in control of his ghost half. He really tried.

October 28

👻 Skeleton Key

👻 Tick, tick, tick. The sound was coming from his core.

October 29

👻 Last Rites

👻 They knew it would kill him. They did it on purpose.

October 30

👻 Tarot

👻 Danny had wondered when he would see his clone again. He never wanted it to be like this.

October 31

👻 Ectology

👻 He thought he'd been prepared to take off the mask on the hazmat suit and see what he looked like underneath. He couldn't have been more wrong.

Check out our Post Guidelines for posting your work, and if you have any questions, feel free to shoot us a DM!

[battyaboutbooksreviews]

🔮 Good afternoon, my bookish bats. I hope you've had an enchanting, spell-binding October so far. If you want to add a little more magic to your TBR, consider these witchlit books featuring sapphic witches and other mystical beings!

🔮 The Scapegracers by Hannah Abigail Clarke 🪄 Payback's a Witch by Lana Harper 🔮 These Witches Don’t Burn by Isabel Sterling 🪄 Sweet & Bitter Magic by Adrienne Tooley 🔮 The Midnight Girls by Alicia Jasinska 🪄 Toil & Trouble: 15 Tales of Women & Witchcraft

🔮 Now She Is Witch by Kirsty Logan 🪄 The Dark Tide by Alicia Jasinska 🔮 The Circle by M. Strandberg & S.B. Elfgren 🪄 The Witch and the Vampire by Francesca Flores 🔮 The Shadow Cabinet by Juno Dawson 🪄 Elysium Girls by Kate Pentecost

🔮 Edie in Between by Laura Sibson 🪄 When We Were Magic by Sarah Gailey 🔮 Marvel's The Runaways 🪄 Her Majesty's Royal Coven by Juno Dawson 🔮 Mortal Follies by Alexis Hall 🪄 Buffy the Vampire Slayer Willow & Tara

🔮 All the Bad Apples by Moïra Fowley-Doyle 🪄 The Severed Thread by Leslie Vedder 🔮 The Lost Coast by A.R. Capetta 🪄 Romancing a Gorgon by Tallie Rose 🔮 Improbable Magic for Cynical Witches by Kate Scelsa 🪄 The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow

🔮 Not Your Average Love Spell by Barbara Ann Wright 🪄 The Sting of Victory by S.D. Simper 🔮 Summer of Salt by Katrina Leno 🪄 The Reluctant Witch by Kristen S. Walker 🔮 Witching Moon by Poppy Woods 🪄 Keep Your Witches Close by Colette Rivera

🔮 Walking Through Shadows by Sheri Lewis Wohl 🪄 Spellbook of the Lost and Found by Moïra Fowley-Doyle 🔮 Out of Salem by Hal Schrieve 🪄 Mooncakes by Suzanne Walker & Wendy Xu

[livealittleoc-cb]

The Magics Spell 🪄 [Random Update]

🐉: I got all pretty for tonight 🥰

🍹: Went to a concert after so long! It was fun, had a great time with my cousin

✨: Why do I look so freakishly tall in this- anyways~ My hair black now~

☔️: I’m kind of feeling the freckles today, just a little bit~

🌱: I’ve got to study for this dumbass plant geography class that I have to take this summer *angry Scottish words*

🎐: Who wants to go to the pool with me?~

♥️: I GOT A SPIDER-MAN SUIT!

☁️: I h-have to get a n-new clouds formation spellbook, B-Blue knocked a cup over on mine-

🕯️: Busy ass day *groans*

❄️: Helping my mums move stuff around while the castle gets renovated!!

😈: I don’t wanna get up! *whines and squishing the plushie*

💀: Lazy day~ I should cut my hair soon I let it get too long-

🩵🩵: @monsterhigh-cb​ [🐟🤍💍 && ⚡💙 && 👻💜 && 🐺💕 && 🎤💖 && 👑💛] @evicted-oc​ [☕️🤎 && 🐼🖤] @theinvitation-bot​ [🐭🩶💒] @welcome-to-maniac​ [🐇🖤 💍 && 🌻❤️ && 🌕❤️‍🔥] @fantasyaespa [💚🐈 && 💎☀️] @chooseyourboycb [🔪❤️‍🩹] @k-venturetime​ [🍓❣️] @multi-joong​ [🌧️🧡] @kardpackcb​ [🌙💝 && 🐺❤️‍🔥]

possible new residents: @faywithlove​ @badbf-cb​ @clubwnderland @oppositesattraxt @silcntxnight @coffeexdreamcb @domrachaa @supernaturalcb​ @domxbot​ @thepatchedpaw @dawnswonderland-entertainment​​ @beastfights-starting​ @starhunters-reign​ @divineblood-cb​ @urtwice​ @welcometosector1​​ @lunaaofthemoon​ @littleboywooyoungie​ @reve-rv​ @multi-esme​ @the-hellhounds​ @3rachabot​ @san-cb​ @beaconhillsxbot​ @hoteldelluna-rp​ @league-of-assassins​​ @dreampodcast​​ @enhanced-cb​​ @houseofthee​ @lostwoods-cb​​ @boyzplanet​ @kimheebby​​​ @camboys-com​ @lucky-charmsanhwa @yandereskzcb @multeez-cb @demonskz-cb @lavienrosecabaretxo @fntcsy @thedevoted-cb @crimson-l [DM + / -]

[this-week-in-rust]

This Week in Rust 572

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Updates from Rust Community

Official

October project goals update

Next Steps on the Rust Trademark Policy

This Development-cycle in Cargo: 1.83

Re-organising the compiler team and recognising our team members

This Month in Our Test Infra: October 2024

Call for proposals: Rust 2025h1 project goals

Foundation

Q3 2024 Recap from Rebecca Rumbul

Rust Foundation Member Announcement: CodeDay, OpenSource Science(OS-Sci), & PROMOTIC

Newsletters

The Embedded Rustacean Issue #31

Project/Tooling Updates

Announcing Intentrace, an alternative strace for everyone

Ractor Quickstart

Announcing Sycamore v0.9.0

CXX-Qt 0.7 Release

An 'Educational' Platformer for Kids to Learn Math and Reading—and Bevy for the Devs

[ZH][EN] Select HTML Components in Declarative Rust

Observations/Thoughts

Safety in an unsafe world

MinPin: yet another pin proposal

Reached the recursion limit... at build time?

Building Trustworthy Software: The Power of Testing in Rust

Async Rust is not safe with io_uring

Macros, Safety, and SOA

how big is your future?

A comparison of Rust’s borrow checker to the one in C#

Streaming Audio APIs in Rust pt. 3: Audio Decoding

[audio] InfinyOn with Deb Roy Chowdhury

Rust Walkthroughs

Difference Between iter() and into_iter() in Rust

Rust's Sneaky Deadlock With if let Blocks

Why I love Rust for tokenising and parsing

"German string" optimizations in Spellbook

Rust's Most Subtle Syntax

Parsing arguments in Rust with no dependencies

Simple way to make i18n support in Rust with with examples and tests

How to shallow clone a Cow

Beginner Rust ESP32 development - Snake

[video] Rust Collections & Iterators Demystified 🪄

Research

Charon: An Analysis Framework for Rust

Crux, a Precise Verifier for Rust and Other Languages

Miscellaneous

Feds: Critical Software Must Drop C/C++ by 2026 or Face Risk

[audio] Let's talk about Rust with John Arundel

[audio] Exploring Rust for Embedded Systems with Philip Markgraf

Crate of the Week

This week's crate is wtransport, an implementation of the WebTransport specification, a successor to WebSockets with many additional features.

Thanks to Josh Triplett for the suggestion!

Please submit your suggestions and votes for next week!

Calls for Testing

An important step for RFC implementation is for people to experiment with the implementation and give feedback, especially before stabilization. The following RFCs would benefit from user testing before moving forward:

RFCs

No calls for testing were issued this week.

Rust

No calls for testing were issued this week.

Rustup

No calls for testing were issued this week.

If you are a feature implementer and would like your RFC to appear on the above list, add the new call-for-testing label to your RFC along with a comment providing testing instructions and/or guidance on which aspect(s) of the feature need testing.

Call for Participation; projects and speakers

CFP - Projects

Always wanted to contribute to open-source projects but did not know where to start? Every week we highlight some tasks from the Rust community for you to pick and get started!

Some of these tasks may also have mentors available, visit the task page for more information.

If you are a Rust project owner and are looking for contributors, please submit tasks here or through a PR to TWiR or by reaching out on X (formerly Twitter) or Mastodon!

CFP - Events

Are you a new or experienced speaker looking for a place to share something cool? This section highlights events that are being planned and are accepting submissions to join their event as a speaker.

If you are an event organizer hoping to expand the reach of your event, please submit a link to the website through a PR to TWiR or by reaching out on X (formerly Twitter) or Mastodon!

Updates from the Rust Project

473 pull requests were merged in the last week

account for late-bound depth when capturing all opaque lifetimes

add --print host-tuple to print host target tuple

add f16 and f128 to invalid_nan_comparison

add lp64e RISC-V ABI

also treat impl definition parent as transparent regarding modules

cleanup attributes around unchecked shifts and unchecked negation in const

cleanup op lookup in HIR typeck

collect item bounds for RPITITs from trait where clauses just like associated types

do not enforce ~const constness effects in typeck if rustc_do_not_const_check

don't lint irrefutable_let_patterns on leading patterns if else if let-chains

double-check conditional constness in MIR

ensure that resume arg outlives region bound for coroutines

find the generic container rather than simply looking up for the assoc with const arg

fix compiler panic with a large number of threads

fix suggestion for diagnostic error E0027

fix validation when lowering ? trait bounds

implement suggestion for never type fallback lints

improve missing_abi lint

improve duplicate derive Copy/Clone diagnostics

llvm: match new LLVM 128-bit integer alignment on sparc

make codegen help output more consistent

make sure type_param_predicates resolves correctly for RPITIT

pass RUSTC_HOST_FLAGS at once without the for loop

port most of --print=target-cpus to Rust

register ~const preds for Deref adjustments in HIR typeck

reject generic self types

remap impl-trait lifetimes on HIR instead of AST lowering

remove "" case from RISC-V llvm_abiname match statement

remove do_not_const_check from Iterator methods

remove region from adjustments

remove support for -Zprofile (gcov-style coverage instrumentation)

replace manual time convertions with std ones, comptime time format parsing

suggest creating unary tuples when types don't match a trait

support clobber_abi and vector registers (clobber-only) in PowerPC inline assembly

