#ALL 108 OF 'EM

[rillils]

what do you think our boys are doing on this special special day

honey!!!!! ILY💕 but also you caught me on a really low-battery kinda night, so this is the best i could do, but. BUT.

i think steve has plans. i think he wants today to be about self-indulgence first and foremost, and the most self-indulgent thing steve can think of doing, is spoiling bucky rotten since the moment bucky opens his eyes.

i'll tell ya what, i think bucky's getting breakfast in bed.

i think the first thing he's gonna see when he blinks his sleep-sticky eyes open is steve, not next to him in bed as he expected him to be, but carefully backing into the bedroom to hold the door open.

steve's almost bashful grin, blond hair still ruffled on top of his head, old t-shirt and pyjama pants riding low his hips - the entire, strapping 220 lbs of his bulk padding awkwardly into the bedroom with a tray of food in his hands: buttered toast, diced fruit, a nice hot cuppa coffee made just how bucky likes it, a tall stack of pancakes with a single candle sitting brightly right on top, steve's hand cupped before the little wobbly flame so it won't be snuffed out before bucky has a chance to see it.

sweetheart, bucky's gonna think, heart feelin' so tender you'd think he'd had it cooking in a crockpot all day long, sweetheart because that's his stevie through and through, and because that's often the first word on bucky's lips in the morning anyways.

i see steve carrying the goodies to the bed while singing 'happy birthday', a little off-key, a little giddy, almost tripping over a couple times 'cause alpine keeps winding her fluffy body around his ankles - she's a domestic hazard, really -

and when he sets the tray down in front of bucky, eyes twinkling with this youthful sort of hope, like a kid about to unwrap his own presents, and asks bucky to "make a wish, buck", his pink lips sweeter than sin, well bucky almost cracks and tells steve his best-guarded secret.

(it's not really a secret, not to either of them, not these days.)

(he don't need to make no wishes.)

(he's already got everything he's ever wanted, and it's right here, in his bed, offering him a smile and a candle to celebrate his life with. offering him the life bucky's finally happy to celebrate. the life they keep building together, adding to it one day at a time.)

i think they end up feeding each other little morsels of breakfast, like say: a slippery slice of strawberry, a piece of nearly-burnt toast dripping with jam, a forkful of pancake soaked in maple syrup. all sweet, all richly decadent. i don't think they end up eating a lot though, not right away.

they reach for each other, fingers nice an' sticky, lips shiny with butter and syrup, and somehow steve's slipping back under the duvet, nestling low, low between bucky's thighs,

and bucky's toes are curling, his whole body sweet, warmed by steve's mouth, arching into steve's kisses, his fingers licked clean by steve's searing tongue, and it's a good job steve doesn't mind getting his hair tugged on a little, bucky thinks a tad wildly - because when steve scoops some syrup off of the plate with his fingertip, and trails it languidly down the length of bucky's flushed cock just to lap it up with the flat of his tongue, bucky isn't sure he knows how to control his hands anymore.

[multigenderswag]

Multigender Survey Results Dec 2023: Language (part 1)

Number of pronouns 

Participants were asked “How many sets of pronouns do you use?” (single selection) and participants whose pronouns differed depending on slightly were asked to answer what they used most often. The options provided were: 

No pronouns: 2 (0.3%)

1 set of pronouns: 69 (9.3%) (nice)

2 sets of pronouns: 197 (26.5%)

3 sets of pronouns: 131 (17.6%)

4 sets of pronouns: 58 (7.8%)

5+ sets of pronouns: 98 (13.2%)

All pronouns: 72 (9.7%)

It changes regularly: 78 (10.5%)

Questioning: 38 (5.1%)

Number of pronouns vs number of genders

Participants’ answers to “How many sets of pronouns do you use?” and “How many genders do you identify as?” were compared and sorted into the following categories:

Number of pronouns is the same as the number of genders (for example, two genders and us two sets of pronouns): 109 (14.7%)

Number of pronouns is less than the number of genders (for example, all genders and one set of pronouns): 47 (6.3%)

Number of pronouns is more than the number of genders (for example, three genders and 5+ sets of pronouns): 56 (7.5%)

Number of pronouns and/or number of genders were non-numerical answers (for example, “I don’t know/I choose not to count them” for number of genders and all pronouns): 531 (71.5%)

Multiple pronouns

Participants were asked “If you use multiple pronouns, do you prefer that people use all of your pronouns interchangeably?” (single selection). The options provided were: 

Yes, and it is misgendering if they don’t: 81 (10.9% of participants overall, 11.8% of participants who use multiple pronouns)

Yes, but I don’t mind if they stick to one set: 366 (49.3% of participants overall, 53.2% of participants who use multiple pronouns)

No, I prefer that people stick to one set: 47 (6.3% of participants overall, 6.8% of participants who use multiple pronouns)

I don’t have a preference: 126 (17.0% of participants overall, 18.3% of participants who use multiple pronouns)

I don’t use multiple pronouns: 55 (7.4%)

There was also an “other” option in which participants could write in their answer. Written in answers were divided into the following categories:

It depends on context: 19 (2.6% of participants overall, 2.8% of participants who use multiple pronouns)

It depends on the pronouns (for example, using he/him and she/her interchangeably is preferred, using just he/him is okay, using just she/her is considered misgendering): 18 (2.4% of participants overall, 2.6% of participants who use multiple pronouns)

Preferences change frequently: 13 (1.7% of participants overall, 1.9% of participants who use multiple pronouns)

Yes, and I don’t like it if people stick to one set, but I don’t consider it misgendering: 11 (1.5% of participants overall, 1.6% of participants who use multiple pronouns)

Other: 7 (0.9% of participants overall, 1.0% of participants who use multiple pronouns)

Most common pronouns

Participants were asked “What pronouns do you use?” (multiple selection). For participants who only used a given set of pronouns sometimes, they were asked to select those pronouns for this question. The options provided were: 

He/him: 565 (76.0%)

She/her: 380 (51.1%)

They/them: 422 (56.8%)

It/its: 275 (37.0%)

Xe/xem: 199 (16.0%)

Fae/faer: 66 (8.9%)

Ey/em: 66 (8.9%)

Ze/hir: 52 (7.0%)

Ze/zir: 59 (7.9%)

Ae/aer: 53 (7.1%)

E/em: 53 (7.1%)

Ce/cer: 22 (3.0%)

No pronouns: 69 (9.3%)

Any/all pronouns: 135 (18.2%)

Any/all neos: 124 (16.6%)

Additionally, there was an “other” option in which participants could write in pronouns. With the given and written in pronouns combined, a total of 171 unique subject pronouns were used. 

Honorifics

Participants were asked “Which of these honorifics would you want to be referred to with?” (multiple selection). The options provided were: 

Ind.: 40 (5.4%)

Lady: 14 (1.9%)

M.: 151 (20.3%)

Masteress: 33 (4.4%)

Miss/Ms./Mrs.: 165 (22.2%)

Mistrum: 47 (6.3%)

Mr.: 339 (45.6%)

Mx.: 108 (14.5%)

Sir: 328 (44.1%)

Sirlady: 62 (8.3%)

No honorific: 311 (41.9%)

[distant--shadow]

Do you have any favorite imogearne moments you'd like to share? Could be big moments or small moments, anything that stands out to you. Love your art btw!!!

ohhh, off the top of my head? okaaayyy-

Imogen telling fearne to not go to wondering round the back area by herself, fearne pulling a face at her and Imogen being instantly weakened, "she's so charming!" the gay panic is so real

when Imogen looks for the "bubble bead" thinking she has it after laudna asking who does, and in fact fearne had it hidden away under her ear, just love the playfulness that's something Imogen needed/needs so much

on that note, fearne rocking the cable cars, of course.

them bonding over shitty parents and both letting their violent tendencies show

all that bonding over both being ruidis born. period talks and kissing. yes.

when laura/Imogen gets confirmation for the first time that her circlet blocks out all of the background static, and everyone's so happy for her and fearne is all "you don't even know what I'm thinking now" and wiggling her eyebrows and Imogen is like "I can probably guess..."

the two of em rolling Nat 20s to buy smut. my women.

