#( verse iv. birthday party. )

[quarterprioritymidnight]

If you could pick any Bastille song to be redone in another style or just a different production which song would it be and what changes would you want?

probably an act of kindess because i think its boring, but i think it could not be boring. maybe if there was more of a contrast between the verse and the chorus and a bit more kind of 'breathing space' if that makes sense. also they should add guitars to everything a la the draw bbx version #rockstille

[targaryenluvs]

VICTORS SPOILS

pairings: dark!finnick odair x fem!capitol!reader

warnings: obsession, following/stalking, creepy behaviour, naive/younger reader, age gap, (reader is 19 and finnick's around 25), non-con touching and kissing, manipulation, bj mentions/insinuations, sex mentions, prostitution mentions, finnick lowkey preying on you - descriptions of brown reader (i was self indulgent since i’m indian 😁) condescending/nit picking mother and pushy parents!

summary: a victor should be celebrated! a victor should get what ever they wish, even if it’s a sweet capitol girl who misplaced her kindness in someone who was in desperate need of reprieve and distraction.

a/n: ITS MY BIRTHDAY!!! HERES A GIFT FROM ME TO YOU ❤️GUESS WHO MADE HER OWN LITTLE HEADER GAHH!! i tried my bestttt - ive been away for a littleeee!! sorry babes <33 it was like 3am and i cooked this up in my head before opening my brewing pot (notes app) and jotting it down - NOT PROOFREAD

the hall was so loud.

they always were at capitol parties. your mother and father always dragged you along, stating that a young lady should be getting out, meeting people, friends, becoming well versed and established in the capitol. and that they wouldn’t always be here. “you need to learn to be alone, fend for yourself and stand your ground. how are you gonna do that if you’re always trying to keep to yourself dear?” your mother sweetly smiled as she looked over you, “i think you still have time to change that dress, not the most flattering sweetie.”

you scoffed as she walked away ever so elegantly. you looked over yourself in the mirror, the green dress was gorgeous, to you at least. but the blue dress your mother had chosen was breath-taking, as much as you hated to agree with her opinion. so you bit your tongue and put the chosen dress on.

mother knows best right?

the sun was setting with an especially beautiful array of colours to which you figured no one would really notice you were gone if they were all focused on something else. there was probably a screen upstairs which you could watch something on. a few things to eat and drink then you’d head up there.

finnick was glancing over to you the whole night. you’d worn blue, and he’d taken it as an ode to him. you hadn’t looked over at him yet but your leaving of the party seemed like an invitation to him to finally introduce himself.

as you settled down on the plush couch you felt all your tensions melt away. but finnick wouldn’t leave you alone for long. “i’m sorry i didn’t know this was occupied.” finnick looked sad and you had no clue why, so being as nice as you are had you opening the room in invitation to him. “no, no! i just wanted to get away from the party. you’re welcome to sit with me finnick.” it felt odd to you for some reason, calling him by his name as if he was a friend. you’d only ever seen him through screens and from afar yet he looked as amazing as always.

“are you sure?” you nodded and smiled, moving down the couch to make room for him. he sat down, respectful of your space. he looked drained and you felt the same way. “tired of the party?” you asked as he smiled and nodded, “a lot of people asking a lot of questions.” you spoke, “everyone has something to say or ask. my dad told me he got three men asking for my hand. we haven’t even been here for two hours. it’s like being in a room with vultures. and if i do accept i’ll just be, nothing. someone stuck to the side of some ugly guy who just wants a pretty face.” you didn’t know what it was about him but you felt as if you could tell him anything.

and he sat, and listened. nodding his head and adding it where appropriate. it felt, nice. having someone actually listen to what you said rather than just asking what you were wearing. he was nothing like what you expected. you’d heard the whispers. that he was a playboy, he was with and had been with multiple women and men over the years. and that he liked it, the gifts, the people, the uhm, other aspects.

“but you, i’m sure you have people to meet, scope out.” you wanted to curl up and die as soon as the words left your mouth. “no! oh my god, i do not mean it like that. you- i- you should not feel ashamed of what you like. i am so sorry- i didn’t mean to imply-” god would you stop droning on? finnick pressed his lips into a thin line, “hey it’s okay. you’re fine. in all honestly, i know everyone has mis-conceptions of me.” you took his place in attentive listening as he explained the truth.

the threats, the people pawing at him, him being sold from fourteen.

you were crying. it all sounded unbelievable and unbearable for someone to go through at such a young age, his life was ruined all because he was pretty, desirable. no child should even have to think of such things let alone experience them. and rather than you comforting him, he was sitting with his arms around you. he was too good to be true.

“i- no i’m so sorry that happened to you finnick. i had no clue, no one does. you are such an amazing person, from the little time i’ve known you. you don’t deserve any of this. how could you get away from this? we could- we could expose snow we could-” finnick cut you off with teary eyes, “there’s nothing we can do. trust me, if there was i would have tried. but i think, if i got married perhaps. i’d have a reason to stay away from the captiol. we’d live in district four, in peace.”

the idea was pretty decent, you’d give him that. and you couldn’t help your heart running a little faster at the prospect of potentially marrying him. you were already fast friends, at least you’d marry a friend? even if he potentially loved someone else or you loved another.

“what if- if you married me?”

he’d hoped you’d say that.

“you’d do that for me? seriously?” finnick faked shock as you nodded, “we’re friends, i’d much rather marry you than anyone else here to be honest. we could be happy.” you smiled as he wiped away his last tear. “y/n, that’s an amazing idea.”

your wedding was marvellous.

your parents pushed out buck after buck, no expense spared for their little girl. as if they actually cared for you. your wedding dress was white and pristine, courtesy of snow. your brown hair in curls and your brown skin glistening. but you added blue accents for finnick, or you thought you did. it’s not like he pushed for you to wear the things he bought by incessantly reminding the makeup artists and helpers that you were marrying the finnick odair, his wife deserved nothing but the best.

you stood infront of a friend, smiling, happy to be marrying a kind soul.

he stood in front of the object of his affection, his desire and love.

in the first few weeks you were undeniably happy, finnick was as sweet as ever and respected you. it was your best outcome. but overtime you seemed to notice changes in his behaviour. when you’d want to go out into town for dinner he’d always have an excuse up his sleeve.

“there’s roadworks towards your favourite restaurant honey. maybe another time?”

“apparently they’re all booked out, maybe in a few weeks time?”

“wouldn’t you rather have a home-cooked meal? i made your favourite sweetheart.”

it began to annoy after the sixth time. “it can’t always be busy can it? we use to go all the time, and it’s not like they’d refuse you finnick. what’s going on?”

“i give you everything you could ever want. why the hell do you want to go out so much? am i not enough? are you- are you seeing someone?” finnick slumped in his seat.

your eyes widened as you rushed over to him, settling on your knees as your hands were placed on his thighs, “finnick how could you say such a thing? i would never do that to you. i swear there’s nothing going on, i just, i’m bored. i’d like to go out with you, explore your district with you, meet new people with you.” finnicks eyes burnt into yours. this is certainly not how he first wanted to see you on your knees, but at least you were whining.

“yeah? you like me? you promise there’s nothing going on?” you nodded dumbly, “yes yes! nothing i promise.” finnick looked down at your hands in his lap, “how do i know you’re not lying?” your hands were on his knees as you straightened your back, coming closer to his eye level, “i promise finnick. you are my husband, i’m with you. i’ll do anything to prove it to you.”

finnick was fighting off every muscle in his cheeks to not start grinning whilst the sad look on his face was breaking your heart, “yeah? anything?” oh this was going to be good. your cheeks were flushed as you heard the words come of out his mouth, “undo my belt sweetheart, show me how much you mean it.” wavering hands hovered over his belt buckle as finnick relaxed into his seat, it couldn’t get better than this right?

wrong.

every time you asked to go out, to meet a friend, to go to the capitol he’d always sulk. and the night would end with you on your knees, him on his to make you forget, or the two of you tangled in sheets.

finnick was finally happy, he had the girl of his dreams after such a long period of sadness, of exploitation and terror. fake smiles and lingering eyes.

he finally got something out of the games.

and his gift?

the victors spoils.

[doraambrose]

Hey friends!

So ive gotten another art request and I'm so excited and I'm definitely going to do it, but I just wanted to put this out there:

I promise that I will always do any art request that's given to me unless it conflicts with the guidelines I have pinned to my account. Any art request I won't do, I will respond to the request saying I'm not going to do it, so if it's been a minute and you think I'm ignoring you, I'm not I promise.

For this week:

I'm still new to college and restructuring my life for it, so I have a habit of trying to take on too much. This week, I have an exam and a lab practical and I have homework and stuff before spring break so while my commissions are still open and I welcome them, I will not even start them until this Sunday, March 10th.

It also might be delayed because I have 2 birthday parties in my family, good Friday, and Easter so I am quite busy in March lol. But I will do my best starting on the 10th to get any requests started and while they may take a little bit, I promise they will get done.

Thanks friends! Keep sending any asks and art requests!

PS: I know I dropped the ball on the last couple asks (the one with Cassandra and Jason was terrible and misinformed), so going forward, I promise to put in as much research as I can into characters I'm not well versed with before responding. And thank you to the people in the comments and reblogs who have educated me on said characters, it's been very helpful!

