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Who lives in Newcrest?

There are only two people. Mrs. Crumplebottom and a dude named Jimbo. She lives on one side of the river, and he's on the other.

In this universe, Mrs. Crumplebottom is still a widow and has a large collection of purses (to hit people with) and telescopes (to spy on people with). She spends most of her day looking through the telescope to spy on Jimbo, who usually is just eating a can of beans or reading a book.

You can play as either her or Jimbo, but it's very risky to try to have them interact with each other. On *very* rare occasions, it is possible to get them to agree to go on a date.

If you start adding new families to the town and you build a house too close to either one of them, both Jimbo and Mrs. Crumplebottom will try to sabotage your Sims' home. The following actions can happen in this case:

-Eggs thrown at house (by Jimbo or Mrs. Crumplebottom)

-Power cut for 24-72 hrs (by either Jimbo or Mrs. Crumplebottom)

-Mysterious poop on front lawn (by Mrs. Crumplebottom only)

-Mailbox smacked with a bat (by Mrs. Crumplebottom only)

-Tin of beans rocketed onto roof of house and explodes (by Jimbo only)

[rhyme-thinks-stuff]

Fractured Life: A Life Series Crossover AU

(I've had this post in my drafts for almost a month now, hopefully it makes sense! i put a lot of work into it)

An AU where I put characters from my various different fandom interests into a Life Series game and shake them about >:]

Features characters from Homestuck, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Legend of Zelda Tears of The Kingdom, Hollow Knight, and all the regular Life Series members, with a total of 44 players. I might add more if I feel like it, Hades and ATLA are especially tempting me, but then that might me too many characters.

This AU is mainly just a concept/outline for now, a little sandbox I can think about and play around in. It's ment to be self indulgent and fun. I've made a whole lot of notes and a few bits of drabbles and oneshots, a bit of art, and a Minecraft World!

Below is an explanation of the rules of the game, a complete list of characters, art I've made, screenshots of the Minecraft world, and some extra ramblings about it.

RULES

Fractured Life has the same basic rules of any Life Series, with some bits of added worldbuilding for the story. This season's gimmick is that it's a mix of every other season, both in the rules of the game and the world itself.

Backround Setting

Players don't choose to be in the games.

Players are sent signs a couple weeks before a game starts, generally in dreams.

Players have all their memories intact when they start their first game but they may grow foggy over time.

When a player loses their last life, they're made a spectator ghost until the end of the game.

Ghosts cannot talk to living players (most of the time) but can talk to each other.

All players are sent home at the end of the games.

Basics

Limited amount of lives

Lose enough lives and you turn red, and hostile

You're out when you lose your last life

You can give another player one of your lives

Each session some of the players will be boogeymen, and will have to kill another player or be sent straight to red

Each player has a “Path” that gives them additional mechanics they have to use to play the game

Each session is 72 hours long, with 24 hours off time in between 

During the break players aren't allowed to kill each other, and timers are paused

Each character is assigned a “Path” which determines which past game’s mechanics they use. Last Life mechanics are spread across each, most players use mechanics from Double, Limited, or Secret Life in addition to this. Winners get the same mechanics they had in the game they won.

Limited

Each Limited player has 864 hours to live (1 canon hr = 36 AU hours)

Normal deaths take off 36 hours

Boogey deaths take off 72 hours

Normal kills give 18 hours

Bogey kills give 36 hours

576+ hours = green

576-288 hours = yellow

under 288 = red

36 hours = 1 life (for trades)

Limited yellow lives can kill green lives of any path

Double

Double players each have a soulmate, with whom health and lives are shared

Boogey consequences are shared but only one player has the curse

A Double player doesn't need permission from their soulbound to trade lives away

Secret

30 hearts as usual

trading lives doesn't change heart amount

regular rewards and penalties

Secret Keeper is in a more hidden location

Red lives are given 1 task to harm someone each session and gain 10 hearts from completing it

Reds may attack players outside of their task, and get hearts from kills

3rd

starts with 3 lives, cannot interact with any extra mechanics

CHARACTER LIST

There's 44 players total in Fractured Life! The total cast of the Life Series is 18 people, it's a bit more than doubled because I couldn't bring myself to cut anyone, and I might add more if the whim takes me. I'm probably not going to come up with full stories for each and every one of them, but I want them here in my sandbox anyways.

Life Series OGs

Grian

Scott

Pearl

Martyn

Scar

Gem

Jimmy

Mumbo

Lizzie

Cleo

Etho

Bdubs

Joel

Rendog

BigB

Tango

Skizz

Impulse

MLP

Twilight

Pinkie Pie

Rarity

Apple Jack

Rainbow Dash

Fluttershy 

TOTK

Link

Zelda

Hollow Knight

Hornet

Quirrel

Hollow

Ghost 

Homestuck 

John

Rose

Dave

Jade

Roxy

Jane

Jake

Dirk

Karkat

Vriska

Kanaya

Terezi 

Nepeta

Feferi

ART

Terezi pushing Quirrel off a cliff because what i even the point of making a crossover AU set in a death game without making characters you like push each other off cliffs. I came up with this idea by choosing two characters at random to write a drabble of an interaction between them, and said interaction ended up being an attempted boogey kill. Quirrel has a sunhat because it'd help keep the sun out of his eyes while he explores, Rarity made it for him!

Another random pairing! Zelda and Applejack's bases are fairly close together, and I think they'd get along pretty well! Zelda has diplomacy skills and AJ has friendship skills. Here Applejack is giving Zelda bread, in the early game before everyone gets stable food sources.