Imogen sharing her apple with fearne whilst they're on their witchy bitch Whitestone mission

"FEARNE. SIT ON ME." "OKAY!"

uhmmm fearne as the leaf sheep sea slug and Imogen fucking losing it at the thought of kissing her/eating her ass once she remembers she is a sea slug, and then feeding her a good berry afterwards caus she feels guilty for siphoning power from a lil guy.

fearne sticking up for Imogen that time ludinus crashed their meeting in the office at the University. the two of them in their chairs interrogation style with fearne being all sassy was 2 much 4 me.

[SPOILERS] just a lot of episode 108, for me, dragon riding goes without saying but also more trauma bonding and looks etc etc. them navigating their feelings on possibly being the vessel and potentially together is actively killing me, fearne ignoring ashtons set up of "I've got my pillow and blanket and I'm heading to the meadow" to instead reach for Imogen and ask for her to dream...

I know I will have forgot some things here, but they're my women. I love their dynamic so much.

(thank you! always happy to read that people like my drawings and also enabling me to chat)

I also have intentions of clipping a bunch of these, life's just been busy!

[pluralasking]

Answers to: Post #108 (System Rules)

[pt: Answers to: Post #108 (System Rules)]

Since these were not posted yet, sorry about that. I hope you enjoy, and that to some, this might be helpful. This is a very long post.

Note that some of these include potentially triggering subjects. Some of these topics include: alcohol, smoking / nikotin, drugs, intrusive thoughts (about inappropriate relationships / feelings), and slurs.

Please read carefully.

- 🌱 Avery

"If you choose to eat it, you must front during the gastrointestinal consequences."

"No birds in the house."

"Check the archive to see how much caffeine we've had today before consuming more caffeine."

"Don't get us arrested without unanimous consent of all frequent fronters."

"Decisions that affect our general wellbeing in major ways should be discussed as a group."

"No matter what skin color, mental disability or any other factor that gives you rights to a slur you should not say that slur if the body isn't allowed to say that."

"No using profanity or crude language outside of headspace but, avoid saying many curses in front of headmates under 14."

"Respect alters boundaries."

"If you are at front and a new alter shows up, please tell them what is going on and help them set up a profile on Plural kit & Simply Plural."

"Anyone our announcers and or gatekeepers have marked off limits , we aren’t allowed to talk to OR we have to be cautious around."

"As a system we have a very high justice system. Not In the way we have trials but in the way we have councilmen for every layer of the system. The rule is to always respect the rules of the overseer in that layer. Not in a dictator or whatever way , just like make sure to keep the place clean and shit."

"If you have a job in headspace you should always make sure it’s something that doesn’t require money (we don’t have such a thing in headspace). If you have a job related to that we just have trades or give stuff away for free."

"If you encounter anyone that’s not the main partner in our partner system , just be safe n ignore em unless they say hi"

"Always go to a higher up if you want a prnscc made or a card or an anything like that."

"Anarchy: no hierarchies, no one is "in charge", no one "owns" the body or life, collaborative, consenting, compassionate."

"Take care of the little."

"Respect our collective friends."

"Avoid damaging the body (e.g. no smoking)"

"Respect each other's beliefs, privacy, and wishes/boundaries. Don't try to disprove everyone you disagree with. Don't go trying to recall other people's memories, or try to watch when they want privacy."

"Maintaining the body + the singletsona are of utmost importance. Follow the pre-set routine as best as possible when involved in front."

"Don't be a dick. Especially do not be a dick to the short list of system friends; they are the trusted few and these relationships are to be preserved. Before engaging in public spaces make sure you know or can otherwise internally access the local etiquette. Do not damage or remove meatspace belongings. Respect closed doors within headspace."

"The external world does not have the same understanding that the internal one does- some things must be hidden for the continued peace and/or online safety of the system. (eg, Fakename1, bi lesbian, should not get involved with identity discourse. Fakename2, a fictive who was considered a grown adult in her source world but is a minor in this one, cannot interact with nsfw spaces/content and express her sexuality without claiming the body's age instead of her own.)"

"We made it a rule to not get apps or make purchases online without consulting others. This is in part to help make sure impulse purchases are less likely, as well as to help give some protection against viruses and such."

"We use Lighthouse, which allows each member to keep their own private journal. We made an agreement that we wouldn't look at anyone else's journal without their express permission, which we don't ask for unless we have to. This is primarily so we don't have to deal with individual passwords, but we've also carried this over onto other sites, such as chatrooms on Simply Plural, which are chats that are meant for us to have private conversations, and no one is allowed to look in a chatroom they aren't a part of unless invited in another channel."

"We decided that we would keep any and all in-system romantic relationships private. We've seen a lot of people being weird about them, and we didn't want to deal with that. We made this rule when two of our members decided to start dating. We've considered extending this rule to *any* in-sys relationship, as we've seen others being weird about even siblings who are siblings in-source, but at the moment it's just romantic relationships we keep private."

"Our main rule is no self-harm that could permanently damage the body, and no putting the body in situations you know are dangerous."

"As an adult system, we do allow our system members to drink, but the rules remind them that the body's tolerance is low. As drugs including weed are illegal where we live, it is against the system rules to have them, or smoke nicotine."

"Follow server rules is another one, which includes a subclause about persecutors not being an asshole to people we like to try to push them away."

"In our system we allow tattoos, piercings, and hair dye, but we ask that system members think about what would look nice on the body rather than just what they want. We kinda view the body as a dress up doll."

"Be kind and considerate to other members and to people outside the system unless necessary / it's to avoid harm to another or ourselves - this includes asking everyone involved with something that happened for permission for sharing details about said thing, especially ones that are more personal to them, not joking about, say, someone's source if they don't want it even mentioned, etc."

"if there are walk-ins asking to join the system (because our system works like that,) we need to make sure everyone consents to them being around, ESPECIALLY people who oppose them / the orgs they're a part of insource (ex: our hsr boothill fictive when considering IPC members, etc.) we can't exactly just disengage if we're uncomfortable, as our ability to hold our mental tongues / walk away from insys conversation is unreliable at best and just useless at worst, so we're extra careful with who we consider part of the system."

"no claiming to be Literally Part of X Culture when we're bodily not. members can, like, unclaim our bodily race / culture if they feel like it - most of us don't resonate with the body's ethnic experience, even if we do live it - but claiming to be say, black when we're actually 100% not black will never be on the table. this also means no joking about other people being X race, no making comments, etc."

"no purposely using slurs / derogatory terms towards other members or other people irl. if we know something is a slur and someone uses it as an insult knowing it's a slur, that's breaking this rule."

"no yelling or screaming / argue quietly and don't be mean about it, even if someone's being stupid. this one actually started as a way to tiptoe around trauma triggers (waves in trauma holder host) but then we realized that this has 100% helped our own conflict resolution skills and made it an actual thing."

"if someone brings up something they want to do and the brain pushes back, it's off the table 100% until further notice. we have autistic PDA so it's not like it's just a preference; we literally can't branch out that much."

"if two people are hanging out alone in front and are not partners, they must call another person to be a "buffer" the moment someone catches intrusive feelings for another, especially if they're siblings and/or if one is an adult and the other is a minor. i know!! this sounds extremely problematic! so some context: sometimes, our OCD will force members to get crushes on other members, especially if the one of them is being hyperfixated on, and it's always with people that cannot date without one or both going to jail. **it's not something we want**; it shows up and goes away at random and everyone involved hates it the entire time, but we have to deal with it anyway so that's why we have this rule. attempts to just. walk away from co-con for the time being and wait it out just don't work because they'll just teleport back, so we call up a buffer (90% of the time one of the people involveds' actual partner, because of course the brain chooses people in existing relationships too) to distract the brain with jangly headmate-shaped keychain."

"No one is allowed to touch alcohol or drugs."

"Do not intentionally do anything to harm self or others."

"Cursing is banned(with exceptions for words we are more comfortable with)."

"Any breaking of the rules will result in a temporary ban from fronting or certain areas of the inner world depending on where the rule breaking took place."

