#25 Days Of Simi

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Dear Kimi | Formula 1

Starring: Sebastian Vettel, Kimi Räikkönen

Relationship(s): Simi

Fic Type: Oneshot

Words: Approx 1.3k

Kimi is away with his mates in Finland for Christmas and Sebastian is stuck in his cottage in Switzerland, alone and cold and miserable. He aches to be in his boyfriend’s warm embrace again, so he sends him loads of cards and a gift as a reminder of how much he loves and misses him.

These are the cards they sent to each other.

This is my submission for the 25 Days Of Simi prompt challenge!

Day 13: Cards

Available to read on AO3.

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That smug feeling when an incredible writer leaves you a special note

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I Live for the Chase

➤Day 5

𖤐Pairing: Wolf! Alejandro x Bunny! F! Reader

𖤐Pronouns: She/Her

𖤐Warnings: Smut, NSFW, chasing, language, P in V, mentions of blood and gore, aggressive behavior, simi-public, biting, teasing, dirty talking, slight choking, eating out, fingering, a bit emotional at the end

𖤐Summary: Y/n is an innocent bunny who always goes to the forest to collect wildflowers to make flower arrangements but what happens when she gets caught by a large wolf

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In a local bunny village, bunnies alike farmed their carrots and getting ready to head the flea market to sell their crops. This bunny village was mainly known for its carrots.

A cute bunny girl Y/n came walking out of her home, she was heading to the forest, she goes to this forest to collect wildflowers to make flower arrangements to sell at the flea market.

Her parents sold carrots, and she sells wildflower arrangements. She picks windflowers, black-eyed Susans, butterfly weeds, common yarrow, yellow monkeyflowers, rose vervain and common sunflowers. She would collect around 25 to 30 each to make as many arrangements as she could.

She smelled a common yarrow, loving the scent of it. But what poor little Y/n didn't know is that she is being stalked by a big hungry wolf, who was blending in the bushes just a few feet behind her.

She stood up and turned at the bushes the wolf was in a saw pretty purple flowers. She smiled and bent down in front of the bush and picked them.

The wolf saw red in his vision. He jumped out from the bush and pinned Y/n to the ground, she struggled against his body, trying to use her legs to push him off her.

"HELP! HELP! PLEASE! LET ME GO!!" She begs.

He licks his sharp teeth, and brought his fangs close to her neck. Her small white bunny ears fell down.

"Please, please, don't eat me, Mr.Wolf," his forehead fell to her shoulder.

"Mr.Wolf, seriously?" He said, looking back into her eyes.

"What? You usually like that," she teased him, wrapping her arms around her neck.

The wolf picks Y/n up, her legs wrapped around his waist. He licks his teeth again before attaching his lips to her neck and gently sucking on her neck.

"I have to go make my arrangements, Alejandro."

"I know but...why not some fun?" Her eyes widened; she knew what 'some fun' meant.

"No, Alejandro, I'm so tired, I can't run from you," she said as he placed her back on the ground.

"Just enough to get your blood pumping, mi amor, your heart beating will give you away, and I'll find you quickly, and it'll be done and over with, come on..." he said.

"No, I don't want to," she whines.

"I'll give you a 5-minute head start."

"Alejandro-"

"Go," he said. Y/n pouts and looked at the way she was going to run, and Alejandro stared down at her.

She bolted deeper into the forest and pushed past the tree limbs; she saw where there was a wall of thorns blocking her way. She went another way to the river and ran through it.

She saw a cave in ducked into for a little bit. She heard rustling in the bushes just outside the cave. She knew it was Alejandro. She stayed quiet as she watched outside the cave seeing Alejandro walk by.

She listened to the bushes start moving far away. She popped her head out of the cave and looked around.

"Really this is the best you got, bunny?" She heard Alejandro just above the cave, he jumped off the caves roof and Y/n started to run again but Alejandro on her tail.

She ducked through the bushes trying to lose him, but he was quicker and has done this way too many times to know her patterns of movement.

She tried to lose him and then she felt her tail get grabbed making her stop.

"OW!" She stopped and turned to him. He picks her up and slams her back against a nearby tree.

"Sorry, but it was the only thing to get you to stop," he said as his lips attached to her neck again, she could feel his sharp fangs just scrap against her neck making her wince.

"A-Alejandro," she moans.

"Come on now," he flashed his fangs and attacked her neck, biting at her neck definitely leaving some puncture wounds. Blood trickled down her neck and he licked it from her neck.

He has bite her before, and has left marks and blood, she was almost use to it in a way. His nails slightly dug into her hips leaving marks behind but no blood.

"A-Alejandro, please, I-I need t-to go make m-my arrangements," she whines.

"Those can wait."

"N-No, please e-expect me to b-be there and s-sell m-my arrangements," she moans.

He starts to now start tearing off her cute little dress. She whines when she felt cold air hit her bare skin. She pushed against Alejandro's hand as a way to get him to stop, but he didn't, he grabbed her wrist and pinned it to her side.

"Don't you fucking dare," he growls.

"P-Please," she cries.

He smirks hearing her cries. He bit her neck again and moved her from the tree on the dirty ground. Her knees were covered in dirt now, her hands covered in dirt now. Her dress was ripped and had mud on the fabric of it now.

Alejandro didn't care that she was getting dirty, he was going to fuck her in the woods like the wild animals they are. Her face was on some leaves and mud, she felt disgusting. Alejandro, he didn't care, her ass was up.

He smacked her ass earning a soft moan from her lips. He licked his lips and bent down and licked between her folds. She moans and grips the dead leaves under her.

"Ah~" she moans.

He groans as he heard her soft moans escape from her lips. He smirks and then shoved three fingers inside of her. She gripped the leaves as her knuckles turned white.

She moaned at the feeling of his tongue and fingers inside of her, she felt dirty not because she's on the muddy ground but because she's being fucked in a forest where if people could, they could see them.

She then tried to muffle her moans with her hand, but Alejandro moved his mouth and leaned closer to her ear still pushing his three fingers inside of her.

"Don't hide those moans of yours, bunny, keep going, I wanna hear them, they're so cute, come on now," he said as she did remove her hand and moaned when she felt his hot mouth back on her clit, licking between her folds and his tongue flicking at her bud.

"O-Oh my god," she moans.

Alejandro moved his mouth again and started to mess with his pants pulling out his dick and sliding it in with no warning. He removed his fingers and now started to thrust inside of her, she moaned and squirmed under him.

He smacks her ass a couple times earning a soft moan, he got close to her neck and started to bite her again. This time when she bleeds, he let her bleed, not licking it clean or anything.

"God...if I didn't fucking...like you so much...I would fucking kill you...right here...right fucking now," he grunts as he thrusts a little harder making her moans a little bit sound like she was choking instead.

Alejandro just chuckles at her. "God you're such a bad bunny...being fucked by a wolf...someone...who is looked down upon your kind...what would everyone else think huh? Cute Y/n bunny being...fucked by the bad wolf..." he teased.

"T-They...would n-never know," she responds back.

"They better not," he growls back before slamming into her a lot rougher.

She moans a buries her face into her hands as she moans against them and they soon become loud again once, he smacked her ass again.

"Cum, bunny," he growls as she felt herself get tight.

With one more thrust she came on his lower half. He smirks and licks her folds. She sat up and looked over her shoulder at him.

"Ahh~ one more," he says.

"Ale-"

"But you run like this," he says.

"I'm tired and I'm late for the flea market."

"Who cares," he rolls his head back.

"I do, that's how I make my income, Alejandro."

"Oh, I know...but who cares, bunny..."

"I'm not running anymore, Alejandro, I'm going back home," she said as she stood up and started to walk back to the village.

"Huh? Hey, bunny, bunny, I'm joking, I'm kidding, I know the flea market is important to you...I'm sorry for being rude and mean about it, I know it's your income," he tried to get her attention, but she was focused on getting back home.

"Now, I have to change and throw this dress away, it was my favorite."

"I'll buy you a new one."

She ignores him.

"Hey, look at me, bunny, look at me," he gets in front of her, holding her shoulders.

"What?"

"I'm sorry, okay."

"I know, but I have something to do...I'll see you later, Alejandro," she said as she grabbed her basket off the ground and headed to her house and quickly made arrangements and got a new dress on.

Alejandro was leaning against, a tree outside her house and watched her from afar. He watched as she left the house and quickly headed to the flea market which Alejandro followed her.

Y/n found an empty spot and saw the line that was waiting for her. She quickly handed them out and got her money. Alejandro leaned against a wooden pole watching her.

His eyes watched as everyone looked at Y/n with kind eyes. Except one. A guy was flirting with Y/n and Alejandro felt rage through his veins and eyes.

His hands clenched into a fist, he turned into his wolf, his wolf was a pretty honey color, and he made his way over Y/n.

The bunnies around him all shuddered in fear as he made his way to Y/n and stood behind her and the male bunny in front of her shuddered with fear. He didn't take the arrangement but ran away.

"Huh?"

"Hmmm~ Y/n?" The bunnies trembled in fear as Y/n turned a saw a big honey dire wolf.

"Alejandro, what are you doing here?"

"Y/n, do you know this wolf?" The Mayor of the village came walking to Y/n and the dire wolf.

"I...I do..." she said with her head down and her ears down as well.

"You know how we feel about wolves."