My twin suggested that Fluttershy and Mumbo be soulbound together because it'd be funny. So here they are being disasters together :D

Zelda and Hornet are two of my favorite video game characters ever, the thought of pairing them popped into my head and wouldn't leave so here we are <3

Hornet and Link are soulbound. They agree to team for practical reasons, and then Hornet slowly finds herself caring for both them and Zelda. Meanwhile Zelda is a Limited Player, which means she has a timer ticking down instead of lives. Link and Hornet try to keep her alive for as long as possible.

Bases from this post vvv

I love my silly crossover crackship throuple <33 I think Link and Zelda are in a QPP, Zelda is bi and polyamorous and Link is demiromantic and acespec. Hornet hasn't had much chance to be in a relationship like this before, she's still figuring herself out.

MINECRAFT WORLD SCREENSHOTS

Parts of builds from past games are scattered throughout the new map. I did the replicated bases in creative, and the original ones in survival!

Scar's base was torn out of the ground and put up in the sky which he's a little bit annoyed about since he didn't even move out of it. I spent way too much time on trying to get the path blocks here exactly correct!

I built Pearl's tower first, it was very fun! I had difficulty finding reference for the roof but a Scott thumbnail came through for me.

The Scottage, it's at the edge of a town. This one's pretty unfinished

Desetduo home. It's a bit torn up, not exactly in the same way as in canon though. I think the older builds are somewhat built on memory, rather than being the exact same places just moved to this map.

Original builds time! Here's a bridge I built.

This is where Zelda, Link, and some amount of the HK bugs live. It's dimmed so the bugs have a place to hide from the sun, but still spawnproof.

Aplejack's farm area! I just like making big wheat fields. And I think AJ'd want to make sure no one starves to death, even if they are in a death game.

Side note, I wanted to add more images but hit the limit D:

Bonus ramblings!

If you got this far then thank you, that's very cool!! PLEASE ask me any questions you have I'd be happy to answer them, and feel free to suggest ideas for character interactions and things like that :D

I've been working on this AU in bits and pieces since January.

Planning this AU is what made me finally get around to reading the last half of Homestuck.

It's also a large part of the reason I'm currently rewatching MLP:FIM

I haven't been able to watch anything since this without considering adding the characters to the AU. 

Revolutionary Girl Utena, Delicious in Dungeon, and Avatar TLA have all tempted me with this, however I have 44 characters already I really shouldn't. 

I've also briefly considered adding Genshin and She-Ra characters to this AU but I just don't have much the fixation on either of those right now.

Also considering Hades characters that would be so fun. Hmm. but again 44 characters. I'd have to expand the world border.

I've ended up shipping Zelda TOTK and Hornet HK because of this AU. My idea is that Link and Hornet are soulbound together and Zelda is Limited. Hornet sticks with them for practical reasons at first but ends up bonding with both of them and she and Link try to protect Zelda and keep her in the game as long as they can. 

I think this is a post canon AU for the Homestucks, they're probably in their early twenties. I was originally going to have them still be kids because there's something very funny to me about the idea of the other characters being concerned about the teenagers in this death game only to find out they're all very used to death and carnage, but I decided I'd rather they be a bit closer to the other characters so things are a bit better balanced. 

Also all the trolls survived because I wanted Nepeta and Feferi here. I don't think I'm going to include the other six, because again the cast is large enough, but I might change that later if I get more invested in them all. And then I'd probably also add Calliope because I like her and I might as well! 

The ponies are somewhat humanized, but still have their pony ears, coat colors, tails, hooves, and horns/wings. None of them can fly or do magic.

I've done most of the work on this before Real Life came out, I'm not sure yet if I'll find some way to work it in or just say it happens afterwards.

it took me a couple hours to write this post.

I have 37 separate documents for this au in a folder, including it one I used to write this post in.

I have 15,000 words worth of notes and planning

in addition to notes I have ~6000 words worth of drabbles and one shots, and bits of a possible first chapter from Twilight's POV

this post is ~1500 words long and I think I spent over 6 hours putting it together somehow!

[not-allow3d]

Not eating anything in 72 hours! Only water and some fresh mints gum.

I will update half way through.

Update: 57 hrs 21 mins left. I studied and drank alot of water, and take a long nap. After the 3 hr nap i was hungry so i watch some mukbang and my appetite was sort of gone but now im hungry again, trying my best x

Update: 35hr 50mins. If im being honest, I ate 3 pieces of bread and after 30min I purged until I couldn't feel my throat. I understood tht to not eat anything, i have to buy this med called caffeine. Please recommend something to drink tht doesn't really have tht much calories <3 After purging i still felt guilty, i dont sh anymore coz there's nothing left to cut anymore. Love ya x

Update: I ate. The cycle where u think "just a little, it wont even count". It is gonna count. And then you eat and eat until you realize you binged more than you should and cry like a baby for 5 hrs and punch urself so hard tht bruises takes place near your eyes, you try to purge but you cried too long tht it wont even come out. Im fucking tired, my throat feels numb. One more cut to go.