[nathjonesey-75]

Hipping and Hopping: I Was Raised By Hip-Hop

Today is a vitally important day for me in many ways. I am playing tonight as a launch party for my first track being released in collaboration with my friend, Ranj Kaler. It’s his EP and I played a part on the title track, Break The Chains. The pivotal link between another huge importance of today is that the sample I used in the track would not have come to use, were it not for the big birthday entity, Hip-Hop - which has turned fifty today.

So, what you read is not a test, I’m celebrating this feat.

I remember vividly the first time I was really exposed to the deeper side of Hip-Hop and the irony of it all. I would have been 12, with my more youthfully liberated friend Ceri owning an Ice-T cassette. Now, as a highly impressionable and sheltered kid - this was vastly different to Walk This Way and My Adidas, which would have been the only other tracks of the genre in my hearing experience. But while Ice-T and so many rappers of that generation were so scalded for their lyrics - the whole package was something I got hooked upon immediately.

And once one can was opened, I wanted to try all flavours of this new and edgy style of sound. After all, all I ever heard at home was a mixture of the Rocky IV soundtrack on repeat, ABBA, plus the fresher angle hip-hop’s sampling and verse. There was more to life than small town vanilla 2.4 family existence – there was a bigger world out there. Yet the South Bronx and the five boroughs which gave birth and rise to Hip-Hop may have been Mars in comparison with Llanelli in South Wales.

It opened my eyes to DJs and the whole relationship between them and MCs. Although in those days, the MC was always the more revered, my path to turntablism had already begun years earlier, as I had quite a record collection - my grandmother used to give me 7” singles, donated from the DJ at the local RAFA club. There was no Sugarhill Gang, nor Afrika Bambaataa - clearly South-West Wales wasn’t ready for that in the early eighties. But The Jam, Madness and Blondie were the more reputable of the small-sized vinyl stacked in my bedroom.

By 1989, I was already ordering Hip Hop Connection magazine from the newsagent next to my grandparents’ house, plus my journey into the collectors’ category began by buying 7” releases of Hip-Hop singles. Then, recording tracks from the radio onto tapes via Jeff Young’s Big Beat Show on Radio 1. Yet it was a broadcast on Channel Four that year which scratched the DJ life into me. The annual Technics DJ Competition was broadcasted one night. London’s Cutmaster Swift and his amazing styling, cutting and scratching was one routine I watched over and again in wonder.

So, by the age of fifteen, I had already been encouraged to think differently about life and music. Already having seen examples of culture - obviously not all positive - in fact learning the way of the sword about slavery and inequality wasn’t something which went over my head – it made me want the world to be very different. Hence the sample used on the track, from an outspoken civil rights activist of the 1960s (you can do the research on this one – wink-wink), which many will recognise – many may not.

“To be a human being, to be respected as a human being, to be given the rights of a man; in this society, on this earth, on this day, which we intend to be which we intend to bring into existence…”

The words following those used in the sample and not used in Break the Chains – are the ones with which this great leader of the people became most synonymous. Public Enemy, one of my idolised bands along with KRS-One from Boogie Down Productions were the ones who made this recognition possible.

Since then – many versions of myself later; I’ve developed and merged my taste through a myriad of ages, of styles and from travelling and relationships; but the gravity of the most influential musical form from my own childhood remains. Alongside the invaluable memories – it took me until 2013 to finally see De La Soul live and until 2014 to see Public Enemy live. Both were done while living in Melbourne. The former saw my copy of Say No Go signed by the band, which is now up on my wall of frames. The latter was a sublime memory of seeing Flavor Flav play the saxophone during the set (many will still not know that he’s a multi-instrumentalist). But the politics, the samples, the effects and legal wrangles; the cutting, the scratching and the controversial law smashing – will always be a big part of my musical armoury.

Thank you Hip-Hop and a happy birthday to everyone in the community.

Peace, love, unity and having fun is what Afrika Bambaataa and James Brown sang about in 1985. We need it now as much ever.

[slaughterlocked]

[ tag drop 1: CANON VERSES. descriptions under cut. ]

( weaned on poison: default i. )

The making of a man. Spanning twenty two years from birth to college graduation, William’s childhood verse finds him resentful, ambitious, and uncertain about the kind of man he wants to be. While prickly and eccentric, William doesn’t hide his insecurity or true self as much as he wishes he could: the people that meet him in college see him transform into someone who has perfected the delicately crafted persona he begins creating during this time.

( hungry dog’s logic: default ii. )

The happiest years of William’s life, from the opening of the diner to the birthday party where it all goes wrong. MORE TBA.

( house haunted by shame: default iii. )

After Evan’s death and the incident with Suzie, it’s safe to say William spirals, just a little. From the bite of ‘83 to Elizabeth’s death (in ‘90 — though this is dependent obviously on who I’m writing with too!). William at his most unstable. MORE TBA.

( still left with his hands: default iv. )

Elizabeth’s death leaves William stricken with grief and the crumbling discovery that he can’t outrun the misfortune that is plaguing his family (mostly at his own hands). Left only with Michael, his need to fix everything, and the crippling loss of his family, it wouldn’t be entirely accurate to say William is MORE stable: but perhaps less likely to murder. Between ‘90 and ‘92 (or whenever Michael ‘dies’: again dependent on writing). MORE TBA.

( just to be alive: default v. )

Entirely alone, this last human verse spans the two years between Michael’s ‘death’ and William’s own springlock incident in ‘94. MORE TBA.

( first clear thought in years: default vi. )

Get springlocked idiot! Takes place any time in the thirty years before Springtrap is discovered (1994–2024). William’s memory and sense of. well, being ‘William’ drifts further and further as time progresses as his fury and agony grows. MORE TBA.

( tomb that won’t close: default vii. )

F.NAF 3 to F.NAF 6! More monster than man but still unbearably human, it has enough of itself left to recognise its son & old friend. That doesn’t stop it wanting to ruin everything in its path. MORE TBA.

( what is the difference between science and god?: default viii. )

Sometime before Elizabeth’s death, William infuses his remnant with a computer in another effort to prolong his lifespan. It results in Glitchtrap: a virus that both is and isn’t William. Glitchtrap, emerging thanks to the game it infuses with, has only one goal — revive himself properly to continue the work he started decades ago. See this post (link tba) for more Glitchtrap information. MORE TBA.

( obsessive replay: default ix. )

Ultimate Custom Night time!! After the events of F.NAF 6, William actually dies, and his soul is transported elsewhere. Turns out, hell is the neverending nightmare that a little kid dreams up for you. William suffers, screams, schemes, and looks for salvation at every corner. It never seems to come. More TBA.

( alive while a name is spoken: default x. )

Glitchtrap’s goal succeeds, and William is back in the land of the living! Trouble is, the virus hadn’t predicted its true self facing decades of torture at Cassidy’s hands… or its true self’s inability to fully adapt to the modern world. Torn between an inability to move forward and a desperate need to not look back, William is finally honest with himself, and tries to run from things one last time. Adopting a role at the Pizzaplex unassumingly and trying to live out the rest of his life in (relative peace), he naively hopes that everything is over. Of course, he's never been more sorely mistaken. MORE TBA.

[aliens-took-my-iwa-chan]

yum, hope you enjoy it hehe

ah, sorry about exams,, youre gonna do so great tho!!!! anD OMG YAY PRODUCTION REHEARSAL!!!!!! its gonna go so amazing youre gonna have so much fun aaaaaa lmk how it goes!!!

oooo fun!! im not too well versed in httyd but id love to help if youd want me too!!!! ^-^

im good!! going to an escape room birthday party today hehe,,, also working on a lot of summer school ;-; but it should be fine!!!

ive been taking a creative writing summer course from a really good uni and I think its going well so far!! its pretty scary bc im the only highschool kid in this course but I think im doing ok so far ^-^ so yeah with two summer school classes im a bit busy but I have more time than I expected!!!

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HIHIIIIIIII

🍪 🍪 🍪 three cookies for you hehe

hows life bestie dearest????? :D

HIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII

ooo, great i'll make a cookie sandwich :))) <33

uhhh, pretty good? i mean, my exams start tmrw, but at least ive FINALLY got a production rehearsal as well (im SO exciteddddd)

i've recently started mass-reblogging httyd stuff, and decided to make httyd au's for all of my fandoms (maybe a tgs one??? if so, i'll probably need your help for planning lol-)

how are you???

[bitemyhip-blog]

OPEN.

    “Me feel swell. Me work well. Me want what you got.”

[heavensickness]

if its inconvient though stories/poetry that you enjoy would be great :-)

It would be too long if I put my favorite poems AND poets in the same post so I decided to give the poets whom works I read the most & my favorites from them

Poets

John Keats (Ode to a Nightingale)

Arthur Rimbaud (The Drunken Boat, Comedy of Thirst)

Paul Verlaine (A Poor Young Shepherd)

Emily Dickinson (I Am Nobody! Who Are You?)