"I know, I know."

"Sir, with all due respect, why the fuck does it matter?" Alejandro said as he changed back into his normal self.

"Because you guys are PREDITORS! We try to survive from you guys for years, and here you are in our village, and you know one of our own...you should be ashamed of yourself, Y/n for knowing such a BEAST!"

"I am not ashamed of anything, I love him!"

"YOU CAN'T LOVE A BEAST! ESPICALLY ONE THAT KILLED US FOR HUNDREDS OF YEARS!!"

"We changed over those hundreds of years."

"No, you haven't, if you could, you would have waited for the right minutes and you would have killed Y/n."

"Never," he growls as he steps to the mayor.

"YOU SEE! YOU SEE! WOLVES WITH NEVER CHANGE!!"

"You're right we won't..." he grabs Y/n and looked down at her. "Follow my lead." He whispers.

"Oh shit," she whispers back.

He turned back to the mayor and changed into his wolf, he 'attacked' Y/n and dragged her out of the village and into the forest. As the bunnies chased him out.

He let her go and viewed her neck.

"I'm sorry," she was shaking as he apologized for grabbing her roughly.

"I'm okay...I can no longer go back home..."

"That's fine, you get to come live with me then, mi amor," he licks his teeth.

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I don’t know if tumblr ate my request but can you do one for Simi? (It has the theme of trust)

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Blue Moon 🌙

Mason Mount social media au - e2l, comedy, crack humour, fluff, angst and smut

Rating: Mature (explicit smut, recreational drug usage, dirty humour, strong language)

y/n is fast becoming the ‘It Girl’ of her generation. A successful music career, critically-renowned performance skills, a wildly popular cosmetics company, brand partnerships piling up, and the ability to make something sell out just by mentioning it on her Twitter. With beauty, brains and a slightly terrible sense of humour, the whole world is falling more in love with her and her friends by the day. Well, almost the whole world. A certain Chelsea starboy doesn’t seem to share the same affections...

a/n: if you guys wanna be added to the taglist, just comment or drop me an ask!! hope you enjoy xo

simi’s navigation

part 1 - y/n

part 2 - government name

part 3 - pussy power

part 4 - badonkadonk

part 5 - investigative work

part 6 - just like magic

part 7 - btec phil foden (a) / btec phil foden (b)

part 8 - star of the show

part 9 - perry the platypus

part 10 - gold-digging trophy wife

part 11 - star girl

part 12 - tits out

part 13 - debby ryan

part 14 - boris johnson

part 15 - pasgetti (a) / pasgetti (b)

part 16 - golden arch

part 17 - mysterious deaths

part 18 - miracle

part 19 - plumber

part 20 - rip his throat out

part 21 - wag life

part 22 - sunflowers

part 23 - fever dream

part 24 - butterflies

part 25 - tough out here

part 26 - normal girl

part 27 - rice rice baby

part 28 - LA bound

part 29 - while the cat’s away

part 30 - something stupid

part 31 - mickey mouse (a) / mickey mouse (b)

part 32 - hearts and clouds

part 33 - sherlock holmes

part 34 - home

part 35 - engagement glow

part 36 - baldy boyfriend

part 37 - dream come true

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Bella Goth Disappearance FINALLY Solved!

Back in the day, I had originally subscribed to the theory that Bella was abducted by aliens that were set on her by the Caliente’s who then murdered her when she returned, and so I went in the game to do a walkthrough as to how I came to that theory. That’s when I found that I WAS WAYYYY OFF, there is a whole ass rabbit-hole here, and like a total Alice, I fell in it.

And, after 16 years of wondering and imagining different scenarios, I finally found out the truth. Turns out, we were ALL wrong, and the truth has been staring at us in the face the whole time.

Just as a warning, this is VERY dark and bleak and depressing. Bella wasn’t dealt a good hand, guys. What happened to her was all sorts of MESSED up.

Just for clarity, I do base this off of events that happen in the official sims storyline, because while the game is ultimately up to us to live life as we like, go ahead and do whatever with your game, there IS a story being told here, but in a way that doesn’t conflict with our own free will. It’s ingenious, really. This goes with the main Sims games released for PC and Mac. However, the console versions do provide a lot of insight to further details and situations. Specifically the Sims 2 for PSP, and the Sims 3 for the Nintendo DS.

 So, first off, it has been verified what happened to her: In 2014, Twitter held an AMA for the SimGurus just before the release of the Sims 4. Someone asked the following question, and SimGuru Sarah responded.

It was later confirmed that Bella Goth of Lunar Lakes IS the Bella Goth of Pleasantview. She does look like the rest of the ghosts there with pale skin and yellow hair and eyes, and with that in mind, you can see for yourself…

That’s her, alright.

Okay, if she died on Lunar Lakes, there are still questions that need answers:

1.       Did she ever go home?

2.       Does her family know what happened to her?

3.       How did she die on Lunar Lakes?

Well, she died of old age, that can be found out easily enough, but I found the answers to the other two: Kinda and no.

 So, just to recap, I’m gonna review Bella’s life as we know it canonically.

Bella was born to Simis and Jocasta Bachelor of Sunset Valley. She grew up the road from her childhood best friend, and later, husband, Mortimer Goth, with her older brother Michael. She always had a sense of the macabre and dark and was known as “the best dressed girl in town.” Even then she wore a red dress. A more child appropriate red dress, but a red dress. She just came from an average suburban family who had a fascination for the not average. She’s still a child, and not a Goth yet. She still goes by the surname Bachelor.

Twenty-five years later, she shows up in the Sims 1 with her childhood best friend and now husband, Mortimer Goth, and they have moved into their own home, and have a daughter, Cassandra. Her in-laws moved out of their home in Sunset Valley and moved into what would later become the Goth House of the Sims 2 in the beginnings of what would be known as Pleasantview. Unless you got her a job, she was a housewife, and she was known to be athletic, elegant, and friendly towards her neighbors. I remember her often being the first to come and say hello to any new Sims I’d move into the neighborhood. Her brother, Michael, is also in town, however, there is no acknowledgement of them being siblings. A family tree system didn’t really exist in the Sims 1, and I’m sure they didn’t even think to make them siblings back then, but the fact remains that they have no relationship at this point in time. The only reason why it’s known that Cornelia and Gunther Goth are Mortimer’s parents is because it straight up says so in the bio. That and their names are the same, but anyway.

So far, things are simple.

That’s because in the 25 years between the Sims 1 and 2, a series of events occurs that really makes things interesting.

Michael joins the science career track. One can assume the reason why he settled into domestic living years after Bella had done so was because he was at grad school. Because he was graduated from grad school, he gets a jumpstart in the career and climbs the latter a lot faster than Mortimer does.

1.       Scientist Sims contribute an invention into the Sims world. Michael’s invention was cloning technology. He cloned himself, and a test subject: Skip Broke.

         a.       Even though he died before it happened, arrangements were made so Brandi could be the next test subject and the first female subject, and when you start Pleasantview for the first time, she is pregnant with her own clone. The baby is always born a boy.

       b.       Michael’s clones have a 100% rate of being male, genetic identicals to those they were cloned from (Brandi’s just being a boy rather than a girl) and so far, a 100% rate of dying at the same time as the original. They are genetically identical, but wear different clothes.

2.       Michael and Bella don’t really have a relationship in their adult lives because Michael leaves Pleasantview early on while Cassandra is still a child and moves to the city.

3.       Mortimer follows after Michael, and invents the age reversal serum. Bella is the first test subject, and, the day of her abduction, she takes the serum until she reverts back to being a brand-new adult. Probably to allow herself to fit in her red dress as strikingly as she does, I don’t think an elderly woman could pull that off.

4.       Cassandra enters private school.

5.       Around this time, Gunther Goth dies. Bella, Mortimer, and Cassandra move out of their home and in with Cornelia to be with her in her last stages of life.

6.       Michael marries Dina Caliente. It is speculated that, because of the age gap, they only marry for Michael’s money. But it is worth noting that Michael was Dina’s first serious relationship and she didn’t begin to cheat on Michael with Don until years later just before Michael died.

7.       Alexander is born.

8.       Shortly after Alexander’s birth, Cornelia dies at the same time Michael does.

9.       Dina inherits Michael’s estate and moves in with Nina. They then move to Pleasantview.

10.   Don follows them and moves the next day.

11.   Bella goes to introduce herself to her new neighbor, Don. They get along, and Don gets the wrong idea and puts the move on Bella. Bella rejects him. He then runs off to go be with Kaylynn and is not there when Bella is abducted by aliens.

12.   Bella is never seen again, but shortly after her abduction, a UFO crashlands in Strangetown, and reports that Bella is in Strangetown start rolling in. But, spoiler alert, that’s not the real Bella.

Then, after Bella’s abduction and before you start Pleasantview for the first time, the following happens:

1.       Mortimer and Dina hit it off rather fast, and marriage is definitely in the picture when the game first starts.

2.       Cassandra, Mortimer, and Alexander all age up on the same day 2 days after Bella disappears.

3.       Cassandra goes to Don’s house to find out what he knows about what happened to Bella (jack squat since he wasn’t there) and that’s where they meet for the first time. Don tries to seduce her, probably not knowing who she is, and Cassandra, as much as you gotta love the girl, is naïve as all hell and thinks she won the jackpot and falls for Don quickly.

