#12 red for be mine 13 for eternal friendship

[kokomini9]

🌹13 roses 🌹 platonic love is just as important as romantic love. (but also im very normal about flower language)

[the-kings-of-games]

GX Month 2020

SUper late and I’m too lazy to do anything (as always), but this seems like fun to think about. So let’s go!

Day 1 (August 31): “Game on!” (It’s Judai/Jaden Yuki’s birthday today! Let’s celebrate!): 

Jaden is a great protagonist. I love dumb but OP main characters, especially when they got lucky-go attitudes. 

Day 2 (September 1): “Red, Yellow, Blue!” (Ah, the tier system at Duel Academy. Which dorm is your favorite?): 

I’m attached to Slifer Red, lol. They got a cat for mascot, what more do I need? Also, they serve tempura for lunch.

Day 3 (September 2): “Rule the School” (These kids might be saving the world, but they’re still students with homework to do and exams to pass. Celebrate the school life today!):

Don’t know what to put here, but I was a terrible student because I didn’t study or do things in a timely manner. Do better than me, kids. 

Day 4 (September 3): “Sometimes I Can’t Believe We’re Related” (10Join! Today is all about the iconic brother-sister pair, Fubuki Tenjoin/Atticus Rhodes and Asuka Tenjoin/Alexis Rhodes!):

I love this sibling pair! ^^ Alexis is really cool, and Atticus is so far out of the left field. I really thought Atticus was going to be cool like his sister, or edgy like Zane, but nah, this guy is, like, I just want to support my sister and play this ukulele. They make such a contrasting pair, so it adds to the humor.

Day 5 (September 4): “Pass The Salt” (No story is perfect. So what is something you wish you could have seen in the story of GX?)

I can’t think of anything. 

Day 6 (September 5): “Going Down With The Ships!” (You know what I’m talking about. We all have an armada parked in the bay, but there’s that one ship, that one ship, that you would die for. Today is all about OTPs and OT3s!)

I really like Rivalshipping. I don’t really have that many ships for GX. 5D’s and Zexal are more of my jam. 

Day 7 (September 6): “Bring the THUNDER” (Ichi! Juu! Hyaku! Sen! Chazz it up! Today the world does in fact revolve around Jun Manjoume/Chazz Princeton.)

HANDS DOWN, one of my two top choices for favorite rival. (Jack’s the other.) My favorite things about Chazz are his name, his energy, and that fact that he’s a baby brother. He’s so cute! ^^ I just want to make fun of him.

Day 8 (September 7): “The Power of Friendship!” (Favorite dynamic duo, two characters you think would have been friends if only they met, how friendship saves the day, or maybe a friendship fail. It’s up to you!):

Chazz and Pharoah, lol. I need Chazz to hold that cat and pet it. Why didn’t he? :’(

Day 9 (September 8): “Born to be Bad” (Inherently evil, brainwashed, misguided, or misunderstood. GX boots a colorful cast of villainy. Who’s your favorite bad guy?):

I haven’t finished season 4 yet, but Nightshroud. 

Day 10 (September 9): Free Day/Introductions (Tell us about yourself and your GX experience! Your favorites, why you like it, how you got into it. Or leave the day open to do whatever you want!):

I’m known as kappa. I got Hulu, and Hulu has almost all the YGO series excluding VRAINS and SEVENS which is fine because I also have Crunchyroll and the internet, lol; so, I watched all the YGO series simultaneously, skipping back and forth between series. I did not watch any of them in order. GX was number 5 or 6, but it’s the one series I’m putting off. 

Day 11 (September 10): “Cyber Legacy” (No Yu-Gi-Oh! show is complete without a pair of brothers. Today’s stars are Sho Marufuji/Syrus Truesdale and Ryo Marufuji/Zane Truesdale!):

I love these guys! It was great to see them grow and become their own people. ^^ They had, I think, the most realistic relationship.

Day 12 (September 11): “But What If We Had Bikes?” (That’s right! It’s time for the GX crew to rev it up on their very own D-Wheels/Duel Runners!):

I CANNOT DRAW. SORRY LMAO

Day 13 (September 12): “And You Are…?” (Got a favorite OC? Or one you’ve been hiding in the closet? Introduce them to the world today!):

I only have a Rivalshipping OC baby. Her name is Mira Princeton, and she has Jaden’s brown hair and Chazz’s dark eyes (with a bit of a golden glow). Since both her parents can see spirits, it’d make sense that she can too, lol. Her companion is Yata-Garasu, a rare card that her mama won at a tournament. She likes pink and flowers. She is very close to Aster and calls him Uncle Aster. She’s four, and most of her life, she knows her dad as the “Slifer slacker but a really good duelist.” 

I love her. :)

Day 14 (September 13): “The Perfect Formula” (He duels with the power math and science! Today, show the world that you still remember Daichi/Bastion Misawa!)

Bastion is a funny character. “Everything is science. I’m going to disappear for several months. Don’t forget to forget me,” I think. 

Day 15 (September 14): “Insert pun here” (It’s meme day! Recreate your favorites! Make some shitposts! Be the troll you’ve always wanted to be!):

Bastion: SIr, I’m afraid your DNA is backwards.

Jaden: AND?

Day 16 (September 15): “Creation and Destruction” (The Gentle Darkness and the Light of Destruction. The eternal struggle. And also the Darkness that tried to drown the world. Huh. Feels a little unbalanced.):

It’s pretty cool to have darkness and light reverse, and then watch as darkness conflict with itself, lmao. The Light of Destruction would be a chaotic good, and the Gentle Darkness as chaotic neutral. (Don't quote me on that, I don’t do personality quizzes.) 

Day 17 (September 16): “Putting the D in Destiny” (Pro duelist by day and crime fighting vigilante by night. Today is Edo/Aster Phoenix’s day!):

He’s great. I like him. He’s the precursor to Declan Akaba’s D/D/D archetype. Maybe not. Can you believe that he actually said “Shmaden Shmuki on national TV???? LMAO

Day 18 (September 17): “In Another Life” (It’s AU day!):

Currently trying to write a fantasy-ish AU in which Jun marries the Supreme King. Trust me, I have no idea what I’m doing.

Day 19 (September 18): “I Was Here Too!” (GX has a vast array of unique characters, some of which we only saw once. Pick a “one shot” character and show them off!):

I really like Princess Rose. She was pretty, and her spirit monsters care for her. I appreciate that. 

Day 20 (September 19): Free Day 2/Support Fellow Creators (Show some love for your favorite creators, or leave the day free for whatever you please!):

Literally @ everyone whose work(s) and/or post(s) I’ve reblogged. Keep up the good work!

Day 21 ( September 20): “Prehistoric Predators” (The dino duelist with a fossil in his leg. Today is all about Kenzan Tyranno/Tyranno Hassleberry!):

Dino DNA is so funny; I’m sorry, Hassleberry, but I don’t like dinosaurs. At least you were cute as one. 

Day 22 (September 21): “Stop Blowing Holes In My Ship!” (Some ships are popular and some are…not. Today is all about rare pairs and crack ships! Give those underdogs some love!):

Tanya/Bastion is kind of cute. And I guess Chazz/Atticus too. ^^ 

Day 23 (September 22): “And For Today’s Lesson…” (The teachers at Duel Academy have their work cut out for them, but they still take care of their students. Show the DA staff some love today!):

Fonda Fontaine!

Day 24 (September 23): “Legend of the Seven Gems” (Resurrect the greatest light in history today with Johan/Jesse Anderson and the Crystal Beasts!):

Johan is very cute! I’m so glad they gave him a Southern accent in the dub. ^^ It makes him extra soft and lovable. I can’t believe that Johan/JIm is called Cowboyshipping, but I love that name so much.

Day 25 (September 24): “For The Glory of Academia!” (We got to see Asuka/Alexis and Edo/Aster over in Fusion Dimension, but what about the rest of the cast? Show us some Fusion counterparts today! What are these dorks up to and what part do they play in the war?):

I’m bad at rewriting canon. ^^: Sorry. 

Day 26 (September 25): “Dream Team From Overseas” (Austin O’Brien/Axel Brody, Jim “Crocodile” Cook, and Amon/Adrian Gecko. Today is all about them!)

I absolutely love Jim Cook, from him being Australian to having a crocodile as his best friend to getting burned with a mysterious object to cowboy hat. xD 

Day 27 (September 26): “Duel Monster Spirit Day!” (The world of GX is full of spirits. Do something fun to celebrate your favorite!):

Mine would be Scapeghost and Rose Garden Maiden! 

Day 28 (September 27): “Gold Eyes in The Darkness” (Today’s all about the Supreme King! Unleash the Darkness and create your content!):

I like his aesthetic. I’m into Chazz/Supreme King for sure.

Day 29 (September 28): “Don’t Forget Me!” (Have an underappreciated character you wish you’d seen more of? Give them some love today!):

Miss Dorothy! She’s wonderful, she’s friend shaped. 

Day 30 (September 29): Free Day 3 (Share anything. Anything at all. It’s free game.): 

The Chazz/Supreme King fic I’m working on: The Supreme King’s Husband (Prologue)

Day 31 (September 30): “Gotcha!”:

Is this a Pokemon reference? O_o

[donteattheappleshook]

Stone Hearts Chapter 12/13

Here we are, the last chapter (minus the epilogue). Thank you to everyone who has stuck with me and this story for so long, even when I was going months/years between updates. Finishing this fic is one of the raddest things I've ever done and I couldn't have done it without all the support. Your reblogs and likes and flails kept me going so thank you all <3

Summary:

Emma should have known. She should have known that they couldn’t just go to the underworld and not suffer any consequences. She should have known they’d bring something back with them.

Cannon Divergent after 5x21 Last Rites. No Hyde. No serum. No Evil Queen split. No prophecy. No season 6.

Read from the beginning on Ao3 or FFn because tumblr eats all my italics.

Rated M

Chapter 12

“Ariel, what the fuck!” Emma shouted, already feeling the magic burning in her fingers, the fire ready to come out at any moment. But she held herself back. Ariel had his heart in her hand, right there in front of her. It was red, glowing, and bright with the tiniest swirl of darkness in the middle. There was no stone to be seen.

Killian was hunched over beside Emma, bent in pain, his hand clutching at his chest, shock and betrayal written on his features. Emma reached out for him, grabbed hold of him and held him close, trying to shield him from the woman who had ripped out his heart. But it was useless, Ariel didn’t need to be anywhere near Killian to hurt him now. 

The smile on her face was twisted, evil the likes of which Emma had only seen once before. And she had seen her fair share of evil.  

“So you broke my curse,” she said. “Good for you.” 

What? Emma’s eyes widened as Belle and Tink joined her at her side, Tink grabbing Kilian’s sword from his hip and pointing it at the mermaid. Ariel gave a dismissive flick of her hand and the weapon went sailing across the room.