"All other major decisions must be put to a vote"

"Take the meds everyday"

"Respect the headmates' relationships"

"Respect the body"

"Reach out to our partner systems if needed or in danger"

[schnitzelsemmerl]

hiyaaa :3 this is my brainrot version of "legendary" !! if you ever want to use it (doubt anyone wants to) just credit me lmao - contains gen alpha brainrot slang but also some gen z things

it's just me, my gyatt and prime

stuck in fortnite lobby

texting in the discord server you left behind

thinkin' 'bout all these sigmas i'll never get to edge

but oh, i wish i could

so i could get a brawl stars win

'cause i'm stuck with your rizzing

but no clue who you edge

and no idea if you're deleted or a group leader (this makes no sense)

somebody edge me

come and give me a gyatt

if so, then

if i win this round, will i find ya in fortnite?

give me opps and ohio!

give me omegas and betas!

i know battle royale's scary

but i wanna be skibidi!

fight the red flags and livvy haters

the talahons, even rizzlers!

i know battle royale's scary

but i wanna be s-s-s-s-skibidi!

betas in our gooning cave

trying to rizz up my mom

but she's passing on them all

108 old faces of opps who say i can't mog

keep spammin' the chat and it's

gonna break my mewing streak...

'cause they're giving us the ick

dangerous too, i'd fight 'em if i

was half as sigma as you, send me a med kit

come and give me the chug jug

can i do whatever it takes

to keep my mom un-rizzed...?

if so, then

give me opps and ohio!

give me omegas and betas!

i know becoming the rizzler's scary

but i wanna be skibidi!

[kathxrat-01]

MASTERPOST/INDEX!

Hello everyone!!! I'm Wens, but you can call me Cathy! I like drawing, making yippeekayay webtoons and animating!

ART TRADES/COMMISSIONS: [OPEN]

Art trades are always open! Though I might not accept them immediately depending on how busy I am! Commissions are always open! Find me on Vgen, or shoot me a DM!

ART REQUESTS: [CLOSED]

Check out the main post here!

OC INDEX:

Twisted Wonderland:

❊ Ryoko ❊ Pri

About me underneath!

BASIC INFO!: Wow I really don't know how to talk about myself but hey! Here's a couple things you might see me post about!!! I rarely draw fanart for some reason, so you'll most likely only see me draw OC content! Most of them will be from webtoons I'm making with friends (@emi-the-ems,@skriblee-ksk and @m3tr0n0m333), such as Glitch Out! and Your Artificial Image. But I will occasionally post TWST stuff!!!

OCS!: Be prepared to see mainly these characters!

Emma, Kathy, Kali, Kate (All part of the Glitch Out! universe!)

Catherine, Enju, Enju-108 (Ry0), Amethyst (Part of Enju-47)

Cynthia, Adelia, Eva, August, Raymond (From YAI!)

So if you see any of their names, they would be from this! AND LIKE PERCHANCE IF UR INTERESTED PERCHANCE LIKE I WOULD TOTALLY MARRY U IF U PERCHANCE WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT ANY OF THEM PERCHANCE

FANDOMS! My OC, Ryoko is a part of 2 fandoms so far, TWST and Project Sekai! So you'll be seeing her a lot! I'M CURRENTLY FIXATED ON TWST CAUSE OF A FRIEND THAT MF. I also love love isekai villainess manhwas cause yes.

I don't really have any boundaries or anything other than basic DNI and the fact that I'm a minor, so feel free to ask questions and talk to me! ART TRADES AND COMMS ARE ALWAYS OPEN BTW!!!

Links! Artfight, Carrd, Instagram!

THANK YOU FOR CHECKING OUT MY TUMBLR!!! HAVE A GOOD DAY!!!!

(Dividers by @/saradika-graphics)

[tianasficrecs168]

Naruto SI OC fic recs

Fair warming: since this fandom is aprox as old as time, a large amount of these are abandoned, and will remain that way possibly indefinetly.

However! This doesn't mean that they aren't delightful to read, regardless. Give 'em a chance, won't you?

Another thing: a significant portion is from fanfiction.net - this doesn't mean they're garbage!! It just means this fandom is old as shit. I have taste.

This is how it works:

A black dot • means it’s a one-shot

Brackets (…) means it's still being updated/not done/WIP – and I'm paying close attention to it

Izaranna: “Welcome to Tomorrow” (...) (general) last update: 2018 In which a plot is demolished because a dimple-cheeked baby gave Obito a gummy smile, and then proceeded to raise a minion army with hugs, cuddles and an assortment of saccharine treats. 

KannaKyomu: “It Ends at Dawn” (...) (general) last update: 2019 She couldn't remember if she was a little girl, a grown woman, or some kind of wild beast. All she wants is what everyone wants- a purpose, a reason to be. The day she meets the man who embodies the ocean, is the day she chooses the path she will take in this life. Because it wasn't about her. Maybe it never was. 

Phoenixyfriend: “The Universe’s Newest Puppet” (...) (general) last update: 2017 Fate's strings are really more of a garotte at this point. - In which an SI OC ends up as Uchiha Sasuke's twin sister, and commences planning because this is either a seriously entertaining coma or her unfortunately permanent new reality.

Joyous Flamboyancy: “Blank Space” (...) (Itachi/OC) last update: 2017 It's been said that when you die you'll see your past, present, and your supposed future. Well, no one said anything about seeing my sorry ass in a finished manga. Seriously, this sucks.

Artsome: “Clockwork and a Teacup” (...) (general) last update: 2020 What if you woke up to a role so completely unfitting and with a future already made? With a contrasting mindset, knowledge in a convoluted mess and ambitions steered a different direction, this only completed the odd assembly that was the new Haruno Sakura. Welcome to her life.

Shadownumera: “Clearing Mist” (Kisame/OC) I have the worst luck ever. First off, I die. Then I get reborn into the Naruto universe. Yay right? WRONG. Nobody ever said you get to be reborn into Konoha. Which makes finding out where I am in the story line that much harder. I don't know if I can change anything, or if the bloodbath is far behind me. One thing's official though. I'm screwed.

Strawberry and creme: “Whispered Nothings” (...) (general) last update: 2019 In which a sick little girl changes absolutely everything and nothing. *this was was re-written with one chapter, the rest was deleted, here's the google doc for the original version (21 chapters)

Iaso:  “On Freedom and Other Formalities” (...)(Genma/OC)              last update: 2020 When push comes to shove, Hiwa Inuzuka doesn't go down easy. Reborn into a new, dangerous world? She puts her past life as a spy to work. Thrown into a war? Hiwa does her duty, for Konoha. And when she's forced into an arranged marriage? All there is to do is beat them to the punch and get married first. Thankfully, Genma Shiranui is willing to lend a hand. Literally.

Vixen Tail: “108 Earthly Temptations” (Tobirama/OC)               A character study into why the older generations of shinobi are harsher and less inclined to compromise. SI/OC Pre-Konoha, Warring States Period. Post-Founding. Part One, the beginnings of Sekanji Terazawa. Poison Mistress, occasional kunoichi Lady, and the aunt of Orochimaru. Part Two, the establishment of Konoha and the character of the village Founders. Part Three, the end.

Erimies: “The Clan of Samsara” (...) (Madara/SI-OC)                    last update: 2015 They were the clan everyone avoided, for a good reason. But Hashirama wasn't like other people and Karma ended up tangling in the ninja world revolution anyway. What he didn't know was that she knew the script of the story. 

DianaMoth: - “The Yondaime’s Assistant” (Genma/OC/Kakashi) part of a series, one of three (unconnected) When I reincarnated in the world of Naruto, I was lucky enough to live in Konoha but not lucky enough to get all the superpowers you could hope for. I failed my jounin-sensei test and ended up in the Genin Corps. Bye-bye jounin rank! However, considering it also meant avoiding the battlefield, that was fine with me. Now I just had to get a position allowing me to change History...

DianaMoth: “Guardian Angel of Trouble Twins” (general) Reincarnating as a crow was nicer than you would think... until the Trouble Twins found the summoning scroll for the Karasu. Then they grew on her, and she had to save their lives. How annoying. They better gave her lots of almonds or she would elope with the ninken summoner! Uchiha Massacre Fix-it DianaMoth: “Guardian Angel of a Troubled Man” (Kakashi/OC) Reincarnating as a crow was nicer than you would think... until the Trouble Twins found the summoning scroll for the Karasu, and she failed to save Number One. Now that only Itachi was left, she would do anything to protect him... no matter how many almonds it took. *This is an AU of the 1st part of this series. You have to read it to understand this, as this differs starting from the end of the first chapter of Guardian Angel of Trouble Twins. In short: this is what would happen if Shisui died like in canon.