Mary Oliver (The Wild Geese, Invitation, The Fourth Sign of the Zodiac, October, Moments, Starlings in Winter, Little Crazy Love Song, I Worried, Worm Moon, Black Oaks, We Should Be Well Prepared, In Blackwater Woods, Someday... You know what, read any and every work by her that you can find)

Frank O'Hara (Having a Coke with You, For Grace, After a Party, Steps)

Audre Lorde (Pirouette, A Litany for Survival)

Alice Notley (Songs and Stories of the Ghouls and In The Pines (poetry collections), Love Song, Have Made Earth as the Mirror of Heaven, An Excerpt from In The Pines)

Louise Glück (Averno (poetry collection), Departure, Lament, Persephone the Wanderer, A Myth of Devotion, Sunrise, Marina, A Fable)

e. e. cummings (i carry your heart with me, somewhere i have never travelled gladly beyond, i like my body when it is with your…)

Chen Chen (When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities (poetry collection), Self Portrait as So Much Potential, Race to the Tree, Chapter VIII, Poplar Street, Elegy for My Sadness, How I Became Sagacious)

Jeremy Radin (So I Locked Myself Inside A Star for Twenty Years, With These Hands, Sign, A Word)

Andrea Gibson (The Madness Vase & Lord of the Butterflies (poetry collections) Asking Too Much, I Sing the Body Electric, Birthday for Jenn, Yellowbird, Your Life)

Mahmoud Darvish (In The Presence of Absence (poetry collection), Sonnet V, Your Night is of Lilac, In Her Absence I Created Her Image)

Ocean Vuong (Night Sky With Exit Wounds (poetry collection) Thanksgiving 2006, Homewrecker, Someday I'll Love Ocean Vuong, Threshold, Untitled (Blue, Green, & Brown): oil on canvas: Mark Rothko: 1952, Reasons for Staying)

Richard Siken (his entire poem collection of Crush, i've read it at one sitting)

Clementine Von Radics (In A Dream You Saw A Way to Survive (poetry collection) Courtney Love Prays to Oregon, The Grapefruit Poem, It's The Way, Mouthful of Forevers, That Spring Everything Grew Wild and the Rain Came Down Like Punishment, I No Longer Believe Anger Will Save Me, Bitter, Storm, A conversation between / my therapist / and the mouth that sometimes belongs to me, Sweet The Sound)

Ada Limón

Margaret Atwood (Power Politics and Interlunar (poem collections) A Sad Child, There Are Better Ways of Doing This, Eurydice, Night Poem, Eating Snake, Half Hanged Mary)

Ursula K. Le Guin (Looking Back, The Drowned Girl)

Franz Wright (God's Silence (poetry collection), On Earth, The Heaven, Quandary, Clarification, To Her, The Poem, East Boston 1996 Night Walk)

Rainer Maria Rilke (Sonnets to Orpheus (sonnet collection), First Elegy, Second Elegy, Go to The Limits of Your Longing, Evening, Part One IV)

Anne Carson (Tango XXII. Homo Ludens, Apostle Town, The Glass Essay, Plainwater (essay and poetry collection), Autobiography of Red (verse novel), O Small Sad Ecstasy of Love, Stanzas Sexes Seductions, On Hedonism (an excerpt from Plainwater)

[savnofilter]

Another Year Together

Todoroki x 『GN』Reader

↬ᴡᴀʀɴɪɴɢ(s): intoxication, mentions of partying too hard, injuries and cleaning said injuries, crack (?), fluff.

↬ᴡᴄ: 2.5k [10 mins].

↬ᴀ/ɴ: ahhhh i was bummed that i dont have any sfw shouto reqs *cough cough* send some- *cough cough* anyways so i made up a scenario of my own! i have more fluff ideas i'd love to put out but this may be the birthday fic or i'll post something else tonight if i can~ every time there needs to be a party, just know either mina or kaminari threw it. also its a little rushed because i wanted to get this out tonight and this is the longest sfw piece ive ever written. ;; pffft hopefully you all will love this as much as i loved writing it, happy birthday shouto!

"Stay still." Shouto muttered to you as you squirmed away from the harsh sting the disinfectant alcohol caused your bruised skin.

"Mmmnhmm... M' sorry." You utter haltingly, your leg jerking once more from the sudden sensation. You look up at him with puppy eyes, guilt-stricken as you have already broken your promise.

He stared at you for a few seconds before his gaze softened as you stuck out your bottom lip with a sorrowful look on your face. As he smooths the cloth over your exposed thighs, he softly sighs under his breath, expertly concealing the roll of his eyes. Todoroki was relieved that your reflexes were still in shape, the abuse of the liquor not interfering much with your cognition... at least not too much. 

You two shared the same birthday. He had no idea that celebrating your big day of turning 21 would've been so hectic. As many things between you and Todorooki, you guys took today as a competition. The day started with you both trying to one-up each other since Todoroki’s lucky day was yours as well. First, your day with a breakfast made by him -- with the assistance of Bakugo of course. You couldn’t help the warm swell in your heart at how much effort he had put into it but it wouldn’t top you! While you two interned at the same agency it was pretty easy to surprise him with a big B-Day lunch and an obnoxious bouquet.

“This is a little too much…” 

“There is no such thing as too much for you, Sho.”

Truthfully, he felt that way because he wanted to wow you as well. He was glad that today was a calm day concerning his patrol watch, giving him time to map up his day today and think about all the other miscellaneous thoughts that roamed his head. The painting he had saved for this momentous day sat in the back of his head as he patrolled the streets, the small accessory along with it sitting next to the rest of his pee-pee pouches making him grow nervous. I had kept the small item with him in fear of losing it, the last thing he needed was it to go missing under his watch.

You on the other handheld no qualms about goofing off for the day. Now, you weren’t entirely wasting away the day, you just simply knew how to let loose. With the great news you’d be staying in the office you had more than enough time to help plan and finalize Todoroki’s surprise birthday party. You bit your lip as you checked in with your longtime friend, Kaminari, to host the momentous occasion. Your mind was mostly occupied with the thought of the party and the small but significant present that you had in your desk draw. You and Todoroki had the same mind, the only thing setting you apart is you somehow being more… airhead than him. 

Impossible, right? Not at all. That’s how it explains why he was busy cleaning up your injuries.

After being sent home early you had taken him out to lunch for some soba and well, boba as a great lunch treat — simple enough. You both were full upon going back home, giving you two a few hours to snuggle up and nap to rejoice with the sleep you two had lost from over the time having part-time heroes. Holding back the excited news of the party was hard to do, the first thing you did when you woke up was jump up and usher him to get up as well.

“What -- why??” Shouto glared as he was forced to sit up, rubbing his eyes with the free hand that you didn’t use to pull him up.

“C’mooonn! I just have one more thing to show you for today!” You beam brightly. Your facial expression was as bright as ever like you hadn’t just slept for 4 hours before that. Everything in his body wanted to resist but he couldn’t as he wouldn’t bring himself to. It took but only an hour for the both of you to get ready, sending Kaminari a quick text to make sure that everything was set for sure. 

“Honey, I know this might sound a little odd but I need you to put this on.” You hand him the blindfold once you find him dressed and ready. You couldn’t help but grin at his confused face when he stares at the piece of fabric.

“I thought you said we were going out?” He asks mildly confused, taking it and putting it on anyway.

You paused and gave yourself a moment to think about his response, your cheeks feeling hot at the insinuation. Todoroki’s small giggle makes you feel better about your flustered words, rolling your eyes annoyed when he teased you like that. “Just hold onto my hand okay?” You instruct, hand coming up to hold him as an example. He nods his head as he follows your lead, more excited than what he led on.

The trip from your apartment down to your car didn’t take too long, the assistance of helping him not trip over his shoes harder than you thought. It was hard to keep back your laugh as he fumbled here and there, the most highlight of your experience was helping him in his care (like he usually did with you) and even buckling in his seat (not something he did for you). You were practically buzzing in your seat in excitement as you took off as soon as you were ready, the journey to his place not too far from your own. You bobbed your head to the music of the radio as you vibed along with the beats, fingers tapping the steering wheel as you mumbled the lyrics to whatever song played. Had it not been winter time in Japan you would’ve had the windows down, but you had to settle with the subtle and gentle breeze of the heaters on your skin instead.

“We’re here.” You announced your arrival. You used the keycard Kaminari had given you as the entrance to his apartment complex and zoomed-in irresponsibly. It was easy finding a parking space on the higher levels conveniently the same as his home. You hopped out and helped Todoroki out from his seat and helped him to the elevator. “Promise me to have fun, okay?” The question was simple enough, but your level of fun always exceeded his. 

The sentence made him turn in your direction with confusion heavy on the top of his head. You took out the key from your pocket and jiggled it into the lock. As soon as he was about to open his mouth you yoinked the blindfold off his eyes, the first thing his eyes seeing your cheerful grin and everyone popping up from their hiding places and throwing the decorations up that they held in their hands.

“HAPPY BIRTHDAY!” 

Todoroki was taken back from the whole thing. How many people were there, the familiar faces, the decorations, and just overall effort that was put into this. He couldn’t help but look over at you with the same adoration he normally did when you looked the other way. He was greeted by so many of his friends and mutuals, the overwhelming amount of gifts that sat on the table, and the arrangement of food and drinks that sat up in the spacious room. In the back of his head, he knew he would have to keep an eye on you, and he was right.