They all watched in horror as Ariel shifted before them, her features warping and changing until it was no longer her standing before them. It was the King. How, Emma thought as she remembered Hook’s reaction to her earlier. How had they not figured it out? She glanced at Belle who looked as terrified and struck dumb as she felt. But the King had known about Killian, about the ship, about Blackbeard - and clearly a great many other things if he’d managed to fool Belle. How -

“Rumple,” Belle said and her voice betrayed, resigned. 

“Yes, your husband was absolutely instrumental in helping me accomplish this little ruse,” The King smirked. “All that pillow talk about your friendship with the mermaid made for excellent backstory, really helped me sell the character, I think.” 

“What do you want?” Tink demanded, her fists clenched, fury raging on her face. 

“Nothing from you, my dear. I have exactly what I need.��� 

Leverage, Emma thought. Like Gold had with Henry, now the King had it with Killian, a way to control her, to get her to do what he wanted. She cast a glance at Killian, watched as his face shifted from pain to realisation to panic. 

“Emma, don’t,” he warned. But she had to. To save him - she’d do whatever it took.

“Let him go,” she said and the King turned his attention to her, a bemused smile on his face. He cocked his head and Emma stepped forward, despite Kilian’s hand grabbing at her arm, trying to hold her back. “It’s my heart you want. Give me Killian’s and I’ll find a way to give you mine.”

“No!” Killian insisted but he was halted in his attempt to grab her, crying out as the King gave a little, almost experimental squeeze to the heart in his hand. 

“Stop it!” Emma shouted, looking at where Killian now kneeled on the floor, struggling to catch his breath. Belle ran to him, trying to hold him up, unable to help. “I said I’ll give you what you want! You win! Just stop!” 

“How very noble of you, Savior,” the King taunted. “But you’re right - I have won. I have exactly the heart I need.” Emma frowned at him, heart racing in her chest. No. It was her they needed. That’s what they’d said! That’s what the spell called for! 

The King smiled again as he watched the confusion play on her face. “The heart that belongs to the product of true love,” he said and Emma felt the words echo in the hollow beats of her heart against her chest. “This pirate’s heart has belonged to you for a very long time, has it not?” he asked, looking down at Killian with false sympathy. “The true love of the product of true love… that’s a rare heart indeed. Worthless though when encased in stone.”

No, Emma thought. No, it couldn’t be him. Not after all of this, not after everything they’d gone through to get him back. To learn now that he’d have been safer if he stayed cursed. There had to be another way. Anything, she’d do anything to trade her heart for his, her life for his. Not Killian. 

“Unfortunately we didn’t figure out that little riddle until after we’d cursed your captain here. Always so cryptic these dark spells. And infuriatingly irreversible. But Rumplestiltskin was convinced that if we just put the two of you together you’d find a way around it.” 

The hospital, him standing guard, forcing them together again and again... It all made sense now. She’d thought it was some kind of game, some way for them to torture her, to manipulate her into doing what they wanted. But she’d been so wrong. It had all been planned, all a setup. 

She thought of their escape from the emergency room, how easy it had been to get there, how Killian had somehow gotten to her despite her locking him in the cell. They hadn’t been followed. It had all been planned, organized and manipulated. It was so obvious now. And Ariel arrived in the tunnels at the same time she and Killian were put together. They’d been played for fools. 

“And what do you know,” the King continued. “True love prevails!” He looked at her then, twisted, hollowed features filling with sick pleasure. “What a pity it has to be cut short.” 

He closed his fist, crushing the heart in his hand. Killian let out a scream, a raw, primal thing the likes of which she’d never heard. And then he didn’t make any sound at all. 

“No!” Emma screamed as Killian went limp in Belle’s arms. Her scream was deafening, echoing in her ears, over the rush of blood, over the hum of magic, over the emptiness, the silence in the room that hung like a physical presence. Frozen, powerless, Emma watched as the King raised his fist, tilted his head back and let the dust that had been Killian’s heart fall into his open mouth. 

She collapsed to her knees beside the man she loved, the man that had been taken from her so many times, now lost to her in death once more. She was vaguely aware of the other women beside her, of their own cries of anguish and loss.

“Killian, no,” she sobbed, tears blurring her vision, her voice small and hoarse. Not again. Not now. The hollowness in her chest grew, ached and burned her as though it had been her own heart that had been ripped out. “No, please,” she whimpered. She took his face in her hands. “Please don’t leave me.” The warmth was already fading from his skin, a deathly paleness taking its place. She hadn’t even gotten to say goodbye. After everything… he'd been taken from her again. 

She pressed her lips to his, a desperate, last resort. But she knew it was pointless. There was no coming back from this. Their magic had run out. He was lost to her now - forever. And it was his fault. The King. This monster who had come into her life and ripped it apart, taken away everything she’d ever loved - her parents, her friends, Henry, and now Killian. He would pay. She would see him dead if it was the last thing she ever did. 

She pressed her lips to Killian's once more, a goodbye, a promise. She ran her thumb over his cheek, traced his features, taking one last look at the face that had expressed such joy, such love, such playfulness and mischief, such pain, and such light even through the darkness. There was nothing there now. Only emptiness. All of that life, just gone - no, stolen. The King would pay. She rose to her feet, fingers burning.

“At last,” the King said, summoning his cauldron, the heavy, black vessel appearing before him. “The power to do as I please. No more infuriating laws, no more limitations. Death has been my enemy for far too long. I am the master of death now. It bends to me. I will be eternal.” He let the last bits of dust fall from his grasp into the cauldron. 

He began to mutter under his breath, something lyrical and rhythmic, a language she hadn’t heard before. She watched for only a moment as the spaces between the tendons on his face and body, the places where the skin was stretched so thin it was nearly transparent, began to glow. Not the golden, healing glow of her magic before, but something ghoulish, ominous like a fog drifting in on a dark road. 

Emma’s hands were burning, as was her heart - rage and fury and hatred and grief rushing through her so quickly she could barely tell one from the other, all of them mixing into one cruel, agonizing blur. She wanted revenge. She wanted to kill. She wanted to watch him suffer and die. 

She could already feel the dark magic inside of her, the whispers in her ear that had never really left, egging her on, encouraging her. He’d killed him. He killed Killian. He took away everyone. He needs to pay. 

“Emma,” she heard, the sound of her name breaking through the vicious thoughts swirling around in her head. It was Belle. “Don’t give in to it,” she said. “Darkness won’t defeat darkness.” She didn’t care. She was done trying to save everyone. She had only one goal now - since Killian’s heart had stopped beating. 

The King continued his incantation, unbothered by what was going on around him. The arrogance, she thought, adding fuel to the fire as she raised her hands. She froze when Belle spoke again. “Think of Henry, Emma! Think of Killian. They wouldn’t want you to do this. They wouldn’t want you to give in.” 

But it was too late. Too late to save either of them. Killian was dead and Henry was lost to her forever now. She didn’t expect to survive this battle, regardless of what she did, of what happened, so that little hope that she’d only just discovered, the possibility of the new life she and Killian had made - it would be gone too. She was tired of the light. The light had brought her nothing. 

The magic poured out of her, burning through her body, feeding on the pain and the anger. The King went sailing across the room, blasted back by the onslaught of dark magic that had escaped her. He at least had the decency to look shocked as he hit the wall behind him, collapsing. But then his shock turned into a grin as he rose to his feet, prepared for a fight. 

Emma didn’t give him the time, a roar bursting from her as she blasted him again. He was ready this time, his own magic meeting hers, both of them at a standstill, their power mingling and burning between them. 

“I underestimated you, Savior,” he taunted. His own magic pushed hers back just a fraction, and Emma growled again, sweat beading on her forehead with the effort to hold him back. She pushed, raged, fought with everything she had, drew all of her strength, and still he overpowered her. He was stronger. His hate and his darkness greater than hers. She couldn’t win. This was it. She’d follow Killian, and then Belle and Tink would be left to fend for themselves. 

She felt her magic weaken as the fight started to fade out of her, as her rage was replaced with hopelessness. She looked at Killian over her shoulder, looked at Belle and Tink who were watching her with frightened, helpless expressions. She’d failed them. She was going to die, they were all going to die, and it was because she’d failed them in this moment. She could feel the King's magic now, so close, overwhelming her own, inches from her face. She nearly collapsed under the weight of it.

She met Tink’s eye. She could tell that she had accepted her fate as well, but she was going to fight longer. The fairy looked at her imploringly and put her hand on Killian’s shoulder. “Love and revenge,” she said. Emma remembered then, the words Killian had told her once, long after they’d found their way to each other, a night when he shared with her some of the darker times from his past. He’d had a code, been single-minded. I’d risk my life for two things - love and revenge. 

"Choose love," Tink said. She followed Tink’s hand with her eyes, looked at the man she was holding on to. The King’s magic had nearly engulfed her own now, the power overwhelming, strong and terrifying. Tink was right, Killian was right. If she was going to die, if she was going to go down, then she had to go down fighting. And she’d rather die fighting for love than for revenge. 

She shut her eyes, looking at him would bring back the pain, the anger, the vengeance. She thought of Killian, of the time they'd had together. It had been too short, cruelly, unfairly so, but it had been full of more love than most could dream of knowing in a lifetime. She knew that no matter what happened, that love, unwavering and constant, would be with her forever. She thought of Henry, of her parents, she’d only had them for a short time as well, but they’d changed her life, saved it, made it better. 

She had been alone for decades, but in the years since she’d found them, all of them, even the people of Storybrooke who drove her insane half the time, her friends, she’d been more loved than anyone had a right to be. She’d had a family, she’d had a home, she’d had true love - how many people got to have all that? She’d been lucky, to be loved enough for a lifetime and to love back just as strongly. 

She’d had to learn how to love like that, be taught how, taught that it was alright to open herself up to others, to hope, believe and to love. Yes, love hurt, love had the power to destroy you, but as she thought of the way Killian had fought his way into her heart, had taught her to see herself differently through his love, to love herself, and to love him… Love was strength. And she would fight for it until her last breath. 

Emma felt when her magic changed, felt the light wash through her, clear away the darkness, cleanse it from her bones. It lifted her, took the weakness of her muscles and renewed them, swelled in her heart and her body like a physical embodiment of the strength she’d found in her love for Killian and her family. She stood taller, watched as the King’s grin wavered as her magic changed, as it pushed back, slowly swallowing the darkness. She nearly smiled as his face turned worried, anxiety clear as she stepped forward and he stumbled for a moment, nearly knocked back in the effort to hold her off. 