4.       Alexander goes to private school

5.       Mortimer retires

6.       Cassandra gets engaged the VERY day the game starts.

That is an important thing to note because people like to speculate that Don had something to do with Bella’s disappearance because he made the moves on her mother and they were engaged and he didn’t want to jeopardize that by Bella opening her yap. This is NOT the case because Cassandra was still a teenager when Bella vanished. Don may be a hoe, but he isn’t a pedo. Chris Hansen doesn’t need to be called for this one.

Another important thing to point out is that it’s not known if Dina and Nina knew Bella. At least, not well, since it can’t be established if Michael and Bella had a relationship at all. Despite the fact that they were friends when they were younger, Mortimer has no memories of Michael, and neither do Cassandra or Alexander. They never met their uncle.

ALSO, yes Dina and Nina do have alien ancestry. Their father was a result of an alien abduction pregnancy. But he was born human, so they’re not part alien. Which means they didn’t order ANY aliens to go and kidnap anybody. Why would they? They don’t know her. Not even normal alien sims do that, y’all are just racist.

It’s also worth noting that Mortimer is COMPLETELY fine with Bella being gone. He’s not heartbroken and he isn’t desperately trying to find her like the game tries to suggest. He’s strangely cool about it.

Why is Mortimer fine with Bella being gone?

Because they are no longer married and haven’t been since around the time Alexander was born.

And THAT, guys, gals, and nonbinary pals, is the BIGGEST part that y’all need to just remember. If you can only take one thing away from this part, take away the fact that they’re divorced. It’s S U P E R important.

 Now, it is possible to bring Bella back with the Tombstone of Life and Death. She’ll only stick around for a short while because she has a death token that activates when you save the lot, go into Pleasantview, and reload the Goth House. She’ll disappear. Interesting to note that if she’s in the middle of doing something, like talking with a sim or cooking food, she doesn’t disappear completely until she’s done. She does turn see-through and it kinda glitches out…it’s really creepy. Give it a try, you’ll see what I mean. But when she’s done, she’ll disappear, and you’ll get a notification saying she died somewhere else and her spirit has returned to where she was buried.

However, if she dies this way, you cannot resurrect her with the resurrect-o-nomitron. It doesn’t matter who tries it, where they are, or anything. Grim acts like he doesn’t know anything about Bella being dead and even if the Sim COULD resurrect a sim, Bella is not listed.

Since we know Bella is buried in Lunar Lakes, this means she died sometime between the week of her abduction and Cassandra’s wedding where the game starts.

However, while you have Bella in your household, you’ll find she’s brought back with no personality points. She has no memories besides what happened to her children after the first load of Pleasantview. So let’s say that between loading the game and bringing back Bella with the Tombstone, Cassandra gives birth to twin boys. Bella will come back with memories that Cassandra had twins, and she will even know who her grandchildren are. (I use this example because in my most recent Pleasantview playthrough, Cassandra had twin boys named Hendrick and Caspian with Don Lothario.)

Bella will have NO relationship at all whatsoever with Mortimer. You can see before you bring her back on the Goth family tree that they are not married at that point, and Mortimer and Bella start their relationship over as acquaintances. If you let them progress their relationship naturally with no cheats, they actually fight a lot and do not get along at all.

Now, any townie and NPC created before Nightlife will have their turn-on and turn-offs randomized. But it seems to constantly make it so that Bella is never attracted to Mortimer and Mortimer is RARELY attracted to Bella. This is a consistent thing. Interesting to take into consideration.

It’s clear to me, at least, that there were some problems boiling up for some time before Bella vanished.

--they get divorced at around the same time Alexander is born

--they do not get along at all

--Mortimer is completely fine after Bella’s disappearance and isn’t the frantic husband he’s marketed to be at this point in time.

--Mortimer gets into a relationship with Dina Caliente extremely soon after Bella vanishes.

--If Bella does come back and Mortimer is still alive, they naturally do not get along at all.

Which is weird, right? They were always shown to be this desperately in love couple who couldn’t live without eachother. I remember them having a good relationship in the Sims 1.

Also worth noting, Bella is a romance aspiration sim. In the Sims 2, they tend to hoe around a lot. There are a few other adult sims in Pleasantview who are also romance aspiration sims.

1.       Don Lothario (the epitome of the romance aspiration)

2.       Nina Caliente

3.       Daniel Pleasant

4.       Skip Broke was also a romance aspiration sim when he was alive.

What is interesting is that while for the most part, romance aspiration sims like to hoe around, there is one exception to this rule so far: Nina Caliente. Nina Caliente’s only romantically involved with Don Lothario. Unless you have another sim start putting the moves on her, then it’s a whole other story. If it were a thing back then, Nina would have been a soulmate romance aspiration while the others would have been serial romantic aspirations.

Bella COULD have been the same way, but that wouldn’t make any sense with the myriad of problems with her relationship with Mortimer.

So, in conclusion, Bella had an affair. Mortimer found out about it, which caused them to, at the least, separate for a while. Then, Bella became pregnant with Alexander, which would have brought up an important question—who is Alexander’s father? Once Alexander was born, and as he got a little older, it becomes clear that he resembles Cornelia, therefore verifying that Mortimer is indeed his father. This would have caused them to try their relationship again, and Bella would have turned down Don in good faith to Mortimer.

Who did Bella have an affair with?

Don wasn’t in town yet, and they hadn’t met. Neither did she meet the Caliente’s yet. Which leaves two possible contenders for Bella’s secret lover: Daniel Pleasant and Skip Broke.

On one hand, Daniel was Bella’s neighbor. She knew the Pleasants, and was friends with Mary-Sue. Daniel had an affair with Kaylynn going on, so he definitely could have some action on the side with Bella, too. My only reservation on that would be that I couldn’t imagine her doing that to her best friend. But then again, she did have an affair on her husband, so who’s to say what her morals are.

Then, there’s Skip Broke. This one makes the most sense to me, personally. While she wasn’t close with Michael, that doesn’t mean she completely avoided him altogether. She would have heard about Michael’s cloning experiments and could have met Skip that way, or she came to say hello and that was how they met. There is a theory going around that Brandi found out Skip was cheating on her, and that’s why she killed him and took his insurance money.

Maybe I’ll do another thing on that because the Skip Broke incident happens to be another rabbit hole altogether.

 So, we know that Bella had an affair with Mortimer and things weren’t going so well between them at the time of her disappearance. We know that the Calientes and Don are completely innocent, at least as far as her disappearance goes. (And Nina is innocent altogether, she just loves Don and is completely oblivious to the fact that he’s doing her sister and two other women. She is ALSO a victim here, you guys. Give some love to Nina Caliente, she needs it.)

She dies sometime in the week between her abduction and the first time the Goth household is booted up from old age on Lunar Lakes despite the fact that she was a brand new adult again thanks to Mortimer’s reverse age serum.

Then a UFO crashlands in Strangetown and shortly thereafter reports of Bella Goth being in Strangetown start swarming around.

And yes, this Bella is a clone—there are subtle facial similarities, she is not in the family tree at all for the Goth house, but other than that, she’s structured exactly like the Real Bella goes as far as her outfit, her personality, and her aspiration.

(The Wiki says it’s her despite the fact that it’s been verified she’s not, and it also has MANY discrepencies, saying she’s related to the Curious Family and they appear on her family tree, which is incorrect because Strangetown Bella’s family tree is COMPLETELY EMPTY.)

So, clearly, when Bella was abducted, something went wrong. But what?

Well, why would the aliens even abduct her in the first place?

They tend to go after sims who are wealthy, high-skilled, good-looking, popular, anything like that. Bella was ALL of those things. She was the epitome of the perfect sim to the aliens. They practically worshipped her and their queen took her name and appearance. (This is referenced several times, specifically in the Sims 3.)

So, if something were to go wrong, why would the aliens worship her unless she had been being watched for some time before her abduction?

And what went wrong that caused her to lose her memories, her skills, her personality, her youth, everything?

Aliens also do not abduct children, the elderly, and pregnant sims because their experimentation could go drastically wrong.

She wasn’t a child, and reversed her age so she wouldn’t be an elder for quite some time—

So the only thing that’s left is that she was pregnant when she was abducted and that was why things went wrong.

She wouldn’t have known this, and neither would the aliens—it’s possible that the baby was conceived that day, which helped Bella in the case where Don was hitting on her—she wouldn’t go cheating on Mortimer if she were trying to rekindle their relationship and they had made it to woo-hoo that day.

Also worth noting is that there IS another Goth on Lunar Lakes who happens to look exactly like Bella.

Anyone recognize her?

This is Mathilde Goth.

She is the long-lost third child of Mortimer and Bella Goth.

No, they don’t appear on eachother’s family tree, but they wouldn’t if Bella died shortly after giving birth to her and Mathilde was put in the orphanage.

Mathilde looks almost identical to Bella with the exception of her blue eyes. She also has a preference for blue where Bella preferred red.

Mathilde has no idea where her mother came from and the fact that she has a family on Earth who is just as oblivious to her existence as she is to theirs.

 What happens to Cassandra and Alexander after they find out about Bella’s death?

Remember how I said scientist sims end up inventing something?

Cassandra’s invention is time travel. She makes a time machine and the first use is to send Don to the future after her, Dina, Nina, and Kaylynn find out that he was playing all of them. She then goes on to live her life. We don’t know how that looks yet, but she never finds out what happened to her mother and that she has a younger sister.