The group had gathered to get some cake to get it out the way, the bonus of ice cream filling your tummy with happiness. As soon as you had finished your dessert plate, you declared everyone should loosen up; since no one objected, you went straight for shots. First, it was one, two, then it was two at once, then it was some straight from Mina’s belly button. You held no restraint at your alcohol intake, taking the immature opportunity to drink to your heart’s content. While you were liberal with your amount, Todoroki decided to take in practically none. The verses of your habits are almost amusing to watch like your two contrasting but similar personalities.

Later in the night when the mayhem had started. You and a few friends decided to dance on a few more dangerous surfaces, guaranteeing the sacrifice of one of them being Kaminari’s glass table. 

“Holy shit—” Mina quickly rushed to your side, the same drunken posture and smile on her face as she tried to help you up, careful not to get the same glass shards that scattered the floor. “Are you okay-?!”

“YO Y/N WILDING!” Denki tries helping you up too, the help of the duo helping you somewhat.

You stumbled to get up, the flashlight of other people’s phones making you weary. “I-I’m fine-” You managed to let out, standing as you tried to clear your head and drink the water handed towards you. Either the H2O in that cup gave you courage or you simply went crazy. “let’s go again!” 

Todoroki was left speechless upon watching you continue to party on, knowing damn well he'd have to stop you soon. He wasn’t one to attend parties, and most times when he did they always ended up like this. It seemed after your fall that the knock had given you a sign to calm down at least, deciding to drink more beverages that didn’t hold liquor in it. After some time he had managed to get you in his lap, holding you as he monitored your well-being. 

As much as your reckless behavior would have annoyed someone else, he found it almost endearing. Well… not really in the sense you were drinking yourself silly, but in the fact that you still had the spirit to keep up and party even after the effects of your last hour of madness. It wasn’t long till you had gotten comfortable in his arms you had successfully partied yourself to sleep. Todoroki was careful in lifting you, thanking everyone from attending before quietly slipping out from the apartment. 

He took a deep breath as he somehow managed to find your car, maneuvering to get you into the car and hopping in on his side to drive you home. Todoroki made sure to drive carefully in hopes that you wouldn’t barf all over his car that you had used to get there. The drive back was much quicker than when you two had headed up since it was practically dead at night and the streets empty. He liked drives like these. A part of him was sad that you weren’t awake for it.

Your boyfriend repeated the same process when he had pulled into your apartment complex, picking up your body and bringing you up to your shared home. He was dedicated to getting you situated, prepared to take care of you as much as he needed to. That’s how he found himself tending to your scrapes and bruises right now.

“You know I’m never going to let you drink again.” Shouto teases you, smirking lightly at your sad expression.

“You’d never!” You argued back with the same teasing tone, moving to cross your arms, stifling the pain as you did so.

Todoroki snorts at your dedication to hold up the act, nodding his head as he finished cleaning up your legs. “You’re right. But don’t expect me not to monitor you from now on.” 

A smile tugs at your lips at his words, uncrossing your arms. The lingering drunk feeling still played in how you thought and spoke but not managing to affect how effortless it was to talk to Shouto. You blushed when he picked up your hands, kissing the back of your hands as he spoke to you once again.

“I have a present for you.” He mutters against your skin, eyes trained on the fresh bandages before looking up at you. He wasn’t looking for an answer and he didn’t wait for one either. He hoped that you couldn’t tell that he was weary, reaching into his pocket and pulling out a small velvet box. 

Your eyes widened at the realization of what he held in his hand, your heart beating faster as you sat up in your chair. “Sh-Sho?”

“It’s not what you think.” He responds almost defensively. Shouto bites his lip in anticipation, fiddling with the little box. “... it’s a promise ring,” Todoroki concludes. He felt like he had to explain himself for the slightly expensive jewelry. “If you don’t want it-”

You had engulfed him in a hug, pulling him tight against you as you had started to sob. You couldn’t think of words for how happy you were. The only thing that had taken over your body was actions. You nuzzled your face into his neck once his arms wrapped around your shaking your body. His hands soothingly rubbed your back, letting you get out what you wanted. He couldn’t help but laugh when you pull away with the most love-filled face he’d ever seen you make.

“You okay?”

“I’m perfect!” You hastily wiped your face with the help of Shouto, shakily laughing once he leaned into pepper your face with kisses. 

“I was afraid that I scared you,” Shouto admits. You shake your head as you grab his hands, placing his palms on your cheeks, appreciating his soft palms.

“No… your hands are really soft…” You mumble. Your mind went blank as you tried to remember the next line you were going to speak, pouting as you looked around for the answer. The shock of him handing you the ring has successfully shaken you into processing your brain a little better, the heavy impacts of your drinking still lingering on.

“Are you okay?” He asks, worried. You nod your head in affirmation. 

“A kiss could cheer me up.” You give him the same puppy eyes that you used before, weaponizing your cuteness to your advantage. He slightly cringed at the thought, hesitating before leaning in and placing a soft kiss against yours. He prepared himself to taste the alcohol against his lips. He pulled away once he deemed it ready, wiping his mouth and getting the ring he kept in his hand the whole day.

“I think you owe me by wearing the ring for making me kiss you.” He huffs, slipping the ring on your finger, his heart beating at the sound of your giggle.

“Nah you love me without the ring~”

“Yes, but I’d prefer you with it on.” He stands up and holds his hand out for you, taking you into his arms once again for the night and carrying you to your room. “For now get some rest, okay?” He sat you down on the bed and got you changed out of your clothes, sneaking in a few playful kisses here and there to make you laugh. Shouto’s main focus was just to get you situated to sleep peacefully for the night. 

“G’night, Sho…” You mutter to him as you got comfortable in the sheets. Although the returning soreness didn’t go away you had managed to close your eyes and get comfortable.

“Goodnight.” He watched you until you fell asleep before leaving the room to prepare for you the pain medication you’d need in the morning for your impending hangover. 

You never needed the promise ring to let you know he loved you; his actions always told you so.

[shenerve]

╰   🧹    VERSE INFO DUMP   ﹕ BAND AU  !

The beginnings: Ginny grows up in a small, somewhat rural area alongside Otter River in Devon, England.  She’s the youngest of seven and the only daughter, which leads to more pressure than she sometimes can bear.  Many of her brothers are top of their class, brilliant in subjects and seem like the kind that might go off and change the world—even Ron with his mouth full of food.  And, Ginny?  Well, she might do that, but not for quite some time. 

She secretly takes up guitar when her now ex-boyfriend, Michael Corner, teaches her—grossly as one of his moves to get with her—but she still finds it’s something she likes.  It’s something that’s hers and not some family legacy.  In fact, after a few short lessons from Michael, she far surpasses his simple I, IV, V chord progressions.  And, when her and Michael break up, she just decides she’s never giving his guitar back.  It’s not the only one he has and she knows she can’t afford to get one.

She watches videos online, plays for the pests terrorizing their family garden, but never when anyone is watching.  She keeps it tucked away in her closet.  She likes the secretness of it and it makes her feel like she has a friend listening to her darkest secrets in music form.  She never properly learns, though, never able to really read sheet music, only learning from ear.

Even so, she starts becoming obsessed.  She takes the guitar with her on the bus to school one time and that becomes the very thing that gets her caught.  Between her brothers finding out and Michael realizing she’s still kept it all this time and has the audacity to bring it to school, things erupt.  Her parents find out.  They insist she gives it back to Michael and she does, but who is she without it?

Her grades start slipping.  She’s distracted as her parents tell her of the future they want for her, going to the University of Hogwarts that they went to, but what if she doesn’t want that?

She starts sneaking out at night, hanging with different friends that help her get a guitar and they start playing together.  First, it’s just simple hangout sessions, jamming in someone’s garage or basement.  Then, it’s someone’s birthday party.  Then, someone in the group starts reaching out to local cafes and bars and before they know it, they’re spending more nights playing than studying, just waiting out the time until they’re all 18 and can hit the road.

TL;DR:  Band AU is an AU in which Ginny is lead guitarist in a band called Dumbledore’s Army.  They basically live out of a van, on the road, going through crazy shenanigans, maybe falling in love, maybe breaking up and getting back together (romantic or just the band in general), and going from gig to gig.   

[imprvdente]

i .     alias, name.    Chloé

ii .     birthday.     May 2nd

iii .     zodiac sign.    Taurus Sun (Virgo moon and Scorpio rising)

iv .     height.    1.54cm | 5’0”

v .     hobbies.     sewing, writing, cozy video games, watching TV shows and movies, cooking, baking.

vi .   favourite colour.    blue

vii .     favourite book(s).     I don't know about absolute all-time favorites, but here are some books that stuck with me: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, Bonjour Tristesse by Françoise Sagan, and L'amant by Marguerite Duras.

viii .     last song.    Whistle for the Choir - The Fratellis

ix .     last film / show. X-Files, and Godzilla King of Monsters

x .     recent reads.     I have been reading His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman (I'm late to the party I know) and I'm about to start volume 2 in the series, The Subtle Knife.

xi .     inspiration.     Listening to music. I always daydream when I listen to music, and often inspiration strikes. Watching movies/TV Show, especially if it's the canon of one of my verse/thread. Talking to my rp partners also really helps me come up with new ideas, dynamics, etc.

xii .     story behind url.   Because in her Main Verse, Fish works for an Immortal (called Dimitri), I picked this URL. She is an immortal herself so I thought it was fun too? Honestly, I'm not obsessed with it anymore because Fish is more than an assistant lmao, but I still like the ring to it so well, here it is.

xiii .     fun fact about me.    If I like a show or a movie, I will watch it a worrying amount of time. I have watched the Office at least 15 times, same for Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Parcs and Rec, and Howl's Moving Castle.