“You’ve taken everyone from me,” she told him, feeling the anger flicker for a moment, but the light was too strong, love more powerful, prevailing despite it. “But you won’t win. Darkness is empty, I know, I’ve felt it.” She pushed again and he stumbled back a step. “It’s weak. You’re alone. We’re not.” Belle and Tink were at her side now. They put their hands on her shoulders and she felt their support, felt it fuel her. 

The King grinned again but it was weakened by the effort on his face as he struggled to hold her off, the upticked corner of his pale, thin lips wobbling under the strain. “Ah, but you see,” he said, his voice shaking slightly as he panted. “I’m not alone.” 

Emma barely had time to look over, barely had time to hear the malicious, gleeful giggle before another beam of dark magic was shot at her. She’d have taken the blow, would have been knocked down, killed probably, but Tink stepped in front of her. The fairy released a force of green light, a shield, and Gold’s magic was refracted, bouncing off of it and into a corner of the tunnel. 

Tink collapsed, panting on hands and knees. The bit of magic she’d had, the bit she’d sacrificed, had drained her. She knew Tink only had small amounts of power now, had only just started to get it back. She’d risked her life - but it had been enough. Emma swung one of her hands over to where Gold stood, attempting to blast him back but he was too quick, meeting her magic with his own. 

She was fighting two wars now. One with the King and one with the Dark One. Her magic held strong for now, but she could feel the strain that holding them both off was putting on her - the toll it was taking. She didn’t know how much longer she’d be able to hold them both off. She had to get the others to safety. She hoped that Gold still had enough humanity in him that he wouldn’t hurt Belle, even in trying to thwart her escape. 

“Belle,” she shouted and she could hear the way her voice wavered. “Get Tink out of here. Get somewhere safe.” They ignored her. Belle grabbed Tink but rather than leave, they made their way to one of the stock piles, searching. 

Gold’s attention was turned, only for a moment as he followed Belle’s movement, but it was just long enough for Emma to gain the upper hand, to throw her arm forward and overtake his magic for a moment. He hit the wall behind him with a sickening sound. He wasn’t down for long though. 

Emma barely had time to focus her magic back on the King, to double down before Gold was standing, anger and something vicious in his eyes. She watched as his fingers moved intricately, conjuring something that she was sure she’d be no match for - light magic or not. He was only just preparing his attack when Belle threw herself between them - the third person today to risk their safety - their lives - for her. She was loved. 

Gold hesitated, anger and doubt flickering back and forth in his expression, fighting one another. She saw his brow pull up as Belle stepped forward, held her hands out and spoke his name softly. 

“Rumple,” she said. “You don’t have to do this. I’ll - I’ll come back. We both will. Me and the baby. We’ll find our way back to loving each other again. But not if you do this. If you do this, you’ll lose me forever. No spell will change that.” She was only a few feet away from him now and he was watching her with trepidation - like he really wanted to believe what she said. 

Emma focused all her efforts on the King. With only him to worry about she began to win again, enjoyed the nervous look on his face as he took another step back. She’d only gained a few inches, but it was something. 

“Rumple, don’t do this. Choose us,” she heard Belle say. She could see her out of the corner of her eye, saw her reach Gold and put her hands on his shoulders. She saw Gold hesitate again, watching Belle, unsure but clearly wanting to hope as Belle wrapped her arms around his neck. 

She barely heard Belle’s whispered ‘I’m sorry’ before she opened her hand and emptied a vial over him. Gold’s face flickered with surprise, with confusion, and then with betrayal - but only for a second before his entire body froze. Squid ink. Belle was a fucking genius. 

“Tink, now!” the woman shouted and Tink stood before Rumple, shaky but determined. She held Pandora’s box out in front of her. They'd planned for this. Tink waved her hand, her brow pulling in pain as she pushed herself just a little too far. The box opened and Belle stepped back. Gold gave her one last look, something dark in his expression, before he was pulled into the box. It locked. Tink collapsed at Belle’s feet, her eyes closed, unmoving. 

Belle knelt beside her, and Emma hoped she found a pulse, hoped that Tink would be alright. Belle looked at her then and the lack of anguish on her face gave Emma hope. She watched Emma and the King for a moment, looked at both of them, and then between them. Emma could barely focus on her, using every bit of her concentration to hold off the King’s magic.

“Emma!” Belle shouted. “Emma, it’s the cauldron!” The King snarled, turned a hand to attack Belle, to silence her, but she managed to duck out of the way, his own focus too divided to aim true. “He’s drawing his power from it!” Belle shouted. 

Emma glanced at her, then at the cauldron. It was faint, but after a moment she saw it, saw what Belle must have seen. There was a pale ribbon of magic connecting the King and the vessel - a teather, some sort of magical umbilical cord, linking them. The way the King had reacted to Belle’s warning only confirmed their suspicions. She had to get the cauldron, had to destroy it. But how? How could she destroy it without giving up her current fight with him, without letting him win, without putting Belle and Tink in danger?

The gleam of metal caught her eye and she looked to the left of the King, just beyond where her friends were. Belle followed her gaze, saw it too. The sword. Killian’s sword. Belle dashed for it, grabbing hold of the hilt and sliding it across the stone floor where it stopped by Emma’s feet, by Killian’s body. 

With all of her might, Emma leaned into her magic, angled it, moved his, and both beams shot down the empty passage. The King paused in shock at his magic being ripped away from him. Emma had to be quick. Before he had time to shake himself out of it, to attack again, Emma dove for the sword, rolling to face him. She threw it with all of her strength. The way she had learned, the way her father had before her. 

A sickening sound echoed as the sword pierced through the King, pinning him to the stone behind him. It wasn’t the sound of flesh being sliced, it was wrong, hollow, inhuman. Emma wondered how close to death he was already, how much borrowed time he was living on, what he’d done to his body, to his soul to achieve this half-life, the mummified skin, the horns, the hollow eyes. He’d strayed too far from whoever - whatever he’d been once. 

Emma turned her magic on the cauldron as the King sputtered for a second, but there was more annoyance on his face that fear, than pain. The cauldron stood strong. She hit it again and again, but nothing happened.

“You stupid girl!” The King cursed, angry now. “You think you can stop me? Kill me? You are nothing, a child. I am timeless and you will bow to me as all others did before you!” He reached for the sword in his chest, pulled, and it made a sickening sound, stone and metal mixed with bone and skin. “Try all you will,” he taunted. “You will never destroy it.”

“An enchanted object,” Belle muttered before repeating it, shouting it. “Emma! An enchanted object can only be destroyed by another.” She looked beside Emma. “Killian!” 

His hook. Hades had enchanted Killian’s hook in the Underworld. It had been meant as a way to trap him. Perhaps now it could set them all free. She hoped there was still enough, that somehow the enchantment held, that even the barest amount would still cling to it. Magic didn’t die easily. 

She knelt beside him. She didn’t have the time, she could hear that the King had almost freed himself, could hear Belle’s warning call, but she needed it. She brushed the hair from his forehead, took in his features again, fought the tears that swelled in her eyes. Even amists the battle, even when her life was at risk, she loved him and that feeling wouldn’t be ignored. 

“Looks like you’re gonna save me one more time,” she said before twisting the hook from his brace. In some strange way, she felt they were doing this together and it brought her a sense of peace, of rightness. 

The King pulled the sword from his chest and it clattered to the ground beside him. He raised a hand to strike but Emma was faster, throwing one, concentrated bolt of magic at him, enough to wind him, to slow him. In three, quick strides she dashed across the room to the cauldron. She heard his screamed ‘No!’ as she raised the hook and smashed the point into the side of the bowl with as much force as she could muster.

It shattered, breaking into pieces as the contents spilled out onto the ground, ran across the floor like a river splashing at her feet. The King screamed again, a visceral, inhuman sound as the smoglike glow began to emanate from him again. But this time it was different, it consumed him, burning him from the inside out. 

She felt as though everything was happening in slow motion, his scream echoing against the walls of the tunnel as the morbid scene played out in front of her. She watched as the paperlike flesh of his skin fell away leaving behind only bone, before that too, turned to dust. The last thing to fall were his horns, clattering to the ground, holding on a moment longer as though they’d not truly been a part of him, before turning to ash. 

It was over. They’d won. Just like that. The King was defeated, Gold trapped. Silence hung heavy in the room as she and Belle sat motionless, having trouble believing it was real. Tink still lay silent beside them, as did Killian. The only difference was that Tink would wake again. Killian wouldn't. 

She went over to him, crumbled to the ground next to him, exhausted, drained, heartbroken. She couldn’t hold it in anymore, the tears fell freely from her eyes, the pain and the grief wracked her body as she knelt next to the man she loved. 

“I’m so sorry,” she said through her heavy sobs. “I’m sorry I couldn’t save you. I’m sorry I brought you back for this, put you in danger. I’m so sorry. If I had figured it out…” she couldn’t speak anymore, her pain overwhelming her. She tried to steady it with a deep breath but it shook as she inhaled. But she needed to speak, needed to plead with him. “Please come back to me, Killian,” she begged. “I’ll do anything. Please. Just… fight this. Come back to me.” 

But it was useless. She was asking him to fight death. She didn’t think a man could do that more than once in his life. And this time there were no dark curses, no gods to send him back where he belonged. There was only them, there was only this. 

She felt Belle’s hand on her back, felt her wrap her arms around her shoulders and Emma fell into it, let herself be held, let herself be comforted. But she would find no comfort. Nothing would make this better. The only thing that would make her feel whole again was Killian. And she couldn’t have him.

“I’m so sorry, Emma,” Belle said and she could hear the tears in her friend’s voice as well. 

“There has to be something we can do,” Emma insisted, but it came out weak, flat and defeated. “Belle, please. In all of your books, all of Gold’s spells. Was there anything at all?” 

Belle shook her head, looking heartbroken. “Not for this.” 

“Take mine,” she said, desperate. “Take mine and give it to him. Use the hook, use anything.”

“You’ll die, Emma.” So what. She didn’t care. Not if he would live. Her disregard must have shown on her face because Belle frowned at her. “Would you really do that to Henry?” she asked sternly, trying to force her back into reality. “To your parents? What about Killian’s baby - your baby?”

“We don’t even know if -”

“What if you are? Would you do that to him? To it? To any of them?” 

Emma’s shoulders fell. “No.” She still needed something. She didn’t care if this was the goddamn first stage of grief, she wasn’t ready. Not with all the magic that existed, with all the power that she had, that the world had - there had to be a way to save him. He’d fought so hard to come back to her, had defied all the odds. He deserved better than this. She needed better than this. 

“Half of it then,” she said, hope building again. It hadn't worked in the Underworld but that was because he’d been dead too long. Maybe if they were quick -

“You’re heart’s still protected, Emma,” Belle said sadly. Emma knew she wanted there to be a way nearly as much as she did. But Belle was a realist in this moment where Emma couldn’t be. Her grief - her love - wouldn’t let her.