try to point out when edition 2024 lifetime capture rules cause borrowck issues

typingMode: merge intercrate, reveal, and defining_opaque_types

miri: change futex_wait errno from Scalar to IoError

stabilize const_arguments_as_str

stabilize if_let_rescope

mark str::is_char_boundary and str::split_at* unstably const

remove const-support for align_offset and is_aligned

unstably add ptr::byte_sub_ptr

implement From<&mut {slice}> for Box/Rc/Arc<{slice}>

rc/Arc: don't leak the allocation if drop panics

add LowerExp and UpperExp implementations to NonZero

use Hacker's Delight impl in i64::midpoint instead of wide i128 impl

xous: sync: remove rustc_const_stable attribute on Condvar and Mutex new()

add const_panic macro to make it easier to fall back to non-formatting panic in const

cargo: downgrade version-exists error to warning on dry-run

cargo: add more metadata to rustc_fingerprint

cargo: add transactional semantics to rustfix

cargo: add unstable -Zroot-dir flag to configure the path from which rustc should be invoked

cargo: allow build scripts to report error messages through cargo::error

cargo: change config paths to only check CARGO_HOME for cargo-script

cargo: download targeted transitive deps of with artifact deps' target platform

cargo fix: track version in fingerprint dep-info files

cargo: remove requirement for --target when invoking Cargo with -Zbuild-std

rustdoc: Fix --show-coverage when JSON output format is used

rustdoc: Unify variant struct fields margins with struct fields

rustdoc: make doctest span tweak a 2024 edition change

rustdoc: skip stability inheritance for some item kinds

mdbook: improve theme support when JS is disabled

mdbook: load the sidebar toc from a shared JS file or iframe

clippy: infinite_loops: fix incorrect suggestions on async functions/closures

clippy: needless_continue: check labels consistency before warning

clippy: no_mangle attribute requires unsafe in Rust 2024

clippy: add new trivial_map_over_range lint

clippy: cleanup code suggestion for into_iter_without_iter

clippy: do not use gen as a variable name

clippy: don't lint unnamed consts and nested items within functions in missing_docs_in_private_items

clippy: extend large_include_file lint to also work on attributes

clippy: fix allow_attributes when expanded from some macros

clippy: improve display of clippy lints page when JS is disabled

clippy: new lint map_all_any_identity

clippy: new lint needless_as_bytes

clippy: new lint source_item_ordering

clippy: return iterator must not capture lifetimes in Rust 2024

clippy: use match ergonomics compatible with editions 2021 and 2024

rust-analyzer: allow interpreting consts and statics with interpret function command

rust-analyzer: avoid interior mutability in TyLoweringContext

rust-analyzer: do not render meta info when hovering usages

rust-analyzer: add assist to generate a type alias for a function

rust-analyzer: render extern blocks in file_structure

rust-analyzer: show static values on hover

rust-analyzer: auto-complete import for aliased function and module

rust-analyzer: fix the server not honoring diagnostic refresh support

rust-analyzer: only parse safe as contextual kw in extern blocks

rust-analyzer: parse patterns with leading pipe properly in all places

rust-analyzer: support new #[rustc_intrinsic] attribute and fallback bodies

Rust Compiler Performance Triage

A week dominated by one large improvement and one large regression where luckily the improvement had a larger impact. The regression seems to have been caused by a newly introduced lint that might have performance issues. The improvement was in building rustc with protected visibility which reduces the number of dynamic relocations needed leading to some nice performance gains. Across a large swath of the perf suit, the compiler is on average 1% faster after this week compared to last week.

Triage done by @rylev. Revision range: c8a8c820..27e38f8f

Summary:

(instructions:u) mean range count Regressions ❌ (primary) 0.8% [0.1%, 2.0%] 80 Regressions ❌ (secondary) 1.9% [0.2%, 3.4%] 45 Improvements ✅ (primary) -1.9% [-31.6%, -0.1%] 148 Improvements ✅ (secondary) -5.1% [-27.8%, -0.1%] 180 All ❌✅ (primary) -1.0% [-31.6%, 2.0%] 228

1 Regression, 1 Improvement, 5 Mixed; 3 of them in rollups 46 artifact comparisons made in total

Full report here

Approved RFCs

Changes to Rust follow the Rust RFC (request for comments) process. These are the RFCs that were approved for implementation this week:

[RFC] Default field values

RFC: Give users control over feature unification

Final Comment Period

Every week, the team announces the 'final comment period' for RFCs and key PRs which are reaching a decision. Express your opinions now.

RFCs

[disposition: merge] Add support for use Trait::func

Tracking Issues & PRs

Rust

[disposition: merge] Stabilize Arm64EC inline assembly

[disposition: merge] Stabilize s390x inline assembly

[disposition: merge] rustdoc-search: simplify rules for generics and type params

[disposition: merge] Fix ICE when passing DefId-creating args to legacy_const_generics.

[disposition: merge] Tracking Issue for const_option_ext

[disposition: merge] Tracking Issue for const_unicode_case_lookup

[disposition: merge] Reject raw lifetime followed by ', like regular lifetimes do

[disposition: merge] Enforce that raw lifetimes must be valid raw identifiers

[disposition: merge] Stabilize WebAssembly multivalue, reference-types, and tail-call target features

Cargo

No Cargo Tracking Issues or PRs entered Final Comment Period this week.

Language Team

No Language Team Proposals entered Final Comment Period this week.

Language Reference

No Language Reference RFCs entered Final Comment Period this week.

Unsafe Code Guidelines

No Unsafe Code Guideline Tracking Issues or PRs entered Final Comment Period this week.

New and Updated RFCs

[new] Implement The Update Framework for Project Signing

[new] [RFC] Static Function Argument Unpacking

[new] [RFC] Explicit ABI in extern

[new] Add homogeneous_try_blocks RFC

Upcoming Events

Rusty Events between 2024-11-06 - 2024-12-04 🦀

Virtual

2024-11-06 | Virtual (Indianapolis, IN, US) | Indy Rust

Indy.rs - with Social Distancing

2024-11-07 | Virtual (Berlin, DE) | OpenTechSchool Berlin + Rust Berlin

Rust Hack and Learn | Mirror: Rust Hack n Learn Meetup

2024-11-08 | Virtual (Jersey City, NJ, US) | Jersey City Classy and Curious Coders Club Cooperative

Rust Coding / Game Dev Fridays Open Mob Session!

2024-11-12 | Virtual (Dallas, TX, US) | Dallas Rust

Second Tuesday

2024-11-14 | Virtual (Charlottesville, NC, US) | Charlottesville Rust Meetup

Crafting Interpreters in Rust Collaboratively

2024-11-14 | Virtual and In-Person (Lehi, UT, US) | Utah Rust

Green Thumb: Building a Bluetooth-Enabled Plant Waterer with Rust and Microbit

2024-11-14 | Virtual and In-Person (Seattle, WA, US) | Seattle Rust User Group

November Meetup

2024-11-15 | Virtual (Jersey City, NJ, US) | Jersey City Classy and Curious Coders Club Cooperative

Rust Coding / Game Dev Fridays Open Mob Session!

2024-11-19 | Virtual (Los Angeles, CA, US) | DevTalk LA

Discussion - Topic: Rust for UI

2024-11-19 | Virtual (Washington, DC, US) | Rust DC

Mid-month Rustful

2024-11-20 | Virtual and In-Person (Vancouver, BC, CA) | Vancouver Rust

Embedded Rust Workshop

2024-11-21 | Virtual (Berlin, DE) | OpenTechSchool Berlin + Rust Berlin

Rust Hack and Learn | Mirror: Rust Hack n Learn Meetup

2024-11-21 | Virtual (Charlottesville, NC, US) | Charlottesville Rust Meetup

Trustworthy IoT with Rust--and passwords!

2024-11-21 | Virtual (Rotterdam, NL) | Bevy Game Development

Bevy Meetup #7

2024-11-25 | Bratislava, SK | Bratislava Rust Meetup Group

ONLINE Talk, sponsored by Sonalake - Bratislava Rust Meetup

2024-11-26 | Virtual (Dallas, TX, US) | Dallas Rust

Last Tuesday

2024-11-28 | Virtual (Charlottesville, NC, US) | Charlottesville Rust Meetup

Crafting Interpreters in Rust Collaboratively

2024-12-03 | Virtual (Buffalo, NY, US) | Buffalo Rust Meetup

Buffalo Rust User Group

Asia

2024-11-28 | Bangalore/Bengaluru, IN | Rust Bangalore

RustTechX Summit 2024 BOSCH

2024-11-30 | Tokyo, JP | Rust Tokyo

Rust.Tokyo 2024

Europe

2024-11-06 | Oxford, UK | Oxford Rust Meetup Group

Oxford Rust and C++ social

2024-11-06 | Paris, FR | Paris Rustaceans

Rust Meetup in Paris

2024-11-09 - 2024-11-11 | Florence, IT | Rust Lab

Rust Lab 2024: The International Conference on Rust in Florence

2024-11-12 | Zurich, CH | Rust Zurich

Encrypted/distributed filesystems, wasm-bindgen

2024-11-13 | Reading, UK | Reading Rust Workshop

Reading Rust Meetup

2024-11-14 | Stockholm, SE | Stockholm Rust

Rust Meetup @UXStream

2024-11-19 | Leipzig, DE | Rust - Modern Systems Programming in Leipzig

Daten sichern mit ZFS (und Rust)

2024-11-21 | Edinburgh, UK | Rust and Friends

Rust and Friends (pub)

2024-11-21 | Oslo, NO | Rust Oslo

Rust Hack'n'Learn at Kampen Bistro

2024-11-23 | Basel, CH | Rust Basel

Rust + HTMX - Workshop #3

2024-11-27 | Dortmund, DE | Rust Dortmund

Rust Dortmund

2024-11-28 | Aarhus, DK | Rust Aarhus

Talk Night at Lind Capital

2024-11-28 | Augsburg, DE | Rust Meetup Augsburg

Augsburg Rust Meetup #10

2024-11-28 | Berlin, DE | OpenTechSchool Berlin + Rust Berlin

Rust and Tell - Title

North America

2024-11-07 | Chicago, IL, US | Chicago Rust Meetup

Chicago Rust Meetup

2024-11-07 | Montréal, QC, CA | Rust Montréal

November Monthly Social

2024-11-07 | St. Louis, MO, US | STL Rust

Game development with Rust and the Bevy engine

2024-11-12 | Ann Arbor, MI, US | Detroit Rust

Rust Community Meetup - Ann Arbor

2024-11-14 | Mountain View, CA, US | Hacker Dojo

Rust Meetup at Hacker Dojo

2024-11-15 | Mexico City, DF, MX | Rust MX

Multi threading y Async en Rust parte 2 - Smart Pointes y Closures

2024-11-15 | Somerville, MA, US | Boston Rust Meetup

Ball Square Rust Lunch, Nov 15

2024-11-19 | San Francisco, CA, US | San Francisco Rust Study Group

Rust Hacking in Person

2024-11-23 | Boston, MA, US | Boston Rust Meetup

Boston Common Rust Lunch, Nov 23

2024-11-25 | Ferndale, MI, US | Detroit Rust

Rust Community Meetup - Ferndale

2024-11-27 | Austin, TX, US | Rust ATX

Rust Lunch - Fareground

Oceania

2024-11-12 | Christchurch, NZ | Christchurch Rust Meetup Group

Christchurch Rust Meetup

If you are running a Rust event please add it to the calendar to get it mentioned here. Please remember to add a link to the event too. Email the Rust Community Team for access.