Tagged by @collidingxworlds (thank you :D) Tagging @thenightmareofyourdrems @candere @libdemdisaster @omniishambles @harkcr @enduringtiime @iindecorous

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Bio for Hero Verse:

Anthony Edward "Tony" Stark was born on May 29, 1975, in Manhattan, New York to Howard Stark, a famous genius inventor and businessman, and Maria Stark, a New York socialite and philanthropist. Growing up under the eye of family butler Edwin Jarvis, his life was characterized by a cold and affectionless relationship with his father. Seeing that his son could achieve great things, Howard tried to inspire him with constant talks about his own role in the creation of Captain America. 

This instead embittered Stark, who felt that his father was taking more pride in his creations than in his family. A brilliant and unique child prodigy, Stark attended MIT for two years starting at age 14, graduating at the age of 16.On December 16, 1995, when Stark was 20, his parents went away to the Bahamas, but planned to stop at the Pentagon to deliver Super Soldier Serum he had redeveloped. 

On their way there, both were killed in a car accident—later revealed to be an assassination carried out by the Winter Soldier who was mind controlled by Hydra to steal the serum. As a result, Stark inherited his father's company, becoming CEO of Stark Industries. Over the years, he became well known as a weapons designer and inventor.

In 2010, Stark travels to war-torn Afghanistan with his friend and military liaison Lieutenant Colonel James Rhodes to demonstrate Stark's new "Jericho" missile. After the demonstration, the convoy is ambushed and Stark is critically wounded and imprisoned by a terrorist group, the Ten Rings. Fellow captive Ho Yinsen, a doctor, implants an electromagnet into Stark's chest to keep shrapnel shards from reaching his heart and killing him.

Stark and Yinsen secretly build a small, powerful electric generator called an arc reactor to power Stark's electromagnet and a suit of powered armor. When the Ten Rings attack the workshop, Yinsen sacrifices himself to divert them while the suit is completed. The armored Stark battles his way out of the cave to find the dying Yinsen, then burns the Ten Rings' weapons in anger and flies away, crashing in the desert. Rescued by Rhodes, Stark returns home to announce that his company will no longer manufacture weapons. In his home workshop, Stark builds a sleeker, more powerful version of his improvised armor suit as well as a more powerful arc reactor.

Stark learns that Obadiah Stane has been arms trafficking to criminals worldwide, and is staging a coup to replace him as Stark Industries' CEO. Stark, in his new armor, flies to Afghanistan and saves the villagers. Stane ambushes Stark at his home and takes the arc reactor from his chest, revealing that Stane was responsible for Stark's captivity. Stark manages to get to his original reactor to replace it and defeats Stane. The next day, at a press conference, Stark publicly admits to being "Iron Man."

Six months later in 2011, Stark has become a superstar and uses his Iron Man suit for peaceful means, resisting government pressure to sell his designs. He reinstitutes the Stark Expo to continue his father's legacy, but discovers that the palladium core in the arc reactor that keeps Stark alive and powers the armor is slowly poisoning him. 

Stark competes in the Monaco Historic Grand Prix and is attacked mid-race by Ivan Vanko, who wields electrified whips powered by a miniature arc reactor. Stark dons his Mark V armor and defeats Vanko, but the suit is severely damaged. At his birthday party, Stark gets drunk while wearing the Mark IV suit. Rhodes dons Stark's Mark II prototype armor and tries to restrain him. The fight ends in a stalemate, so Rhodes confiscates the Mark II for the U.S. Air Force.

Stark discovers a hidden message from his father, a diagram of the structure of a new element, which Stark synthesizes. At the Expo, Stark's rival Justin Hammer unveils Vanko's armored drones he had him make, led by Rhodes in a heavily weaponized version of the Mark II armor. Stark arrives in the Mark VI armor to warn Rhodes, but Vanko remotely takes control of both the drones and Rhodes' armor and attacks Iron Man. Stark and Rhodes together defeat Vanko and his drones. 

In 2012, when the Asgardian Loki arrives and begins menacing Earth, seizing the Tesseract from a S.H.I.E.L.D. facility, Fury activates the Avengers Initiative and S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent Phil Coulson visits Stark to have him review the research of Erik Selvig on the Tesseract. In Stuttgart, Steve Rogers and Loki fight briefly until Tony Stark appears in his Iron Man armor, resulting in Loki's surrender. While Loki is being escorted to S.H.I.E.L.D., Thor arrives and frees him, hoping to convince him to abandon his plan and return to Asgard. After a confrontation with Stark and Rogers, Thor agrees to take Loki to S.H.I.E.L.D.'s flying aircraft carrier, the Helicarrier.

The Avengers become divided, both over how to approach Loki and the revelation that S.H.I.E.L.D. plans to harness the Tesseract to develop weapons. Agents possessed by Loki attack the Helicarrier, disabling one of its engines in flight, which Stark and Rogers must work to restart. Loki escapes, and Stark and Rogers realize that for Loki, simply defeating them will not be enough; he needs to overpower them publicly to validate himself as ruler of Earth. Loki uses the Tesseract to open a wormhole in New York City above the Avengers Tower to allow the Chitauri fleet in space to invade. 

Fury's superiors from the World Security Council attempt to end the invasion by launching a nuclear missile at Midtown Manhattan. Stark intercepts the missile, and in an apparent sacrifice of his own life, takes it through the wormhole toward the Chitauri fleet. The missile detonates, destroying the Chitauri mothership and disabling their forces on Earth. Stark's suit runs out of power, and he falls back through the wormhole but the Hulk saves him from crashing into the ground.

Several years later, Stark and the Avengers raid a Hydra facility commanded by Baron Wolfgang von Strucker, who has been experimenting on siblings Pietro and Wanda Maximoff using the scepter previously wielded by Loki. While the team fights outside, Stark enters the lab and finds the scepter, along with Chitauri ships from the Battle of New York and androids under construction. Wanda sneaks up behind him and uses her mind manipulation powers to give him a haunting vision: the death of all the Avengers except him. Stark awakens from the vision and grabs Loki's scepter.

Several years later, Stark and the Avengers raid a Hydra facility commanded by Baron Wolfgang von Strucker, who has been experimenting on siblings Pietro and Wanda Maximoff using the scepter previously wielded by Loki. While the team fights outside, Stark enters the lab and finds the scepter, along with Chitauri ships from the Battle of New York and androids under construction. Wanda sneaks up behind him and uses her mind manipulation powers to give him a haunting vision: the death of all the Avengers except him. Stark awakens from the vision and grabs Loki's scepter.

Returning to Stark Tower, Stark and Bruce Banner discover an artificial intelligence within the scepter's gem, and secretly decide to use it to complete Stark's "Ultron" global defense program. The unexpectedly sentient Ultron eliminates Stark's A.I. J.A.R.V.I.S. and attacks the Avengers at Stark Tower. Escaping with the scepter, Ultron builds an army of robot drones, kills Strucker and recruits the Maximoffs, who hold Stark responsible for their parents' deaths by his company's weapons. The Avengers find and attack Ultron, but Wanda subdues most of the team with personalized, disturbing visions, causing Banner to transform into the Hulk and rampage until Stark stops him with his anti-Hulk armor.

After hiding at Clint Barton's house, Nick Fury arrives and encourages Stark and the others to form a plan to stop Ultron, who is discovered to have forced the team's friend Dr. Helen Cho to perfect a new body for him. Rogers, Romanoff, and Barton find Ultron and retrieve the synthetic body, but Ultron captures Romanoff. Returning to their headquarters in New York, the Avengers fight amongst themselves when Stark and Banner secretly upload J.A.R.V.I.S.—who is still operational after hiding from Ultron inside the Internet—into the synthetic body. Thor returns to help activate the body, explaining that the gem on its brow was part of his vision. 

This "Vision" and the Maximoffs, now on their side, accompany Stark and the Avengers to Sokovia, where Ultron has used the remaining vibranium to build a machine to lift part of the capital city skyward, intending to crash it into the ground to cause global extinction. One of Ultron's drones is able to activate the machine. The city plummets, but Stark and Thor overload the machine and shatter the landmass. The Avengers establish a new base, and Stark leaves the team in the hands of Rogers and Romanoff.

Besides his age this is Where Canon Starts to Diverge:

In 2016, U.S. Secretary of State Thaddeus Ross informs the Avengers that the United Nations (UN) is preparing to pass the Sokovia Accords, which will establish UN oversight of the team. The Avengers are divided: Stark supports oversight because of his role in Ultron's creation and Sokovia's devastation, while Rogers has more faith in his own judgment than that of a government. Circumstances lead to Rogers and fellow super-soldier Bucky Barnes—framed for a terrorist attack—going rogue, along with Sam Wilson, Wanda Maximoff, Clint Barton, and Scott Lang. Stark assembles a team composed of Romanoff, T'Challa, Rhodes, Vision, and Peter Parker to capture the renegades at Leipzig/Halle Airport.