But she had removed it once. In the Underworld before the failed heart split. She’d asked Regina about that too, about why she’d been able to remove her heart then. She hadn’t known. She’d been pretty sure that it had something to do with the way magic worked in the Underworld. Perhaps since she wasn’t in the land of the living the magic that protected her life hadn’t worked. 

They’d tried since, to test the spell, to see if it was a risk she or Henry would have to face. Regina had been extremely annoyed when the protection spell had blasted her back almost ten feet. What she wouldn’t give for a little Underworld magic right now. But if it had been possible once it had to be possible now. There had to be a way. 

She tried to think, through the fog of emotion, tried to use logic and reason. To understand magic? a snide voice in her head commented. But she had to. She had to… she had to think like Killian. Killian who understood magic, who believed in hers, who would find a way to fix this, would believe in their love enough to find a way. 

Something irked at the back of her mind, something he’d said once. She could see it so clearly. He was sitting on the couch, a ring held between his fingers as he scratched behind his ear. He’d been embarrassed, he’d been talking to her father - about her. He’d been embarrassed because David had been proud of him for becoming someone willing to give his heart to her. What had he said? His exact words they - it dawned on her then. 

Anyone can give their heart away if they truly wish to.

That was it. It hadn't been any Underworld magic, nothing about her body or her power not being able to protect her. It had been this - it had been love. Nobody had been trying to steal her heart then. She’d been trying to give it away, trying to save him, save the man she loved. That was the difference. The spell prevented anyone from taking her heart - even she couldn’t take it if she was being forced or under duress or unwilling. But to give it away - to give it to someone she loved… that wasn’t something she needed protecting from. 

She looked at him, a small, hopeful smile breaking out on her wet lips and cheeks. She touched his face again, put her hand over his chest. He’d already held her heart for a long time. The King had said that Killian’s heart belonged to her and he’d been right. But her heart wasn’t just hers either - it belonged to Killian too - it was just time to make that a little more literal. 

Emma put her hands to her chest, took a deep breath as she felt only a second’s resistance, her body’s immediate reaction to a possible threat, protecting itself like it was supposed to. But she let herself relax. This wasn’t a threat. This was love. 

“Emma, what-” Belle started but she grew silent as a soft white light shone from Emma’s chest. She could feel the spell opening up, letting her in, like her magic understood what she was doing - why she was doing it. Her magic was fueled by love, her heart protected by love, and so it recognized it too. 

There was no pain, no harsh jolt like when Regina had taken her heart. Her hands sunk in and found it, warm and beating and glowing red as she held it out in front of her. 

“How?” Belle asked in amazement. 

Emma smiled. “Like you said. True love really is the most powerful magic in the world.” 

As carefully as she could, she took hold of either side of the heart, turned it, keeping her intent in mind, remembering why she was splitting it. It came apart easily, two halves of a whole. She placed one half on his chest, asked him quietly just once more to come back to her, before she pushed it in. A small tear or relief rolled down her cheek when he accepted it easily.

It felt strange, but only because it didn’t feel strange. She thought that she’d feel a part of her heart leave her, that she’d feel something missing. But there was none of that. Even as she replaced the other half in her own chest, she thought it might feel incomplete. But she should have known better. The other half was right where it belonged, where it had always been meant to be. 

There was a long, heavy pause as she waited, as Killian remained still, silent, pale. But she forced herself to hold on to hope, to believe in him, to believe in them, trust their love and know that it would find its way. After a moment, she saw the colour come back to his face, the rosy flush that she loved so much returning to his cheeks. She could feel his warmth under her palm where it lay on his bare chest. 

He gasped, a loud, heavy, coughing wheeze. It was the best sound Emma had ever heard. He bowed forward, his shoulders lifting from the ground as he clutched at his chest, a moment of panic in his eyes before they darted around and settled on her. He relaxed. 

“Swan?” he asked for the second time that day and Emma laughed because it was all she could do not to cry. She cried anyway. She nodded, throwing herself into his arms, holding him tight, her fingers finding their way into his hair as she buried her face in his neck. He sat up, wrapping her tightly in his grasp, his hands rubbing soothingly over her back - as though she were the one that should be comforted. 

“Swan,” he started again, and she pulled back to look at him. He was frowning, a little confused and unsure - he looked a little like Hook, she realised and her heart fluttered. He really was all the versions of himself. And she loved every single one. “Did I die again?” he asked. 

She laughed, a full-bellied, joy-filled sound. She took his face between her hands, kissed him to his surprise but not to his displeasure as he kissed her back eagerly. “Just for a little while,” she assured him when they broke apart. He smiled, still looking a little confused. She would explain it later. Right now she just wanted to enjoy this moment, be with him, appreciate the fact that she was holding him in her arms again, that he was breathing, smiling, alive and him. 

“The King?” he asked hesitantly, eyes looking around the room for any threat. “Gold?”

She shook her head. “We defeated them,” she told him. “With this,” she held up his hook and his eyes widened in surprise and maybe a little disbelief. Emma took his brace in her hand, clicked the hook back into place, back where it belonged. His eyes widened again. “And Belle, and Tink… Ariel?” He looked unsure about the last name.

“They’re okay,” she assured him. Pointing at where Belle had returned to the fairy’s side - the fairy who was slowly starting to stir. “Tink’s a little worse for wear, but she’ll be okay. I’m pretty sure Ariel never even came to Storybrooke. She’s probably safe and sound on Hangman’s Island, completely unaware.” 

He nodded again but then his eyes widened, panic and worry clear in them. “Henry?” He demanded. She knew his heart was racing - she could almost feel it in her own. It made her chest swell, as it always did, to know how much he cared for her son. He started stammering. “I - I remember he got out of the hospital… but then -”

“He’s safe,” she said, cutting him off, wanting to ease his fears. “Ruby took him over the town line.” 

Only then did he finally, truly relax, his shoulders releasing the tension that she felt had been there for months. He looked at her then, really looked at her, and Emma nearly cried at the emotion that was so clear behind his eyes. He was back, he was really back and he was her Killian and he was real. His hand came to her cheek, thumb caressing her face before he kissed her. His lips moved over hers slowly, carefully, with a longing that screamed of lost time, of reunion - but most of all, of love. 

He paused, not moving away from her but hesitating against her. His hand left her cheek, pressed to his chest and Emma pulled back, saw the confusion and the awe on his face. He looked at her in question, hand over the compass that lay over his heart - her heart - their heart. She gave him a little shrug. What else did he expect her to do? Just accept a world without him?

“I knew you’d do it, Emma,” he said softly. “All of it.” She smiled a little, cried a bit more, too emotional to have normal reactions to the things he said. She let her forehead fall against his. “I never doubted you for a second.”

Emma laughed. “You died,” she reminded him. 

He smirked a little and looked at her with a raised brow. “Death cannot stop true love,” he quoted and she rolled her eyes. But he was waiting, proud of himself and insistent. 

“All it can do is delay it for a while,” she finished begrudgingly, silently cursing Henry for ever showing him that movie, for telling him it was her favorite. 

“That’s right,” he said before kissing her once again. 

They stood, making their way over to Belle and Tink who were thrilled beyond belief that he’d survived. Tink cried but she blamed it on her exhausted state. Killian smirked but he let her have it. 

Emma couldn’t stop touching him. She’d helped him up despite his insistence that he was fine, she’d held his hand as they walked over to their friends, curled herself against his side as they sat together now on the hard ground. She couldn’t. Now that she had him back she was never letting him go. She knew she would have to eventually, but it would be a long damn while and a lot of protests before she did. 

The strangest thing happened then. Her phone rang. Perhaps that wasn’t strange given all that had happened to them these past few months. In any other life it would have been normal. But nobody had called her since the King attacked. Nobody had been left to call. 

With disbelief and shaky hands Emma pulled her phone from her jacket pocket. It was wet, glitching but somehow it had survived their plunge into the ocean. She had ten missed calls, all from an unknown number that was calling her again. As though in a daze, she answered. 

“Emma?” the voice on the other line cried desperately. She couldn’t believe it. 

“Mom?” she asked, her voice breaking, a sob leaving her. 

“Oh Emma!” Snow sighed. “David she’s here, I have her,” she heard her say. “Where are you?” she demanded. “Are you alright?”

“I’m fine. I’m fine,” she insisted through a watery laugh.

“What about Henry? And Hook? And Ruby?”

“They’re safe. They’re all safe,” she assured her. “Mom are you… is the curse broken?” her voice broke. “Are you... you again?” 

“Yes, sweetheart, I’m me. So is your father. Everyone is back.” Emma sobbed. They’d done it. Whether it was the kiss or destroying the cauldron, they’d broken the curse. Storybrooke was safe. The people she loved were safe. She had her family back. She heard a shuffling and suddenly David was on the line.

“Emma? Are you okay? Are you safe? Where are you? Where are Henry and Ruby? Is Hook with you? Is he alright?” Emma laughed as her Father asked her the exact same questions she’d just answered for her mother.

“Everything’s okay, Dad. I'll explain it all when we're together." Her heart lurched. They would be together. There was no doubt anymore. "Where should we meet you?” Arrangements were made and then Snow was back on the phone. 

“Emma I’m so sorry,” she said and Emma didn’t understand. “The things I did. I -”

“Mom, no,” she stopped her. “You were cursed. It wasn’t you,” she sighed then, feeling terrible. “I’m sorry,” she sniffled. “The things I did to you. I should have believed in you, I -”

“Emma, you were protecting yourself and your son. I’d have done the same thing.” 

She sniffled again. Emma knew that they would have more to talk about, that they would have to work through what had happened - that everyone in town would. A curse like this wasn’t something people got over easily. There would be memories and guilt and resentment… 

None of that mattered now. Now, she had Killian by her side, and her parents voices in her ear. She would find Henry, find a way to make him forgive her and then she would have everything she needed - everything that mattered. And maybe, she thought, her hand drifting to her stomach, the possibility of something new that mattered. She saw Killian’s eyes cast sideways at her movement, saw the smile that pulled at the corner of his lips. He knew. He always knew. 

Her life had been nothing but darkness and pain for too long. She’d been beat down and broken - hopeless and lost. But they’d won. She and Killian had won. They’d won by believing in each other, by trusting each other, regardless of time or place or curses. They’d won by never giving up on each other. No matter how close she’d come, he hadn’t let her. Love had won. 

Killian raised her hand to his lips, placed a kiss on her knuckles and smiled knowingly. They’d found each other. True love had conquered even the cruelest of monsters and they’d found their way back to one another. 

For the first time in a long time, Emma felt hope - hope without doubt and without fear. Regardless of what came next, she knew that they would finally have the happy ending they’d always wanted. This was only the beginning. 