Alexander is greatly affected by his mother’s death. He has no memories of her being abducted by aliens. Normally toddlers remember things like that so it’s odd that he doesn’t when the rest of his family does. What he does remember is her disappearing, Mortimer being okay with it and getting together with Dina really fast after she vanished, and then finding out that his mother was dead.

Alexander is a child prodigee. He’s a smart kid. So, he would go with any other conclusion someone would go with that limited information: he believed Mortimer killed her.

Well, Cassandra still has her time machine after she uses it to get rid of Don. And as we all know, Alexander’s name shows up in the Sims 3 a few times despite the fact that he doesn’t exist yet. And, according to the Goth family tree, it’s not a family name of an ancestor of his, he is the only Alexander Goth.

Once again, we’re going to reference a console game. This time is the Sims 3 for the Nintendo DS. Alexander actually makes an appearance, and this time, he’s not alone: he’s married to a woman named Cecelia. The family bio says that their gloominess is BECAUSE of Mortimer. Alexander dyed his hair orange. Probably he was trying to bleach it and didn’t know what toner was.  He doesn’t have that great of a relationship with Cecelia, as a matter of fact, she has a better relationship with Don Alto than she does her own husband.

Back in the realm of the PC games, Alexander wrote two books when he went back in time to the continuity of the Sims 3:

Baron Graff Van Gold, which comes with Supernatural,

And then there’s the one that appears in the base game.

Murder in Pleasantview.

To string it altogether, Alexander remembers her being gone, then learning she died. He suspects Mortimer was the one to do it but he never actually talks to his father about it. He doesn’t know anything about the abduction, if anything thinking it a ridiculous rumor. He grows up, gets married, and decides at some point in time to go back in time to try and prevent his mother’s death. So he and his wife go into the time machine and try to go back to when it happened, but instead get sent back wayyyy too far to when his parents are still children. What happens to the time machine? It breaks. He’s stuck in a period of time where Time travel wasn’t a thing and no one really knows how to help him and he sure as hell doesn’t know himself. Effectively, he’s stuck there.

So, he writes A Murder in Pleasantview to tell the story of what he thinks happens to his mother. He doesn’t know it’s really all for nothing, but at the same time, it is because of what ends up happening as a result. A result he probably didn’t even know would happen.

See, A Murder in Pleasantview is a best-seller. It blows up the world of 50 years before his time. Every bookshelf has a copy of this book, standard-load. Sims would have read this, and would be influenced accordingly. They would have made better decisions, not wanting this tragic thing to happen to them.

And yes, it does literally take the world by storm. Better decisions in the past truly make for a better future.

This is where the Sims 4 comes in. It is a different continuity, but it is different because they are aware of what Alexander believes to have happened to Bella. This would be why their personalities are so completely different, why the age gap between Cassandra and Alexander aren’t so extreme, why the Goths are so much more reclusive.

Alexander did something that inadvertently changed the future, eliminating himself and his circumstances entirely. He vanished suddenly, probably in a series of events identical to Back to the Future, where he is then allowed to live his life as a child with his mother in the picture, having no idea what he believed happened to her, nor knowing the truth. He erases his little sister altogether, but he can’t be blamed for that since he didn’t know she even existed.

What happened to his wife? Did she get erased like Alexander did?

No, actually she died. She tried repairing the time machine, failed, and was electrocuted to death as a result. She died young and is buried in the Goth mansion’s graveyard, confusing future generations because no one knows where she comes from because she has the surname Goth but they can’t find her on their family tree.

Lolita Goth was the wife of Alexander Goth.

Yes, it says she’s single, which means one of two things happened:

Either she tried repairing the time machine one last time after Alexander vanished and died,

OR

Like Alexander’s marriage to Cecelia, they didn’t have the best relationship and they ended up getting a divorce, then, possibly with Alexander still around, did the same and died.

She clearly wanted to go back home to her time and wasn’t happy with Alexander for being stuck there.

And it makes sense that she would have been electrocuted with the time machine because there are no other objects in the Goth Mansion that would result in her electrocution.

Which would ALSO explain why the Goths of the Sims 3 can’t figure out who she is. You can’t list a descendent and their wife on your family tree if they don’t exist yet, can you?

 Tragedy is just par for the course in the Goth Family, it matches their dark and dreary macabre air. But Bella’s story is just really extra sad. Imagine trying to repair your failed marriage, going to meet a new neighbor only for him to put the moves on you without invitation, then get abducted by aliens where their experiments go wrong, causing you to lose your memories, your personality, your youth, and then you find out that it went wrong because you’re pregnant, which you didn’t know about that either, and your kidnappers take a tissue sample from you, and then drop you on a strange planet far from home where you have no way to communicate to them that you’re there, but you don’t remember anyone but your children anyway, leaving you to have a baby you didn’t even know existed when you were abducted and live just long enough to name her?

The truth has been staring at us in the face since 2014, but we all missed it. Me included for the longest time. It’s been 16 years since Bella went missing, and we all had theories and ideas, but THIS is the truth, and it’s really. Messed up. Yeah, I found out what happened to Bella, but do I like it? No, not at all. Bella deserved better, and so do her children. Mathilde especially. She grew up in an orphanage never knowing she had a family who would have loved her so very much, only to become a mailcarrier on her home planet. Not that there’s anything wrong with being a mailcarrier, don’t get me wrong.

Dina Caliente is innocent, but seriously? Bye.

Nina Caliente is innocent, and really deserves better.

Don Lothario is innocent, but yet he sucks.

Mortimer Goth used to be my favorite out of the Goth family, yes, even over Bella. But after learning everything about him I have mixed feelings about the guy. I don’t blame him for not trusting Bella, and I don’t blame him for wanting to move on, but jeez, at least show a little genuine emotion, Morty, she was your childhood best friend, and, if nothing else, the mother of your children.

There was no plot to get rid of her and swipe the Goth fortune.

It was just poor timing on the alien’s end, and bad luck altogether.

So, yeah.

That’s what happened to Bella Goth.

[akenosmenzie]

alias: simi.

pronouns: she + her.

age: 25. 

timezone: eastern.

favorite tropes: found families, huge friend groups, roommates, enemies to lovers, love triangles, etc.

aesthetics that describe you: warm pretzels / a cool popsicle on a hot summer day / goes with the flow.

 if you could learn any magic spell, what would it be?: something involving healing.

 what do you hope to see watercolor eyes provide?: a cozy and welcoming community bc i really miss writing. 💗

[joes-journal-blog]

Tasmanian Tiger

The Tasmanian Tiger: Also known as the Tasmanian wolf or thylacine.  

Before I get into these amazing animals' details let me talk about my personal discovery of this carnivorous marsupial. I was actually looking up cryptids on the world wide web as a teen when I came across a video of this creature.  For those that do not know a cryptid is “an animal (such as Sasquatch or the Loch Ness Monster) that has been claimed to exist but never proven to exist” [https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cryptid]. This video allegedly shown the last male thylacine, Benjamin, in captivity. He died September 7, 1936. I will provide a link to a similar combination of the footage that I came across [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gt0X-27GXM]. The fact that is living thing was so unusual that it gained the label of cryptid but still had tangible proof that it did in fact exist sparked a healthy interest in these beings.  

The Tasmanian tiger is “largest carnivorous marsupial of recent times, presumed extinct soon after the last captive individual died in 1936” in the private zoo in Hobert. “The thylacine was 100 to 130 cm (39 to 51 inches) long, including its 50- to 65-cm (20- to 26-inch) tail. Weight ranged from 15 to 30 kg (33 to 66 pounds), but about 25 kg (about 55 pounds) was average. The fur was yellowish brown, with 13 to 19 dark bars on the back and rump. The hind legs were longer than the forelegs, and the tail was very thick at the base, tapering evenly to a point. The skull was remarkably similar to that of a dog but had characteristics diagnostic of a marsupial. Other differences include a smaller braincase and jaws with an enormous, almost 90-degree gape. In a shallow pouch that opened rearward, the female carried two to four young at a time.” [https://www.britannica.com/animal/thylacine].  The male also had a partial pouch interestingly enough and the impressive beast had 46 teeth in its snout. [https://australian.museum/learn/australia-over-time/extinct-animals/the-thylacine/].

They were said to be mostly “nocturnal or simi-nocturnal" because they were active during the day as well. “The animal moved at a slow pace, generally stiff in its movements. The Thylacine hunted singly or in pairs and mainly at night”.  The animal “preferred kangaroos and other marsupials, small rodents and birds. They were reported to have preyed on sheep and poultry after European colonization, although the extent of this was almost certainly exaggerated”. This exaggeration may have led to the animal's persecution and its eventual demise. This along with the interdiction of the dog and competition with the native dingo [https://australian.museum/learn/australia-over-time/extinct-animals/the-thylacine/].

“During the late 1990s and early 2000s, DNA sequencing technologies made significant advancements. In 2009 an international team of geneticists announced that they had successfully sequenced the genome (that is, the complete set of DNA) of the thylacine. This development spawned discussions about the possibility of cloning the thylacine, possibly through the process of somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT). SCNT involves the transplanting of the nucleus of a somatic (body) cell from a thylacine into the cytoplasm of a donor egg—perhaps from the Tasmanian devil (Sarcophilus harrisii) or the native cat (Dasyurus)—whose nucleus has been removed” [https://www.britannica.com/animal/thylacine]. This poses the question on whether or not this as well as other endangered or extinct species have a chance to be brought back.  