Jobs

Please see the latest Who's Hiring thread on r/rust

Quote of the Week

Any sufficiently complicated C project contains an adhoc, informally specified, bug ridden, slow implementation of half of cargo.

– Folkert de Vries at RustNL 2024 (youtube recording)

Thanks to Collin Richards for the suggestion!

Please submit quotes and vote for next week!

This Week in Rust is edited by: nellshamrell, llogiq, cdmistman, ericseppanen, extrawurst, andrewpollack, U007D, kolharsam, joelmarcey, mariannegoldin, bennyvasquez.

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[death-door]

Dangonronpa V3: Pregame Headcannons:

My Headcannons, so please enjoy

🔎Shuichi Kirigiri (Saihara)(FTM - He/Him)🕵️‍♂️

Parents: Kyoko Kirigiri + Celestia Ludenberg

Siblings: Kokichi, Mikan and Kotoko

Best Friends: Kokichi, Rantaro, Kaito, Maki

A very shy individual, and would rather read detective books in the library

An inspiring detective because of Kyoko, and would follow her advice, viewing her as a role model

A very observation boy, he pays attention to every detail in a location or a person

Got into Dangonronpa due to the mystery aspect but wasn't aware of Kyoko and Celeste's involvement

Would get bullied often, which resulted in low self esteem

Dangonronpa made him go down an unfortunate spiral, which made him obsessed with it to escape his own reality

🗡️Maki Kuzuruyu(Harukawa)(FTM)(He/Him)❣️

Parents: Fuyuhiko Kuzuruyu + Peko Pekoyama

Sibling: Ryoma

Best Friends: Shuichi, Katio

Works part time as a caregiver, despite his appearance

Blunt but caring

Was often stayed away from due to his mob background, which can make him very lonely

Has a affection for stuff animals and toys, it gives him comfort

Not an assassin level fighter but is a martial artist, normally does self defense

Owns a cat he named Snowball

Surprisingly, Maki has a fear of blood, which makes him incredibly dizzy and sick

Was never a fan of Dangonronpa, but watches it with Shuichi.

Entered Dangonronpa accidentally after trying to get Shuichi out

🔮Himiko Nevermind (Yumeno)(She/Her)(Fae/Faer)🪄

Parents: Sonia Nevermind + Gundham Tanaka

Siblings: Korekiyo and Gonta

Best Friends: Tenko, Angie and Ryota

An inspiring magician, often doing it in talent shows

Has a wand collection, starting with a small stick she found in the backyard

As a young fae, she started to speak like Gundham, which in turn worried Sonia

Fae has many of spellbooks

Would spend her time reading fairytales rather than studying

She wasn't into Dangonronpa, it made her sick for her stomach when she watched one episode

But it got popular and thought it could help with her magician talent

🧭 Rantaro Hinata(Amami)(He/him)🥾

Parents: Hajime Hinata + Nagito Komeada

Sibling: Monaca

Best Friends: Shuichi, Korekiyo(Boyfriend/lover), Miu, and Ryoma

Often be dismissive to other people other than family and friends

Major PTSD from the 52nd killing game that he has nightmares and would rather stay up at night

Despite that, he does keep in touch with old friends from 52nd

Knows Nagito favors him(it wasn't much of a secret)

Knows how to handle Monaca at her worse

Gets carsick and seasick easily

Has major survivors guilt from his killing games, especially finding out who some of the participants are

🎹 Kaede Naegi(Akamatsu)(MTF)(She/her)🎹

Parents: Makoto Naegi + Byakuya Togami

Siblings: Kiibo(Twin Brother), Kirumi, and Nagisa

Best Friends: Kokichi,Tenko, Miu

Only learned piano because of Byakuya

Diagnosed depression but keeps it a secret from friends

Is a major Makoto but has her Byakuya moments (as Makoto calls them)

Pessimistic

Often protective of her younger brother

Often watched Dangonronpa, but not obsessed

Became obsessed when her depression hit

Joined for personal reasons which she never admitted

🎾Ryoma Kuzuruyu (Hoshi)(He/him) 🎾

Parents: Peko Pekoyama + Fuyuhiko Kuzuruyu

Sibling: Maki

Best Friends: Gonta, Rantaro, Shuichi, Korekiyo

Next in line for the Kuzuruyu Clan

Doesn't care much about his height, even though his younger brother outgrew him

Favorite food is candy, so it's not often that he has candy sticks

Is actually a major flirt and every girl would swoon for him

Has a fear of bugs, but keeps it in for Gonta

Has a great singing voice

Likes Dangonronpa for it's story and characters mostly

Joined as a contest winner

🕸️ Kirumi Naegi (Togo)(She/her)🕸️

Parents: Makoto Naegi + Byakuya Togami

Siblings: Kaede, Kiibo, and Nagisa

Friends: Angie, Tenko, Kaede

Has a major fear of heights, and refused rope climbing because of it

She also hates spider, they just freak her out

Gets very emotional when it comes to sad movies

Is so indecisive, can't make decision to save her life

Babysits with Maki

Is not a great lair

One of her habits is stress cleaning

Never understood Dangonronpa but watched it with Kaede if asked

Followed Kaede to Dangonronpa auditions and found herself kidnapped and stuck

🎨Angie Ogami (Yonaga)(They/them)🎨

Parents: Aoi Asahina + Sakura Ogani

Sibling: Akane

Best Friends: Kirumi, Tenko, Himiko, Korekiyo, Ryota, Tsumugi

President of the Art club

Gives their art as presents in every occasion

Also part of the Drama club and is the art director

Their bed is full of big animal plushies

Is into mystery and finds them very interesting

Got into Dangonronpa for mystery and would often guess who kills or who dies, which is why they won a lot of bets

Entered the audition to be in the mystery

💪 Tenko Ishimaru (Chabashira)(She/they)💪

Family: Mondo Owada + Kiyotaka Ishimaru + Chihiro Fujisaki

Siblings: Kaito, Chiaki and Ryota

Best Friends: Angie, Himiko, Ryota, Chiaki

President of her Akiido Club

Stammers when incredibly nervous, mainly around crushes

One of the smartest of her classes, mainly due to Taka's teachings

Has to keep Kaito out of trouble

Would enjoy a nap under the sun

Never got into Dangonronpa and actively refused to

Unfortunately, Kaito was into it and she had to drive him to the auditions and was kidnapped for her bad words of the company

🎭 Korekiyo Nevermind (Shinguji)(He/She/They)🎭

Parents: Sonia Nevermind + Gundam Tanaka

Siblings: Gonta and Himiko

Best Friends: Rantaro(Boyfriend),Miu, Angie, Shuichi, Ryoma

Hates speaking, would prefer sign language than actual words, with Rantaro and Miu translating

Is a A+ student

Has diagnosed anxiety and has pills for it

Has a great relationship with their family members

Can be often seen in the library, alone and studying

Her introduction to Dangonronpa was mediocre, just another television show in a mess of television shows

Joined for the second time but barely remembers why. He gains headache if he tried

Was he a part of the 52nd killing game? Maybe so

🔧Miu Soda (Iruma)(MTF She/her)🧫

Parents: Kazuichi Soda + Ibuki Mioda

Sibling: Jataro Kemuri

Best Friends: Kiibo, Rantaro, Korekiyo, Kaede

Was inspired by Kazuichi

Learned Sign Language for her mom, who is hard of hearing and her best friend who refuses to speak

Still can be dirtied minded but is not on a uncomfortable level

Overprotective of her younger brother, Jataro

Lets Jataro paint her new inventions at times

Has her own lab(her treehouse) to make new inventions every day

Somehow not tired all the time

Is the President of the Robotics Club

Never got into Dangonronpa

Found out about the Dangonronpa Contest from Rantaro and promised to go with it

🐞Gonta Nevermind (Gokuhara)(They/Them)🐝

Parents: Sonia Nevermind + Gundham Tanaka

Siblings: Korekiyo and Himiko

Best Friends: Ryoma, Kokichi, Miu, Rantaro

Is closest to Gundham with their love for animals and by extension, insects

Can be mistaken for a innocent person, but that's not the case

Always have a notebook of each insect they discovered

Doesn't remember names so they does come up with names based on insects

Always wears sandals, something that fits them

Dangonronpa is not something they do not watch and never will

Had no choice but join Korekiyo and Himiko to the Dangonronpa Contest, mainly as a guide or protector

🎲 Kokichi Kirigiri (Ouma)(He/Him)🍇

Parents: Kyoko Kirigiri + Celestia Ludenberg

Siblings: Shuichi, Mikan, and Kotoko

Best Friends: Rantaro, Kiibo, Miu, Gonta

Only does white lies, mainly for to protect people's feelings

Part of the Student Council (His D.I.C.E)

Would fight bullies as some sort of justice for victims

Good at playing cards games

Besties with Gonta and would call them Big Butterfly

Is incredibly intelligent, but plays dumb often

Has complete disdain for Kaito and makes it clear

Found out about Dangonronpa from Shuichi and has no opinion until he found out about Shuichi's..... idea

Tried to stop him

☄️Kaito Ishimaru(Momata)(He/him)🚀

Parents: Kiyotaka Ishimaru + Chihiro Fujisaki + Mondo Owada

Siblings: Tenko, Chiaki and Ryota

Is a major dick, there's no wrap around it

Everyone knows to stay away from him and he's somehow proud of it

Boasted about being incredibly popular, without much of a consequence

Some of his reputation was ruined by Kokichi

Does have a good side to him but it's rare to find

Is still massively into space and astrology

Gets lectured by Tenko often

Got into Dangonronpa when it first aired their new season and got into it ever since

Went into the Dangonronpa Contest for massive popularity points

🙄Kiibo Naegi(K1B0)(They/them)🤖

Parents: Makoto Naegi + Byakuya Togami

Siblings: Kaede (Twin Sister), Kirumi, Nagisa

Best Friends: Miu, Rantaro, Kokichi

Has major body dysphoria due to be born without legs

Got back into walking around 5, after finally getting more confidence

Wears prosthetic legs now

Incredibly sarcastic, without a fault

Has a odd rivalry with Nagisa

Best Hope Child

Never got into Dangonronpa

Went after Kaede along with Kirumi but got kidnapped

🪡 Tsumugi Kuwata (Shirogane)(She/her)🧵

Parents: Sayaka Maizono + Leon Kuwata + Mukuro Ikusaba

Sibling: Masuru

Best Friends: Rantaro, Korekiyo

Has a lung disease that made her frail, which leads to coughing fits

Part of Drama Club as a designer

Got into fashion because of Junko Enoshima

Adores her younger brother and refused to let her see her sick. Always tried to give him a great childhood

Dabbled in dancing for a bit

Knows self defense

Mukuro made sure that Tsumugi never saw Dangonronpa and actively banned it, which Tsumugi never minded but it did get worse when she met Junko during a mall trip

Was forced to two killing games, especially when Junko threatened her family. The Mastermind role tested her integrity and love for story

[danshive]

Look, I’m not saying it’s a GOOD deck.