So up until the battle, Tony thinks that the Accords are a good idea except that he doesn’t treat Wanda as bad as she’s treated in the movies.  She will be in Avengers compound but she’s kept there to train and he will try to find someone to help her learn to control her powers. 

When they go to Germany, Tony actually listens to Steve but there is still a fight that ensues.  When Rhodey falls from the sky and is injured, Tony calls the entire thing off.  He goes with Steve and Bucky to the compound with the other Super soldiers but when he finds out about what happened, he’s very angry but doesn’t attack Bucky and Steve.  This takes away the rift that is there between the three men.  Tony does help Clint and Sam and although they must stay on the run, Tony supplies them resources and doesn’t let Ross know where they are.

In 2018, Stark and Potts are in a New York City park changes that are going to be made to move the business in another direction when Banner, who had disappeared after the Battle of Sokovia, crash-lands at the Sanctum Sanctorum. Banner relays a warning to Stephen Strange, Wong, and Stark that the mad Titan Thanos plans to use the Infinity Stones to kill half of all life in the universe. Ebony Maw and Cull Obsidian arrive to retrieve the Time Stone, prompting Strange, Stark, Wong, and Parker to confront them. Although Cull Obsidian is incapacitated and thrown into Antarctica, Strange is captured by Maw. Stark and Parker sneak aboard Maw's spaceship to rescue him.

After successfully freeing Strange and killing Maw, the trio proceed to Thanos’ home planet Titan, where they meet members of the Guardians of the Galaxy. They form a plan to confront Thanos and remove the Infinity Gauntlet, but Thanos overpowers the group and stabs Stark. Strange surrenders the Time Stone in exchange for Thanos sparing Stark. Thanos takes the stone and departs Titan for Earth, retrieves the final stone, and activates the Infinity Gauntlet. Stark and Nebula, stranded on Titan, watch as Parker and others are turned to dust.

For the end battle, Tony will take the gauntet but instead of him dying, his right arm is destroyed and he will use the same nanotech that is hooked to his chest to create an arm for him to use.  Also at the end of the battle, Tony 45 years old will remain as Ironman until he can train someone as his replacement.  Also in the five years of the Blip, Pepper and Tony have a one night stand and she gets pregnant with Morgan. @mhstark3000 .  With this, they are not married and aren’t even dating.  He will be in Morgan’s life though and Pepper and Tony do an amazing job co-parenting, especially once her retires from being Ironman.

During the time of Wanda Vison and TFATWS, he is retired from being an Avenger but will pick it up if he’s needed.  Also he’s been working inventions and his own thing.

[super-unpredictable98]

Timeline Anomaly’ Verse Masterlist (Misfits AU - Lyddie x Nathan² x Win)

An OC X OC collab with @seanfalco 

Summary: After a slight accident with the space-time continuum, two realities collided bringing two (?) unsuspecting misfits to another dimension, but they’re all trying to make the best of it...

Happy Accident

The Aftermath

Double Trouble

Date Night: Part One + Part Two

The Morning After

Girl Talk

Our Reality

The Swap

(Not So) Identical

A Red Carpet Event

The After-Party

Morning Affection

PMSing 

Hey There Delilah

Stargazing

Cooking Lessons

New York State of Mind (Part I) :  Part II ,  Part III ,  Part IV

Justice With Your Own Hands (request)

Girls’ Night (request)

The Song Thief

Pizza and Blindfolds

Truth or Dare

Win’s Bad Day

A Cure for Stage Fright

Strike Two (request)

Learning How to Make Love

Big Secrets

Happy Birthday Winnie

The Surprise “Surprise Party”

The Going Away Party

Start Spreading the News

The Rehearsal

Win’s Turn 

Win’s Turn (Part II)

Lyddie’s Turn

The Final Proposal

A Brooklyn Halloween

Tourist Trapped (pt 1) | Tourist Trapped (pt 2)

The Most Amazing Year

Two Decades Later (OC Kiss Week 2022)

Useful

The Princesses and The Frogs

Out Shopping

Wedding Planning (pt 1)

Trick ‘r’ Treat (Sheehalloween 2022)

A Royal Spooky Fuck Up (Sheehalloween 2022)

Don't Recommend It (Sheehalloween 2022)

Straight Outta Czechoslovakia (Hanukkah special 2022)

The Snow Kingdom (Christmas Special 2022)

A Christmas Get Together (Christmas Special 2022)

A Date For Valentine's Day (Valentine's Special 2023)

Fancy Restaurant (OC Kiss Week 2023)

Don't Kiss My Daddy (OC Kiss Week 2023)

Simone's Rules

The Perfect Match (Bridgerton AU):

An Introduction to Society

Whistledown’s Mistake

[verumking]

⚔️ *:･ﾟ✧┆YOZORA’S GEN.SHIN VERSE PROFILE

Hello: The name’s Yozora. You need not know where I come from, nor my purpose for being here. Stay out of my business, and I’ll stay out of yours. Chat - Impatience: Are you done? Chat - Mission: Let’s move. Chat - Reality: None of this... makes sense to me.

When It Rains: Hm... it’s been a while... When Thunder Strikes: It’s foolish to stand around. Keep moving. When the Sun is Out: Too bright... When it Snows: The cold doesn’t concern me. But falling ill will delay us further.

Good Morning: Finally awake? We’re wasting time. Good Afternoon: A break? ... Do as you wish. I’ll wait here. Good Evening: Nightfall... there’s still a lot to be done. Good Night: Take your leave. We’ll resume tomorrow. 

About Yozora - Heterochromia: My eyes? They’ve been like this for as long as I can remember. About Us - Independence: You know little about my motives. You’d do better to not put your trust in me. About Us - Similarity: Neither of us are from this world... Interesting.

About the Vision - Control: These ‘Visions’... yet another tool used to puppeteer humanity. About the Vision - Warning: Gods never gift out of charity. Do not mistake these ‘Visions’ as such. Something to Share: There’s a ‘karma’ that resides in every human. The sum of one’s fate and consequences over eons of reincarnation. Your fulfilment in this lifetime determines your worth in the next. Interesting Things: These ‘leyline blossoms’... are a physical manifestation of fate... Hm.

More About Yozora - I: Spare the ceremony. I’m here for a mission, that’s all. More About Yozora - II: It’s my job to seek truth and to maintain karmic balance. ... What does that mean? That’s none of your concern. More About Yozora - III: Where I’m from, the night is perpetual. I’m... still adjusting. More About Yozora - IV: ... I’m not completely human. Or even human at all. I’m something closer to a machine... feigning the autonomy of a mortal man. More About Yozora - V: I don’t fear death, and neither should you. Birth and destruction are the sole certainties of all universes. All you can do is face them head on.

Yozora’s Hobbies: There’s too much noise at ground level. There’s peace to be gained from high enough places. Rooftops... or mountains less travelled. Yozora’s Troubles: The truth always conquers, regardless of how many lies it is buried beneath.  Favorite Food: Protein is more abundant here than my home realm. Any serving of meat provides enough sustenance. Least Favorite Food: Desserts of any world make my stomach churn. Birthday: It’s your birthday... Time is ever fleeting. Spend the rest of your days wisely.

Feelings about Ascension - Intro: Why place your strength in me? Feelings about Ascension - Building Up: I’m growing more accustomed to the powers of this world. The strength my body previously rejected... is this your doing? Feelings about Ascension - Climax: I have never seen the value of depending on others... but you are beginning to prove otherwise. Feelings about Ascension - Conclusion: To give is to receive: as is the nature of all worlds. You’ve chosen to lend me your strength... If it was truly fate that brought us together, then my path is clear.

Added to Party: Let’s do this. Added to Party: Shall we? Added to Party: I don’t lose. Elemental Skill: Got this. Elemental Skill: Now! Elemental Skill: Break! Elemental Burst: Time to end this. Elemental Burst: Your power is mine. Damage: What a pain... Damage: I don’t think so. Knocked out: I messed up... Knocked out: It’s over... Knocked out: My time... has come...

[elliedome]

I just feel sorry I can't live inside this song...

I fell in love with this song the first time I saw the video. Seriously, I want to marry this song and have cute little blond-haired kids that are always smiling and take no shit from bullies. This song has everything: ukulele, whistling, a strong brass part to connect chorus to verses, tap-dancing, narration, half-time rehash of the chorus (though surely just for the video), you name it, it’s crammed in there somewhere (except minor chords ((how dare you)) other than the oft-used minor sixth which basically comes with the I-vi-IV-V combo), it even has a rising half-tone chord progression that resolves in a brass solo against the repeating chord sequence. And all that without covering the unapologetic, though naive, joy the lyrics thrown around like so much birthday party confetti. Because of course a slim white male would consider words the worst kind of attack he could receive, not like, racism, sexual harassment, classism, body-shaming (and whatever it was they meant with the cakes ((hashtag white girl things))), etc, even exist in his worldview...

No big deal.