This odd marsupial inspired curiosity and interest in endangered, extinct, as well as cryptic creatures. I have hope for this animals' continued existence fueled by countless sightings documented throughout the internet. This magnificent being may give hope to those animals that have been labeled as long gone as well as the more mythical beings. They may be out there surviving on the fringes avoiding humanity.

Sources:  

ttps://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cryptid

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gt0X-27GXM

https://australian.museum/learn/australia-over-time/extinct-animals/the-thylacine/

https://www.britannica.com/animal/thylacine

[avida-heidia-5]

I was tagged by @zoomguanyu to recommend a fic/fics I’ve written that I’m the most proud of. Thank you so much for tagging me! 🥰🥰🥰

Hmmm, let’s see…

• In Another World With My Eyes Closed - Aaahhhh, my beloved dark Sebchal astral projection AU I wrote for the F1 Big Bang last year. 😍🥰 This is my very first longfic, standing at nearly a whopping 19k words (!!!). I had fun researching the concept of dreams, astral projection and dream-walking, I enjoyed watching films about dreams such as Come True (2020) and Little Nemo: Adventures In Slumberland (1989), and listening to dark and moody music for inspiration. Despite how challenging the whole writing process was, I’m very happy with how everything came together in the end.

• A Toast For A Lovely Old Goat - This is a light and fluffy Sewis fic set during the 2024 British GP and currently my second most popular fic by kudos and hits. I really enjoyed writing this one so much, mainly because of the real life event I took inspiration from and how quickly I’d written it.

• Dear Kimi - My fluffy Simi Christmas fic written for the 25 Days Of Simi Fest where Seb and Kimi communicate through Christmas cards. I just love the concept and the way I’ve written and aligned the dialogue. Fun fact: Believe it or not, this was all written in a single day!

• As Drunk As A Finnish Brown Bear - My “Kimi’s drunken antics at the 2018 FIA Prize Giving Gala” fic! I just enjoyed writing dialogue for Kimi in this, he’s so entertaining to write when he’s sozzled out of his mind. Reading this one back, it still sends me in fits of laughter every time. 😂

• Deep Tenebrosity - Not F1, but I thought I’d include it. It’s a Merlin fanfic I originally published onto Fanfiction.Net way back in 2020, which then got transferred over and tweaked a bit on AO3 a year later, only because I’d forgotten the password for FF.Net. 😓 I also did it because it is one of the better works I’d written out of the 4 fics on the platform. Looking back on it, I’m still very happy with what I’ve written.

Tagging: @vroomjohnwatson, @kaossbells, @sambirb, @racingliners, @wanderingblindly, @formulaes5, @nothingelsematterswrites, @sacharowan, @msmirrorball21, @ravibutinallcaps, and anyone who wants to do this!

[crystalrose555]

Would you write toddler mc scenario's

I’ve seen this going around a lot so I’m going to give my own spin. The following events happened in one day and the first line of each is what MC calls them and I shall call it

10 Himbos, a child and a toddler (since Beel and Belphie are two halves of the same idiot XD)

Lucifer

“Lucy”

Hides behind his coat when walking together

almost trips him when they grab onto his leg

Plays with the rope on his waist

will try to take his quill and help sign papers

with crude duckies and bunnies

Gives them some fake papers to sign and play with

Smirks at how easy it was to fool a toddler while looking over his work.

“Ok, there’s page 21,22,23, 25...Where’s 24?”

Page 24 is now a paper snowflake with Lucifer’s name on it

Calls Mammon to take care of them

Mammon

“Mammie”

Shows them sleight of hand tricks

disappearing a grimm behind their ear etc.

Gets to the card tricks only for MC to scatter the cards everywhere

Breaks his sunglasses with an oopsie step when he cleans up the cards

Flushes his wallet down the toilet in the confusion

Threatens to sell them

actually tries when they try to bend Goldie in half

Realizes selling them is too harsh and that no one wants to buy a toddler except for sickos, so drops them off in Levi’s room

Levi

“Lebi”

Would barricade them in his tub but they will sneak out

they read his mangas too hard (crumbled and/or ripped pages)

And play with the pretty dollies AKA Ruri Chan’s Flying Adventure

Insert aggressive Japanese swear words

Satan hears the commotion and volunteers so that Levi doesn’t summon Lotan

Satan

“Saltine”

“...You can say Saltine, but not Satan?“

Will go back and forth to get them to say his name correctly with him growing more and more impatient.

MC will keep giggling and saying it because they like seeing Satan angry

A very dangerous game

Asmo has to come in and point out that MC thinks it’s funny to call him that.

“...Asmo, they’re yours now.” And walks off.

The sound of something breaking as soon as he turns the corner.

Asmo

“Aussie”

Surprisingly has an easy time taking care of them at first

Plays dress up with his furs and costume jewelry

Will brush and style their hair with bows and clips

Will keep moving and making him have to start over, but that normal with a toddler

However, draws the line when MC get into his bathroom and dumps all of his perfume into his bathtub and draws on the tile with his lipsticks and mascaras

MC: Pretty!

*Insert High pitched scream*

Beel burst in when he heard Asmo’s high note

decides to take them when Asmo starts crying

Beel & Belphie

“Bee” & “Bumble”, calls them together as “Bumblebee”

The best caretakers of their brothers

Beel will play all the games with them, from the floor is lava to tag

When they get tired, Belphie tags in and puts them for a nap with him

Its a pretty good dynamic until Beel has to make lunch

since he keeps eating it takes longer, so MC wakes up with Belphie

They try to start crying until Belphie says they’re playing Hide n Seek

Belphie counts and MC hides

Annnnd he falls asleep as soon as he gets to 7.

Beel: Belphie, where’s MC?

Belphie just shrugs

The entire house is now searching for the toddler MC

Solomon

“Bad”

Finds MC who manages to make their way towards Purgatory Hall

Wonders in a toddler can be efficient at spell casting

Instead he talks to them and gets them talking about the brothers since toddlers have no filter

Gets a kick at hearing what happened earlier with Asmo

He then decides to teach MC swear words

Before the first swear can come out of his mouth, Simeon pops out with an angry smile

Simeon

“Simi”

Scolds and lectures Solomon on the proper etiquette with a toddler

Plays with his shawl while Simeon tries to get Solomon to take the situation seriously

This causes a back and forth between the two of them

MC walks away when there is no attention coming to them and their stomach growls

Luke

“Lukie”

Notices that MC was going to wonder off

Tries to tell Simeon and Solomon but they are too heated in their argument

Manages to stop MC from putting dangerous things in their mouth

Sighs and takes it upon himself to feed them

However, he foolishly expects a toddler MC to stay still

Comes back to see MC wondering into a portal that Solomon left open

His scream grabs the attention of both Simeon and Solomon

Barbatos

“Barbie”

Was watering the roses when he heard a sudden noise of something struggling and crying

Discovers MC covered in scratches from the thorns and tangled in the barbs

Cuts them loose and carries them back to clean them up; calms them down surprisingly quickly

Upon hearing their stomach, he goes and makes lunch for them which is basically child friendly finger food

Summons a high chair and bib so they don’t make a mess and run off

Takes the moment to take care of the roses he had to cut

However, turns to see that MC are gone

Takes a moment to look in the near future and sighs to himself

Diavolo

“Dibobo”

Is mesmerized by the tiny MC

When they start folding up his paperwork, he stops them just so he can teach them how.

Slides down the railing of the Castle stairway with then in his arms

When they start to draw on the walls, gives them a literal canvas with finger paints and he actually hangs it up in a corridor

Phone is full of photos of their fun times

It’s so nonstop, MC is actually exhausted and takes a nap in his arms while he sits in his office and actually does work

Bonus Round:

*The brothers along with the Purgatory Hall crew burst into his office, arguing and panicking, barely taking notice of Diavolo and MC*

Simeon: Why would you leave a portal open, Solomon!? Have you’ve gone insane!?

Solomon: I don’t have babies around when I do magic, how was I suppose to know?

Luke: *Whimpering from the stress*

Mammon: Seriously, how could you lose MC? How the hell did you fall asleep playing Hide and Seek?! Beel: I’m sorry :(

Belphie: Don’t apologize Beel, at least we didn’t try to sell them.

Satan: Mammon did what!?

Mammon: Hey at least I wasn’t going to feed them to Lotan!

Levi: They destroyed my Ruri Chan figures! Asmo: Whatever, what’s important is that we find MC! I feel so horrible! Lucifer: Exactly, I hate to report this, Lord Diavolo, MC has gone missing and we have no idea where they are. Diavolo with MC sleeping in his arms:

[robertleckie]

A Reflection on the Future and a... Goodbye?

I’ve come to the realisation that while I still love HBO War and have for... a long time, I’m just not as invested as I used to be. I feel a major detachment from the fandom, and just don’t feel like it’s my main fandom/interest anymore. In general, tbh, I’m not super invested in creating any kind of fandom content anymore, and I feel like that’s just a result of life changing and me getting older. I have different priorities and other things I prefer to focus on, and I literally haven’t touched any editing or writing software for fandom reasons in... idk how long.