It is, however, a very “me” deck.

Sadly, I don’t think there’s a good way to make a young hero rat token in these colors. There’s a way, but it’s “Protective Parents,” and it just doesn’t work well.

We must settle for Royal, Sorcerer, and Wicked rats.

👑🐀　🪄🐀　😈🐀

Deck 4 Tangled Colony (WOE) 113 11 Swamp (M21) 311 4 Lord Skitter's Butcher (WOE) 99 4 Voracious Vermin (WOE) 116 4 Spellbook Vendor (WOE) 31 9 Plains (M21) 309 4 Besotted Knight (WOE) 4 4 Conceited Witch (WOE) 84 4 Twisted Sewer-Witch (WOE) 114 4 Lord Skitter, Sewer King (WOE) 97 4 A Tale for the Ages (WOE) 34 4 Shattered Sanctum (VOW) 264

It’s tempting to add the rabbit whose power / toughness equals how many non-land permanents you have (roles count), but this is the basic version of this deck. It can get adjustments later.

[2sleepy4u]

Salazar Slytherin's Spellbook 🪄🐍

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[blazerwyvernmaster]

How Magic Works In Tathylia Chronicles

(And also possibly my other games, idk)

Alright, so I've been thinking about Tathylia Chronicles' magic system and lore, and I've finally decided to work on it and post it somewhere fully.

🕯Origins and Harnessing 🕯

Magic was created long ago when spirits guided the world as much as the gods did. Once they left, it was significantly harder to harness and use magic.

Nowadays, in order to use magic, you need to have some sort of magic potential inside you. About 35% of the population of the world can use magic to some degree.

Keyword being can. There are many who don't have the resources to learn magic or don't want to learn magic or don't even know they can use magic.

Either way, in order to actually use magic, you need some sort of magic conduit or focus.

This type of conduit is usually a tome or a staff, our next topic

🔮🪄📚Tomes,Staves, and Enchanted Items📚🪄🔮

In order to use magic, most spellcasters have to channel their magic into magic tomes and staves, along with any other enchanted weapon or item.

Tomes and spellbooks are created by magic who fill pages of a book with instructions, mystical runes, and information about the spell, bound by magic (and regular book bindings.) The user must study a magic tome in order to weave its magical contents around them.

Staves are made with a rod, usually made with metal or wood. Then, a magic crystal is placed on it, along with decorations. Another way is to just infuse the rod with magic. Using a magic staff is as simple as focusing magical energy into the staff and letting it expell that energy.

Enchanted items or weapons all have magic inside of them, either because they are enchanted, blessed, cursed, or otherwise infused with magic. It's also as simple as energy in magic out.

One thing you need to know is that the magic in these tomes is somewhat finite. Once a tome runs out of magic, you can still cast magic out of it, but it will not be nearly as potent, usually being useless for combat. Same goes for staves and enchanted items. After this, they usually get used for training and teaching, allowing budding mages to safely practice spells.

🍃🏔🌊Druidic Magic: The Magic of Wild Spirits🌊🏔🍃

Druidic Magic, also called Spirit or Nature Magic, is magic gained by studying and harnessing the power of the spirits that still live in the world. Practitioners are guided by the wind, water, and earth of the world, and use their guidance to expel magic.

Druidic Magic bests Holy Magic, but is withers by Arcane Magic

🔥⚡️❄️Arcane Magic: The Magic of Elemental Power❄️⚡️🔥

Arcane Magic, also known as Raw or Anima Magic, is magic derives from the study of nature. Only, instead, it draws magic from the raw energy of the world around them, rather than just being guided by the world. Wind becomes thunder,earth becomes fire, and water becomes ice. It's more commonly studied and practiced than druidic magic,but it loses some of its inate power.

Arcane Magic trumps Druidic Magic, but withers to Elder Magic

💀🌌🌑Elder Magic: The Magic of Dark Ages🌑🌌💀

Elder Magic, also known as Cursed or Dark Magic, is magic that gains power through the soul of the user and their foe. In times of old, this magic was discovered and molded from the darkness of the earth and night sky. It was/is immensely powerful, but its dark nature led to many problems. Its spells usually have negative effects on the user, like hexes. Using it too much may prove dangerous...

Elder Magic trumps Arcane Magic, but withers to Holy Magic.

☀️🌟✨️Holy Magic: The Magic of Divine Light✨️🌟☀️

Holy Magic, also known as Divne or Light Magic, is magic that is gained from the heavens and the sun. It requires the user to be deeply devoted to a cause, usually a religion. While it is not the strongest type of magic, its purifying and blessed light purges demonic essences from people, beasts, and places.

Holy Magic trumps Elder Magic, but withers to Druidic Magic

[littlestwitchsworld]

heyo!! do you have any thoughts on caregiver Hizashi Yamada? hope you're having a good day/night! :)

☆ - Thank you for your request! Here’s my thoughts :D!

! Headcanons below !

(🎙️) → Hizashi was over the moon when his little asked to be his caregiver. He was so excited to take care and play with them. He spent all day and night researching about age regression so he would be prepared.

(🎙️) → He definitely bought that magic/echo mic toy. And other karaoke toys too! He’d be their adoring audience as they pretend to be preform at a big concert.

(🎙️) → He takes them to his recording booth where he host his radio shows. Hizashi lets them be a co host on many episodes, sometimes even getting to choose the some of the songs. It’s always a good time when he brings them on.

(🎙️) → Hizashi takes babbling very seriously. He has full blown conversations with his little. All the while they just babbling nonsense and he acts like he understands.

(🎙️) → Likes playing pretend dramatically, it’s never a boring time with him. He embodies his role perfectly. He’s playing a dragon? He stomps and roars all around the room, knocking down block towers and the little pillow fort they made together. (Dw, he helps them put them back together :]!)

(🎙️) → Takes his regressor out on little adventures and with him to do errands. And whenever the weather gets a little colder he gives them his jacket to wear.

(🎙️) → Words of affirmation and praise is his love language. Even the smallest acts are praised by him. No matter what they do he will always be proud of them!

[generalmacnamara]

*The little wizard was busy outside in the hallway just reading some spellbooks.* Hm.

-Wizard anon 🪄

[Hii!!! i have returned!!!]

[John glances at the wizard. He's not too sure what their deal is, but they seem alright.]

[squidarchon]

my WIZARD SCHEDULE 🧙‍♂️ ☝️

1. TIME TRAVEL FOR JUSTICE OF THE DECEASED ! 🕰️ 🩸🔎

2. GEOMETRIC SHAPES OF THE UNIVERSE ! 🔮🔷

3. WIZARD ART CLASS ! 🎨🖌️

4. SPANISH !🌎 🪄

5. EVIL POTIONS ! 🧪 🧙‍♂️⚗️⚛️

6. ARTIFACTS AND HISTORIES BEFORE THINESELF ! 📖 🌎

7. ANCIENT TEXTS OF WIZARDS AND SPELLBOOKS ! 🧙‍♂️ 📚 🔮

[weddingsdebbie]

🌸🌿✨ Blossoming Passions: My Journey into Floral Artistry! ✨🌿🌸

Hey there, flower enthusiasts and kindred spirits of all things beautiful! 🌼🌟

Today, I wanted to share a little glimpse into how my fascination with flower arranging began, and it all traces back to my incredible mother, the original green thumb in our family. 🌷🌳

Growing up, our backyard was like a secret garden, a treasure trove of vibrant colors and fragrant blooms. My mom was an avid gardener, and I was her eager little apprentice. 🌻👩‍🌾

I watched in awe as she nurtured seeds into flourishing blossoms, turning the soil with love and care. Her knowledge of plants was like a magical spellbook, and I was enchanted by the way she could make the most beautiful arrangements effortlessly. 🪄💐

The real turning point, though, was when she handed me a pair of pruning shears and taught me the art of harvesting flowers. It was like a revelation! I realized that there was something profoundly satisfying about creating arrangements that brought the beauty of our garden indoors. 🌺🏡

As I grew older, my passion for floral design blossomed along with the petals I worked with. The variety of colors, textures, and scents fascinated me, and I found myself experimenting with different combinations, often losing track of time in the process. It was like a therapeutic escape into a world of natural artistry. 🎨🌼

Fast forward to today, and I'm still entranced by the art of arranging flowers. Every bouquet, centerpiece, or floral creation I craft is a tribute to the legacy my mother passed down to me. 🌸🌷💕

So, whether you're a fellow flower lover or simply someone searching for a creative outlet, remember that sometimes, the most beautiful passions are the ones that bloom from the heart. 🌱❤️🌸

[lizziefanconfessions]

Neat.. 🦅 I can see Demetri, Hawk, Yasmine and Moon looking through a spellbook for a good spell they’d cast on Kyler and the other Cobras, in this case (since Yasmine would see Kyler as an enemy now on her end). Of course, Kenny would ask Hawk and Demetri to help him learn magic and spellcasting (sort of similar to Harry Potter, only different). 🪄📔

@ckhalloween23

Here is my submission for the Week 2 prompt "Witches"--a preview from a new fic I'm working, Flower of Lemon and Feather of Shrike! I decided to do a deep dive into Yasmine's drastically OOC Season 4 behavior, and explore a scenario where its origin is...a bit more sinister than poor writing or repressed lesbianism aknskfnhdrf

This one isn't just for the YasMoon girlies, but in fact for all the girlies who thought Yasmine Nolastname was big boi screwed over in S4, and deserved better!!! Even the foulest of bitchy bullies don't deserve to be reduced to a trophy girlfriend and a prop for a male character's storyline, especially when said male character is a pretty garbage boyfriend when it comes right down to it </3 (More on that later!!!)