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[anxiouspregnantlady]

oct 25th - hello

i needed a space to write in and this fit the bill - abandoned, moody, anonymous. obnoxiously public, intensely private.

we're going again. trying to go again. it's been a bit of a crazy shitshow thus far.

july - random trying, weird cycles, lots of dental stuff.

august - appointment with fertility clinic. traveling. ovulated on the plane, of course.

september - monitored cycle. disc in neck popped out from sneezing, full body immobilization & 7/10 pain for 72 hrs; the worst vertigo attack i've had; body had wimpy ovulation or didn't ovulate. had planned an IUI but found out insurance denied the authorization. purchased ovidrel but never got to use it.

and then k got fired and we found out were gonna lose our nice health insurance.

october. period took ages to come, body figuring itself out. but it came. we have health insurance until end of month, so manifesting that i will ovulate by end of month for one last chance at a cycle with the clinic, even though they can't do an IUI (STUPID INSURANCE. I'M OBVIOUSLY INFERTILE). WE ARE ALL SICK WITH A COLD. AND MISERABLE. i'm thinking there's no way i'll ovulate. had monitoring appointment scheduled for CD13 which was this friday 10/27 (cutting it close!). tuesday (yesterday), i had a feeling i was going to ovulate earlier than friday... this morning (wednesday) i had a positive LH test so I asked the clinic to let me come today. follicle was 20mm, estrogen /lh were high so they told me to trigger and so that's what I did just now at 11:40am in between clients.

the crazy thing is today is only day 11. i typically don't ovulate for another several days. so, thank you, body.

this has overall been a crazy month.

i gave myself a haircut (first time in nearly a year)

i naturalized & became american

k finally, FINALLY got his canadian pr approved

adjusting to k being unemployed

the thing is... thing morning at breakfast p was being ballistic for no apparent reason & so so so sad and dysregulated (not tantruming, but genuinely distraught) until we got her some nai huang bao and calmed her lil nervous system and i think to myself, really????? really???? really i want to do another one???? she ATE MY WAFFLE. but she is also pure wonder and miracle & So Ready to be a big sister. when she was one i didn't know how she'd be at two...wasn't sure how her language/ability to understand things would be. but at two she blows me away with her emotional/relational perceptiveness, her deep nurture for smaller babies (that sometimes needs slight redirecting but is otherwise very lovely), her MEMORY! and attention to detail, her overall personhood, which is very, er, ROBUST.

anyway, i'll be disappointed if we aren't able to become pregnant by end of year, but also won't be too surprised. it's different this time... and i'm also different. i'm more able to understand & trust that this WILL happen, and that the part of me that feels frantic and impatient is because i'm looking around at other people. and if parenting has taught me anything it's that info about what other ppl are doing is largely useless.

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"Hold/held" for the WIP Ask game please!

[cw: drowning] i TRIED to find something that wasn't this, uh, baldly angst-ridden, but apparently i am just not in a hold-y kind of mood recently? anyway. from nightshadefic (aka the supremely self-indulgent strickler biofic i’m noodling on recently): 

He tries to hold his breath, for all the good it'll do him. He knows he's sinking. He knows he's going to die, but everything aches, and his lungs are burning. Wouldn't it be easier, to just give up? To just let go, to let the water take him? The first breath of water comes almost as a surprise; unpleasant, bitter, burning like the dose of azoth they're given every morning—

he...baby :’)c

[brassandblue]

Family death talk below the cut.

Grams’ cancer spread to her bones a few weeks ago. 

Got a text from my brothers saying our mom called them to tell them Grams fell ill, and the hospice nurse came (Grams lives with our mom, with whom I am estranged) that Grams has about 72 hours to live.

Since I can’t get off work, Joey (oldest, lives 4-5 hours up north) is headed there. Grams lives about 4 hrs away from me, northwest. Jamie, middle brother (lives down the road) is a nurse and will try to get off work to see her. I asked them both to keep me in the loop so maybe I can FaceTime her. I called Dad this morning to let him know what’s going on.

She practically raised me while dad was at work keeping food on the table and mom was off being fucking nuts.

She just turned 94, and I know she’s ready to go.

I know this probably sounds mechanical but I’m just trying to keep my head on straight until the weekend.

Prayers, vibes, anything you have, I’d be very very grateful for.

[bitchassbucky]

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Word Count: 2k

Warning/s: toxic/abusive relationship dynamics, gaslighting and manipulation, abduction, injuries were mentioned, stalking, dark!bucky x dark!reader, emotionally/mentally unstable!reader, dismemberment (not gore-y but still), three very special character mentions, shady corporate stuff, career sabotage?, food mention, sedation/drugging, f-words.

A/N: oh my god, this is the final chapter of CTRL. to all who read from the start, thank y'all so fucking much - from the bottom of my big-ass heart, thank you so much for coming along with this journey. this is my first FINISHED series, oh my god. to @babyboibucky (CTRL's number one fan), @sarge-barnes-sir, and @borikenlove thank you so much for indulging my inner degenerate GHJSDFG and for screaming (affectionately) at me when i first let y'all read the finished draft.

BUT THIS IS NOT THE END (just yet), i will be uploading TWO epilogues very soon: the explicit version and the not-so-explicit version. stay tuned!

follow the CTRL series:

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ii - .avi

iii - .raw

iv - .png

v - .zip

epilogue:

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CTRL playlist CTRL moodboard

Your demeanor, character, even tone, changed.

Calculated, cold, unnerving.

But you sat there like a housewife in front of her husband, eating spaghetti and meatballs. Acting all dandy like there isn’t a man strapped onto the chair four feet away from you.

“C’mon, darling, eat! I made your favorite,” your eyes twinkled as Bucky helplessly tugged on his restraints, “oh, sorry, you’re tied up.”

Hm, sick in the head, bad for the heart.

“What do you want?” Oh, wow, even talking hurts for him. His throat is all dried up, he tasted something bitter under his tongue.

You chuckled, moving half a meatball around your mostly empty plate, “for you to stop treating me like I’m stupid.” You spear the meat with your fork, swirling it in the sauce, “I know you’ve been… checking in on me, Bucky.”

Oh, fuck.