[idoqqy-blog]

200 Writing Prompts (not mine)

Below is the list of writing prompts I’m assigning to myself. My goal is to complete the entire list by my birthday, September 2nd. If you have any suggestions for characters or scenarios that could pair with a certain prompt, feel free to tell me or drop it in my ask box. I’m not doing these in order. I’m still tracking down the original author of these. My apologies. Anyways, here it is:

1. Introduction 2. Complicated 3. Making History 4. Rivalry 5. Unbreakable 6. Obsession 7. Eternity 8. Gateway 9. Death 10. Opportunities 11. 33% 12. Dead Wrong 13. Running Away 14. Judgment 15. Seeking Solace 16. Excuses 17. Vengeance 18. Love 19. Tears 20. My Inspiration 21. Never Again 22. Online 23. Failure 24. Rebirth 25. Breaking Away 26. Forever and a day 27. Lost and Found 28. Light 29. Dark 30. Faith 31. Colors 32. Exploration 33. Seeing Red 34. Shades of Grey 35. Forgotten 36. Dreamer 37. Mist 38. Burning 39. Out of Time 40. Knowing How 41. Fork in the road 42. Start 43. Nature's Fury 44. At Peace 45. Heart Song 46. Reflection 47. Perfection 48. Everyday Magic 49. Umbrella 50. Party 51. Troubling Thoughts 52. Stirring of the Wind 53. Future 54. Health and Healing 55. Separation 56. Everything For You 57. Slow Down 58. Heartfelt Apology 59. Challenged 60. Exhaustion 61. Accuracy 62. Irregular Orbit 63. Cold Embrace 64. Frost 65. A Moment in Time 66. Dangerous Territory 67. Boundaries 68. Unsettling Revelations 69. Shattered 70. Bitter Silence 71. The True You 72. Pretense 73. Patience 74. Midnight 75. Shadows 76. Summer Haze 77. Memories 78. Change in the Weather 79. Illogical 80. Only Human 81. A Place to Belong 82. Advantage 83. Breakfast 84. Echoes 85. Falling 86. Picking up the Pieces 87. Gunshot 88. Possession 89. Twilight 90. Nowhere and Nothing 91. Answers 92. Innocence 93. Simplicity 94. Reality 95. Acceptance 96. Lesson 97. Enthusiasm 98. Game 99. Friendship 100. Endings 101. Birth 102. Enthusiasm 103. Love 104. Hate 105. Triumph 106. Feel 107. Wrecked 108. Soft 109. Cold 110. Without 111. Inspiration 112. You 113. Confused 114. Affection 115. Joy 116. Horror 117. Acceptance 118. Sympathy 119. Holding 120. Defeated 121. Pride 122. Knife 123. Overwhelmed 124. Depressed 125. Adoration 126. Worship 127. Zeal 128. Light 129. Exhaustion 130. Obsession 131. Rage 132. Empty 133. Anger 134. Fury 135. Delight 136. Submission 137. Infatuation 138. Anticipation 139. Pessimistic 140. Jolly 141. Grasping 142. Agitation 143. Calm 144. Astonished 145. Loneliness 146. Lust 147. Longing 148. Tender 149. Hard 150. Rebirth 151. Amused 152. Broken 153. Abused 154. Tranquil 155. Composed 156. Glad 157. Stress 158. Serenity 159. Colorful 160. Coping 161. Boisterous 162. Placid 163. Tired 164. Bliss 165. Neglect 166. Fine 167. Question 168. Energetic 169. Noble 170. Disgust 171. Lively 172. Power 173. Pity 174. Humiliation 175. Satisfied 176. Thankful 177. Hyper 178. Goosebumps 179. Worthless 180. Remorse 181. Degraded 182. Revenge 183. Fulfilled 184. Shame 185. Graceful 186. Shining 187. Content 188. Feelings 189. Pleased 190. Relief 191. I 192. Zest 193. Tears 194. Building 195. Optimistic 196. Thrilled 197. Dealing 198. Reflect 199. Embarrassment 200. Death

[teenguyen92]

Why Friends With Benefits Are the Best Relationships

Just a nice article to read. It seems true to me though.

In a few days, I’m going to Cuba on vacation with a guy I’ve been sleeping with for eight years, but whom I've never once called my boyfriend. We live on different continents, but inevitably, a few times a year, we find each other somewhere in the world, have a few days of romance, and then go our separate ways. This arrangement would generally be called a friend with benefits, or a fuck buddy, or a romantic friendship, or perhaps even a relationship—with “no strings attached.” But let’s be real: There are always strings, aren’t there?

It was while planning this vacation that it hit me: The two longest relationships of my life have both been with men who I was never officially dating. Boyfriends and girlfriends have come and gone, but my friends with benefits have stood the test of time. I mean, eight years. That’s longer than I predict my first marriage will last. And while I can’t imagine being with my Cuba date “for real”—I mean, he’s a low-key homeless anarchist who once took me on date to his Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous meeting; there are red flags—I still value our relationship immensely. And he actually knows me better than a lot of my partners ever did. So what is it about the friends with benefits dynamic that is more sustainable, and often more transparent, than an actual relationship?

People are skeptical of fuck buddies. They’re like: How can you have sex with the same person, again and again, without falling in love? Or at least, without getting super-jealous and Fatal Attraction–esque? Some assume that one of the “buddies” is always being strung along, secretly hoping that the fucking leads to something more serious. Others dismiss fuck-buddy dynamics as just being compulsive sex that’s devoid of emotion. But why do things have to be so black and white? Surely it’s possible to find a middle ground between eternal love and zombie-fucking a stranger: a place where you can care about someone, have good sex, and yet not want to literally implode at the thought of them sleeping with someone else. Right?Case in point: The most significant romantic friendship of my life was with an ex-editor of mine, whom I’ll call Malcolm. We started “a thing” five years ago and have yet to end it. When I met him, he was 45 and charmingly grumpy, and he would always tell me: “Sex is so perfect. Why destroy it with a relationship?” I’d go over to his apartment for a couple hours in the afternoons, we’d have sex (soberly, which meant I could actually cum), and then afterward we’d drink tea and complain about stuff. It was the best.

There were times when we saw each other frequently, and other times when things dropped off for a while, usually because one of us had a partner. And sure, when he would get a girlfriend I would be a little bummed out—I’m (unfortunately) not a sociopath—but it didn’t cause me to spiral into an emotional cyclone the way I would have if I’d been cheated on by a boyfriend. After all, disappointment comes from expectation.Over time, Malcolm and I became really close. It felt like we had entered this secretive bubble of transparency—we were emotionally intimate, yet free of the burden of jealousy and ownership. We could spill our guts to each other because we didn’t have anything to lose. I told Malcolm about my previous relationships, my fantasies, my heartbreak. Once, he told me this long, complicated story about an affair he had with his cousin, adding, “That’s not something I tell most people.” Probably wise on his part, but I loved that story, as problematic as it may be, because I loved knowing something about him that no one else did. Sometimes it feels like we are more honest with our friends with benefits than we are with our partners.This paradox always makes me think of that Mad Men episode when Betty seduced Don at their kid’s summer camp, well after they had both remarried. Afterward, when they’re lying in bed together, Betty says of Don’s new wife, “That poor girl. She doesn’t know that loving you is the worst way to get to you.” Harsh. But sometimes, romantic friendships can offer a type of intimacy that committed relationships can’t.I was curious to know if Malcolm felt the same way I did about all of this, so last week (for strictly journalistic purposes), I paid him a visit. “Having a friend with benefits is great because it’s just—it’s just less annoying,” he said, smoking a cigar and dressed in an inexplicable beige silk onesie. “It’s more of a low-intensity intimacy. It’s not encumbered by obligations, which just lead to resentment.”He then gave me that look—the one that means he’s about to admit to something despicable and blame it on humanity. “We are all selfish—we all live in this Ayn Rand–ish self-centered world, whether we like it or not,” he said. “When you’re in a friends with benefits situation, you don’t have go to the other person’s awful friend’s birthday party. But if you behave like that within a conventional relationship, it causes problems.

“With [FWB] there’s no illusion about the carnal aspect,” he went on, “so you can be really literal about it: You are two people who like and respect each other—and you like to fuck. There’s beauty and freedom in that honestly. And you can be playful. You can have your sex-power persona, or you can play the super-misogynist pig, or the bimbo, and it’s okay, because you’re not being judged. But if you change that dynamic into being a real relationship, then those games might not seem so sexy anymore.”In other words, your fuck buddy gets all the good stuff about being in a relationship—the wild sex, the cuddles, the juicy dark secrets—minus all of the boring, would-rather-die activities that go hand in hand with commitment, like having to help assemble your boyfriend’s IKEA bed, or having to watch your girlfriend stab at the ingrown hairs on her bikini line while she watches the Kardashians. (That’s me—I’m the girlfriend who does that.)Essentially, you’re taking a relationship and removing the creepy ownership of another human being, which leaves more room for hedonism and sexual exploration. Like, who do you want to bring to the sex party—your boyfriend or your fuck buddy? It’s a no-brainer. I’ve done so many things with fuck buddies that I never would have tried with partners, because I was too much of a jealous monster. (Like once I let Malcolm tie me to a dresser while I watched him have sex with my best friend. Unsurprisingly, it was literally awful, but now at least I can say I’ve done it?)One of the most masterful fuck friends I know is my friend Casey, a 26-year-old Ph.D. candidate in English, who until recently had a FWB for 12 years. It started when she was 13, with a boy whose family spent every summer in the same beach town as she did. (Cute alert.)Over martinis at Cafe Mogador, Casey told me, “When I’m dating someone, my immediate impulse is to be like, ‘Let’s lock shit down! My anxiety will decrease if I know you want to marry me in six years from now!’ Which is crazy and not hot or sustainable. But my longer romantic friendships have been a safe space. They’ve helped me figure out how to relate to someone romantically without the immediate trigger of, Where is this going?” In other words, having a fuck buddy is a great exercise in non-possessiveness.