Masqvia: “Fatespinner” (...) (general)                                       last update: 2017 The ability to speak to ghosts sounded like a joke—at least it did, until it put a target on my back. Survival was at the top of the list and changing the future was laughable at best. Then I got attached, and the whole game changed. 

RosesToPaint: “Of Bonds and Hugs like Chokeholds” (general) The ultimate dream: being born into your favorite manga. But the ninja life is in no way as romantic as it looks. But it's also not all that terrible. Hisana is fervently working on keeping it that way. RosesToPaint: “Of Cutting Cords and Forging Chains” (...) (general)      last update: 2018 The Chuunin Exams are almost in sight and Hisana is faced with her biggest challenge yet: Keeping Sasuke in Konoha and Orochimaru out of it! And then there's Itachi, who's a class all of his own. *Part II of "Of Bonds and Hugs like Chokeholds".

Sage Thrasher: “Sanitize��� (...) (general) last update: 2023 Basic medicine and sanitation are simple. During the Warring Clans era, they become revolutionary.

Sage Thrasher: “An Eye for an Eye” (...) (general)                          last update: 2019 Reincarnation. In an anime. As a blind Uchiha. You've gotta be kidding me.

Yuuki no Yuki: - “Bee’s Purple” (...) (general)                        last update: 2020 People always talk about how great the Sharingan is, 'it can see through any genjutsu' 'It can recreate any ninjutsu' 'It can predict the future.' But I never really believed them. Not until I unlocked my own pair, and made a startling discovery, "Itachi-nii I can see new colors!" Yeah, I may not have been the most noble of Uchiha, but hey, at least I was having fun?

The-world-builder: - „This Transient, Floating World“ (...) (general)       last update: 2019 Due to a paperwork mistake in God's waiting room, I was reincarnated with my memories intact. No pain, no gain, or so they say. But with a bit of luck, this might just turn out alright.

Snow-Nightshade: “Living in a Really, Really Weird World” (...) (general) last update: 2019 Her name is Kazeshini Uzumaki and she was born even before Madara Uchiha was around, she doesn't want to fight head on and so fights as an assassin, she's a dauntless sword user who carries a nodachi a few inches taller than her, and she's a girl who really just wants to bear hug the ever adorable Naruto and he isn't even around yet.

FlitterFlutterFly: “True to Myself” (...) (Skikamaru/OC)     last update: 2016 I never expected to die young, but if I had I would have probably thought something normal like a car accident. I wasn’t given a peaceful death though. Maybe the trauma I went through on that night, the same night as the Uchiha massacre, is the reason I found myself in the Naruto world. I was far from happy about any of it, but I’d always been a determined person and I learned to make the best of the situation.

Fishebake: “Moonflower” (...) (general)                                     last update: 2020 They say that destiny is set in stone. Most people are willing to accept this and move on - Yamanaka Inoko is not most people. Her father's life is on the line, and she knows that if she wants to keep him safe, she's going to need a seriously big sledgehammer.

Shanatical: - “Addendum” (...) (general)                                    last update: 2018 Or, 'How I Learned to Stress Out and Ruin Everything': a gripping tale of tears, danger, tender hearts and derring-do, in which I take on a world that isn't as made-up as I thought it was and my choices really, really matter.

Chadsuke: - “Crying is alright” (...) (general)                             last update: 2020 “-in its way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do.” - C.S. Lewis Waking up from the death of your entire family with memories of a past life isn’t something that happens to most people - especially when that past life includes visions of your own future.

LadyNyxRavus: - “An SI's Guide to Surviving the Shinobi World without Dying Tragically” (...) (general)                                                         last update: 2024-01-11 Honestly, I just want to make it past thirty this go-around. Contending with Uchiha Clan Nonsense, an Orochimaru still convinced he needs my baby cousin's eyes, and the knowledge of precisely how bad all this can go, that's looking more and more out of reach by the day.

infraredphaeton: - “Morpheme” (...) (general) last update: 2024-04-02 A morpheme is the smallest part of a word that still has meaning. If you take away everything else, you still know what it means. When you take away everything else of me, this is what remains. ...It's mostly good hair and a love of language. Everything else is take it or leave it, really. (In which a very sarcastic guy gets reborn into a small poisoner's clan in Konoha, and accidentally saves a life. Things change.)

Authorship: “Yeah, Kunai are cool but have you had dessert?“ (Shisui/OC) Easy, I thought, like the idiot I still was. Open a bakery and try not to die (again). Seemed pretty simple...until you factor in that I, a civilian, have the last Big Cat Summon. And Ino, Shika and Chouji think I'm their nee-chan. ...I didn't think to factor in the overwhelming force of Shisui's puppy eyes either. Some - rather large - oversights then. SI/OC Patissier and Baker...."What do you mean you don't know what fucking caramel is?!" OR Okay, I'll admit seeing my new dad's Hitai-ate was a massive kick in the (thankfully metaphorical) balls. Sorry, but I don't kill people! AKA an SI/OC fic where the girl is more concerned with the alarming lack of pastries...and appropriate female role models...and adopting misfits and cinnamon rolls...err, oops? At least, I get to troll people! *This work is unfinished and will remain so. A rewrite, including nonessential plot points, is currently in the works until the title "Let Them Eat Cake". right below  Authorship: “Let Them Eat Cake” (...) (Shisui/OC)                            last update: 2020 Whatever I had imagined the afterlife to look like- It was not this. I'd ask for a refund but, in all honesty, I was going to milk this second chance as much as I could. Amazing what a suddenly callous attitude to death could do to someone's decorum.

Araceil: “Thanatophobia” (...) (Shisui/OC)                             last update: 2019 Komuro Ietsuna was a timid boy from a different world, but still, despite this world of Ninja and Gods, he's determined to survive the odds. Even if this means abandoning his Village. But you know what they say about Mice and Men, and all the best laid plans between them.

PRETTYHEART: “Pyromaniac” (...) (Naruto/SI!Sasuke/Sakura) last update: 2022 In which Uchiha Sasuke wasn't always Uchiha Sasuke - but that's okay. Somewhat. It's somewhat okay. He's dealing with it. The only thing that could make the whole situation better is if Sakura would let him light the Hokage monument on fire. Something that ugly has to be destroyed. (Featuring a pyromaniac tomato crazy Uchiha Sasuke, a morally exasperated Haruno Sakura, and a completely confused Hatake Kakashi. As for Uzumaki Naruto, well, he's just happy to be there. You see, he plans on painting the new monument Sasuke wants to build.)

Coal: - “Echo” (...) (Naruto/SI!Sasuke/Sakura)                            last update: 2016 When undergoing Tsukuyomi the night Itachi slaughtered the Uchiha clan, Sasuke is made privy to a former life. He subsequently decides that revenge is stupid and he's going to try to make the most of his second life. He's too used to having a crazy and/or dead family. A sort of self-insert as Sasuke in which he thinks education is important to becoming a good killer and that dish soap is a wondrous thing.

[pruneunfair]

I notice difference though. For naviers supported/worshippers,they will always be written and their objective is to agree with navier no matter what. If they disagree with her,the story will always portray people as evil and are selfish to get their own gain. Heck,I never see anyone who is alive that opposed. But with MILAOWM,we can get to know pereshatis friends and they are their own person. Sure,we got less screentime of them,but we can see how each of them really care for her and not ever one of them want to backstab pereshati because pereshati is their true friend and they will do anything to make sure pereshati happy. I also love they have their own opinions that are either agreen or disagree,but what's difference is that the story treated as a real person because friends can agree with each other and disagree on them,it's not wrong. Besides,I love her friends help her adjust and at the same time offered to pereshati which is useful. I want to say I really love pereshati visiting her friend's wedding. Ps,I laugh at the scene because making perejstais friends having a muscular face and be her protection squad is just too precious and too funny yet so good.

Yeah all the characters that get picked off are all dead, some of em didn't even appear on screen and we're still told they got killed.

even if they don't show up as often as the in-laws it doesn't mean Pereshatis friends show up one chapter and never come back again, they're minor characters sure but readers still see little drops into their lives with one of them getting married as your example states.