“Look, I’m sorry, okay? I was-- I mean, look at you--” He’s making it worse. You’re mad. You’re angry because he was being a good friend.

He only did that because you were lonely and he’s right: you are lonely.

So lonely that you’re willing to kidnap a grown man to keep you company, “I’m so sad for you.”

“You’re aware you’re the one’s been tied up, right?” You’re curt as you should be, scooting over near Bucky to feed him.

“I can’t eat that—” If he wasn’t sitting down and tied, Bucky would’ve vaulted over you and called the neighbors, she’s fucking crazy!

You giggled, rolling your eyes as if he had the freedom to make a choice right now, “if you’re thinking of screaming… More than half of my neighbors are felons or on parole, I doubt that they’ll call 911.”

Jutting forward the fork, you let the prongs gently touch Bucky’s lips, “now, eat! We have so much to talk about.”

“No. I don’t-- I’m not hungry.” He shakes his head, the fork hitting his chin and clanking down the floor.

“Just eat the fucking food, Steve!”

Bucky flinched at your sudden outburst. The words—the name—seeping in a moment later. Steve? Who the hell is Steve? Was he your husband? Boyfriend? His head throbbed again, his mouth filling with saliva like he’s about to throw up.

You kneel down, pulling a napkin from the table to wipe the meat and the sauce from the floor.

“This better not stain.”

—

He promised thrice.

Once over pasta and meatballs, once over dessert, and once when you were clearing the table.

You relented, of course. Half because you love him and half because it’s getting annoying.

“As long as you don’t leave me, okay?”

“Yes, I promise. I won’t leave you.”

Bucky’s still seating on the dinner chair, slightly slumped without the ropes holding him up, “look, I’m really sorry about the anesthetic, I went overboard with it.” You look over to him—at least he’s regaining his fingers and arms again.

“It’s okay, babe, I wouldn’t trust me either.” If he could stand up, he’d go over and hug you. Helping with the dishes, peppering you with sweet kisses.

A genuine laugh slips out of your lips, “ugh, still… I’m really sorry.”

The last of the plates were neatly stacked, cups and cutleries were placed gently on a drying rack. It was getting late, you could tell.

“I’m not mad, by the way.” You muse, prompting Bucky to lean forward, listening to you.

“What do you mean?” He takes your hand into his, ever so gently.

“You did that,” you squeeze his hand back, gazing into his soulful eyes, “because you love me.”

Did you know that some people could read microexpressions well? Bucky went through a whole lot of them before answering, “of course, I do.”

Contemplating whether you call him out on it or not, you hum, placing a gentle hand on his jaw, “it’s okay, you’ll learn how to love me.”

He has to. He has no other choice.

Bucky clears his throat, “have you seen my phone?” His tone was hopeful, upbeat, maybe he can reach out to someone, anyone, before you can do any more damage.

“Yeah, ‘s on the couch.”

He tried to move, he really did. Bucky’s fairly strong, he can bench an easy 140 on a good day. But even the beefiest motherfuckers have no match for Propofol.

“Don’t worry about your friends, they’re not worried about you, Buck.” The coolness of your tone sends Bucky into a panic—again. “D’you wanna check your messages though? There’s a lot of ‘em.”

Grabbing his phone, you asked Siri to read him his latest notifications.

Urgent: Notice of Immediate Termination

From Joaquin: Where are you, man?

From John W.: Do you have copies?

Urgent: Notice of Immediate Termination

Urgent: Gross Misconduct

From Joaquin: Bucky, what the fuck?

From Samuel Wilson: Pick up the phone, Barnes. You’re fired.

17 missed calls from an unknown number

From John W.: I knew you were a freak but holy shit, dude!

72 text messages from an unknown number

Bucky never really liked horror movies. It made him jumpy and anxious. Too paranoid, even. But now? Now he’s sure that people have never experienced sheer fright before.

His toes cramped inside his boots, his feet were cold, sweating. The little hairs on his legs stood up, goosebumps littering the entirety of his body. If he held his breath, he’s sure he could hear his heart hammering out of his chest. The blood rushes past his ears and onto the base of his skull—he’s gonna be sick.

“What,” he gulped back the saliva pooling in his mouth, “what did you do?”

You’re irritatingly calm, “well, I mean… We’re already together, what do you need those for, right?”

Putting a warm hand over his forehead, you cooed, “poor thing, you look sick.”

—

Bucky thinks it’s well past midnight when the anesthetic wore off.

His limbs were heavy, he had to lean on the wall every couple of steps to regain his balance. Helpless. He’s helpless and you both know it. As if it’s a bear trap, Bucky carefully took his phone from the coffee table.

Why would you leave it unattended?

The screen lights up as soon as he picked up, his lock screen littered with ‘fuck yous’, ‘sicko’, and his personal favorite, ‘motherfucker.’

Ignoring the glaring messages, he went straight for the emergency dialler and—you took out his SIM card, snapping it into two neat pieces, placing it beside the phone.

Bitch.

The golden surface of the card was scratched too, he can’t do anything, use it as a toothpick, maybe? His phone was just as good as a paperweight.

He looks out of the window, limping towards it. Even if he could climb over, it would take him forever to get onto the street. Your neighbors would probably think that he’s just on a bad trip.

“It’s bolted shut. Perks of living alone as a single female.” Your voice made him flinch back, like a kid whose hand was halfway down the cookie jar.

Bucky plays it off with a cough, he can’t be weak now, “no, babe, I was checking out a noise. You ready for bed?”

You smiled softly, taking his hand and draping his arm on your shoulders as you prop him against you, “almost, big guy. Gotta get you settled in bed first. Are you tired?”