“The thought of my boyfriend fucking someone else makes me want to wear his skin like a goddamned wetsuit,” she said, eyes bulging. “But with my fuck buddies it’s been like, ‘Oh, my God, tell me more.’ There’s almost a level of titillation to sex stories when it’s somebody who’s not your boyfriend. But why is that? I wish I knew, so I could bottle it and never be possessive ever again.”For all the benefits of fuck friendery, it’s still possible for this dynamic to screw with your emotions. “At different points in our relationship,” Casey recalled, “it was hard to respect the line between friendship and flirting when he started dating someone, because I’d known him more intimately than his new partner. It’s like my morals were thrown out the window, and I felt this gross egotistical sense that I should come first, because I’ve been around longer, like, ‘Girlfriends come and go, but I’m forever.’” Sometimes it’s hard to accept that these dynamics usually have an expiration date, which tends to be when one person gets into a committed relationship. And, unfortunately, not only do you lose the benefits, but you sometimes lose the friend, too.We are taught that all relationships that don’t end up in marriage are failures (because, ya know, hetero-normativity and patriarchal narratives or whatever). But subscribing to that belief ignores the fact that romantic friendships can be extremely fulfilling, enlightening, and straight-up fun. Of course, I’m not dismissing the benefits of committed, long-term, loving relationships. But both dynamics are valuable in their own right. And perhaps the reason romantic friendships are often so sustainable is they lack the soul-baring vulnerability and intense emotional investment.Maybe the coolest thing about the fuck-buddy economy is that it allows women to actually enjoy sex in a casual way, without having to enter an old-fashioned ownership contract. It celebrates female sexual autonomy. It’s a chance to explore ourselves and other people. And in the interim, we can discover who we are and what we like, instead of committing to a pseudo-marriage we aren’t ready for.

[gufettogrigio]

Free Prompts

Hi everyone who might still be loitering in this forgotten corner of this internet. I am feeling productive but weirdly stuck so...free prompts! Send me a pairing and a number/word. Or any random ideas that you’d like written.

For the sake of my sanity, I have decided that right now F1 has ended for me in the year 2000. Any pairings/driver before that is fair game.

PROMPTS

1. Introduction

2. Complicated

3. Making History

4. Rivalry

5. Unbreakable

6. Obsession

7. Eternity

8. Gateway

9. Death

10. Opportunities

11. 33%

12. Dead Wrong

13. Running Away

14. Judgment

15. Seeking Solace

16. Excuses

17. Vengeance

18. Love

19. Tears

20. My Inspiration

21. Never Again

22. Online

23. Failure

24. Rebirth

25. Breaking Away

26. Forever and a day

27. Lost and Found

28. Light

29. Dark

30. Faith

31. Colors

32. Exploration

33. Seeing Red

34. Shades of Grey

35. Forgotten

36. Dreamer

37. Mist

38. Burning

39. Out of Time

40. Knowing How

41. Fork in the road

42. Start

43. Nature’s Fury

44. At Peace

45. Heart Song

46. Reflection

47. Perfection

48. Everyday Magic

49. Umbrella

50. Party

51. Troubling Thoughts

52. Stirring of the Wind

53. Future

54. Health and Healing

55. Separation

56. Everything For You

57. Slow Down

58. Heartfelt Apology

59. Challenged

60. Exhaustion

61. Accuracy

62. Irregular Orbit

63. Cold Embrace

64. Frost

65. A Moment in Time

66. Dangerous Territory

67. Boundaries

68. Unsettling Revelations

69. Shattered

70. Bitter Silence

71. The True You

72. Pretense

73. Patience

74. Midnight

75. Shadows

76. Summer Haze

77. Memories

78. Change in the Weather

79. Illogical

80. Only Human

81. A Place to Belong

82. Advantage

83. Breakfast

84. Echoes

85. Falling

86. Picking up the Pieces

87. Gunshot

88. Possession

89. Twilight

90. Nowhere and Nothing

91. Answers

92. Innocence

93. Simplicity

94. Reality

95. Acceptance

96. Lesson

97. Enthusiasm

98. Game

99. Friendship

100. Endings

The prompt list is not mine, it comes from an old challenge which you can find here

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The Nature Queen

An alternate, and hopefully slightly more interesting, version of the final blow to Zarc in episode 140.

Zarc smiled widely with his fanged mouth.

«At the end, I will nail your coffin with my own hand.»

His eyes widened as he thrust his human form's right hand forward.

«I attack "DD Magical Savant Schrodinger"!» he yelled as his dragon form's left fist lunged forward, inbound for a powerful landing on the devastated balcony where Reiji was laying on the ground, still not recovered from the beatdown his "High King Executives" took from the "Supreme King Servant Dragons".

Then a twister full of leaves covered him and a high-pitched voice screamed.

«BROTHER!»

A monotone "Intrusion Penality: 2000 points" echoed as Reira's Duel Disk flared up.

And a loud crash signed the impact of the fist of "Supreme King Dragon Zarc".

Everyone gasped as a Reiji's scarf disintegrated among the debris... along with the log it was tied to.

From the leafy winds, the blue ninja emerged holding Reiji and Leo.

REIJI LP 200 → 0 [0] × 0

«Tsukikage!» said Shingo happily. «He came back!» added Crow.

«That's...!» gasped Tatsuya.

Everyone looked at the weird portal screen thing. Reira was standing before Zarc, Duel Disk active and hand drawn. «Reira!»

«Reira! What are you doing?» yelled Reiji concerned.

From the Leo Corporation's HQ, Himika also said the kid's name.

Reira hid the eyes under his cap. «I... I'm not Reira.»

The kid then threw away the cap and the jacket, and long lavender hair fell down.

«I'm Ray!» the kid declared as an image of the older woman flickered next to them.

«Ray?» asked Reiji confused.

«What?!» cried Leo.

«Ray?» parroted Zarc, his eyes twitching.

«If you come back, I will come back.» affirmed Reira. «If you try to destroy the world, I will protect it!» Ray voice gradually overlapped, until she flickered next to the child again at the last words.

The glowing golden spirit form of Ray then appeared over Reira, before her Original Dimension's Duel Disk materializing on her left arm, and her head gained its true colors.

«My turn!» yelled both as Ray drew a card from her Deck.

The two Akaba siblings held up their right arms, Ray having two yellow-colored cards between her fingers, Normal Monsters. Zarc had an heart attack when he squinted and noticed... the lower half was Magic-colored!

«With the Scale 0, "Nature Queen Hikari", and the Scale 13, "Nature Queen Yami", we set the Pendulum Scale!» Ray slapped the cards over her Duel Disk, but the iridescent word "PENDULUM" appered over Reira's as well.

Two young girls ascended to the sky inside blue columns of light. The Scale 0 wore a pretty white dress and had long brown and red hair, looking like Ray, while the Scale 13 resembled a female Zarc with short, upward-spiked white hair, and wore a tattered black dress.

«W-what? How!?» stuttered the demonic man.

«With this, we can Summon any monsters with Levels between 1 and 12!» explained the siblings. «Swing, Pendulum of cosmos! Bring eternal peace to the unnatural world!» chanted both. «Pendulum Summon! Appear, our harbinger of salvation!» A portal opened between the two Scales, and a single pink stream came out.

The light split into four, of which three changed color: green, indigo, and yellow. A pillar of light shoot up to the sky, piercing the clouds.

«Envoy of Mother Earth, the all-knowing disciple with the mission to protect the universe with the powers of nature!»

The pillar died down, and a figure appeared between the four colored light: a heavenly being wearing a rainbow vest, with long flowing hair colored white, and feathery wings folded behind the back. «"Biograph Angel"!»

Biograph Angel ATK 2400 LV 7

«Bio... graph... angel...?» growled Zarc. «No... no! You can't!»

Ray and Reira just glared back at him. «The effect of "Biograph Angel". We can Release this card, and banish the Four Envoys of Nature from our Deck and Extra Deck!»

«NO!» screamed the demon, slamming his hands down. Meanwhile, the angelic monster clasped her hands and appeared to start praying.

The siblings threw their right arms up. «"Lyrical Luscinia - Assembly Nightingale"! "Wind Witch - Winter Bell"! "Moonlight Cat Dancer"! "Melodious Maestra - Prodigy Mozart"!»

The four monsters appeared over them as thet were named, all glaring with intense hate at the dark lord of dragons. The angry faces of the bracelet girls briefly fickered over their respective ace.

«Become the force that purifies the evil out of hearts!»

Pillars of colored light enveloped the four monsters, before they moved towards each other and merged. Then, Ray spread her arms and detached from Reira, who fell on their knees. As she floated towards the pillar, she closed her eyes and kept chanting.

«The sovereign of the natural world, the fighter for the freedom from jet-black darkness' clutches for all dimensions! Please take my form, and save us all from sin!»

Ray's body touched the light, before being abrutly swallowed. Immediately the pillar expanded with a deep rumble, and a second, horizontal pillar burst out the sides of the other, making it look like a cross.

Two words echoed in the astonished silence: «INTEGRATION SUMMON!»

Slowly, the horizontal light widened, taking shape of wings. Enormous, yellow, feathery wings. A pink circle formed around the main pillar, and the light finally died down.

A enormous woman was towering before Zarc. Besides the yellow wings and the pink halo, the monster wore a long green dress with indigo fur. Ray's glowing body merged with the monster's at the neck crook of the latter, just like with Zarc.

«Zarc!» a voice called out. «Here I am! Your ultimate opponent: an equivalent!»

Queen of All Nature - Ray ATK 3900 LV 12

Zarc was trembling in fury. «YOU BITCH! HOW DARE YOU USE THE SAME WEAPON I MADE TO FIGHT YOU?! HOW DARE YOU STEAL MY OWN EXCLUSIVE, INTEGRATION SUMMON?!»

Ray didn't bat an eye from her place. «I will stop you, no what what I have to do.»

Zarc pointed a claw to her. «Stop me? In your worthless dreams! You even have less ATK than myself, proof that no one can surpass me!»

Ray's expression softened for some reason. «ATK isn't everything. Don't worry, your pain is finally coming to an end.»

Zarc scowled in confusion. «What are you saying?»

Ray held up her hand towards the dragon as a window popped up in front of her, showing four Magic Cards in the Graveyard. «The Natural Energy Cards... they did stop you... but the price was too high. They shattered the entire world like this, and they caused immense pain and suffering... so I will undo their damage. I'll sacrifice them to find another way!»

«Sacrifice them?!» cried Leo shocked.

Her held hand closed in a fist. «That's right. This new form of mine isn't just the embodiment of my desire to stop you. It is also the combination of my fragments' will to save your fragments!»

«Our fragments?» murmured Zarc.

«My effect activates! By banishing a nature card from the Graveyard, I can apply its effect!» «WHAT?!»

«Go, Ruri!» yelled Ray as the Xyz fragment flickered next to her. «We banish "En Birds"!» the two girls said, «By its effect, all Xyz Monsters on the field, in the Graveyard, and that are banished are treated as Normal Monsters, and their effects are negated!»

"En Birds", floating in the purple void, exploded into yellow particles, which erupted out from a portal that opened before Ray, quickly turning into bird shapes and enveloping "Supreme King Dragon Zarc" and "Supreme King Servant Dragon Dark Rebellion". At the same time, the same two cards flashed on Zarc's Duel Disk; as the former turned into a yellow card and lost its effect and the "Xyz / Effect" part of the type line, and the latter was stripped of the black fraction of the background and the "Xyz" subtype.

«Xyz Monsters are...» whispered Kaito. «...turned into Normal Monster?» finished Shun.