And characters can actually disagree with and argue with Pereshati but they aren't treated like evil people who need to die all the time, Mia is one I think of and as a scientist/doctor it makes sense why she wouldn't straight up agree with Pereshatis hypothesis since Phineas's life was on the line, she gets on the nerves of a lot people but instead of killing her off, Mia is actually given to apologize for her behavior and grow.

Harary though is an even better example cause she doesn't exactly hate Pereshati right off the bat, from her perspective Pereshati is a future victim of the Lapileons since she herself was when she had to give birth to Celphi, and never return which ends up with her falling into poverty. She's not there for much, just to share her story with Pereshati and be done with it. It was easy to see from both perspectives too during chapter 108 when the family shows up again in Hararay's home to give her pictures of Celphi, Pereshati just wants to give Harary closure but Harary is angered that they were back since they hurt her in the past. The readers know of course that the Lapileons aren't going to repeat that same mistake on Pereshati but does Harary know that? No.

Thats another thing MILAOWM does right, in the real world, your going to find people who disagree with you but that doesn't mean they are bad people.

[duhragonball]

JoJolion Ch. 107-108

Remember when JoJolion got insanely popular for a while, and everyone was spamming "Inca No Mezame Potatoes" memes all year long? Those were good times.

At this point, the final battle is nearly finished. Toru's Stand is still extremely dangerous, but Josuke was able to get past his defenses, with a little help from Yasuho. He's not dead, but he's badly hurt, so if you just stand back and leave him alone, it should just be a matter of waiting for him to die.

However, Toru ate the last fruit off the New Locacaca Branch, so he could recover from his wounds, but only if he can touch someone to act as a donor in the equivalent exchance process. That's how the New Locacaca works, by the way. The original version healed one body part in exchange with another. If you've got too many injuries, like Toru here, the Old Locacaca wouldn't do any good. But with the New Locacaca, you can absorb health from a second person, and they end up taking on your injuries.

And that's the situation Caato Higashikata has walked into. She's been renting an apartment lately, and she made a stew for Jobin, with Inca No Mazame potatoes, just the way he likes 'em. But when she brought it over for him, she found the apartment wrecked and Jobin dead.

Yasuho's fear is that Caato will try to attack Toru in a vengeful fury, except this would play right into Toru's hands. As soon as she gets close enough, he can grab her and heal himself with equivalent exchange. Even if she attacks him from a safe distance, his Wonder of U power is still active, so a calamity will strike her down. So Yasuho is desperately begging Caato to just do nothing. The only winning move is not to play.

But Caato has a plan, much to Yasuho's chagrin. She tosses some of her playing cards around him, and reveals her Stand abilitiy. Space Trucking can hide objects between playing cards. The cards themselves are no threat to Toru, so simply demonstrating all of this is not enough to trigger a calamity. She even uses the cards to hide Toru's arms, but this isn't an attack either, since it doesn't hurt him. It's just to keep him in one place.

That's an interesting angle, actually. Is it possible to simply trap Toru in a place where he can't escape? Like, if he falls down a hole and he can't get out, that's not an attack, and I don't think his Stand has the kind of physical power it would need to pull him out. Could you defeat him that way? That's not Caato's plan, but it's something to think about.

I'm skipping over a lot of stuff here, because most of this chapter is just Toru and Caato cutting promos on each other. Toru keeps taunting Caato about how her dead son's dreams were never realized, and Caato keeps explaining things. He's trying to goad her into making a mistake, and she's just dragging this moment out, for various reasons, but mostly just to keep Toru guessing.

Then we get this flashback to before the Wonder of U arc began. Caato came over one day and Jobin revealed to her the New Locacaca branch that he had secured during the orchard fire. He had been stressed out about keeping it hidden, and the stress of sharing that secret with Tsurugi, and the danger of losing the branch to enemies. Caato reassured him and offered to hide the branch--pot and all--inside her cards if the need arose.

I'm not sure what the point of this was, except to make it clear that Caato knew about the branch and the powers of its fruit. Specifically, Jobin showed her how two of his beetles did an equivalent exchange. I guess they just got close enough to the plant that they ingested some of the sap? There were only two fruits, and they hadn't grown yet in the flashback, so I don't know. The point is that both Jobin and Caato understood that the branch actually had this power.

So finally, Toru begins to get flustered, and demands to know what she's hiding in her cards. She didn't come out to the garage just to talk to him while he died, so what is she up to? So Caato finally shows him...

Turns out, she hid Tsurugi in there, and now the kid rolls out onto the floor and his body contacts Toru's, which initiates the equivalent exchange!

But which way will this go? Toru's the one who ate the fruit, so that should mean his injuries will be healed, not Tsurugi's disease. Well, Caato thought that, which is why she hid the plant in her cards too, and made sure to crush the branch so as to extract the sap. She drips this into Tusurugi's mouth, and that seems to do the trick. I'm not sure why this gives Tsurugi precedence in the exchange, but sure.

As Toru dies, he tries to talk his way out of this. He warns them that they'll never find another plant like this again, and if they destroy it now, there'll never be another. I would have thought they could just find another Old Locacaca plant in New Guinea, plant it near the Wall Eyes, and there you go. But Toru seems to think there were other coincidences at play, like the earthquake and everything else that happened in this Part. The New Locacaca that Kira and Josefumi unwittingly created was truly unique.

Needless to say, this doesn't impress anyone in the garage. The Locacaca has caused the Higashikatas and Yasuho a lot of grief, so who needs more of that bullshit? And even if it were a boon to humanity, if we need Rock Humans like Toru to access it, then it's probably not worth the trouble, since the Rock Humans have demonstrated time and again that they aren't trustworthy. Remember, Poor Tom died trying to bring what he thought was the branch to Toru, and Toru used his Stand to kill him. The Rock Humans can't even trust each other. The idea of them posing as doctors is bad comedy.

But mostly, fuck Toru. Even if he could snap his fingers and cure Holly and resurrect all of his victims, he'd never do it. You know, he might even have that kind of ability. Wonder of U causes misfortune to befall anyone who pursues or attacks Toru, but maybe it can do nice things for people too. We just never find that out because Toru has no altruistic tendencies. Helping someone else isn't in his character. It would never occur to him to try to help Holly or anyone else. So his pleas for mercy are especially pathetic.

Then he starts appealing to Yasuho, talking about all the good times they had together. Yeah, like the time you dropped a chunk of aircraft on her head, remember that? Yeah, Yasuho doesn't budge. She looks concerned, but I think it's just because she's so horrified to watch this horrible creature's death throes. Why is it taking so long?

At last, Toru finally dies, and his last thought is the image of a hornet, like the one he clung to as an infant so he could parisitize its nest. He realizes this was just a memory, but I guess maybe he somehow hoped that he could grab the hornet again and be taken to another nest where he could be safe and warm while he recovered.

That's really all Toru had, in the end. For all his polished facade, he never actually had any relationships with anyone. Not with Yasuho, not with his colleagues at the hospital, not with his fellow Rock Humans. They were all just means to an end, hornets that he could exploit to enrich himself. Toru often spoke of wanting good memories to keep him company. That seems to be what he saw in Yasuho. He never loved her or cared about her, but he wanted the experience of spending time with her all the same.

But in the end, his memories are all hollow. A regular human might die thinking of his family, like Jobin. But all Toru has is is his hornet.

So that's it for Toru, and that's also it for Caato, as she didn't get off scott free with this stunt of hers. When she poured the sap into Tsurugi's mouth, that constituted an attack on Toru, and so the calamity was activated. In this case, Toru had been brandishing a saw when Caato entered the garage, and this got trapped in her cards when she pinned down his arms. Somehow, as he was dying, the saw came out of the cards and flung itself into Caato's belly. I think that might be a malfunction of Space Trucking, sort of like how Wonder of U made Mitsuba and Josuke's Stands do unexpected things. Anyway, Caato lays down and dies, and I'm pretty sure she expected it to end this way.

Yasuho has this internal monologue about everything the Higashikata Family has endured in this story, but in the end, the family has gathered in the garage, not in mourning or despair, but because of hope. That's because, Tsurugi's Rock Disease has been cured thanks to the equivalent exchange, and now, at long last, the curse has been broken.