I turn 25 in 6 months, and I’m just not where I was 10 years ago when I first joined this website and got invested in content. My school life sucked, I had an unstable/unhappy home life and I needed an escape that I found here. It was my coping mechanism as my mental health deteriorated through the years. It brought good things - friendships, new interests and knowledge, and new experiences I never would have had otherwise - but it also brought bad things through its design. I know now that social media isn’t good for me when I’m not well, and I’ve been working for a long time to let go, stop caring and focus on what makes me happy instead. Which, also, has made me realise that this website also isn’t really something that I would place in that category anymore. 

A lot of it has to do with my detachment from the things I used to enjoy and the fandom it belongs to. Fandom has a lot to do with interest, content, friendship and popularity, and for me that’s not healthy. I honestly suck at keeping in touch as much as I’d like (which partly stems from that I don’t really use this website/blog as much anymore), and I just don’t reach out to new people as much as I should either. (Friendships are also not one sided either, so things falling through/not working out isn’t something I blame myself for completely, but I also know it’s part of the reasons. So Eva, Simi, Sammy, Ellie, Isaac, Aiden, Ed... everyone I’ve talked to through the years... I suck and I know it, but I still wish you all the best).

Anyway, where do I want to get with this post? It’s a new year, and I think it’s time for some new beginnings. Beginnings I’m not entirely sure Tumblr will be a part of..? Maybe on a small scale, but I’m not sure if I’ll ever make a proper “return” to the HBO War fandom like I tried to do last year. I just don’t have that kind of interest/time/energy anymore. Which is sad, but also not something I’m that regretful about either. I’ve just been feeling a sense of disconnect for a while now and that’s just... it. 

I have one thing that I still want to write and that I might return to post one day, but I honestly don’t even know. I’m both studying and working, caring for 23 budgies and I’m going to learn how to drive, so time just isn’t what it used to be. I already spend hours on my computer every day for uni, and I just don’t feel like sitting down with another document at the end of the day these days. But we will see. Maybe something appears, maybe not.

I’ll probably still be here, and especially if you see me reblogging things that probably means I’m around still. But I’ll probably be phasing things out or moving so... this is a premature goodbye, or at least a see you around!

[tonystarkbingo]

TSB Mark IV Week 2 Roundup!

This includes the Round Robin fic that several participants wrote as part of our Discord Party, as well as a whole bunch of other amazing works.  Go leave them some love!

Title: Adventures of Tiny Dragon Tony and His Treasure (Loki) - Chapter 41: Snapshot #41: The First of Many Meetings Collaborator: tinydragontony Card Number: 4005 Link: Tumblr Square Filled: T5 - more than a partner Ship: FrostIron Rating: Gen Major Tags: Fluff, first meetings, 5+1 Summary: Here it is, the most requested chapter to date! How Loki met tiny dragon Tony! Word Count: 3300

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Title: Snowed In Collaborator: eachpeachpearplum Card Number: 4003 Link: Tumblr Square Filled: S2 - snowed in Ship: none Rating: Gen Major Tags: snowglobe, possible imprisonment?, art Summary: Tony was just minding his own business, taking a quick zip around the city, just because he can. Next thing he knows, he’s in a glass ball sat on some evildoer’s shelf. To make things worse, he’s not the only one…

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Title: Man on the Run Collaborator: ceealaina Card Number: 4008 Link: Tumblr Square Filled: R1 - Old Team Ship: Background Pepper/Nat, Background IronHusbands Rating: Teen Major Tags: Fluff and Humour, Team as Family, Post-Endgame, Fix-It Summary: Saving the world is important. But Tony really, really just wants to retire and spend time with his family. And if faking his death is the only way to do that, that's how it goes sometimes. Word Count: 1115

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Title: Inktober - Day 19 Collaborator: monobuu Card Number: 4040 Link: Tumblr Square Filled: S3 - AU: Star Wars Ship: WinterIron Rating: Teen Major Tags: Scandalous amount of leg Summary: Uuuuuh. Yeah. (*ﾟ▽ﾟ*)

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Title: Scrunch Me Collaborator: martianwahtney Card Number: 4011 Link: AO3 Square Filled: A2 - Victorious Ship: WinterIron Rating: Gen Major Tags: fluff Summary: 3 times Tony asks Bucky why he wears scrunchies, and 1 time he figured it out for himself Word Count: 995

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Title: The Best Bathtub Collaborator: camichats Card Number: 4049 Link: Tumblr Square Filled: K4 - Kink: Bath/Shower Sex Ship: Tony/Sharon Rating: Mature Major Tags: Minor sexual content, allusions to sugar daddy/baby relationship (though not actually present in the fic) Summary: Sharon is a tough Shield agent and she’s proud of that, but sometimes it’s nice to relax and feel pampered. Word Count: 1649

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Title: Baffled, bewildered and bemused. Collaborator: JehBeeEh Card Number: 4058 Link: AO3 Square Filled: K1 - Learning to be Loved Ship: Stony Rating: Mature Major Tags: Super Fluffy, Implied Sex Summary: Baffled. Bewildered? Perplexed. Tony couldn’t quite figure out which version fit this situation best, but they all seemed to apply. Perplexed seemed a bit much though. Puzzled? Bemused. Word Count: 3197

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Title: wound with your eyes (kill with a smile) - Chapter 3 Collaborator: deathsweetqueen Card Number: 4066 Link: AO3 Square Filled: A5 - Restrained Ship: WinterIron Rating: Mature Major Tags: graphic depictions of violence, Spy Kids AU, Secret Identities, Kidnapping, Indian Tony Stark Summary: Tony Stark and Bucky Barnes were once the renowned superheroes, Iron Man and the Winter Soldier. Eventually, they put aside the masks and the armour to get married and raise a family together. Twelve years later, SHIELD agents go missing, and Tony and Bucky decide to go on their first mission since their eldest child was born. When they're mysteriously kidnapped by a psychotic TV show host, it's hardly a great first step to getting back in the game. The worst thing, though, might be the fact that the only people who can rescue them are their own children. Word Count: 12,872

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Title: with or without his unhallowed touch - Chapter 24 Collaborator: deathsweetqueen Card Number: 4066 Link: AO3 Square Filled: K1 - myths and legends Ship: Tony/Thanos, Stuckony Rating: Explicit Major Tags: Tony is Kidnapped by Thanos, Tony is the Soul Stone, Female Tony Stark, Obsessive Behavior, Non-Consensual Body Modification, Emotional Manipulation, Stockholm Syndrome, Emotional/Psychological Abuse, Physical Abuse, Domestic Violence, Forced Relationship, Gaslighting, Rape/Non-con Elements, Warnings for this Chapter: Explicit Violence, Major Character Death, and Cannibalism Summary: Toni sees the Chitauri mothership high above her, sees the hundreds and thousands of warships that circle the Earth, and she knows, she knows. She thinks, oh, I understand. A beat. Her hand burns. Wow, we are so fucked. She lets the bomb slide out of her hands, watches as it floats towards the mothership, and fire rains down on her, even in the dark, pale, cold hollow of space. She laughs, breathlessly, thinks of all the ones who’d loved her the most, and dies. Word Count: 129,402

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Title: What We Do in the Tower Collaborator: newnewyorker93, rebelmeg Card Number: 4042, 4034  Link: AO3 Square Filled: S2 - Forcibly Adopted (4042) A5 - WTF (4034) Ship: Peter & Tony, Pepperony Rating: Gen Major Tags: Vampire AU, Avengers family, crack and humor, unapologetic cherry-picking of vampire lore Summary: Peter Parker has been having an awkward time as a brand new vampire. But now he's got Tony Stark whisking him off to meet a whole group of weird and hilarious vampires that live in Stark Tower and maybe this won't be so bad after all? Word Count: 5185

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Title: Prince Tony and the Red Headed Princess Collaborator: PoliZ Card Number: 4007 Link: AO3 Square Filled: K2 - AU: Fairy Tale Ship: Pepperony Rating: Gen Major Tags: fairytale elements, domestic fluff Summary: Morgan asks her daddy for a bedtime story with knights and monsters, and wizards and princesses.  With some help from Pepper, Tony is happy to oblige. Word Count: 866

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Title: A Bottle and a Half of Whiskey Later - An 1872 Playlist Collaborator: moosh Card Number: 4037 Link: Tumblr Square Filled: S5 - Canon: 1872 Ship: None Rating: Gen Major Tags: Playlist Summary: A playlist based off some of the songs that Tony sang in the comic. Word Count: N/A

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Title: The Gift of Jab Collaborator: dracusfyre Card Number: 4032 Link: AO3 Square Filled: A2 - Dares/Bets Ship: WinterIron Rating: Gen Major Tags: Pre-Relationship, Sparring Summary: For the ImagineTonyandBucky prompt: Hi! I'm always up for some sparring hotness, so how about Tony being present for physical training sessions (working/watching), but says no everytime Nat/Clint/Steve/etc invites him to do it. Rhodey laughing every time the team says that it's bc Tony doesn't want to embarass himself. Bucky suspects his BF is actually well-versed in hand-to-hand/martial arts/self-defense; so he gives himself the challenge of getting Tony onto the mat. When he does he ends up a)on the floor & b)really aroused. The fill is less horny than the prompt, sorry. Word Count: 2453