Nodding, Bucky kisses your temple, “yeah.” He just needs to play with your sick little games until he regains his strength.

Where would he go? His reputation and his job are besmirched, his apartment is probably crawling with forensics too.

“You fell down and banged your head earlier. Nasty cut on your head too. I told you to not tire yourself much.”

You hit and drugged me but I digress, “Yes, darling. ‘M sorry.”

“You scared me, Buck. I thought you were dead.” Are these tears forming in your eyes?

“I’m not leaving you, not by any chance. I promise.”

He promises a fourth time.

—

Your bedroom was bigger than he thought. But of course, he only saw your desk and your bed through the webcam.

Save from the Ted Bundy-esque corkboard you have in front of your workspace, he feels weirdly at home. You tucked him in, reminding him to wake up every two hours for the painkillers.

“You’re not going to bed?” He muses from behind you, all cocooned in your blankets.

“Just need to take this phone call real quick, babe.” Your back was turned from him as you work on your company laptop. He noticed that the webcam is covered with white tape.

The sound of an incoming call filled the room before you quickly answer it, your voice turning hoarse and raspy as if you’ve been crying.

Hi, Mr. Wilson. I’m so sorry for the late call. Do I- do I need to come in tomorrow? I just... I don’t feel comfortable facing everyone—I used all my home hours this week and—

Miss L/N, I’m glad you reached out to me. Is it okay if I record this call for security purposes? It’s just for you, me, and the HR department.

You turned to Bucky, your face is stone-cold but your voice belonged to someone so utterly helpless.

No, you don’t have to call into work tomorrow… Or any other day.

A dainty gasp and a fucking sob comes out of your mouth, your eyes were telling a different story.

Am I fired?

God, no. Please, Miss L/N, don’t worry about that. We want you with us through this entire debacle. We want you to take some time off—paid. We’ll also grant you… a grievance package.

You could almost hear what he would say next.

As long as you don’t talk to any members of the press or any journalists until our friends in the PR department can clean this up.

A triumphant smile creeps on your bare features, putting a finger in front of your lips, you mimic a ‘shh’ gesture to Bucky.

You round up another mirthless sob as the CEO drones on about the bureaucracy of this whole thing.

He was really nice to me, you know? He took me out on dinners and lunches. He even brought me to his place and I– nothing happened but I can’t stop thinking about it.

I’m really sorry, Miss L/N. I thought he was…

A good guy? I really thought so too.

Please stay offline for a bit, just for the weekend, alright? Someone from the HR department will be in touch with you for the process. We don’t wanna be a hassle more than what Barnes is. On our behalf, please accept our deepest apologies.

Jesus, this guy had the PR department cook up an apology letter.

Thank you—thank you so much, Mr. Wilson. I’ll keep in touch.

You burst out in laughter a second after the call ended. Hearty laughter, the one where you can feel your belly tightening.

“Did you hear how good I was, baby? Oh my god, we had them fooled.”

We? Fuck your ‘we.’

You slide over the covers, propping up yourself with your elbow as you turn to face Bucky, “don’t worry, you don’t need them anymore. You have me, yeah? We have each other.”

—

Out of the most bizarre things that happened to him last week, finding dismembered fingers in the fridge was the least of his concerns.

“Honey!” Bucky calls out, holding the ziplock bag with a pair of tongs.

You bound down the stairs, your laptop in hand as you squint, “what am I looking at?”

Bucky hesitated, maybe he’s going insane too, “fingers. Dismembered fingers—are these yours?”

Setting down the laptop onto the table, you peck him on the cheek, smiling as if him holding a baggie with human remains is just your Sunday normal, “god, I hope not. I need my hands to do things.”

As soon as you look back at him, you dropped the facade: “those are Steve’s. Well, used to be.”

Bucky’s afraid to ask the question where’s the rest of him?

“You know the term pinky promise, right? Well, it has a dark origin.”

Just as fast as a bustling train, Bucky rakes his brain for all the times he promised you something. Hoping that he won’t end up with a stump for a hand.

One vividly bright memory is seared into his brain though, the days blurred together with sharp edges and mismatched colors: we love how we were taught to love.

So, who taught you how to love like this?

[temporoyales]

I got tagged in two get-to-know-me memes from @ooowyn!

Text below cut:

🎵 first 10 shuffled songs 🎵

Pride of a Nameless Hunter - Monster Hunter World

Waiting for Love- Avicii

Bad Cinderella- Andrew Lloyd Webber

Code Vein

The Top- Ken Blast

Forever Young- Symbol

Daughter of the Dark God- Octopath Traveler

I See Fire- Ed Sheeran

The Maker’s Ruin- Final Fantasy XIV

This is Gospel- Panic! At the Disco

30 Questions

1. name or nickname: deb

2. gender: no <3

3. star sign pisces

4. height: 5′1

5. time: EST

6. bday: nope

7. fav band(s): fall out boy im sorry idk any other bands

8. fav solo artist(s): nope

9. song stuck in your head: one hour long relaxing animal crossing music

10. last movie: The Two Towers (watched this together with friends in a discord call!)

11. last show: the mandalorian season 1 (mando my beloved)

12. when did i create this blog: haha. this was a hoarded url from around 2016 so yeah, it’s that old. my original one is turning 10 this year.

13. what do i post:  my extremely self indulgent art! it’s originally meant to be used as an archive for my LOTR/Hobbit works. also for reblogging other artworks I like and funny memes

14. last thing i googled: freezer tickets monster hunter world

15. other blogs: too freaking many. my main is @andurile​ but it hasn’t been updated in almost two years

16. do i get asks: yes! most of them are for art requests... i’ve got to get to work on them ._.