And this leads us to that moment where Tsurugi drags Norisuke out of his office, which was shown in the flash forward about twenty-odd chapters ago. What I still don't understand is: Why is Tsurugi bringing him out here? There are ambulances on the way, but I'm pretty sure they could come in the house and get Norisuke.

I think the more important thing Araki was trying to get across is that Tsurugi is finally healthy and free of the dread of worrying about the curse. While the rest of the family is still reeling from today's events, he's back on his feet and taking charge. So that's why he's the one who goes to get Norisuke, and he's the one who informs the others that he's still alive, and Jobin didn't hurt him as badly as everyone feared.

Okay, but Norisuke's right hand still fell off his arm. Like, that definitely happened. I guess he'll live even if they can't reattach it, because people lose hands and fingers in JJBA all the time, and it's more like a bad flu than anything else.

But it's not quite over yet! Toru may be dead, but somehow, Wonder of U is still active? The Stand crawls inside of Norisuke for some reason. It aggravates his injuries, though I'm not sure why. Wait, is this how it impersonated Dr. Satoru Akefu? Did Toru find the real Dr. Akefu and send Wonder of U into his body to do some sort of pod people thing?

Fortunately, Josuke's here to save the day, having just returned from the TG University Hospital. I think the idea in these two chapters is that Toru was recalling Wonder of U back to his side, and that's why it was floating around in the garage, but Josuke was also on his way back, which is why he made it on the scene not long after. Now that he's here, and there's no more bullshit Rock Insects to get in the way, Josuke can just shoot his Go Beyond bubbles at Wonder of U without any problem. He does as Yasuho to stand clear, though, because the bubbles are invisible and that makes it really difficult to aim them precisely.

And at this range, Josuke can't miss. Wonder of U explodes, and Yasuho holds him like the girlfriend in old B-Movies after the monster finally dies.

So that seems to wrap things up, right? No more Rock Humans, no more Locacaca, no more branches to fight over, no more curses, and no more Jobin to get in everyone's way. Also, Joshuu lost his right arm, so that probably just makes the whole town safer overall.

Wait, what about Holly? And what about Josuke's memories? Also what was the deal with that baby who washed up on shore the night Johnny died in 1901? And Karera said she would be back, so what happened to her? Also, Josuke and Yasuho need to kiss or something, right? There's a lot of loose ends we need to wrap up, but fortunately there's still two more chapters and...

Huh...

[bratshaws]

through the hourglass 120. brb x oc

a/n: this gif does not represent Rooster's feelings in this chapter, I just love his angy face <3 reblogs and comments are super encouraged <3333

pairing: plus size!oc x rooster

warnings: none.

goodness gracious (pls read this one to know more what this fic is about!!)

chapter

1/

/70/71/72/73/74/75/76/77/78/79/80/81/82/83/84/85/86/87/88

/89/90/91/92/93/94/95/96/97/98/99/100/101/102/103/104/105

/106/107/108/109/110/111/112/113/114/115/116/117/118/119

(pls let me know if you want to be added to the taglist! )

taglist: @mirandastuckinthe80s @roosterschanelslut @wiipes @lcahwriter @shrimping-for-all @gretagerwigsmuse @frenchtoastix

@lizzie-rdj @fanboyluvr @atarmychick007 @comebacktoearthpls

@peachiicherries @mak-32 @lizziespidiepridie @roosterswifey @ollyoxenfrees @piceous21 @sqrlgrl22 @hofficoffi @lexhalstead3 @lorilane33 @legendarydreamersharkparty @luckyladycreator2

@emilybradshaw @j-6o @louisahale @leobabbyyy @kulicny @winter-run @ktjmac @graciereads @bigpoppajes @taytaylala12

@caitsymichelle13 @becks-things @caatheeriinee07 @dhwanishah09 @jesfreedark @katiemcrae @lilmonstrjedi @hobiismyhopeu @teacupsandtopgun @insominac23 @gh0stsgoodgirl @mygyn @chavivaelisheva

-

They sit next to each other on the kitchen table, Rooster’s hand on hers, rubbing each of her knuckles as she holds her head up with her palm’s heel, staring down at her cocoa. She’s still nervous, he knows she is because she hasn’t said anything since they got to the kitchen, he wasn’t going to push her, but they were nearing the fifteen minutes’ mark and Rooster wasn’t used to not talking to Beatrice for so long while he was in the house.

He brings her fingers to his lips, kissing the soft skin before smiling at her, “Talk to me,gorgeous.’ he says and it snaps her out of her worries because her eyes turn to him almost in surprise “You look scared still.”

Beatrice’s frown only deepened and she laughed nervously, “I can’t help it.” she whispers, “It’s…a bit scary I guess.”

“Why?”

A shrug was thrown his way, “...Nikki just turned six months old,Roos.” she says, “She just turned six months old, we planned on having more kids but not so soon.” he holds his head up with his fist, still rubbing her hand, “Not to mention…how are we going to do this? It’s…scary.”

Bradley takes in her words with silence, still holding his head up and measuring how he will reply to that. Now that the sleep is finally out of his system and he’s fully awake, he had to admit there was a smidge of anxiety curling up in his stomach. It is a sudden and unexpected change in their lives, Nicole was a surprise but the second pregnancy so soon was…even more. 

He didn’t want Beatrice to blame herself and he knew that she was from the way she was holding back from biting her thumb, choosing to rub it against her fingers instead, giving a friction instead of a bite was good enough for her. “...we are going to do this like we do with Nikki.” she looks up at him with her brows low, “I know it’s not what we planned, but…honestly, it’s not so bad.”

“It’s not?”

‘Nah,” he smiles, dreamily at her, “Maybe that’s just the universe saying we better pop ‘em out sooner than we thought. That’s all.”

“...and, you aren’t worried?”

“I am worried.” he chuckles, “And happy, and anxious and a bit confused. But I’m happy…if that’s what’s supposed to happen gorgeous, then we can do it. We love babies. We love our one baby…we can love more.” he says, “If this pregnancy is safe for you as well…do you want it?”

“I do.” she says, “I do want it,it’s just…a bit overwhelming right now.”

“It is.” he rubs her fingers again, holding back a yawn and running his hand on his hair, “It is overwhelming but I think we can do it…and I know it’ll be a bit hard when I leave.” her eyes met his guiltily,”But I’ll do my best when I come back,you know that.”

“I know Roos, you are doing a great job.”

“Then why do you still look worried?”

Beatrice sighed, leaning back against the chair, “Because…I should be the one taking care of my fertility.” she heaves the words out as if they weighed a ton, keeping her frown present and lips pursed, “If I missed- or if the birth control shots failed, that’s on me. I should…I don’t know, pay more attention, so we wouldn’t have surprises,Roos…and I didn’t.”

He could almost see the blame weighing her down as she said that and he hated it, “Gorgeous, that’s not your fault.”

“What if I missed? I don’t even know if my own notes are right. What if I thought I had another shot and then…I didn’t?”

He shrugs, “You were busy helping Marcus, your mind was all over the place…and there was the bar, and Nikki too. You managed it but I know it took a huge toll on you.”

“...I guess.”

“Listen, it’s not your fault.” he kisses the back of her hand gently, hoping to make her look at him, “Gorgeous,Bea…baby, look at me.” she did, looking like a puppy dog who just broke an expensive vase, her eyes shining with unshed tears, “Aw, gorgeous, it’s okay…it’s okay. You didn’t do anything wrong.”

“But–”

“Okay,so the pregnancy - if positive- wasn’t planned. At least we’ll be able to deal with it,we both have good jobs, we have a good family circle that can help in case we need…worrying about it the way that you are isn’t right.” he pulls the chair’s legs closer to his so their knees touch and he can kiss her forehead, “I’m not mad at you.” she whimpers quietly and leans forward so her face is buried on his neck, “I’m not angry at all…we both wanted more kids and maybe it’ll happen sooner than planned.”

“But…your job and–”

“Don’t worry about it,I can handle.” he smiles, kissing the back of her head, “I’ll just miss you all a whole lot…but I can handle, gorgeous…I’ll always come back for you.”

She didn’t know if it was a mix of everything or just because she felt like it, but her eyes clenched with tears dribbling out towards his chest, “I-I know.” she sniffles, “I just want you to be okay.”

“Of course I am. I have you.” and her heart beat even faster, “Listen, if there is another baby Bradshaw on the way…hell, we should be ready because who can say they had their children back to back?”