This one is also for the MoonPiper girlies, because god, were we fucked over too D: Also actually (mostly) canon compliant, except H*wkM**n never ever get back together and stay broken up forever and always amen peace and love on planet earth <3 <3 <3 <3

There's no world where I will acknowledge this stupid ship got undeadified like a horrendous, nonsensical, chemistry-devoid zombie when it had long since run its narrative course and played its role in both Eli and Moon's arcs can you tell awehakureyigsrf

This is Moon's POV and Yasmine and Moon-centric, but I left the shippier parts ambiguous since I wanted to make something that my non-shipper friends can enjoy too ^^; There are feelings on Moon's side but as far as I'm concerned that's basically canon lmao like did you SEE that girl in S4??? She was so thirsty for Blondie that I'm genuinely shocked the showrunners didn't tell Hannah Kepple to stop kanhdskufhd Definitely tried to leave Yasmine's feelings more up in the air, though! Interpret her however you like ^^

Fic preview under the cut! As always, moodboard pic credits available upon request!

***

The phone line cuts off, and Yasmine’s name disappears from the screen.

Moon curls into her pillow, erupting in ragged sobs. She can’t remember the last time she’s felt this helpless.

This entirely consumed by pure, raw emotion.

Her mind is a whirlpool, everything Yasmine spat at her twisting around and around and around. None of it seems real.

Because Moon can’t wrap around her head around meaning nothing to Yasmine. She can’t make sense of a world where she was only a pawn—someone for the repressed queen bee to “experiment” with. Someone to cater to Yasmine’s whims and fulfill her every desire and ask nothing in return.

Yasmine was everything to Moon. Moon was nothing to Yasmine. And how did that make any fucking sense?

Moon’s hands knot into the covers, a scream ripping from her throat. Somewhere amid the blinding torrent of heartbreak and rage, she finds herself tearing incense sticks from her drawers and lighting candles with shaking hands.

She always swore to herself she’d never touch the rear section of her spellbook, pages marked with a black tab. But if Yasmine can’t keep her promises, why should Moon?

Her chest burns as she recites the incantation.

“By flower of lemon and feather of shrike I bid you know what this pain is like”

*

“Maybe we could meet in the middle? Like a…sexual Venn diagram?”

Yasmine’s face twists in disgust. Moon only rolls her eyes.

She would tell Demetri to stop being a creep, but she knows he doesn’t mean it. Just playing the part he thinks he should after girls have started noticing him.

And Moon knows what it��s like to hide your authentic self to better fit a mold. She’s eternally thankful Piper taught her better.

“So what’s under the blanket?” she prompts.

As Demetri begins his demonstration, Yasmine’s expression shifts. “Not bad. My parents might not have to pay for an A this time.”

Moon can’t help feeling a bit surprised.

So Yasmine’s taking the “be a little nicer” advice to heart, at least. A hint of gratitude toward anyone is a first.

And then the soccer ball comes.

Her panic strips away her new cordiality. Moon knows exactly where her friend’s mind goes.

She’s about to be the “dumb blonde” again—the vapid, useless pretty girl who always has to bribe her way to a pass. And it makes her feel so disgustingly helpless.

“Do you have another one?” A last-ditch attempt to save her grade without her family’s intervention.

As she watches the altercation play out, Moon could slice the tension between Hawk and Demetri with a knife. She’s never quite fancied herself an empath, but there’s something hauntingly familiar about the way Demetri’s entire body is trembling.

She sees herself, hunched up and bawling her eyes out. She sees the overpowering grief that tore free a side Moon didn’t even know she had.

Thank the gods nothing came of that episode.

When Sam arrives, Moon gives her a pleading look. Off she goes to rescue their big-mouthed friend, prepared to cut into Hawk with all the steel Moon could never quite work up.

“Are we gonna fail?”

The whisper in Moon’s ear is so lost. So broken.

Yasmine’s always been a mess. Moon supposes she should be flattered she’s one of the only people who’s ever gotten to see it.

“No.” She sighs. “Demetri’s smart. He’ll figure something out.”

*

“You’ll never guess what I saw yesterday.”

Sam leans over at the start of history class, smirk dancing across her lips.

“What?”

“Yasmine and Demetri are a thing.”

Moon knits her brow, confused.

“What’re you talking about?”

Sam sniggers. “I turned a corner in the hall and saw them making out, clear as day.”

Despite her best efforts, she can’t hide her alarm.

“Oh my god. Does she know he’s…?”

Demetri’s passes at Yasmine weren’t exactly genuine. Moon always thought Yas would be more intuitive about that sort of thing, especially considering the way she talked about Demetri when he first started hanging out with them.

“He’s what?”

“Um…never mind.”

It wasn’t Moon’s place to divulge Demetri’s business, especially when he hadn’t even figured it out himself. Or…didn’t want to admit certain things to himself, at least.

“Yasmine was pissed when Miguel and I caught them,” Sam goes on. “It was so funny. She insisted she’d never go out with him, but…you know. Unless you slipped me some LSD at lunch and I’m hallucinating, I have my doubts.”

She laughs again, clearly tickled pink by the whole thing. Moon only frowns.

“I’m so confused. All she’s ever done is complain about him.”

Her friend shrugs. “Denial’s not just a river in Egypt, I guess.”

“No, like. She thinks basically every single one of his interests is annoying. And she told me once that listening to him talk is like when you hit your brakes too fast and your whole car screeches.”

“Well, you know Yas. She thinks she’ll combust if she says something nice about anyone.”

“Right, but…” Moon narrows her eyes. “She’s picky as hell when it comes to dating. I, um…I would know. And Demetri’s the furthest possible thing from her type.”

“Opposites attract?”

“Not like that. I saw him try to explain basic particle physics to her one time and she nearly went to sleep. And that’s only the tip of the iceberg.”

“Maybe it’s just a physical thing. We both know how crazy hormones can be, right?”

Moon hopes for Yasmine’s sake that Sam is right. Otherwise…

Well, there’s probably no need to entertain that possibility.

*

“I love it when you talk nerdy.”

Moon’s so caught up in Yasmine’s sweeping, graceful movements that it takes a moment for the statement to sink in.

She always smiles when she watches her best friend. She can’t help it. Yasmine moves like a mountain waterfall—majestic and larger than life, all while flowing so seamlessly.

It isn’t until Yasmine lets Demetri pull her in, giggling like an elementary schooler, that Moon’s smile falls.

No, you don’t.

Because Moon knows Yasmine, and she knows she has a hatred for “nerd shit” that could rival Hawk at his worst.

She despises anything that makes her feel small. Unimportant. Insignificant.

Moon remembers the look on Yasmine’s face when Sam leaned away from their popular table, exchanging easy chemistry banter with Aisha. She remembers the dejected pout when lunchroom conversations turned to AP homework, Sam and Demetri so engrossed in what Yasmine called “stupid school garbage” that they forgot the blonde girl was even there.

Because as much as Yasmine makes out like she couldn’t care less about anything, she doesn’t like to be reminded that she isn’t book smart. That the math and science that come naturally to Sam and Aisha and Demetri and even Hawk don’t make a lick of sense to her.

Sure, Demetri’s knowledge was useful when it got Yas a good grade. But on its own?

It only reminds her how inadequate she feels. How inadequate Moon knows she’s always felt.

And it was good, in a way, that Aisha tearing Yasmine’s popularity asunder showed her that the world didn’t revolve around her. But Moon senses the deep hurt Yasmine still carries, seeing glimpses of the worlds she’ll never know how to be part of.

So when Yasmine says she loves Demetri’s “nerdspeak,” lust and desire rolling off her in waves, it feels like she was the victim of some Freaky Friday body swap.

People change. Of course they do.

But not like this. Not enough to forget their very sense of self.

“Save me a seat at lunch? Specifically…this one?”

The smack of Yasmine’s hand hitting Demetri’s asscheek reverberates through the hall. Moon has to laugh at the sheer absurdity.

Yasmine hasn’t lost her fire in some ways, at least.

And Demetri doesn’t seem to mind. Perhaps Moon’s assumption was wrong.

She and Yasmine head off to class, her friend fawning nonstop over her geeky boyfriend. Moon smiles and nods along, pushing down the unease swimming in her chest.

Moon picks up a whiff of Yasmine’s perfume, and realizes that it’s lemonflower.

*

Dragging Yasmine away from Demetri at the prom is like trying to bathe a cat.

Moon finally gets her alone after a few songs, suggesting they grab some punch for Demetri and the others. Yasmine eagerly agrees, her entire being lighting up at the thought of doing her boyfriend even a miniscule favor.

There’s something unsettling in the way it’s so mind-bogglingly different from the Yasmine of a few months ago, who would rather chug drain cleaner Heather Chandler style than revolve her entire being around the needs of some boy.

Maybe there’s a way to breach the subject without arousing suspicion.

“I can’t believe you flew all the way back from Australia.” Moon forces a laugh as she ladles punch into Yasmine’s cup. “I didn’t know you were that into him.”

“Oh, Moon!” Yasmine giggles, leaning her head on Moon’s shoulder. “I’m in love.”

She tries not to think about how soft Yasmine’s hair feels against her skin.

“And the dress, too!” Moon reminds herself that Yasmine is very happily spoken for. “You really went all out. It’s kind of cute how you’re embracing nerddom for him.”

Odd, but cute. That’s what Moon has to tell herself.

“You think he liked it?” Yasmine leaned back, twirling around. “It’s not too much, right? I don’t want to seem like I’m trying too hard to impress him. I know guys aren’t into that kind of thing.”

Moon has to laugh again.

“Since when do you care what guys like?”

“Since I found one worth caring about, obviously.”

She sighs, a faraway look in her gray-green eyes. Perhaps she really is in love.

It’s just that Moon always imagined love would feel deeper than this.

“I’m sure Demetri loved it,” Moon concedes. “He’s really happy you came back for him. I can tell.”

“Funny, when I first showed up, he and Hawk were huddled off in some corner brooding, like the idiots couldn’t just dance with each other if they wanted. Almost felt bad taking Hawk’s boyfriend away.”

She snickers, and Moon feels strange.

She decides to change the subject.

“It’s crazy. I mean, imagine what you would’ve said a year ago if I told you you’d be smitten with Demetri Alexopoulos at junior prom. I remember when we first started talking again, you must’ve bitched for twenty minutes about that time he hit on you at your birthday party.”

Yasmine’s silent for a moment.

“He was being a creep.” There’s a steely edge to her voice that wasn’t there before. “He says he’s been watching me from across the lunchroom and I’m supposed to be flattered by that?! Like, dude, who even are you? Why are you talking to me?”

Moon raises her eyebrows.

“A couple weeks ago in science you were gushing about how sweet the ‘admirer from afar’ thing was.”

“Did I?”

Yasmine scowls in disgust. Just underneath it, Moon could swear she picks up a streak of panic.

“Yeah! He kept blowing you kisses across the room, and you giggled so loud that Mrs. Elmes yelled at you, remember?”

“Oh, god. That’s embarrassing.”

She says it like it’s some undignified moment caught on camera at a party—tripping and spilling her drink on someone, or the like. An odd way to talk about a behavior she has more often than not these days.