17. why i chose my url: extremely obscure but it used to be the name of one of the best melee form mods in warframe and went for a very high price. idk anything about the game now this was years ago 

18. following: 32 blogs !

19. followers: 72 (hello…………)

20. avg hrs of sleep: around 8-9 hours

21. lucky no.: 15

22. instruments: i was a professional pianist and played in orchestras with the violin! I quit though

23. what i’m wearing: hoodie

24. dream job: artist and teacher (scored half of them irl)

25. dream trip: going back to Japan and exploring it at my leisure

26. fave food: my mum’s cooking <3

27. nationality: none

28. fav song: the OST of Your Name rn

30. top 3 fictional universes i wanna live in: none

[excitedlysuffering]

Quarantine Headcanons: Akatsuki Edition

I didn’t add Zetsu and Tobi cuz I don’t really know much about them🥴 anyways hope you enjoy this midnight post❤️

Pein~

• Oh, he’s ready to cry

• Even though he’s always holed up in his office anyways, all the members of his organization are not usually under the same roof

• After three days he’s seriously contemplating killing the whole group and starting fresh with a less chaotic group

• Thank Jashin for Konan

• He gets his work done a lot sooner since he has no meetings or missions to distract him

• Probably ends up with a few new piercings just cuz he’s that bored

• He loses count how many times he redoes his nails, just for some sort of stimulation

• Not like any disease could kill him so what’s the point of this again??

• Overall, his coping skills are practically non-existent

Konan~

• She’s not overly upset

• She knows how to avoid the stifling testosterone and put an end to conflict

• She bakes a lot at first to pass the time and learn something new

• That only lasts a little over a week before she gets bored (much to everyone’s dismay)

• Does TONS of origami

• Takes the time to learn extremely advanced designs she’d always been too busy for

• A lot of time spent with relaxing with Pein

• She kinda gives up on her nails for the time being

• No one’s going to marvel at them before they die, so what’s the point?

• She is okay with the quarantine but does struggle a little

Itachi~

• He’s worried

• He already has a respiratory disease, he does not need another one

• He plans on dying because of Sasuke, not some hyped up flu

• Is extremely careful

• Masks, gloves, sanitizer, and Lysol everywhere

• Germaphobe™

• If he can, he’ll stay in his room as much as possible

• That one stickler that is like “dId YoU wAsH yOuR hAnDs?”

• He’s usually so calm and collected, but he turns into a frantic hoarder

• Food, toilet paper, and everything he could need all in his room

• Did someone just cough twice?

• That person wakes up in an isolated room where they are locked in for 72 hrs

• His nails go to crap cause he bites them incessantly nowadays

• Poor Itachi is just miserable the whole time

Kisame~

• He has a healthy level of fear

• He’s not going to town every day and exposing himself to it, but he won’t stay completely isolated like his partner

• Really doesn’t care for everyone’s over the top reactions

• He realllyyyy hates being surrounded by all the conflicts amongst the team

• He def misses Itachi since his partner is literally avoiding everything that breathes

• Has to sneak to feed Samehada using his team’s chakra

• Spends a lot of time at the nearby lake since his spot is open

• Kinda confused what the hype is about

• ‘Most people don’t die, get over it’ type of attitude

• He won’t care and no one can make him care

• Okay, but he’s half-shark are human diseases really a problem for him?

• Kisame is chill is nails stay impeccable

• He’s doing alright

Kakuzu~

• Oh, he’s pissed

• He can’t go on missions and he can’t earn money

• Plus, his dramatic teammates destroying things costing him extra money

• Definitely has a few of Hidan’s body parts laying around

• “If you leave me alone you can have them back”

• At first, he’s okay

• He counts his money all day in self-isolation

• But except for losing money, his finances are stagnant

• He actually gets BORED of counting money. Quarantine is that bad

• He fights Hidan a lot so he can have something to do

• Lots of decapitation

• He makes someone else do his nails he has no patience left

• He copes better than most, but still has a bit of a hard time

Hidan~

• This annoying mofo

• He’s excited

• Spends sooooo much time praying to Jashin

• He tries so hard to convert the others that as soon as they see him they hide

• It only took two days for him to realize it’ll be harder to find sacrifices

• Definitely tries to sacrifice Deidara

• “C’mon, gender-bend, don’t you want to finally be useful?!”

•’He’s not so excited anymore after about a week

• Is more irritable and confrontational

• Being stuck in close confines with someone who likes to decapitate you for weeks tends to do that to a person

• This masochistic boi. He really exposes himself to it

• Wants to feel the pAiN

• This time Itachi cuts him up (full hazmat suit donned ofc)

• He ends up locking himself in his room

• Spends A LOT of time with Jashin because he knows he’s going crazy

• A stir-crazy Hidan is a more dangerous than usual Hidan

• He honestly has whole conversations with EACH INDIVIDUAL NAIL as he paints them

•He is 100% suffering the whole time

Sasori~

• “Wait, we’ve been under quarantine for a week?”

• Sasori is always self quarantined in his room working on puppets and avoiding the idiots he surrounded with

• He’s happy at first

• He literally doesn’t have to leave his room for anything

• That turns to dread real quick

• Deidara gets bored very easily and there are holes in his bedroom walls and destroyed puppets to prove it

• A little bit of poison puts an end to that problem

• No one really sees much of him during the quarantine

• “Hey… I haven’t seen Sasori in like a month. Is he even alive??”