BUT If we allow ourselves to live for a bit in that fantasy in which we’re all so much more powerful than the people seeking to put us down, (which we sometimes are because the world is a complex, chaotic and surprising place where nearly everything can happen ((and I just thought of my idiot brother making light of my depression and suggesting it’s false))), this is a powerful song. An uplifting song. A happy song. A certified banger. An earworm up there with the best of them. And if I had my heart’s desire, this one would win along with Gjon’s: they would tie perfectly and be a double win, opening a heated debate about where should the next ESC final be held, which would have Germany win because Switzerland would ultimately decide on neutrality. But that feels like the kind of unlikely thing to happen in this world. I’ll console myself by thinking that this exact scenario happens in another universe and I can finally say my life is complete.

Marriage material.

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Hlvrai/Half Life Freemanverse Pokemon AU Guide

So I already made a post about the pokemon-verse version of Gorgeous Freeman (which you can see here, and explains his summer job as a zookeeper of a mini pokemon petting zoo)

https://mumblingabomination.tumblr.com/post/628335865656213504/mumblingabomination-mini-pokemon

But I mentioned in that post how it was actually taking place in the Half Life VR but the AI is Self Aware universe, since Gorgeous Freeman didn't want to stick around in the post-apocolyptic Combine invaded shithole of his own universe, and so exploited the Freemanverse Half Life Multiverse to switch to a less terrible place to live.

That being the HLVRAI universe, where the Combine never invaded (at least not yet) Below ive given basic descriptions of some of the universes, and listed some of the main characters pokemon. Particularly for the HLVRAI team and the different variations of Gordon Freeman.

HLVRAI POKEMON NARRATIVE:

The hlvrai team went through something sorta similar to the stream of having to survive escaping a facility as portals to other dimension dropped new species of monsters into the facility. But this time instead of aliens, they’re ultrabeasts (as seen in the sun and moon games) with headcrabs being a pre-evolution for the ultrabeast nihilego, though the rest of the Xen creatures would be new, previously unseen Ultrabeasts.

And with the help of their pokemon, the science team (plus Benry) need to escape with the help of their pokemon.

HLVRAI Gordon’s Pokemon Team:

Magmar--- HlVRAI Gordon’s Starter, and the only pokemon he begins the journey to escape black mesa with. The rest of his team being found along the way as he escapes. Magmar takes after Gordon quite a bit, being essentially a “what if Gordon was a pokemon” in personality and behavior. They’re also the most powerful pokemon on the science team in the earliest parts of the escape from black mesa. Since this universe is more realistic, with taking care of pokemon meaning having to actually take care of an animal day to day, with Gordon not being a super responsible dude, and not super competitive or hostile, he only has the one pokemon at first.

Magikarp--- Gordon found the thing at the first big water source he encountered as the science team was escaping Black Mesa, and before they really grasped how serious their situation was. Gordon took pity on the pokemon that had somehow found its way into a canal so far underground with no clear way out. And deciding “well we can’t just leave it here” he caught the magikarp, intending to let it go in a stream or river once they got outside. But it kept being way too dangerous to release the magikarp, especially once the shark Ultra Beasts started showing up. Magikarp was still a help in the water though, helping Gordon to swim faster despite being weighed down with the HEV suit. Hilariously though, the magikarp manages to go the entire Black Mesa adventure without evolving, despite Gordon repeatedly mentioning with increasing panic “A Gyrados would be really helpful right about now!!!”. It’s not until they’re at Tommy’s Chuck-e-cheese birthday party that Magikarp finally evolves into a huge gyrados in the middle of the dance floor.

Tommy’s Pokemon Team:

Shiny Arcanine--- its Sunkist! A pokemon Tommy Artificially made, and Tommy’s starter and only pokemon until the events of black mesa, though we don't actually see Sunkist until the time they got kidnapped by Forzen, so Tommy needs some pokemon in the meantime, which he find along the way. Tommy probably being the closest to a regular newbie pokemon trainer building a team through an adventure, often catching the pretty common pokemon without much knowledge or care of their battling ability instead of being picky.

Pidove---Gordon: "We should probably get more pokemon for our safety as well. Tommy, have you ever caught a pokemon in the wild before? Ever battled?"

Tommy: "...no"

Gordon: "Do you think we could teach you? like if we got you a pokemon?"

Tommy: "Do you want me to practice on that pidove?"

(random pidove out of nowhere)

Gordon: "You know what, yeah, that could work. Let’s have you catch that pidove".

Rattata---- another easy wild pokemon tommy picks up early on for his team, found in the black mesa ventilation system. Soon evolves into a raticate. 

Milcery---- found when they stop and have a coffee break, eventually evolves into a lemon cream star sweet Alcremie.

Solarok--- Found as the team was making their way through the big canyon.

Shiny Espurr--- soon evolves into a shiny male meowstic.

Sandsrew--- found in the desert near the minefield. 

Bubby’s Pokemon Team:

Being a test tube baby scientist who spent his entire life in Black Mesa, Bubby’s lived a pretty limited life, similar to the other limited artificial humans of Black Mesa. He was initially given pokemon purely for practical reasons related to his job, but over the adventure he gains a full team. Bubby actually has 2 starters, each given to him at the exact same time. But now that everyones dead, he can get more pokemon without repercussions. Something he does with a fair amount of gusto throughout the adventure.

Magneton--- one of Bubby’s “starters”. Beginning as a low level magnemite at the start, intended for use in helping to repair equipment, it eventually evolves and becomes a pretty formidable Magneton.

Shiny Ditto---- Bubby’s other “Starter”. These blue shiny dittos are clones made by Black Mesa. Mass produced and distributed to its employees to be used as a sort of multitool, transforming into pokemon relevant for whatever project the employee would happen to be working on and helping to keep overhead costs low for black mesa, as they would only have to maintain a small number of pokemon which could be used as a reference points for a ditto to transform into, rather than outfitting scientists with a full team. It takes awhile before ditto is able to transform into the Xen ultrabeasts, but once they do, there can be some dramatic consequences when they transform into the larger ones.

Golbat--- Dr. Bubbys first wild pokemon they were able to encounter and catch as a weak zubat. Bubby getting swept up in the fact that he can now catch his own pokemon after he sees Tommy catch the Pidove. Once it evolves into a Golbat it becomes helpful in stopping him and the other members of the science team from falling to their deaths, though it’s not large enough to really carry anyone, just slow their decent to not harmful levels.

Cacnea--- the first time Bubby gets to properly hang around outside, he catches the first pokemon he sees to celebrate. Which happens to be a Cacnea.

Elgyem--- another pokemon Bubby finds out in the desert, this time at night. Bubby mentioning how he always wanted one of these, having listened to other Black Mesa employees talk about sometimes watching them hang around the desert around the facility at night, making colorful glowing points in the desert. And it’s further used in the narrative as a way to bring up Bubby's dream to go to outer space.

Minior (light blue)--- when Dr Bubby has his epic riding a rocket into space moment, he comes back with a space rock as proof. Which just so happens to be a light blue minior.

Silvally (fire)--- found when they visit biological research, where other artificial pokemon and test tube scientists and prototypes could also be found.

Coomers Pokemon Team:

Hitmonchan--- Because of course the notorious boxing enthusiast would have a hitmonchan. He’s on the elderly side, and the only pokemon Coomer has at first, taking a little while to get back into the swing of battling. But they’re a real powerhouse once they do get into it.

Shiny Muk---- The giant pools of radioactive green slime all around black mesa are full of Grimer’s turned green by the toxic waste. Dr Coomer takes a liking to a particularly tough green muk. Coomer: Good news Gordon! I found a green slime I’m not horribly allergic to! Gordon: Dr. Coomer, That’s a Muk, you know those are still extremely poisonous right? Coomer: Hello Gordon!

Machamp--- One of the free roaming heavy lifter pokemon who help move cargo around in Black Mesa. was able to be captured by Coomer thanks to them not having any particular trainers and instead being just generally owned by Black Mesa.

Darnolds Pokemon Team:

Darnold never really gets into any fights, but can still see his pokemon milling about his lab.

Shuckle--- Pokemon well known for berry fermentation.

Polteageist--- Not quite Soda related, but close.

Golurk--- A replacement for Darnolds rocket boots. He basically goes "all this violence is too much for me" then brings out this huge golem pokemon, hops on it's back, and the golurk rockets away.

Benrys Pokemon Team:

Wobbuffet--- One of the typical pokemon often used by the black mesa security guards. Used most often in the early parts of the hlvrai pokemon adventure as the science team are still figuring out just how non-human Benry is. Benry uses his Wobbuffet in a trollish a way as possible, it being unclear for awhile if the pokemon even has any damaging moves or is purely defensive in the least helpful way possible. As we learn later however, This Wobbuffet is in fact Benry’s only genuine pokemon, and actually property of Black Mesa which he is expected to pick up, and then return at the beginning and end of his shifts.

Shiny Alolan Marowak--- One of the first big implications that Benry is not like the other Security guards. A pretty unfamiliar pokemon to the team so they don’t catch that it’s a shiny version of the pokemon. What they don’t find out until later however, is that this, and all the following bizarrely strong shiny blue pokemon Benry pulls out, are actually not real pokemon. They’re all artificial pokemon that Benry creates temporarily and are extensions of himself, similar to the Skeletons that run around.