“Six months apart.”

“I guess that means we fuck more than normal.”

Beatrice’s soft laugh was music to his ears, his own lips quirking up in a smile as she laughed against him,hugging his torso. He allowed her to laugh, chuckling a bit himself, and allowed her to calm down and her shoulders to relax.

When her laughter slowly turned into quiet giggles, he looked down just in time to see her tilting her head up, “That’s a pretty good point.” she smiles, nuzzling his chest, “Thank you,Roos.”

“You are welcome,gorgeous.” he gently cups the back of her head, brushing his thumb over the dark brown strands and kissing her scalp, “You are my girl, you know that. I’m here for you.” and he feels her cheek curve up against his chest as she smiles, her hold on him tightening. They didn’t move after that, just kept each other close and in silence, enjoying that they could only hear the sounds of their house and the snoring coming from the three dogs - amazingly Nicole didn’t care about those sounds either, she was probably used to it now.

After a while, he opens his mouth, “So.” he begins, “Do you want to do it now?”

“Hm?”

“The test.”

Beatrice tensed up in his hold, hesitating her reply until she sighed, “In a little bit,I’m just…trying to mentally prepare myself.” she whispers, “Will you go with me?”

“Of course, as if there is any doubt.” he smiles, “I’ll help you however you need…plus I’ve never seen how a pregnancy test works.”

“Oh, well, it’ll be something for both of us then.”

Rooster waited until she was relaxed enough to straighten her body and appear in front of him, blinking her green eyes to refocus on his face. Beatrice chewed her lower lip for a few seconds, inhaled and then exhaled, repeating the pattern for a few more seconds before she gave him a nod, “I’m ready.”

He smirks, standing to his feet and offering her his hand, “Good,we can have the cocoa upstairs.” he nods to her own mug as he picks his, sipping what was left of it inside, “A relaxing reward,hm?”

“Hah, sounds good.”

“It’ll be fine,Bea.”

She smiles up at him, hugging his arm since her other hand was busy keeping the mug within her grasp. Beatrice takes a few careful sips - honestly Rooster was so good in the kitchen she really should accept his offer in cooking more for the two of them when he wasn’t deployed - of her cocoa, humming happily once she swallowed, “This is so good,Roos.” she says, “Old family recipe?”

“Nah, that’s from the early years in the Navy. The eggnog, now that is a Bradshaw tradition, I’ve never had a better one in my life.”

“You should do it this Christmas.”

His smile faltered for a second, “Ah,I forgot…it’s in one of my mom’s old journals but,my aunt has them in her house somewhere.” he murmured.

“You didn’t invite your aunt or your uncle to our wedding,Roos.”

“I didn’t.”

Bea frowned, “You…don’t have to elaborate on the why.”

Bradley huffed almost in disbelief, shaking his head and looking over to where Nicole’s nursery was, the two of them pausing to check if their daughter was still asleep - which she was, thankfully - Eleanor and Jack’s eyes shining in the room as they meet the two adults, “I think it’s mainly because…after my mom died we just fell apart. I stopped talking to my cousins - who I was never that close anyway- and I just…got my life together.”

“When was the last time you saw them?”

“I don’t know,” he shrugs, “2010? Maybe?”

Beatrice just stared at him, she knew he didn’t have a big family but to think he didn’t have a connection to his mom’s side…that was so sad. Now she knew why he valued the Navy and his friends so much, especially Mav. “And she didn’t like Mav.” he says, “She just hated him. My uncle didn’t care, he just never cared too much, but my aunt? Ooof, god damn it she hated Mav and apparently disliked my dad too.”

“Oh that’s terrible.”

“Yeah, but my mom never cared for her opinion.” Bradley smiles, no anger in his eyes, nothing at all, as they stop in front of their room, “And it ground her gears so much it was hilarious.”

Beatrice smiled back at him, stepping into the room with him right behind her, “Would you want Nikki to meet them?” she asks, setting the now empty mug on the nightstand closest to the door, “They are still her great uncle and aunt.”

“Eh,I don’t know.” he shrugs, “Maybe, we’ll see.”

She knew he didn’t want to continue this conversation so she just stopped talking. Beatrice however inhaled once she was on the threshold of their bathroom, rubbing her hands together and looking back to see that he was right behind her, “Okay.”

“Okay?”

“Okay.”

He smirks, leaning his arm against the doorframe and leaning down to kiss her forehead, “What do you need me to do,gorgeous?”

Beatrice picks the three tests, huffing out a breath before looking up at him, “I just want you to stay.” she whispered, “That’s all.”

-

They both sat on the floor, waiting for time to pass, the three tests were lined up in front of  them as they waited. The boxes said to wait ten minutes max and he had to admit it was the longest ten minutes in his entire life. He set up his phone as a timer and to check on Nicole - thankfully she was still asleep - as they watched the three white tests.

Beatrice’s hands wrung together, he could hear her joints popping when she squeezed them, their shoulders touching. Rooster had one leg bent to rest his arm on top while Beatrice was seated on her folded knees, both of them sitting on the bathroom mat since neither wanted to grab towels to do that.

“Did it take this long with Nikki?”

“Kind of.”

“Hm.”

Both of them kept looking at the tests, Beatrice leaning forward to check only to frown and go back to her original position, “Nothing yet.”

“That’s okay, there’s still time.”

She sighed, leaning her head back so it touched the wall, looking up at the ceiling, ‘If it’s positive…what are we going to do?”

Rooster turned his head towards her, his eyes moving on her face then to the side as he thought about it, “We’ll work on it.”

“No,I know…I mean…I don’t know.” she sighs, “I’m…all over the place.”

“Baby, listen,” he grabs her hand, interlacing their fingers, “If there’s another baby in there,” he nods to her stomach, “They are going to be loved and taken care of just like Nikki is…you know that.”

“I-I know…”

“And we can use one of the guest rooms as another baby room, I know it’ll be amazing. You can paint it just like you did Nikki’s.”

That brought a smile out of her, and a little quiet chuckle as her thumb rubbed against his, “You are really okay with this.” she sounded amazed and yet she wasn’t, because Rooster had proven time and time again that he was possibly the best man that ever existed. He was her prince Charming - and she smiled more knowing how much he’d like that nickname - and he treated her so…amazingly.

“I am.” he smirks, “Listen,I know it’s scary,I know it is…but we both wanted that, we both wanted more kids. Again,so what if it’s sooner than we planned? We can handle it, and if they are just like Nikki, even better.” he says,kissing her forehead and keeping his lips there for a few seconds before he pressed his own forehead against hers, meeting her eyes, “You are my girl,Bea…and I am so happy with you. I am extremely happy with you…being your husband and Nikki’s father are the best gifts you could ever give me.”

Beatrice smiles shyly,her cheeks flushing red over his words. Only Rooster could make her blush like they were still dating, only him could make the butterflies in her stomach flutter wildly without stopping and only him could make Beatrice feel like she’s floating.

All she could do was smile and allow her body to relax and remember how Rooster truly was okay with this, this sudden experience, this sudden…pregnancy? If it was positive, “If it’s not positive…what are we going to do?”

“Hmmm…’ he clicks his tongue, “Work on making it positive?”

“Rooster!”

Her playful swat to his shoulder earned a snort out of him, followed by her own laughter. They tried to keep it down because they didn’t want to wake Nicole up - although if their daughter could last through a thunderstorm, laughter wouldn’t make her move at all - or make their neighbors wonder what else could they be loud about.

He looks back from her eyes to his phone, bringing it up to his lips, “...thirty seconds left.”

Beatrice’s smile diminished but it was still present, “Okay.” she whispers, hugging his arms as they watched the numbers go down, down, down until it reached the zero mark. They still stood there,looking at his now background - a picture of Nikki smiling up at them - in silence, Beatrice’s hold on his arm only tightened, “...okay.” she inhaled for courage, “I’m going to check.”

“I have the boxes here.”

“Okay…” she licks her lips, clenching her eyes as she brings the tests closer, holding them out like a fan but not opening her eyes to check. She turns to Rooster, offering the tests like a magician would to cards, “Pick one.”