«Yuto!» cried Ruri's spirit clasping her hand. «I'm begging you, awake yourself! Just like you fought Academia, you can fight Zarc! I know you can, because you are a valiant dark knight just like the "Phantom Knights"! Please! Do it for our home, for my brother!» A tear fell from her eye. «Do it for me...»

Suddenly Zarc clutched his head and screamed as Yuto's spirit struggled to reach out. «NO! You stay doooooowwwwn!» slurred the demon as Yuto emerged. «Ruri...!» he sobbed as he was immediately pulled back.

Ray tched as Ruri vanished. «This is only the beginning. Rin!» The Synchro fragment appeared next to Ray and both raised their arms. «We banish "En Winds"!» The card exploded into green particle that erupted out the portal as a tornado, which went to ravage "Supreme King Dragon Zarc" and "Supreme King Servant Dragon Clear Wing". «All Synchro Monsters become Normal Monster, and their effects are negated!» Inside the winds, "Supreme King Dragon Zarc" roared as its card's white background and "Synchro" subtype vanished, along with the one of "Clear Wing" becoming yellow and losing its effects and "Synchro / Effect".

«The "Supreme King Dragon" that made us suffer...» said Crow. «...is becoming powerless!» murmured Jack, still down.

Zarc screamed in pain again as Rin started speaking. «Yugo, you gigantic goof! How could you let youself be taken over like that! Open your eyes and fight Zarc! We two still... have a... dream, right? We still have to win the Friendship Cup... I won't ever let you use... your possession as an excuse... got it?!» yelled the girl, her voice gradually breaking down.

Yugo tried desperately to reach out as well. «Riiin! Riiiiiiin! I'm here, I'm he...» he barely managed to get ot before he was absorbed again. «Stop it!» growled Zarc.

«Never!» growled back Ray. «Get on it, Selena!» The ponytailed Fusionist took Rin's place. «We banish "En Moon"!» The Magic in question burst into violet particles, which formed a beam that went to pierce the last clouds and reveal the full moon hanging over the teared remains of Earth. «All Fusion Monsters become Normal Monsters, and their effects are negated!» The girls added as "Supreme King Dragon Zarc" and "Supreme King Servant Dragon Starve Venom" howled in the blueish-gray lighting. The card of "Starve Venom" became yellow and lost "Fusion / Effect", and the one of "Zarc" finally was taken away the violet background and the "Fusion" subtype, making it looking like a common Effect Pendulum Monster for a second before the monster effect also vanished and the upper part of the background faded from orange to yellow too.

«With this, the Fusion, Synchro, and Xyz aspects of the "Supreme King Dragon" are removed!» exclaimed Edo, smiling along with Sora.

Selena's spirit cupped her hands around her mouth. «Hey Yuri, you little shit! I know you're in there! Just because we never became friend don't you think I'm not gonna come and kick your ass out of that thing! What the hell do you think you gain not fighting Zarc?! You just insult your own honor! A true elite Academia student would never allow themselves to be used as a pet like that!»

Zarc screamed even louder as Yuri's spirit came out, his face shadowed. «Selena, eh?» he smiled creepily. «Fine then. You asked for it, now I'll gonna make you eat those words!» he looked up at her, tears in his eyes. «You'll better make up for your missed responsibilities, my friend...» he whispered before being dragged back inside Zarc's body. «You bastard!» he ranted as he clutched his body, feeling it burn due to the souls raging inside.

«This is the end for you!» As she said that, Ray's voice overlapped with Yuzu's, who appeared next to her too. «We banish "En Flowers"!» The last Magic Card exploded into a pink wave that washed over the entire zone, making flowers blossom on every patch of green.

«I'm getting shivers!» sang Futoshi as he, Ayu, Tatsuya, and Shuzo looked on awed.

«"En Flowers" negates again the effects of all monsters on the field, and destroys them!» explained Ray and Yuzu as Zarc's monsters were enveloped by iridescent lights, «Then, for each of those cards sent to the GY, you take 600 points of damage!»

«With this...!» murmured Reiji with a smile. «Beautiful.» simply said Gongenzaka, at loss of other words.

Ray held up her right arm, and the four bracelets appeared on her forearm. The four girls then flickered arond her, also wearing their own bracelets. After a few seconds however, the bracelets shattered into faint whisps of light. The "Supreme King Servant Dragons" roared as they quickly suffered the same fate.

«DAMN YOUUUUUUUUUU!»

Everyone shielded their faces of "Supreme King Dragon Zarc" melted into a whirlwind of darkness. Quickly, the vortex died down, deposing Zarc on the ground.

ZARC LP 2800 → 1000 [0] × 1

«Yuya!» cried Reira, getting up under the feet of "Queen of All Nature - Ray". «I... AM NOT... YUYA!» he snarled, still holding onto his own body in pain.

«No, you are Yuya!» said Reiji, and Zarc turned to glare at him. «And you are Zarc, but also Yuto, Yugo, and Yuri. Your heart was constantly swinging. Yes, just like a pendulum!» he added, holding up Yuya's pendant for emphasis.

«Pendulum...» wheezed Zarc, scowling.

«The four cards my dad made were cards that naturally returned all power into a pure existence.» talked the five girls in unison. «That's how Pendulum was born! Pendulum cannot be swung in the presence of only malice. It should be inside of you, the existence of Sakaki Yuya, who purely pursued smiles!»

«Wrong! This is my will...» growled Zarc.

Suddenly, Yuzu floated down in front of him. «I believe in Yuya!» The words made Zarc recoil.

Yuya was holding his head in pain, surrouded by his counterparts in a dark void. «Yuzu!»

«You're not a demon!» urged the Standard girl. «You're a person who gives happinessand smiles to people around the world!»

«Shut up! What I give is fear!» «Stop it! What am I saying?»

«My wish is, for the people who forced me to fight and pretended to be a spectator to taste real fear!» yelled Zarc. «Wrong! That's not true!» murmured Yuya inside.

«Screw smiles! I...» «You came to save me!» began again Yuzu. «No matter how many times we were separated, you chased me!» Zarc gasped. «Because you were there, I got stronger!» Shu hung her head down. «I could never forget to smile.»

«Yuya, respond! To everyone's thoughts!» she cried, and then her expression softened. «And then let's go home together. Tou our homedown.»

Suddenly Zarc's yellow eyes stopped glowing and faded into red.

«Yes, last turn, Yuya!» yelled Reiji, chucking the pendant. Time seemed to slow down for Yuya as he stared at the tricket flying towards him.

He saw the Pendulum swinging. He was his dad. «I can't do anything if I'm scared and frustared.» chanted Yusho as he held two halves of a torn card. «If you want to win do it with courage.» he added as he pulled together the pieces of "Smile World".

«I'm back!» said Yuya, grabbing the pendulum. However, his face started warping, and the eyes went back to yellow. «Pendulum Monsters are immortal! Even if destroyed, they will revive again and again! Just like me!» slurred Zarc with a distorted voice, trying to reach for his Deck. «We won't let it! We will put an end to what we've done!» cried together Yuya, Yuto, Yugo, and Yuri; their spirits materializing around Zarc and holding him in place with all their forces. «You bastards, you're just myselves!» snarled Zarc, trying in vain to push them away. His eyes started to roll widly. «W-what are you doing? Stop it!»

«We've decided. We will not become a demon anymore!» chanted the four boys as one. «Now! Do it, Yuzu/Ruri/Rin/Selena!» the all cried, each boy finishing with the name of their corresponding girl. Ray nodded. «I attack Zarc directly!»

The goddess spread her arms and started chanting, and the four energies gathered again to envelop Zarc and his fragments, who all started screaming.

«Damn you!» wheezed Zarc, soffucated by the four grips. «I will... absolutely...»

ZARC LP 1000 → 0 [0] × 1

The shape of "Supreme King Dragon Zarc" appeared over him, eternally frozen in a silent roar as the shapes of the four "Supreme King Servant Dragons" were pulled out, and gradually lost their green bands as everything started shaking.

«Without the natural cards, the world is about to be reset to its former state!» murmured Leo. «Then Zarc will reincarnate in the united dimension!» whispered Reiji.

«I won't let it happen!» cried suddenly Reira getting up. «I will seal Zarc!»

As the kid clasped his hands, Zarc screamed and a black spirit flew out his mouth and rammed Reira, who also started screaming.

Meanwhile, the four boys were sucked inside the empty body, and Ray's Integration monster disintegrated as her fragments were also forced back into her.

Then...

white

also Yuya's voice, screaming.

«REIRAAAAAAA!»

. . .

Yuzu smiled as Yuya went off to answer his father's challenge. However, feeling something in her pocket where she put her Deck, she went to check her cands, and was surprised to see on the top a monster she had never seen before.

Melodious Maestra - Talented Beethoven [ Fairy / Pendulum / Effect ]

Yuzu smiled even wider as she shifted through and saw a lot of other Pendulum Monsters in there. «I guess now I'm officialy the Pendulum counterpart as well.» she whispered, the three girls appearing around her and pulling a group hug.

Meanwhile, in Yuzu's mind, Ray also gave off a slight smile and closed her eyes as she drifted down, deciding to give her fragments some time alone.

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Flowers And Romantic Love

Love is a warm and shivering inclination that can without much of a stretch be enunciated by displaying blooms. From times prehistoric darlings have had a solid association with blooms. From all consuming, instant adoration to perfect partner associations, blooms can speak to practically every single feeling with elegance and respect. That is the reason, a darling considers roses the absolute first blessing to a dearest.

However, http://www.bestflowersdelivered.co.uk/ with evolving patterns, the shows of rose introductions have additionally observed a change, as today there are no pursued rules to the sort of blossoms you decide for the one you cherish; still the language of affection brings a particular importance when spoken through blooms. Each bloom in shifted hues and assortments has an alternate essentialness to it. In spite of the fact that the message is continually spinning around sentiment and its different aspects, the articulation takes an alternate outline out and out.

Give us a chance to get some answers concerning the various roses in various hues, introduced in affection with their exact implications.

Lemon Blossoms - I guarantee to be consistent with you

Orange Blossoms - You are unadulterated and delightful

Peach Blossoms - I will be yours eternity

Acacia - You are made for me

Zinnia - I miss you without a doubt

Desert flora - My heart consumes in your affection

Red Tulips - I am frantically enamored with you

Purple Lilac - I am beginning to look all starry eyed at you

While the over couple of likewise prove to be useful to portray various feelings identified with affection, Rose remains the ruler with regards to communicating love towards your dearest. It without a doubt takes the honored position as far as magnificence and appealing fragrance, consequently remains the unequaled most loved of darlings. Perceived broadly as the blossom of adoration, enthusiasm, sentiment and warmth, climbed additionally characterizes life most genuinely, as it sprouts in the midst of the thistles. Empathy is the quintessence of this bloom, be it cherish or life all in all.