• You know he collects bodies of the shinobi that died for new puppets

• He’s not scared in the slightest

• He doesn’t have a respiratory system so no worries there

• His nails are probably a new color everyday despite the fact that no one ever sees them

• Oh Sasori is thriving and surviving like nobodies businessss

Deidara~

• Ha! qUaRaNtInE!

• If Deidara wants to leave the base, you’d best believe he will leave the base sauntering out like a true diva

• No one wants to stop him tho

• Deidara doesn’t give two flying fricks if he’s inside or not, he will make ART

• Oh he’s extra chaotic

• Pranks 24/7

• Almost scares Itachi to death waltzing into his room coughing like he’s about to die

• Sasori realizes his puppets are going missing one by one and his poison is… juice?

• Deidara goes missing too

• Pein literally makes him leave for a week

• He destroyed a city so he’s back now

• He literally doesn’t care

• He’s a teen, no flu will kill him

• Goes out of his way to cause trouble

• Until he sees how actually panicked some of his teammates are

• He actually helps out, buying supplies and running a few errands here and there

• Actually takes time to decorate his nails. Explosions painted on and everything

• He’s two steps away from a bedazzled straight jacket and a padded room by the time this is over

[mrgan]

Burger Buns

Have you had a “hamburger” before? It’s like a meat “patty” on a pillowy, soft bun. They’re pretty interesting sandwiches!! But seriously, folks—this bun recipe is so nice and simple, you’re going to forget that the store ones are like $2 for an 8-pack. Let’s get started.

Neven’s Burger Buns

Servings: 8 Time: 15 min mix + 3.5 hr proof + 20 min bake + 20 min cool

INGREDIENTS

200 g all-purpose flour

250 g high-gluten (bread) flour, or more APF

8 g salt

20 g sugar

7 g (one package) instant yeast

125 g lukewarm water

115 g milk

1 egg

45 g butter, at room temp

More info about the ingredients follows after the recipe.

DIRECTIONS

In the bowl of your stand mixer, stir together the flours, salt, sugar, and yeast. Add the water, milk, and egg, but not the butter. Attach the bowl to the mixer equipped with the dough hook attachment. Start the mixer on the lowest speed and mix for 2 minutes, then stop and scrape down the sides, releasing the dough ball from the dough hook. Go up to the next higher speed, and start adding the butter in small pads—toss one in, wait for it to get fully mixed in and no longer visible, then add more. This may take 3-5 minutes. When all the butter is added in, go one speed higher on the mixer again and mix for another 2 minutes. The dough will be smooth, stretchy and a little sticky.

Transfer the dough to another, large, lightly oiled bowl (I like a wider, shallower container for this) and cover. Leave on the counter for 2 hours; it will need a little less time on a very hot day.

Once the dough looks smoothly inflated and doubled in size, move it to a work surface (a clean workbench or a cutting board). Use a bench scraper or knife to cut the dough into ~108 g balls. Shape each into a ball by pulling the sides towards the middle and pinching together, then flip it over and roll on the counter to form a smooth top and a bottom sealed together by rolling. (This video of pizza-ball shaping will be instructive.) Place these balls on a half-sheet pan (18″ x 13″) and cover with a clean, non-terry towel. Rest for 60-90 minutes.

30 minutes before the second proof is done, preheat your oven to 425ºF with a rack in the top third. 

When the buns looks very large and puffy, uncover them carefully. From this point on, don’t poke or move them; they’re filled with gas and we want to keep them that way. All that’s left is to egg-wash them. Beat one egg, then gently brush some onto each bun. Go for even coverage in as thin a layer as you can manage.

If you’d like to add toppings at this point, go ahead. Sesame seeds, poppy seeds, onion—the sky’s the limit.

Pop the sheet pan into the oven and set a timer for 15 minutes. Rotate the pan after 7-8 minutes. At the end, check that the buns are large, golden, and irresistibly shiny; you may have to add another 2-5 minutes to the bake, or not.

Move each bun carefully to a cooling rack and let them fully cool, at least 20 minutes. They’re now ready to use or store for a day or two. They also freeze beautifully and thaw out on the counter overnight just fine.

Ideally, griddle them in butter before using for a sandwich. 

I refuse to discuss what you do with the rest of your burger because I don’t want Internet drama.

HELPFUL INFORMATION YOU MAY ASSUME IS SPONSORED CONTENT AT THE BOTTOM OF THE POST BUT IT’S NOT, IT’S REALLY NOT

What’s with the high-gluten flour? This is the baker’s “secret,” a flour that gives you that strong, chewy crumb bakeries achieve. You likely won’t find anything labeled “high-gluten flour” in stores. You could buy “bread flour” there, or shop at your local restaurant-supply store! Like you’re a restaurant!

My favorite commercial yeast is Saf-Instant brand. Buy a big thing of it and keep it in the freezer; use straight out of the freezer. By the way, that restaurant-supply store will likely carry it.

Can you make this without a stand mixer? Hm maaaaybe, but it’s going to take a solid 30 minutes of hand-kneading. See, this is an enriched dough, meaning it contains things like milk and eggs. To get those really integrated into the final mix, you need to knead a lot. The dough should be utterly smooth by the end, with the butter fully incorporated. It’s doable, though—I believe in you!

When proofing, you can use a towel, or one of these sweet proofing bags. 

For sliders, shape twelve buns, ~72 g each. Or if you’d like 12 burger buns, 1.5x the recipe, but watch out when spacing them on the half sheet pan. Or use a Big Sheet!

I’ve successfully replaced the milk in this recipe with buttermilk for a tangier taste.