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Title: Lady in Red Collaborator: JehBeeEh Card Number:  4058 Link: AO3 Square Filled: A5 - Steve Rogers/Captain America Ship: Stony Rating: Mature Major Tags: Summary: “I GOT SCARED, ALRIGHT?”“Steve, sweetheart-"Steve kept pacing their room like he hadn’t even heard her. “I got so scared, you have no idea. And I know, okay. I know you can take care of yourself, and you don’t need me to save you or protect you, and it is sexy as all hell, but in that moment, I forgot all about that, and I was scared that I couldn’t protect you.” He collapsed on the bed, elbows on his knees and his head in his hands and Toni could hear him take long slow breaths.This had definitely not been how Toni envisioned their return home going. Word Count: 1176

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Title: i come as a woman, dark and open Collaborator: simi Card Number: 4066 Link: AO3 Square Filled: A5 - Resolve Ship: Toni/Steve/Bucky Rating: E Major Tags: Female Tony Stark, Regency AU, Misogyny, Racism, Explicit Sexual Content, Emotional Infidelity, Slurs, Marital Dissatisfaction. Summary: When Toni first meets Captain Steve Rogers at one of the biggest gatherings of the season, she is not impressed. On the other hand, his best friend, the charming James ‘Bucky’ Barnes, was an utter delight. Unfortunately for her, after a series of misunderstandings at said party, she is forced to accept Steve’s hand in marriage in order to save her family’s reputation. And while Toni never expected a fairy tale, she had always hoped that companionship would one day turn into something more. How was she to know that Steve was just as charmed by Bucky as she was? a.k.a. Steve and Toni get married to each other; there are more misunderstandings; Bucky is an absolute delight and possibly the saving grace for their marriage; and somehow, all three end up falling in love with each other in the process. Word Count: 25, 335

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Title: TSB October Discord Party Round Robin Fic Collaborators: rebelmeg 4034 Politzania 4007 EachPeachPearPlum 4003 summerpipedream 4045 Ducky 4013 Magica 4019 SomeSortofItalianRoast 4036 DarthBloodOrange 4010 Link: AO3 Square Filled: rebelmeg: A4 - Huddling for Warmth Politzania: A5 - Dog Park EachPeachPearPlum: S1 - Premonitions summerpipedream: A5 - Clint Barton/Hawkeye Ducky: R5 - Fortune Telling Magica: T2 - Fortitude SomeSortofItalianRoast: S2 - Magic DarthBloodOrange: T4 - Robots Ship: None Rating: Teen Major Tags: animal transformation, magic/witchcraft, Kate is a hero, Clint is a disaster human being Summary: Tony has been turned into a dog, and he is going to straight-up murder whoever made him a corgi. Word Count: 2634

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Title: I Know You Collaborator: iam93percentstardust Card Number: 4012 Link: AO3 Square Filled: R5 - Sam Wilson/Falcon Ship: IronFalcon Rating: Gen Major Tags: Established Relationship, Domestic Fluff, Sickfic Summary: When Tony gets sick and hides away from everyone else, it's up to Sam to find his wayward boyfriend. Good thing he knows him so well. Word Count: 1316

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Title: Thriller - Michael Jackson Collaborator: monobuu Card Number: 4040  Link: AO3 Square Filled: A5 - Murderchildren Ship: None Rating: Teen Major Tags: Creepy?  Summary: N/A Word Count: N/A

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Title: I’ll keep your brittle heart warm Collaborator: peachy Card Number: 4017  Link: AO3 Square Filled: K3 - Protectiveness Ship: Stony Rating: Teen Major Tags: Breaking up and making up, fluff, getting back together Summary: They got married when they were young, just twenty-four years old, despite the arguments from their friends that they should wait, that neither of them were ready for a commitment like marriage so young. Steve distinctly remembered Sam pointing out that the male brain isn’t even fully developed until age twenty-five. But they were young and passionate, so sure they’d found their perfect person that they could overcome anything and everything life threw at them. And it was true. For six months. Word Count: 4223

[bboyplankton]