In its various hues Rose depicts the feelings as under:

Red Rose - Passionate Sensual Love

White Rose - Innocent, unadulterated or profound love

Pink Rose - Friendship and start of affection

Yellow Rose - Respect and appreciation went with affection

The everlasting power of profound devotion and rose doesn't finish here. The adventure proceeds to the quantity of roses being exhibited. Each number says something exceptional. Give us a chance to have a sneak look in that as well.

1 Rose - Love at first sight

2 Roses - Mutual Feelings

3 Roses - I adore you

7 Roses - I am frantically infatuated with you

9 Roses - We will be as one as long as we live

10 Roses - You are mine young lady and you are flawless

11 Roses - You are my princess and my prized one

12 Roses - Promise to be dependably close by

13 Roses - We will be companions until the end of time

15 Roses - I am extremely grieved

20 Roses - I will be constantly dependable to you

21 Roses - I am completely dedicated to you

36 Roses - I will recollect our sentimental minutes for whatever length of time that I live

40 Roses - I cherish you with my entire being

99 Roses - I will love you till the day I kick the bucket

100 Roses - I will never leave you

101 Roses - You are my unrivaled

108 Roses - Will you wed me?

999 Roses - My adoration will last till the finish of time

So which one would you say you are deciding for your sweetheart to pass on your inclination? Ensure you utilize the above data to its best to guarantee a perfect introduction.

[countlessstorieswithoutend]

OK, so here’s a thought. I’ve been doing writing exercises with a friend of mine for a while now. And I was thinking that I’d try to expand the scope of them somewhat. Here’s what I’ll do. I’ll post a list of prompts below, and then anyone who wants to can give me a prompt from that list and a character from a series I know, and I’ll try to write a little something based off of that. Probably will just be a couple hundred words, but it’ll let me flex my writing muscle some. If you want to do some writing yourself just reblog this post with a list of stories you’re willing to accept prompts for in the tags, then I or someone else could suggest possibilities to you.

Without further ado:

1. Introduction

2. Complicated

3. Making History

4. Rivalry

5. Unbreakable

6. Obsession

7. Eternity

8. Gateway

9. Death

10. Opportunities

11. 33%

12. Dead Wrong

13. Running Away

14. Judgment

15. Seeking Solace

16. Excuses

17. Vengeance

18. Love

19. Tears

20. My Inspiration

21. Never Again

22. Online

23. Failure

24. Rebirth

25. Breaking Away

26. Forever and a day

27. Lost and Found

28. Light

29. Dark

30. Faith

31. Colors

32. Exploration

33. Seeing Red

34. Shades of Grey

35. Forgotten

36. Dreamer

37. Mist

38. Burning

39. Out of Time

40. Knowing How

41. Fork in the road

42. Start

43. Nature’s Fury

44. At Peace

45. Heart Song

46. Reflection

47. Perfection

48. Everyday Magic

49. Umbrella

50. Party

51. Troubling Thoughts

52. Stirring of the Wind

53. Future

54. Health and Healing

55. Separation

56. Everything For You

57. Slow Down

58. Heartfelt Apology

59. Challenged

60. Exhaustion

61. Accuracy

62. Irregular Orbit

63. Cold Embrace

64. Frost

65. A Moment in Time

66. Dangerous Territory

67. Boundaries

68. Unsettling Revelations

69. Shattered

70. Bitter Silence

71. The True You

72. Pretense

73. Patience

74. Midnight

75. Shadows

76. Summer Haze

77. Memories

78. Change in the Weather

79. Illogical

80. Only Human

81. A Place to Belong

82. Advantage

83. Breakfast

84. Echoes

85. Falling

86. Picking up the Pieces

87. Gunshot

88. Possession

89. Twilight

90. Nowhere and Nothing

91. Answers

92. Innocence

93. Simplicity

94. Reality

95. Acceptance

96. Lesson

97. Enthusiasm

98. Game

99. Friendship

100. Endings

[soloragoldsun]

Fanfiction Master Lists: Arkos

So, another writer I like has been posting a master list of her RWBY fanfics on here, and I thought it was a pretty good idea. It’s a new year, and I’d like to get more readers and more supporters on my Patreon. This first list will be all my fics containing Arkos. Note: Poly JNPR fics will be a separate list. Fics still being updated will get a *.

12 Days of Shipping: A series of 12 holiday-themed oneshots, each featuring a different ship. (Arkos is in the 9th chapter.)

13 Tricks and Treats: A series of 13 Halloween-themed oneshots. (Arkos in chapters 4 and 13.)

A Rationed Recovery: Tired of the media attention and lack of privacy at home, Pyrrha tests out of Sanctum early in order to spend time on her own, roughing it in the Wilds. She underestimates the dangers of her endeavor and ends up collapsing near a village in Vale during a lockdown. Luckily, she is found and cared for by a young man named Jaune Arc. (Alternate canon. Commission for D. KnightOfShadows)

College Battle Games: On her first day of college, when Pyrrha spots a group of people clad in medieval garb and hitting each other with foam weapons, she slips away from her orientation group almost immediately. When greeted by one of the fighters, a friendly blond boy named Jaune, she knows that she made the right choice. (Dagorhir AU.)

Five Summers: When Ren's family moves to another state, he stays in close contact with his childhood friend, Nora. A summer writing workshop opens in their hometown, giving him a way be with his best friend for one month each year. During the following five summers, the two begin to realize the true value of their friendship, and the potential for it to become something more. (Modern AU. Will have background Arkos in later chapters.) *

Footie Pajamas: It's nearing winter and the heaters are broken in many of the dorm rooms. Jaune hardly feels the chill in his warm, soft footie pajamas. When he notices Pyrrha unable to sleep on account of the cold, he offers his assistance. (Established!Arkos snuggling.)

Goddess of Victory: For countless millennia, Pyrrha has been worshiped as the Goddess of Love and Victory, revered by both mortals and fellow deities. Now, in a time when humans and Faunus have forgotten the legends of old, she decides to descend to Remnant and experience life, love, and happiness through the eyes of a mortal. (Goddess!Pyrrha AU. High T for Lime scene in chapter 2. Commission for Darkkseid.)

Mates for Life: Discontinued series of unrelated Animal AU oneshots. (Background Arkos in chapter 1, Arkos focus in chapter 2.)

Merry Dustmas: When Jaune invites his team to spend Dustmas break with him and his family, he doesn't realize that he's giving them the greatest gifts any of them could have hoped for: love, acceptance, and the first truly joyful holiday season of their lives. (Long alternate-canon oneshot. High T for Lime scene. Commission for Darkkseid.)

Mistress of Grimm: When Cinder stood over Pyrrha Nikos at the end of their fateful battle, she did not kill her. Instead, she did something far worse, twisting the brave young woman into a shadow of what she used to be. Now, Pyrrha hunts alone through the woods of Remnant, craving the blood of a strangely-familiar young man. (Post Volume 3. Vampire!Pyrrha. Commission for Dark rayquaza x.)

Once in a Shattered Moon: Jaune is a Huntsman, sworn to protect the religious, fearful town of Vale from Grimm and all other creatures of the night. Pyrrha is a werewolf alpha who is expected to one day become the leader of her pack. Nature has made them enemies. Fate has decided that they must work together in order to save both of their homes from destruction. (Medieval/Werewolf AU. Slowburn Arkos.)*

Purple Dust: After a routine Grimm hunt, Team JNPR comes across members of the White Fang mining a peculiar, dark purple Dust. They chase the illegal miners off, but not before inhaling the mysterious substance. What manner of Dust is this, and why is it making them act in a way that is both incredibly unusual and utterly familiar? (My first RWBY fic. ^_^)

Red String of Fate: When two soulmates fall in love, a red string appears between them, manifesting their eternal bond. Though the string may stretch with distance, it will never break. (Collection of Soulmate AU oneshots. Arkos in chapters 1 and 5.) *

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Fanfiction Master Lists: Team Sloth

Here’s the list of my fics containing Team Sloth. I’ve decided to include fics that feature them as kids, because pre-established puppy love is adorable. Poly JNPR fics will be on a separate list. Fics still being updated will be labeled with a *.

12 Days of Shipping: A series of holiday-themed oneshots, each one featuring a different ship. (Team Sloth in chapter 8.)

13 Tricks and Treats: A series of Halloween-themed oneshots. (Team Sloth in chapters 4 and 10.)

Feeding the Birds: During a winter field trip to the Vale National Park, young Ren and Nora try their hands at feeding the birds. While plenty of them land on Ren, Nora just wants to get one to approach her.

Five Summers: When Ren's family moves to another state, he stays in close contact with his childhood friend, Nora. A summer writing workshop opens in their hometown, giving him a way be with his best friend for one month each year. During the following five summers, the two begin to realize the true value of their friendship, and the potential for it to become something more. (Modern AU.) *

Goddess of Victory: For countless millennia, Pyrrha has been worshiped as the Goddess of Love and Victory, revered by both mortals and fellow deities. Now, in a time when humans and Faunus have forgotten the legends of old, she decides to descend to Remnant and experience life, love, and happiness through the eyes of a mortal. (Goddess!Pyrrha AU. Commission for Darkkseid. Background Team Sloth.)

Haiku: For years, Lie Ren has been in love with his best friend. Never able to voice his feelings aloud, he took to writing haikus about her. Each haiku has a story, and each story builds up to the inevitable.

Merry Dustmas: When Jaune invites his team to spend Dustmas break with him and his family, he doesn't realize that he's giving them the greatest gifts any of them could have hoped for: love, acceptance, and the first truly joyful holiday season of their lives. (Alternate-canon. Rated a high T for Lime scene. Commission for Darkkseid. Background Team Sloth.)

Once in a Shattered Moon: Jaune is a Huntsman, sworn to protect the religious, fearful town of Vale from Grimm and all other creatures of the night. Pyrrha is a werewolf alpha who is expected to one day become the leader of her pack. Nature has made them enemies. Fate has decided that they must work together in order to save both of their homes from destruction. (Medieval/Werewolf AU. Multiple pairings, including Team Sloth.) *

Purple Dust: After a routine Grimm hunt, Team JNPR comes across members of the White Fang mining a peculiar, dark purple Dust. They chase the illegal miners off, but not before inhaling the mysterious substance. What manner of Dust is this, and why is it making them act in a way that is both incredibly unusual and utterly familiar?

Red String of Fate: When two soulmates fall in love, a red string appears between them, manifesting their eternal bond. Though the string may stretch with distance, it will never break. (Collection of Soulmate AU oneshots. Team Sloth in chapter 2.)

The Fate of Remnant: A series of predictions for Volume 4 and onward. (Angsty Team Sloth in chapter 4.)

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