“He’s still such a weirdo.” Moon wonders if she’s imagining the trace of the Old Yasmine’s scorn. “He’s so, like, awkward about it when he puts his hands on me to dance. Like he’s scared my weird girl body is gonna burn him like a hot plate or something. I mean, we’ve been dating for four months!”

Moon’s stomach squirms.

“Probably just doesn’t want to do anything you might not be comfortable with,” she says quickly.

“He could freaking ask.” Yasmine curls her lip. “But I don’t even think it’s that. He’s an uncoordinated mess. He can’t dance for shit, and I have to do all the work.”

“Hey, don’t be mean!” Moon elbows her gently. “All this stuff is new to him. He never had a girlfriend before you.”

“Yeah. And it shows. Half the time I can’t even tell if he’s like…enjoying himself, you know?”

Yasmine grunts, reaching up and itching the side of her head. The strobe lights catch on something falling from her hair.

Her expression abruptly shifts.

“Oh, my poor baby!” she gasps. “We’ve been leaving him hanging over there, haven’t we? I miss him already. Come on, I’m gonna cry if we miss the slow dance.”

And just like that, the disdain is gone. Yasmine bustles off, snatching her punch and sweeping back onto the dance floor.

Moon looks down at the table, and her eyes land on a gray feather.

A tiny thing, from a tiny, fierce little bird. Beak hooked, meant for killing and piercing like a raptor. Loud, screaming, crass. Unrefined. Ready to jump to violence at the slightest provocation, especially when it gave them an excuse to show off.

Everything Yasmine isn’t.

And, ironically, everything Demetri wants.

Moon’s gaze drifts back and forth between the dance floor—where Yasmine and Demetri have resumed their grinding—and the corner where Hawk stands alone. Hawk’s eyes don’t leave his best friend once.

And, every once in a while, Demetri looks back. Yasmine is none the wiser.

Moon stiffens, guilt trickling over her like hot wax before a hair removal. She downs the rest of her punch in one gulp before going outside and calling an Uber.

I’m such a fucking bitch.

Whatever Demetri and Yasmine get up to at the afterparty, she doesn’t want to be around for it.

*

“So how are things with Demetri?”

Moon keeps her tone light as they finish their food court tacos, but she sees the new charm bracelet around Yasmine’s wrist. And she knows damn well what that means.

“He’s so annoying.” Yasmine wastes no time diving into a rant. “He never fucking listens. I try to talk about stuff I care about or that I think is interesting, and he’s always acting distracted or changing the subject or whatever. I was telling him this cool thing I read online about the history of georgette skirts, and he didn’t ask a single follow-up question. I’ll bet the world’s shittiest sponge is better at retaining crap than him.”

“Sheesh.” Moon makes a face. “I’m sorry. Boys are the worst sometimes.”

“And that’s not even all.” Apparently Yasmine wasn’t finished. “Not ten minutes later, he’s rambling on and on about this blaster thing he unlocked in some video game. It was the verbal equivalent of having cement poured directly into my brain. And he has the nerve to call me boring?!”

“He did?” Moon scowls, genuinely peeved. “That’s so rude!”

Perhaps Demetri wasn’t as sweet and thoughtful as he always came across.

“Wouldn’t be the first time.” Yasmine frowns right back. “So he gets all snippy with me because he’s being a soggy paper towel of a human being and obviously I’m zoning out. He starts quizzing me on all the dumb bullshit he was blathering about, and I finally snap and tell him he’s boring me out of my fucking mind. And then he gives this whole speech about how at least he’s spending his free time learning strategy and problem-solving and hand-eye coordination, and all I’m doing is looking at clothes online.”

They walk over to the trash and throw out their taco wrappers. With both hands free, Yasmine’s free to gesture more fully and furiously.

“Girl, I got so mad that I called him an antisocial freak and told him he was damn lucky I ever gave him a shot. That was probably kind of messed up, but whatever. Sam doesn’t cut him down to size enough, so I have to pick up the slack. Anyways, I was storming out of the restaurant, but he did the following-and-groveling thing. And sure enough, we ended up at Kay again.”

Yasmine looks down at her bracelet-clogged arm, a forlorn expression swimming over her pretty features.

“I don’t know why I keep letting this happen.” She sighs. “It’s like trying to plug up a boat leak with fucking office tape.”

“Why don’t you break up with him?”

“I wish I could!” Moon’s caught off-guard by the genuine despair lacing Yasmine’s words. “I’ve rehearsed the speech a billion times. But…every time I’m around him, it’s like I’m hit with some kind of emotional tidal wave. And suddenly I can’t bear the thought of ending things.”

She looks so lost. So frantic. So helpless.

“I see him and all I can think about is how much I want him,” she goes on. “No room for anything else. I’ve never felt this way about anyone before, and it freaks me out.”

Once upon a time, Moon might have called that love. She knows better now.

She wants to reach across the table and take Yasmine’s hand. Reassure her that this is what overpowering teenage crushes are like. That of course your mind finds ways to make hormones and attraction centered around one person seem like the be-all end-all of everything. Hell, she remembers feeling that way about Hawk before she came down from the high and realized how incompatible they were.

But Moon doesn’t. She can’t.

“Something’s not right with me, Moon.” Yasmine’s voice is quiet and fragile—a tone Moon hasn’t heard for a long time. “Sometimes, I don’t—I don’t feel like myself. You remember that week you were in Cancun? I went to the mall with Sam and Demetri, and Sam was complimenting the lemon balm perfume I had on, but you know I never wear lemon-scented shit. Like what am I, a cleaning product?!”

Moon laughs, gladly taking Yasmine’s implicit offer to lighten the atmosphere.

That was one thing Moon always appreciated about her. She never passed up an opportunity to use snarky bluntness to make a joke out of something unpleasant.

It’s part of why her and Demetri’s connection hadn’t surprised Moon. At least not initially.

The strange thing was that their bond got as far as it did.

“At first I thought it was because something stuck to me when I walked through the perfume section of Macy’s,” Yasmine goes on. “But we all went through there, and I couldn’t smell any lemon shit on Sam and Demetri. Am I going crazy or what?”

Moon pushes away the sinking feeling in her chest.

“Maybe it’s Sam who’s imagining things.”

“That’s what I thought, too.” Yasmine’s voice grows terse with panic. “But then Demetri starts bragging about how I always wear the lemon perfume when I go out on dates with him. With the air of someone who, like, actually believes what they’re saying. And I don’t know what the fuck he’s talking about.”

“Like Demetri knows anything about perfumes. He probably got it mixed up with that bergamot one you like.”

Her reassurance doesn’t appear to work.

“Whatever,” Yasmine huffs. “Let’s talk about something else, yeah?”

Moon lets Demetri slip from the conversation, fading into mental oblivion as they leave the food court and head for H&M. Yasmine brightens almost immediately, losing herself gushing over cute pink dresses and fuzzy purple sweaters and champagne-tinted heels. The afternoon passes easily, sliding in and out of changing rooms and twirling and laughing in front of department store mirrors.

For a while, Moon can almost forget the overpowering fear emanating from her closest friend. She can almost forget feeling like the world’s cruelest sociopath.

*

When Moon knocks on the door to 44101 Portico Place for the first time in months, she’s only half expecting an answer.

It’s 5:00 on a Wednesday, so plenty of time for any after-school extracurriculars to finish up. But, of course, showing up anywhere unannounced always has the potential to go disastrously wrong.

Demetri helped her develop a healthy dose of pessimism. She isn’t sure whether to be grateful.

The door opens after only a couple minutes.

“Moonshine? What’s going on?”

Moon offers a strained smile. “Hey, Pipes.”

Piper frowns at her across the threshold, looking more concerned than angry. It makes Moon feel all the guiltier.

“Is everything okay?” Piper asks.

“Sorry to bother you. It’s—it’s about Yasmine. And you’re one of the only people I felt like I could ask.”

She winces at the flash of hurt in Piper’s face. Her ex leans on the doorframe, crossing her arms and cocking an eyebrow.

“Go on,” she says, tone resigned.

“So…” Moon takes a breath. “Remember when you said you couldn’t be with me until I figured my feelings for Yasmine out?”

“Yeah?”

“I…may have done some light spellcasting and accidentally hexed her into falling in love with a gay guy.”

Piper blinks a few times, taking a moment to process everything. Finally she groans, running a hand over her face.

“Jesus Christ, Moon. Come in—I’ll get us both some fucking edibles for this.”

Piper’s living room is exactly how Moon remembers it—cream-colored couches, tasteful wall décor, chic modern fireplace. A goofy, surfboard-shaped coffee table that Piper’s parents had once tried to sell at a yard sale, but little Piper screamed and cried and beat the ground with her fists until they relented to keeping her favorite piece of furniture.

Now, Moon props her sandaled feet up on a bar that runs underneath it. The metal is cold against her skin.

She tries to focus on that. Sensations in the here and now. Things immediate and tangible.

Not the abstract mess she’s caused.

Piper returns after a few minutes, placing a glass of carrot ginger lemonade and a small gummy on a coaster. Moon picks up the gummy, tentatively taking a nibble.

Piper chuckles. “Don’t worry, it’s not that many mils. I don’t want us to be totally baked.”

Moon takes a more generous bite.

“So.” Piper sits next to her and takes a sip of her own concoction—some kind of purplish whey smoothie. “What did you do?”

Moon gathers her thoughts, working through how best to phrase it.

“You remember when we first met?”

“Sure.” Piper smiles thinly. “Our parents dragged us to that dumb gala, and I found you sobbing your eyes out in the bathroom because your ex-best-friend threw you out like you were nothing. And then I went on to find you have a terrible habit of swooning over the world’s most horrendous shitbags.”

She lets out a small laugh. “I guess so, huh?”

Piper rolls her eyes. “I told you. Over and over and over.”

“I know, I know.” Moon sighs, wearily admitting defeat. “About a week before that party, Yasmine and I had a phone call. And she just…cut into me. Said so many awful things. And I get it. I mean, her sweet sixteen got ruined and then as like…icing on the cake, I ditched her for the people she hated. But I don’t think anyone’s ever broken me down like that before.”

Piper tosses a comforting arm around her shoulder. For a moment, they’re back on tile floors under harsh fluorescent lighting, puffing blunts and snickering about fake people.

“I know,” Piper says softly. “And when I found you, you were still pretty shaken from it. I hope I helped.”

Despite herself, Moon leans into her.

“You helped more than you know.”

“Clearly not enough to stop you from going out and doing some sort of supernatural fuckery.”

Moon laughs softly. “That’s the thing, though. I think it was already too late.”

“What do you mean?”

She takes a breath.

“That night, after Yasmine hung up on me…I don’t know. It felt like my whole life shattered. I guess in a moment of weakness, I pulled out my spellbook.”