R&B/Pop/Alternative Albums 2020

1. Braxton Cook – Fire Sign

2. Thundercat – It Is What It Is

3. Leven Kali – HighTide

4. Cheakaity – Grown Man

5. Koshens – Soca Virgin

6. Dvsn – A Muse In Her Feelings

7. Chloe x Halle – Ungodly Hour

8. Kirby – Sis.

9. Kiana Ledé – KIKI (Deluxe)

10. Jade Novah – Stages

11. Ro James – Mantic

12. YellowStraps – Yellowckdown Project

13. Otis Kane – Therapy – EP

14. Kehlani – It Was Good Until It Wasn’t

15. Xavier Omär – if You Feel

16. Trey Songz – Back Home

17. DaniLeigh – Movie

18. Omar Apollo – Apolonio

19. Reveena – Moonstone – EP

20. YellowStraps – Goldress

21. Alina Baraz – It Was Divine

22. John Legend – Bigger Love

23. Cleo Sol – Rose in the Dark

24. Giveon – Take Time

25. Burna Boy – Twice As Tall

26. Teyana Taylor – The Album

27. Jhené Aiko – Chilombo (Deluxe)

28. Jacob Collier – Djesse, Vol. 3

29. Giveon – Take Time

30. THEY. – The Amanda Tape

31. Sammie – Such is Life…

32. Masego – Studying Abroad – EP

33. Raheem DeVaughn – What A Time To Be In Love

34. Steve Lacy – The Lo-Fis

35. IV Jay – 5th Element

36. PJ Morton – Gospel According to PJ

37. Ledisi – The Wild Card

38. JoJo – Good to Know

39. Jane Handcock & MyGuyMars – Fa Real

40. Vybz Kartel – To Tanesha

41. Tiwa Savage – Celia

42. Wizkid – Made in Lagos

43. RAAHiim – ii Knew Better

44. August Alsina – The Product III: stateofEMERGEncy

45. Chiiild – Synthetic Soul

46. Brent Faiyaz – F**k the World

47. Eric Bellinger – Hors D’oeuvres

48. Ariana Grande – Positions

49. Victoria Monét – Jaguar

50. Lianne La Havas – Lianne La Havas

51. Buju Banton – Upside Down 2020

52. Various Artists – No Caption Riddim

53. Giveon – When It’s All Said And Done – EP

54. Alicia Keys – Alicia

55. Pink Sweat$ – The Prelude – EP

56. Devvon Terrell – Vol. 2: Déjà vu

57. María Isabel – Stuck in the Sky

58. James Blake – Covers - EP

59. Brandy – B7

60. Ty Dolla $ign – Featuring Ty Dolla $ign

61. Vedo – For You

62. J. Holiday – Baecation

63. Kevin Ross – Audacity Complete

64. UMI – Introspection – EP

65. Terrace Martin, Robert Glasper, 9th Wonder, & Kamasi Washington – Dinner Party: Dessert

66. Låpsley – Through Water

67. Nieman J & Eric Bellinger – Optimal Music

68. Bosco – Car Therapy

69. Eric Bellinger – Eric B For President: Term 3

70. Alexis Ffrench – Dreamland

71. Q – The Shave Experiment – EP

72. Moonga K. – An ode to growth, pt. 1

73. Ricardo Drue – Homesick

74. Kali Uchis – To Feel Alive – EP

75. 6lack – 6pc Hot EP

76. St. Panther – These Days – EP

77. Kali Uchis – Sin Miedo (del Amor y Otros Demonios) ∞

78. Gorillaz – Song Machine, Season One: Strange Timez (Deluxe)

79. Mannywellz – Mirage

80. Tink – Hopeless Romantic

81. Childish Gambino – 3.15.20

82. Shay Lia – Solaris – EP

83. Bosco – Someday This Will All Make Sense

84. Tréi Stella – Sorry for the Wait

85. Mario – Closer to Mars – EP

86. Tank – Worth the Wait – EP

87. Summer Walker – Life On Earth – EP

88. Vivian Green – Love Absolute

89. Avant – Can We Fall In Love

90. Tems – For Broken Ears

91. Tiana Major9 – At Sixes And Sevens

92. Chrissy D – The Journey

93. Abby Jasmine – Who Cares?

94. Iyla – Other Ways To Vent

95. Fana Hues – Hues

96. Sam Smith – Love Goes

97. Alfa Mist & Emmavie – Epoch

98. 11:11 – The Night Before the Morning After

99. Tenelle – This Is X

100. Che Ecru – Prejection

101. Problem Child – The Vaccine – EP

102. Jadel – Call Me Jadel

103. Popcaan – Fixtape

104. Kaash Paige – Teenage Fever

105. Omarion – The Kinection

106. Ye Ali – Private Suite 3

107. Ant Clemons – Happy 2 Be Here

108. Moses Sumney – Grae

109. Mali Music – The Book of Mali

110. Shawn Mendes – Wonder

111. Terrace Martin – Conscious Conversations – EP

112. Brandon Banks – Static – EP

113. Good Girl – Good Girl

114. Jacob Latimore – Leo Season

115. Hayley Williams – Petals For Armor

116. Tank – While You Wait – EP

117. Black Eyed Peas – Translation

118. Kes – We Home

119. Terrace Martin – Impedance – EP

120. Black Atlass – Dream Awake

121. Gregory Porter – All Rise (Deluxe)

122. Brandon – Coming Clean

123. James Blake – Before – EP

124. Che Ecru – Til Death

125. Vybz Kartel – Of Dons & Divas

126. Bryson Tiller – Anniversary

127. Brown & Young Thug – Slime & B

128. Swarvy – Sunny Days Blue

129. Skip Marley – Higher Place

130. Tank and the Bangas – Friend Goals – EP

131. Destra – Queendom

132. Ellie Goulding – Brightest Blue

133.  Che Ecru – Still Single

134. The-Dream – SXTP4

135. Kem – Love Always Wins

136. Jessie Reyez – Before Love Came To Kill Us+

137. Tame Impala – The Slow Rush

138. Simi – Restless II – EP

139. Jus D – Other Side

140. Sy Ari Da Kid – A Toxic Heartbreak

141. PartyNextDoor – PartyMobile

142. Ye Ali – Ye Ali X Chill 2

143. MarMar Oso – Marvin’s Room

144. Jagged Edge – A Jagged Love Story

145. Luke James – To Feel Love/d

146. Toni Braxton – Spell My Name

147. Yung Bleu – Love Scars: The 5 Stages of Emotions (Deluxe)

148. Paloma Ford – X Tapes

149. Ayanis – Yani

150. The Weeknd – After Hours (Deluxe)

151. Jacob Latimore – C3

152. Keke Palmer – Virgo Tendencies Pt. I

153. Roy Woods – Dem Times – EP

154. Queen Naija – missunderstood

155. Rico Love – Rico Love Presents: Emerging Women of R&B

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I posted 4,255 times in 2022

That's 4,255 more posts than 2021!

2,795 posts created (66%)

1,460 posts reblogged (34%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

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I tagged 3,006 of my posts in 2022

Only 29% of my posts had no tags

#blue moon 🌙 - 357 posts

#lovely anon xo - 340 posts

#loves <3 - 84 posts

#🧜‍♀️ anon - 75 posts

#mason mount - 51 posts

#chelsea fc - 48 posts

#benluvbot 🤍🤍🤍 - 48 posts

#mason mount fanfic - 47 posts

#mason mount imagine - 47 posts

#mason mount fluff - 45 posts

Longest Tag: 133 characters

#it’s easier to say ‘i’m from 15 minutes down the road from birmingham’ than it is to say ‘i’m from sandwell have you heard of it?’ 😭

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

You Right

kepa arrizabalaga, based on You Right by Doja Cat and The Weeknd - smut, fluff, angst (kinda)

Rating: M (minors, pls do not read this!!)

Word Count: 10.2k+ (i’m sorry 😭)

Warnings: alcohol consumption, strong language, toxic relationship, infidelity, flirting and sexual tension, explicit sex, pet names (in Spanish 😩), body worship (I think??? he kisses her all over lmaoo), fingering, dirty talk, praise and degradation, unprotected penetrative sex, exhibitionism, he gags y/n with his tie lol, choking, i think that’s it but lmk if i missed anything pls!!

a/n: it’s finally here! first of all, my spanish is rusty so pls don’t judge if there’s anything mistakes 💀 second, this is a cheating fic so don’t read if you’re uncomfortable with infidelity! finally, please enjoy and lmk what you think!! <33

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#4

Blue Moon 🌙

Mason Mount social media au - e2l, comedy, crack humour, fluff, angst and smut

Rating: Mature (explicit smut, recreational drug usage, dirty humour, strong language)

y/n is fast becoming the ‘It Girl’ of her generation. A successful music career, critically-renowned performance skills, a wildly popular cosmetics company, brand partnerships piling up, and the ability to make something sell out just by mentioning it on her Twitter. With beauty, brains and a slightly terrible sense of humour, the whole world is falling more in love with her and her friends by the day. Well, almost the whole world. A certain Chelsea starboy doesn’t seem to share the same affections...

a/n: if you guys wanna be added to the taglist, just comment or drop me an ask!! hope you enjoy xo

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#3

best mistake

universityjock!mason x cheerleader!y/n, loosely based on best mistake by ariana grande - smut, mild angst, a little bit of fluff if you squint

word count: 10.4k+

warnings: exes au, very toxic dynamic, strong language, threats of violence (y/n just wants to beat the shit out of mason), mason is a complete dickhead and a total pervert and an annoying little shit, sexual tension, dirty jokes, dirty talk, explicit sex, unprotected sex, hate sex but also not really hate sex, dom!mason and sub!reader, oral sex (f receiving), fingering, degradation and praise, pet names, choking, public sex, mild exhibitionism, standing sex, overstimulation, i'm pretty sure that's everything but lmk if you think i missed something!

a/n: hey guys! i literally wrote this in the last 24 hours so it's super rushed, pls ignore any mistakes bc it's not been properly proofread yet! i think i've decided to do the ariana grande series as individual stories, so this is the next instalment of the series! i rly hope you guys enjoy, lmk what you think! x

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#2

goodnight n go

mason mount, based on 'goodnight n go' by ariana grande - fluff and angst

word count: 5.6k+ (i'm so sorry 😭)

a/n: pls ignore any mistakes, i haven't proofread properly yet 💀 i rly hope you guys enjoy, lmk what you think! &lt;3

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[jamiebluewind]

Adya's Past Incarnations Had Their Lives Cut Short

This is something I haven't seen anyone talk about, so here we go!

Warning: Talk of depression, anxiety, abandonment, and suicide mention

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The Math

We know that the previous three incarnations of Ayda PLUS present Ayda have lived on Leviathan 150 years. Current Ayda is 17, leaving us with 133 years for the other three. That means, the last three of her incarnations had an average lifespan of 44 to 66 years (44 if the first of the Aydas started her life on Leviathan, 66 if she got there a year before her death, and 53 if the person who told me she was 25 when she got there was correct). Now the children of two races tend to live either the same length as their shortest lived parent's race or somewhere between the lifespan of the races of both parents. Ayda is part human (in game lifespan of under 100 years) and part phoenix (goes 1,000 to 12,000 years between reincarnations*). That means, Ayda is not even coming CLOSE to her max lifespan, dying three times before she would even be considered elderly with even regular human stats (65). The fact that her span between reincarnations is too short is further backed up by Arthur saying (on their estrangement) "I assume she has reconstituted since then" which implies that despite not seeing her for 300 years, there was a possiblity that she had not.

So how and why were her previous three incarnations so short?

Let's look at the facts...

An incarnation of Ayda has existed for over 300 years, four of which (present Ayda and three previous ones) have lived on Leviathan the last 150 years.

All the notes left by previous Aydas were destroyed by the first Ayda of Leviathan (who only left notes on herself, none about her previous incarnations). That means present Ayda only knows anything about her last three incarnations

She hates living on "an island full of nasty, dirty pirates"

The Compass Points Library means a great deal to herself and her last three incarnations, but she also built an entire friendship section in it because she was so lonely and desperately wanted a friend

Present Ayda thought her father abandoned her (the two incarnations before her would have as well), her relationship with her mother was complicated, she never mentioned siblings (and Arthur did say he had children plural), and the closest person she had to a friend (until the bad kids) was Garthy (meaning she had little to no support from friends or family)

People would ask things of her, but even if she cared about them, they never cared about her

Adaine had to teach her how to summon a familiar, meaning she or her past reincarnations didn't even have that

She was described as socially awkward with what many considered odd mannerisms

She is very honest, literal, and self critical. She also worries about what other people think of her and doesn't have a lot of self confidence

She's shown symptoms of having rejection sensitive dysphoria (which is common in those with autism and/or ADHD)

The first Ayda on Leviathan reinvented herself and regretted it, making her scared of being different than past hers or even making mistakes

She immediately agreed to keep hanging out with the Fig and the others the second she was asked to (despite all the book theft that would occur at Compass Points in her absence), left Rolands to guard the closed library so she could help out her friends/girlfriend (decided even before she found out Fig was in hell), and is moving to moving to Solace (after shrinking the library) after knowing her friends just a few days.

She said if anything happened to Fig in the nightmare forest, she would "... start over" because she would never be able to forgive herself

She also said "I could die when I go back to Leviathan and attempt to [shut down the library]" because "it is a dangerous city." and that "The future's never guaranteed. We don't have anything but today and even that might get cut short."

She searched her notes and the other Aydas she has notes from never had what she has with Fig and the others.

Conclusion?

I believe that Ayda lived her lives on Leviathan isolated and alone. She had no support system and nobody to protect her from the dangers of the pirate city. She had nothing but her library to keep her going. Her past lives on Leviathan were all cut short, and I believe it was either by the violence of pirates or due to her own loneliness. After all, if all you have is a library and you know without a shadow of a doubt that it would be taken care of if you died, how much would you risk to protect it and how long would you keep trying to?

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*Side Note (warning for implied mistreatment of a partner): In my opinion, knowing the reincarnation time of an average Phoenix in D&D further complicates things with Arthur and his Phoenix. She has reincarnated MANY times since Arthur has known her during his magically extended 400 year life. Once you could easily ignore, twice is suspicious, but the implications of it happening many times raises a lot of questions. The only possible simi ethical explanation I can think of is that all the chronomancy going on with Arthur Aguefort impacts how she ages (maybe causing rapid aging or maybe just normal aging, but she's still aging when time is stopped/rewound).