Shiny Porygon Z--- artificial pokemon Benry Made temporarily for a single battle

Shiny Midnight Form Lycanroc--- artificial pokemon Benry Made temporarily for a single battle

Shiny Bisharp--- artificial pokemon Benry Made temporarily for a single battle

Shiny Tyrantrum---- artificial pokemon Benry Made temporarily for a single battle

Freemanverse Pokemon Narrative:

The freemanverse aspect comes in, in that the other Half Life Universes (Freemans mind, Origional Half Life, Speedrun HL, etc.) are all connected  simultaneously to the same "Xen" dimension through ultra wormholes, allowing them to travel between each others dimensions after their universes resonance cascades. Though most of the Gordons would return to their own universes for their versions of the events of Half Life 2-3+Alyx to stabilize heir respective wolds/ultraspaces, and most continuing to generally stick to their own realities afterwards.

For example, Original Gordon, who's happy with his friends rebuilding the world, and Freemans Mind Gordon, who's exploiting a power vacuum to take over their own pokemon world.

Black Mesa Security Guards and Scientists:

Consistent across the universes (including Hlvrai), the scientists and security guards of each universes forms of Black Mesa (Which Gordon can team up with briefly in the game as he goes along) have certain mechanics associated with them that shift from the original game to the pokemon universe. The Scientists will have potions that can be used on a teams pokemon and will often give helpful healing items to Gordon (and his companions if he has them), especially if the scientist must be escorted to another location.

The Security Guards will team up with Gordon for awhile and turn pokemon battles into double battles. With them always having 2 pokemon. First pokemon always being a Wobbuffet, which would draw enemy attention to it rather than Gordons pokemon and have a bunch of helpful stat lowering moves. After which they swap to one of 2 pokemon. A Rampardos Or A Bastiodon Along with having some implications that the canyons of Black Mesa were a good location for finding fossils.

Gorgeous Freeman’s Pokemon Team:

He’s only got one pokemon, a heracross with a longer than average horn named “Crowbar”. He is that guy who manages to make it through the whole adventure with just his starter/just the crowbar. Heracross can however, mega evolve.

Freemans Mind Pokemon Team:

For the Freemans Mind Gordon, probably the main reason he survived the black mesa incident and beyond was he was one of the only people in Black Mesa to have a full team of well balanced and leveled pokemon that he kept on himself at all times. his reasoning being “if you could intimidate almost anyone into doing whatever you want with just a bit of extra effort, why wouldn't you take that opportunity?”. Compared to most of his colleges, who would only have one or two at most, with even the military being pretty light on the number of pokemon per person. He is also pretty effective at using his pokemon for puzzle solving and finding shortcuts and the like.

Chatot--- Because talk like a pirate episode, plus him doing a lot of talking to himself that could be revised for the pokemon au as talking to the Chatot on his shoulder. The Chatot also takes the place of the “If only I had a grappling hook” running gag of having not taught Chatot the HM Fly, out of a mix of his own problem with motion sickness, and not wanting to look silly being carried by such a small pokemon.

Amoonguss--- This poison mushroom pokemon was picked as a reference to their running gag of his drug use, and Gordon would comment on stuff about being able to convert the pokemon’s poison to some “fun” hallucinogenic substances through some basic chemistry, ending up with essentially the same thing as regular hallucinogenic shrooms, which he did often during college. Though he also expresses admiration for poison types in general and being able to take down opponents much easier with Amoonguss’s status effect moves and how it’s often really the best way out of a number of jams he’s gotten into in the past.

Alakazam--- I'm just gonna put it bluntly, but this version of Gordon is pretty up his own butt with how goddamn smart he is. And the best pokemon for someone who’s all about being a smart guy is an alakazam. And it’s a pokemon he’s had for quite awhile, with it probably being the first pokemon he caught himself back when it was an Abra, and he would use it as bragging rights for how his first pokemon he caught was a particularly difficult one to catch. I was thinking though that this Particular Alakazam would be a bit of a straight man to Gordons over the top additude, being a bit sick of his shit and not being shy about showing it, though with still a pretty close bond regardless. Though as Gordon gets more paranoid throughout the adventure, part of his paranoia gets taken out on his alakazam, so that’s not super great. Alakazam also has another layer of “metagaming” too them. See, Alakazam still has the move teleport, as it’s Gordons primary alternative to using something like the move Fly (Which Gordon often brings up when complaining about not being able to fly, and “how was he supposed to know that he would find himself in the one specific situation where teleport, the much more effective alternative to most transportation needs, would be unusable”). But when the resonance cascade gets set off, instead of teleporting to the nearest town and escaping Black Mesa, they will instead teleport to a seemingly random place in Xen, often to get jumped by Ultrabeasts. Every so often as Gordon get’s some distance away from the ground Zero of the resonance cascade, he will have Alakazam try to teleport to see if they can escape yet. It never works, but he does meet some other versions of himself in Xen.

Shedninja--- a pokemon that’s invincible so long as the other pokemon doesn’t have any super effective moves? That sounds like an exploit that the Freemans Mind Gordon would be tempted to take advantage of. And a pokemon that doesn't need to eat or have any other expensive maintenance is also a big plus in a world where taking after a lot of pokemon can actually be a rather costly and time consuming affair, (hence why most others only have one or two pokemon and Freeman set’s himself apart a fair bit having 6 despite being a scientist and not a full time trainer).

Dracovish--- this one’s a bit less obvious of a pick, but it ties in with a mad science theme, and some comments he made about potentially picking up some of the human skeleton bones he found during his journey to sell to his friend. Which in pokemon universe, that maps pretty well with him having a bit of experience with collecting fossils, and would probably gush over how cool reviving pokemon from fossils is scientifically. But he would have gotten a bit ahead of himself with bring to life a Dracovish, at first being excited about combining pokemon together to make bigger, more powerful pokemon. But would end up with a somewhat sickly freak of nature and have learned a bit of a lesson about scientific hubris. Though didn’t learn that lesson super well because he would argue that he still came out with a huge badass and pretty powerful pokemon so “if you think about it he was really in the right all along… even if they have trouble breathing outside of water but can barely swim even in the water”. He’s also got a real soft spot in general for his Dracovish despite everything, as it’s kinda like a giant golden retriever in personality and behavior. Dracovish would also be a big help during water sections, as it’s big enough to take on the sharklike Xen monsters and can often help slowly ferry Gordon across waterways without him having to get wet.

Klefki--- Gordon has been picked on plenty for having a Klefki. A pretty “unmanly” and “childish” pokemon to have according to most. But Gordon would call those people idiots, because he taught his Klefki how to pick locks and pockets, and now klefki is like a puzzle solving wizard for a number of the problems Gordon goes through during Black Mesa and beyond. Locked door? Klefki can pick it. Unpickable door? Klefki can fly through any small gap to open the door from the other side. Need an extra leaver pulled or button pressed or something grabbed from somewhere up high? Klefki is there to help.

Speedrun Gordon Pokemon Team:

Crobat--- he owes a lot of his capacity to breeze through the adventures due to his crobat literally just flying him over almost every obstacle. He’s the only freeman of the group to really have a reliable flying pokemon able to carry him.

Electrode--- Because a big part of being able to speedrun half life involves using grenades to basically rocket jump, and no pokemon better resembles a bomb than an electrode.

Original Game Gordon’s Pokemon Team:

Rotom--- a standard company issue Rotom that goes along with the HEV suit. Talks to Gordon throughout the adventures, and officially becomes Gordons Rotom at the end of the events of Half Life 1, replacing the “as for the HEV suit, i think you’ve earned it” line the G-man says at the end of the game. So when he reappears for Half Life 2, it’s the Rotom that stays with him, and goes into the new mark 5 suit when he gets it from the resistance.

Rhyperior---Starts out as a rhyhorn and Gordons primary pokemon. Evolves into a rhydon near second half of the first HL game when Gordon started going up against tanks and armored vehicles. And evolves into a Rhyperior with the help of Eli and the other members of the resistance.

Victini--- an unassuming mythical pokemon, but it’s one of the main reasons why Original game Gordon is expected to be able to win against any opponent regardless of what strategy he uses. Is often outside it’s pokeball.

Metagross--- is given to Gordon as a beldum at the same time he gets the gravity gun. Eventually evolves into a metagross over the course of HL 2-3 and gains the ability to mega evolve. 

Unnamed Ultrabeast based on Antlion Guard---- instead of killing and extracting the pheromone pods from an antlion, the Pokemon version of Gordon instead uses an experimental Beast Ball created by the resistance to capture one of the larger Antlion ultra beasts and uses them to control/befriend the other Antlions.

Barney’s Pokemon Team: I figure Barney’s team would be pretty consistent across the Universes he appears in. Though he wouldn't always have much opportunity to use his pokemon. Especially in Gorgeous Freemans Au.

Rampardos---  he had them from back in his Black Mesa days as a security guard.

Starmie--- a replacement for the Chumtoad pet that fandoms often give Barney.

Alyx’s Pokemon Team:

Kommo-o--- Their replacement for their robot guardian “Dog”. Is a larger than average kommo-o, who otherwise behaves the same and is rarely ever in their pokeball.