Piper narrows her eyes. “You said you only ever used that thing to ‘cleanse the house of bad energy’ or whatever. Or give yourself good luck charms on tests. Not—”

“—cursing people, I know,” Moon finishes. “I was so upset that I wasn’t thinking straight. I recited this whole incantation that was supposed to make Yasmine know how it felt to want someone who would never want her back. And, um…I guess the love gods interpreted that as her getting down bad for a guy who doesn’t even like women.”

“Wait. Isn’t that the same guy who did an MTV-style roast of your weird ex that one time?”

Moon sighs wearily. “That’s Demetri all right.”

“I knew it.” Piper pounds her fist into the couch triumphantly. “Of course he’s gay. Straight dudes don’t pull that kind of petty shit.”

“He’s not exactly subtle, is he?”

“Nope.”

It’s Piper’s turn to sigh, eyeing Moon with an almost pitying look.

“Are you sure Yasmine doesn’t genuinely like him, and just has a shit gaydar? Or she’s really deep in denial? I know I’ve pined after my fair share of straight girls.”

Moon shakes her head. “I second-guessed myself for a long while. Thought maybe I was wrong about Demetri. Or maybe Yasmine had changed so much that she really is into the whole geek shtick now. But…”

She takes a long sip of her carrot ginger lemonade, hoping the intense flavor will somehow give her strength.

“She acts like an entirely different person whenever we’re with him. And…not really in a good ‘he makes her want to be better’ type of way. More like she’s forgotten everything she likes and every aspect of her being that isn’t related to her boyfriend.”

Piper stares at an abstract, avant-garde wall painting, deep in thought.

“Maybe she’s, like, stuck in a codependence loop,” she says. “You said she was pretty clingy with you freshman and sophomore year, right?”

“That was different, though. She acted one way alone with me and one way out in public, sure. But it made sense. Whenever we see Demetri, it’s like Yasmine’s being mind-controlled by one of those thirsty freshmen who think Demetri’s the hottest guy in school because he won a karate fight one time. Then as soon as I get Yas alone, she doesn’t seem to remember half of what she said or did. And when I fill her in, she gets super embarrassed. Not that Yas can’t put on a façade if she needs, but…why would she intentionally make an idiot of herself if she’s gonna be mortified an hour later? She’s not impulsive like that.”

Piper shrugs. “Hormones make people act stupid. I did some truly absurd shit the first time I was trying to get chicks to notice me.”

“Hormones don’t make you go into a weird trance that your brain bleaches right after. People only wish that happened.”

“Maybe Yasmine’s lucky enough to have a brain that can bleach on command,” says Piper cheekily. “Or maybe she’s way too proud to admit she’s being dumb over a boy, so she tries to like…will it out of existence through not acknowledging it.”

“It’s not just about the embarrassment, though.” Moon sucks in her breath. “Every time she realizes about the memory gaps, she’s scared. Like she knows something’s wrong with her.”

Piper groans, leaning back against the couch and sprawling her arms across a cushion. “Can we prove she’s not being a diva? Leave it to Yasmine to make a fucking ocean’s worth of fuss about the same teen angst literally everyone deals with.”

Moon winces at the scorn in Piper’s voice.

It really is a shitty move, asking her ex-girlfriend for help with a girl she knows Piper can’t stand. That Piper has a damn good reason to hate. Assuming the worst about Yasmine’s romance troubles is only fair.

But what other choice did Moon have? It’s not like her scientifically-minded friends, with their AP classes and their blocked chakras, would believe her about a magic spell gone awry.

“She starts smelling like the spell components whenever she’s near Demetri,” Moon says flatly. “And a couple of them came out of her hair. It’s not stuff she’d ever wear otherwise.”

Piper sits back up, suddenly fully alert with her arms crossed.

“You could have led with that.”

“I thought the weird, erratic behavior was more important!”

“As if I’d have a hard time believing that girl would have mood swings.” Piper’s grimace falters slightly as she rolls her eyes. “Like. Moonshine, that’s your type.”

“Shut up!”

Moon swats her. Piper chuckles briefly before her expression grows pained again.

She processes everything for a moment, groaning again and putting her face in her hand.

“Christ, girl,” she mumbles. “If this is real…yeah, that’s a pretty big fuckup. I’m not the biggest Yasmine fan, but yeesh.”

“I know.” Moon makes a face. “Trust me, I never meant to mess with her mind like that, but—”

“—you were hurting so much that you did anyway.”

“…more or less. I think, deep down, I didn’t believe anything would happen. It was to make me feel better in the moment.”

“Yeah, I know you.” Piper looks up, offering her a small smile. “I think you’d have an easier time permanently giving up smoothies than intentionally hurting someone.”

“I just feel so awful!” Moon wails, guilt bubbling up and erupting out of her like a volcano. “I know Yasmine hasn’t been the best person, but she should be able to at least choose who she loves. Even if that’s never going to be me.”

“So…did you come here so I could make you feel better?” Piper scrutinizes her. “Because I won’t lie—I’m kind of at a loss right now.”

“I don’t know.” Moon sighs again. “I came here because you’re the only person I trust who I figured would like…entertain this whole thing. Anyone else would call me crazy.”

Because at the end of the day, Piper may be rough-edged and butch and intimidating, but she’s open-minded. She’s willing to hear anyone’s point of view, and tries to embrace every walk of life. And she’s never one to dismiss possibilities outright, no matter how absurd they sound. No matter how “weird” the people saying them are.

It’s part of what initially drew the two of them together. Well…that and acai bowls.

“Right. So you want solutions.”

It’s almost embarrassing how fast Piper deduces it.

“That…that would be great.”

Piper takes a long sip of her health smoothie, slurps echoing around the room.

“Seems like a proximity thing. You said she acts more lucid when she’s away from Demetri, right?”

“Right.”

“So make plans to hang out, get her alone, and snap her out of it.”

Moon bites her lip. “I’m, uh…not sure how.”

“Demetri makes her act like she’s not herself, so…” Piper shrugs. “Remind her who she really is.”

Moon chuckles hollowly.

“That’s the other thing. I don’t entirely dislike the person she’s become thanks to the…Demetri thing. She’s a lot nicer, for one. And less judgmental.”

Piper seems to be holding back laughter.

“So…you want Yasmine to be her true self and get her free will back and all, but you’re worried that when she does…she’ll be someone you and everyone else will personally find less palatable?”

Moon glowers at her. “Well, when you say it like that, it sounds bad!”

A snicker finally worms its way out.

“Yeah, because it’s an incredibly shady thing to say.”

“You know that’s not what I meant.” Moon huffs. “Look, isn’t there some way to undo the spell without undoing her growth? Because like…in a weird way, I feel like she has grown as a person since she got magicked into being obsessed with Demetri. Is that bad?”

“Not necessarily, but you’re being awfully picky for someone who doesn’t even know if or how they can reverse their own paranormal fuck-up.”

“I thought you might know of a way to do some kind of partial reversal. Make her stop being crazy about Demetri, but keep some of the good ways she’s changed?”

“Sooooo.” Piper slurps more of her smoothie, expression growing insufferably smug. “Considering that fucking around with the nuance of this already-opaque-sounding spell is an objectively terrible idea…the way I see it, you have two options. You can break the spell and let Yasmine be whoever she wants, even if it’s someone who kind of sucks. Or you can leave her to be this weird enigmatic love curse’s braindead meat puppet for the rest of her days—with the perk that she’s more pleasant to be around. So what’s it gonna be, Moonshine?”

“But surely there’s some way to—”

“Uh-uh.” Piper cuts her off. “Look, I don’t know any more about this stuff than you do, but I doubt we’re talking about a spectrum here. Can’t have your cake and eat it too and all that. Either we lift the curse, or we don’t, so…what do you want to do?”

After a long moment, Moon sighs.

“I want Yasmine to be free.”

“So you need to do what I said. Remind her who she really is.”

“Even if…‘who she really is’ turns out to be mean and self-centered and kind of awful?”

“Eeyup. That’s Yasmine. Take her or leave her.”

“Even if it undoes all her personal growth from the last year?”

“That’s the conundrum, isn’t it?” Piper leans nonchalantly against the back of the couch, arm on the headboard. “We don’t know how much of that was the spell, and how much was the real Yasmine wanting to improve herself. So we gotta let the real Yasmine out and hope for the best, yeah?”

Moon looks down at her lap and smiles, shaking her head. “People won’t be too thrilled to have her back.”

“Then that’s going to be her problem, not yours. If you’re such a bitch that you need magic intervention to make you tolerable, then maybe you deserve to lose all your friends.”

It sounds harsh, but Moon can’t argue.

“Hey, c’mon.” Piper scoots over, playfully nudging Moon’s side. “I know how much you cared about her. That’s why it felt like your world was ending when she cut you off. And why you were still hung up on her while we were together. So there must’ve been something in there you thought was worth fighting for.”

And of course there was.

Because this was Yasmine. The same Yasmine who danced like a dork and smiled with dimples as soon as no one was watching. The same Yasmine who yanked Moon into every single one of her snapchat stories, no matter how mundane. The same Yasmine who didn’t think twice about defending Moon’s honor when she thought Sam was talking shit, and told Sam to get the hell out of Moon’s Benz.

The same Yasmine who talked about her and Moon as a single intertwined unit. Unfathomable to her as something that would ever split, until that fateful night on the beach. The same Yasmine who trusted that wherever one of them went, the other would follow.

Sure, there was plenty about her that was cruel and vindictive and conceited. And she’d spent her time at West Valley High so drunk on her own power that she kept digging herself a deeper and deeper grave, earning the hatred of most of her classmates. Good looks could only got you so far when you leaked poison and bile from every pore in your body.

But who is Moon to decide which traits Yasmine gets to keep, and which are magicked away? Who is Moon to remold Yasmine into a watered-down, docile amalgamation of what had once been her assets, when not so long ago, Moon fell in love with the entire picture?

And now Yasmine’s a hollowed-out shell of a person, all empty smiles and lifeless giggles. A painting cobbled together by some computer program—beautiful and polished and splendid on the surface, but a closer look reveals the details are all off.

A closer look reveals something without a soul, no light behind those sharp gray-green eyes.

“Fuck,” Moon says miserably, head sliding into her hands. “I want my best friend back.”

“So go get her back, then.” Piper nudges her again. “And maybe go easy on the evil curses this time? I don’t know, just a suggestion.”

“Oh, stop.” Moon scoffs, but there’s no real venom in it.

Piper rolls her eyes, although not unfondly.

“I wish I’d known you back then.” She laughs, shaking her head. “I could’ve told you from the jump that fucking with the occult was a bad idea. Yes, even when a girl breaks your heart. Which, in my opinion, is the highest and most profound type of pain.”