[a-student-out-of-time]

ASOOT Timeline: October 2012 (A Brief History of Divine Luck)

Hello, October! This day was running very long, so I decided to split it into two parts in order to have more consistent updates. The same will probably be true for October 2, because raid.–Timeline Anon

October 1:

Mahiru and Honami have found Misako, Tenmei, and Harumi, who they bring to a Quantum Crew meeting. The three old friends reunite. Kasugano (actually Nikei covering for Hajime’s absence) asks for the truth about Kana’s parentage, and it’s explained that Tenmei was the sperm donor for Misako and her husband so that they could have a child. The friends hoped to raise Kana and Chiaki together, but then Misako’s abusive husband forced her to cut contact with the Nanamis. They divorced when Kana was a year old, but Misako hasn’t seen the Nanamis until now. Upon hearing that Maverick lied to Kana in order to pit her and Chiaki against each other, the Nanamis and Misako agree to help the Quantum Crew take him down. Misako will use her programming/hacking skills for the mission, and Harumi can help with first aid.

Kyoji tells Kanade that he reconnected with Miaya and suggests that she go see her to deal with her memory loss. Kanade thanks him for taking care of her and Monaca, and they hug. Miaya will take care of Kanade while Kyoji is away on the island mission.

Kokoro analyzes the footage from the island to try and figure out Maverick’s motives and goals.

Emma is staying at Umeko and Setsuka’s house for the night, and she notices that the time traveler in Shiojiri is moving south towards the island at 72 km/hr. Umeko suspects that this is Maverick’s mysterious backer.

Hajime, Chiaki, and Kana go over the information they have (Kana knows the layout of the hotel, but she hasn’t found out anything about the Alpha Protocol) and plan their next move. They want to talk to the other managers, but first, they meet with Taira. She tells them about the chatroom she found on Maverick’s computer, in which Maverick and his unknown backer talk about where the managers ended up in the Tragedy and mention an “unlucky one” they want to find. The group doesn’t know who the backer is, but they do figure out that the backer seems to be targeting people important to the future. Kana’s confused about all this, but she’s determined to help however she can.

At 5:58 AM, the moving time traveler reaches Yoshida, which is right by the coast. The Quantum Crew, who’s making battle plans, hopes to intercept them at the island.

Iroha calls Makoto to check on him. He’s okay, but he and his family have noticed a person in a long raincoat who seems to be watching his house. Upon hearing this, Sonia speculates that there might be a team of people trying to keep the future on its Tragedy path.

Kyoji has prepared a “contigency” in a small briefcase. He plans to bring it to the island and show it to Maverick once the hostages are out of danger. He claims it’s the key to beating Maverick, but he can’t show it to anyone who is coming on the mission because he needs to be the only one in Maverick’s presence who knows what’s inside. He shows it to Umeko (who is not going on the mission), and she vouches for him. Monaca, who is staying on the boat, also knows what it is.

When the conversation turns to the unknown “unlucky one,” Utsuro is brought up, and Harumi overhears this and shares her Utsuro story with the group. She was working as a nurse at the hospital where Utsuro was born, and as part of his first miracle, she became pregnant with Chiaki, even though she had been told that she was infertile. This makes Chiaki a Child of Utsuro, just like the Voids and Taira. Divine Luck tends to focus around the bearer’s greatest desire (for Maku, Emma, Iroha, Nikei, and Taira, their luck centers around good health, acting, escaping danger, the truth, and finding a home, respectively), and because Chiaki was born because of Divine Luck, Sora determines that her Divine Luck centers around survival. She’s unkillable as long as she doesn’t despair, and that’s why Maverick has been trying to break her spirit. However, for all except Utsuro, Divine Luck will eventually reverse and turn into Divine Misfortune, condemning the bearer to a life of misery (which is why the Voids and Taira have spent so long searching for Utsuro). If this reversal of fortune happens, Maku’s illnesses will return, Emma’s acting career will go down in flames and/or something will happen to her parents and Roger, Iroha’s family will find her again and force her to come back, the police will find out that Nikei killed his parents and arrest him for it, Taira will end up homeless and alone, and Chiaki will quite literally die. The Quantum Crew will wait to tell Chiaki and Hajime about this until the Maverick situation is over.

Kana brings Damian to talk with Hajime and Chiaki, and they tell him that they need to leave the island because Maverick is only using them to hurt Chiaki and will kill them all when he’s done. They show him the evidence as well. Damian is angry at them and hints that he might prefer death to having to go back to his father, but Chiaki tells him that Aiko believes in him and has been crying and worrying about him the whole time he’s gone. This, plus a promise of support from the group, convinces Damian to join their side. He tells them that they need to get into Maverick’s office in order to disable his cloaking device.

Maverick has found a brown hair in his office that doesn’t belong to anyone who’s supposed to be on the island (it’s Taira’s), and he berates Yuki and Kanon for answers. He orders them to find the intruder and forbids Yuki from seeing Kizuna until they do.

Taira lays low and keeps an eye on Kizuna from a distance.

Fuyuhiko has 50 Yakuza members ready for when the Quantum Crew needs them (although Toshiro has said that if things go wrong, the Kuzuryuu Clan can’t help anymore). Everyone is prepared for the mission, except for Nekomaru and Akane, who have yet to arrive. Yoruko calls Chisa to ask about the hold-up, then tells the group that some of them must return to Hope’s Peak.

It takes some convincing, but Kokoro finally agrees to let Mikako and Yamato go on the mission as long as they stay out of the line of fire.

//Reading these makes me realize just how much has happened in just the last four months for these people ^^;