“Naturally.”

Moon sighs wearily, smile fading.

“I don’t know if anyone could’ve stopped me, honestly. When she—when she broke what we had, it was like I’d fallen into some rushing river and I could barely keep my head up. And I was headed right for one of those tall waterfalls with sharp rocks at the bottom from adventure movies. For whatever reason, lashing out felt like the only way to get a breath of air.”

Piper hums thoughtfully.

“I will say that this all makes me feel better about how I reacted the first time someone rejected me. I liked this girl Lila in the sixth grade, and when she found out, she called me a fat ugly dyke in front of all her friends. So I filled her locker with sweaty gym clothes.”

Moon wrinkles her nose as Piper cackles. “Ew, Pipes! You’re disgusting!”

“Okay, but I don’t summon Satan to make my crush want to fuck a gay guy senseless.”

“I did not summon Satan—”

“Sorry, Satan’s right-hand man Joe the Sexual Orientation Confuser.”

“Imagine if there were demons that actually did that.” The concept is admittedly intriguing. “They get sent up from the underworld or wherever solely to make cosmically cursed straights fall in love with cosmically cursed gays. And cosmically cursed gays fall in love with cosmically cursed straights.”

“Shit.” Piper grimaces again. “Wonder what I did to piss Joe off.”

“You’ve really liked that many straight girls?” Moon has to giggle.

“You have no idea,” Piper mumbles. “And trust me—your ex wasn’t the first guy to assume I played for the other team.”

“Not sure his heart was in that one. I think he wanted get a rise out of me, honestly. No offense.”

“Oh my god. The sheer irony.”

“He really thought I’d get jealous of my own girlfriend. As if there’s any girl I’d care about my unserious two-month fling hitting on.”

And then they’re both laughing, swaying on the couch and clutching at one another to keep from toppling over.

“Hi, I’m your run-of-the-mill punk poser and I think I get more ass than a proctologist!” Piper grabs the couch arm, attempting to do dramatic poses as she talks. “I know you’re frantic to have me back, even though my only skills are yelling and punching my friends for no reason!”

“Stoooop.” Despite herself, Moon only laughs harder. It’s probably just the edible finally kicking in. “You’re so rude!”

“Like your ex even knows how not to be an inappropriate, boundary-crossing weirdo.”

“He’s getting better!”

“Because he’s finally learning after his 7th attempt that asking a girl you just met to fondle your gelled-up hairdo isn’t going to wield results.”

“He wouldn’t—”

“He totally would, though!”

Moon snickers, shaking her head.

“Fine, yeah. He would.”

As the laughter dies down, Piper’s phone buzzes. She picks it up, frowning as she reads a text on her home screen.

“Hey, I gotta run soon. One of the kids from the dojo is hosting pizza night.”

“Oh, right. How’s that going?”

It’s amusing, really, how easy it is to forget Piper’s in Cobra Kai now. If the dojo’s truly the all-powerful, all-corrupting force Eli claims, then Moon’s ex-girlfriend must be entirely immune. Even if she and Piper haven’t spoken in a while, Moon hasn’t seen any evidence whatsoever of Piper caving to some kind of deeply-buried inner asshole.

Not that it was buried too deep, in Eli’s case.

“It’s fun. Good exercise during the gymnastics off-season.” Piper shrugs. “Some of the people in my class take it way too seriously, though. Like it’s high school karate, not the fucking Cuban missile crisis!”

“Yeah, that’s what I’ve heard.” Moon makes a face. “I was…kind of worried for you when I heard you joined. They treat it like a cult.”

“Oh, please.” Piper scoffs. “Like I’d ever buy into those sorts of stupid dramatics. I mean, don’t get me wrong—it can be fun to spar with people who’re so intense about it that they act like their fucking life is on the line. Makes things interesting. But I’m mostly there for the free shit.”

“Really?” Moon cocks an eyebrow. “You always seem so excited on your snapchats.”

“Yeah, like, it’s good energy. Everyone’s super passionate. But it gets to be a little much sometimes, you know? The senseis treat it like this huge life-or-death thing. Like sure, placing in a global tournament would be cool, but it’s not that big a deal? And sometimes I wonder how much my teammates are actually, like, enjoying themselves, and how much they’re stressing over nothing.” Piper purses her lips disdainfully. “Honestly? I’m going to rack up as much free equipment as I can, and then I’m gonna ditch them for Topanga or something. They seem way more chill.”

“Are you sure that’s a good idea?” Moon frowns. “I know they can go psycho when someone quits. Look what happened to Hawk.”

“Any of those bitches come at me with a razor and I’ll beat their ass into next week.” Piper rolls her eyes, unfazed.  “And what the hell are the senseis going to do? Call the cops on me for quitting their dojo? They’ll get laughed off the phone.”

“Just…be careful. I don’t want Cobra Kai hurting anyone else I care about.”

Before she can stop herself, she reaches out and squeezes Piper’s hand. The other girl turns and fixes her with a pale green gaze, expression unreadable.

“Okay,” she says quietly, tone turning serious.

Piper’s phone buzzes again, and the moment ends.

“Damn,” she mutters, glancing at her texts. “I forgot I said I’d bring jaeger bombs. I’d better get ready.”

“Oh, sorry.” Moon pulls away, embarrassed. “I don’t mean to take up too much of your time.”

“Don’t worry about it. I hope I could help.”

They stand up, and Piper starts to walk her out. Moon stares at the floor, suddenly feeling anxious again.

She stops right before they reach the front door. “What you said to do with Yasmine…what if it doesn’t work?”

“You better hope it does, because otherwise you’re going to have to consult the dark web or something. And then you’ll have to wade through about 70 sites with the most degenerate porn you’ve ever seen before finding anything useful.”

Moon laughs, tension easing.

“I guess I’ll deal with that when it happens. Or if.”

“Exactly. One thing at a time.”

“Well…I’ll let you go.” Moon offers Piper one last smile, opening the front door. “Have fun at your pizza party, okay?”

She’s halfway onto the porch when Piper catches her wrist, pulling her back.

“Hey, Moonshine…”

She turns. “Yeah?”

“I meant what I said before.” Piper bites her lip, meeting Moon’s eyes nervously. “About, um…if you sort through this whole Yasmine thing, and you ever decide you want to try again…all you have to do is ask.”

The surprise on Moon’s face must throw her for a loop.

“I mean, I’m not saying I’m going to sit on my ass waiting around,” she amends quickly, grip loosening. “I can’t promise I won’t move on. And I’m not, like, some piney mess who’s got nothing better to do than try and ‘win you back’ or whatever. But if you’re ever feeling it, and Yasmine’s not an issue anymore…just ask. The worst I’ll do is say no.”

And before Moon knows what she’s doing, she steps back inside and wraps Piper in a tight hug.

“Thank you,” she murmurs into the thick, bushy hair she remembers loving so much. “For helping. You didn’t have to, and I appreciate it.”

“I know.” Slowly but surely, Piper hugs her back. “But someone has to check you before you cause some domino effect that sends half the school into a sexuality crisis.”

***

Some author's notes, in no particular order:

I will literally die on the hill that Demetri is a bad boyfriend. All he's ever done IN CANON has been to objectify and generally be gross with Yasmine??? And the lead up to the whole icky "sexual venn diagram" comment was basically "hey, you should settle for me because I'm popular now and everyone thinks you're a laughingstock <3" Like wow! What a great way to treat the girl you're supposed to be "101% in love with"! And in S4 onwards he doesn't appear to know jack shit ABOUT her and just puts her on this pedestal as his "dream girl" while never actually mentioning anything about her personality.

I'm honestly not surprised that the natural progression of their relationship in S5 was (most likely) Yasmine getting fed up with Demetri not giving any visible shits about who she is as a person, and getting into fights with him the second she starts asserting her own wants and needs outside of him. And of course he gets her shallow jewelry gifts to placate her, which is just further proof he doesn't know her at all--it reads like he just saw on the internet that "girls like jewelry." And it's not like it actually solves anything, considering he's gotten her so many apology gifts that she can "barely lift her arm"! Tbh it pisses me off to not end that people whine and bitch about Demetri being a "bad friend" (which is so easily disproved it's not even funny) and don't make a peep about the gross way he treats his own fucking canon love interest. Please roast my trash son Demetri Alexopoulos for the RIGHT reasons!!!

I really did my damndest to keep Yasmine as canon-compliant as possible here. I do think she and Moon messed around in S1 and no one will ever be able to convince me otherwise, but I tried to keep everything we see of her here consistent with how she acts onscreen in seasons 1, 3, and 5. Season 4 is the obvious odd man out, which...needless to say is kinda the point XD But you take S4 out of the mix and accept some weird fluke was going on that was making her act that way, and we get something semi-plausible to work with! Hopefully she comes across as in-character (from what little we see of her!) here.

Also she does not love it when Demetri talks nerdy. Aisha and Sam's S1 salt conversation proves that she is not about it when people talk about nerdy school-related shit that reads like an inside joke she can't get in on (which applies to...most school-related things, considering she's shown to be kind of book dumb). She loves when Demetri gets her good grades, but she doesn't like. Have any inherent interest in school-related "nerdy" things??? And has never been shown to??? "Character development" shouldn't come out of nowhere and involve characters randomly getting into things they have never been shown to be drawn to actually!

I also hope I did an okay job writing Piper here! I wish I could write more MoonPiper, but we get!!! So ANNOYINGLY little of them and of Piper in general??? Like seriously, I went back and rewatched all the Piper scenes in the show, and there's like. Maybe 5 or 6 in THE WHOLE SHOW??? I barely have anything to work with and it is AGGRAVATING because I really love Piper and MoonPiper as a ship!!! And I want to do it justice that isn't just me projecting my own headcanons and theories because I don't know what else to do!!!

I really do think Piper is Not As Invested in Cobra Kai as everyone else though, lmao. Like she is there for shits and giggles, and also free merch. She respects herself too much to become a slave to the "cobra kai for life" bullshit lol

It IS incredibly funny to me that Moon gets more homoerotic scenes with her Super Totally Straight Best Friend than with the girl who was canonically her girlfriend. Like I love both ships, I really do, but when they give Yas and Moon SO many fruity scenes while their boyfriends are also being fruity, what did they EXPECT!!! Of COURSE I'm going to write YasMoon like my life depends on it!!!

Also, Moon saw that nacho nonsense with Hawk and Demetri in S2. She saw Hawk yank Demetri onstage during Valley Fest. She saw Hawk get all snippy about Demetri hitting on girls at the beach. She saw Hawk throw a hissy fit because his boyfriend bestie wouldn't join his evil dojo. She damn well knows they're gay!

And so does Piper ajadhskufbhd these girls weren't born yesterday!

Hoping to get this entire fic up on AO3 sometime in November! :3