Rooster chuckled, but he was just as nervous as she was. His stomach felt like jello, like there was something inside ready to burst - like the xenomorph, ready to break his chest open - as he hovered his fingers over each test. He licked his lips, all of them were turning away from him so he couldn’t see if there were lines or not, “This one.” he plucks one out, breathing in and out slowly before he brings it to his face alongside its box.

He flicks his eyes back and forth from the test to the instructions, Beatrice peeks one of her own eyes open while pressing the rest of the tests to her chest, “So?” she questions, scooting forward, “What is it?”

Rooster is staring at the two little lines, the same little lines that - when he looked at the box - said it was positive. “It’s uh…it’s positive.” his voice comes out quiet but his smile is never leaving, he just clears his throat, turning it towards her, “It’s positive,baby.”

Beatrice blinks, holding the test’s other end to bring it closer to her eyes, then looks up at Rooster, “...t-that’s…okay,um…” she fumbles a bit, closing her eyes again to bring the other two tests, “Pick another one.”

He was faster this time, choosing the one on the left and smirking when again, the two red lines were there, “Positive.” Beatrice let out such a heavy exhale he worried she was running out of breath, but when he turned to look at her she was holding the last test with both hands against her chest, “Together?”

She nods, scooting closer to him to their shoulders touched, thumb purposefully on top of the little visor so neither of them could see it yet. Rooster grabs the other end, smiling at her, “One.”

Beatrice licked her lips, “Two.”

“Three.”

She moves her thumb away and, honestly no one should be surprised now, the two red lines were there. Beatrice stared with her eyes wide and her lower lip being chewed on by her upper and lower teeth, “...I’m…pregnant.” she murmurs, looking up at him with big worried eyes, “Rooster,I’m pregnant.”

Her husband’s cheeks hurt from smiling, “You are- oh gorgeous, don’t cry,”  she didn’t even realize that she was crying, only doing so when she felt one lonely tear sliding down to the tip of her nose and touching the top of her lip. She let him hug her and he did, tightly, rubbing her back up and down with his lips touching her scalp, “You are okay,baby, it’s okay.”

“...I’m pregnant,Roos.”

“Yeah.”

“W-We are going to have another baby.”

He chuckles, “Yep, another baby Bradshaw on the way.” his own eyes stung when he said that. He was going to be a dad, again. He was really happy, he was…almost unsure if he was living in reality or not, but he was ecstatic, “Baby…we are going to be parents again.”

“Yeah…” she whispers, her own fears dissipating, “We uh…b-better call the clinic to make sure, you know?”

‘I know…we can arrange after the holidays if that’s okay?”

“It is.” she says, “...oh we…we can’t tell anyone yet Roos.”

Rooster blinked, “Shit,you are right.” he mutters, “Mav can’t know.”

“Or my parents…or siblings…or Shells.”

He stared at the opposite wall behind her, “...we’ll see all of them next week during Christmas,Bea.” he whispered. The silence that followed was deafening, “And I’ll see the Squad at work.”

“...Roos.”

“Yeah?”

“I think this will be really hard to keep secret.”

“...fuck you can say that again.”

[purple0-0lilac]

So I have been playing Hollow Knight...

I have reached 108% of Hollow Knight...What have I been able to do?

-Defeated The Radiance

-I have all the charms

-I beat three of the Pantheons (Artist, Sage, Master), and was able to reach Pure Vessel in the Pantheon of the Knight, but did not defeat it (Wiped the floor with me actually)

--See also Nightmare Grimm, haven't even got close to beating this Lost Boys/Labryinth dude here.

-I have beat Zote the Mighty thrice

-I rescued all the grubs

-2/3 of the Colosseum battles have been beaten (I reached the God Tamer but didn't beat em)

-156/160 Encountered, and 127/160 Completed in the Hunter's Journal

-All Soul Shards, Nail Arts, Spells, Possibly found items (Maybe not stuff like the Wanderer's Journal and stuff like that) have been obtained

--I need like one more Mask Shard but that Grey Mourner flower quest is like.........

-Upgraded Dream Nail and Normal Nail to the max.

I have surpassed my previous run of 102%

I could try to reach the coveted 112%, but I need to learn to love myself sometimes.....whilst I am also attempting a Steel Soul Run

-So far, No deaths, I have reached the City of Tears, and have had close calls already.

[gyntraregion]

105 - Blichomp Dragon Zumbi Pokemon TYPE: ICE / DRAGON Abilit: Fear (Entering the battlefield, it reduces the speed of all pokemons) PT/BR: Na região de Gyntra os Snoms adotam uma estratégia parasita com Gabites. Durante o seu desenvolvimento procuram jovens Gabites para se fixar em seu peito e ambos evoluirem formando Blichomps. Os Snoms assumem uma forma de pulpa e durante o seu desenvolvimento roubam a energia e nutrientes desses pokemons fazendo esses congelar partes dos seu corpo e comandando parte dos seus movimentos. ENG: In the Gyntra region, the Snoms adopt a parasitic strategy with Gabites. During their development they look for young Gabites to attach themselves to their chest and both evolve to form Blichomps. The Snoms assume a form of pulp and during their development they steal energy and nutrients from these pokemons, making them freeze parts of their bodies and commanding part of their movements. Gabite + Snom (Leven up) -> Blichomp HP: 108 ATTACK: 120 DEFENSE: 100 SP. ATK: 100 SP. DEF: 85 SPEED: 102

[nancypullen]

Hit 'Em Where They Ain't, Boys

Over the years I've expressed my love for the sport of baseball. Love it. I've always had a favorite team to watch...the Fairbanks Goldpanners, the Nashville Sounds, and always, always the Atlanta Braves. The Braves are on my television right now battling with Chicago. They're up by one run in the second inning and I'm cheering them on. Apologies to my favorite diehard Cubs fan, Dina. All of that explains why I couldn't be more excited to share that we have tickets to see the Braves play the Nationals in D.C. on June 9th! An afternoon game in June, what's better than that? Nuttin'! We'll cross the bridge and catch the Metro which will drop us right at the stadium. No fighting traffic or looking for parking, hooray! I can't wait! As I've also mentioned a few hundred times I love the 1988 movie, Bull Durham. Baseball, steamy romance, big laughs, great music - what else do you need?

Kevin Costner. Need I say more?

I could relate to Annie Savoy. I mean, not because she's leggy and gorgeous, I'm neither, but her love of the game and commitment to the season. I used to have her opening (PG) monologue memorized.

I believe in the Church of Baseball. I've tried all the major religions and most of the minor ones. I've worshipped Buddha, Allah, Brahma, Vishnu, Siva, trees, mushrooms, and Isadora Duncan. I know things. For instance, there are 108 beads in a Catholic rosary and there are 108 stitches in a baseball. When I learned that, I gave Jesus a chance. (sigh) But it just didn't work out between us. The Lord laid too much guilt on me. I prefer metaphysics to theology.

You see, there's no guilt in baseball, and it's never borin' - which makes it like sex. There's never been a ballplayer slept with me who didn't have the best year of his career. Makin' love is like hittin' a baseball. You just gotta relax and concentrate. Besides, I'd never sleep with a player hittin' under .250, unless he had a lot of RBIs or was a great glove man up the middle.

You see, there's a certain amount of life wisdom I give these boys. I can expand their minds. Sometimes when I've got a ballplayer alone, I'll just read Emily Dickinson or Walt Whitman to him. And the guys are so sweet, they always stay and listen. Of course, a guy'll listen to anything if he thinks it's foreplay. I make them feel confident, and they make me feel safe - and pretty. Of course, what I give them lasts a lifetime. What they give me lasts 142 games. Sometimes it seems like a bad trade, but bad trades are part of baseball. I mean, who can forget Frank Robinson for Milt Pappas, for God's sake? It's a long season and you gotta trust it. I've tried 'em all, I really have. And the only church that truly feeds the soul - day in, day out, is the Church of Baseball.

I agree, Annie. Which is why I made this shirt to wear to the game.

I need to look good while I yell at the ump and call balls and strikes. I know they appreciate my help. Trying to decide which earrings to wear, of course the big earrings appeal to me.

I'll probably just wear the beaded hoops on the far left. Ponytail, hoops in Braves colors, and a Church of Baseball tee. If that doesn't spell crazy fan I don't know what does. Whoohoo, let's go, Braves! I don't want to hear a word about my craziness. It's fun to have something to look forward to - and if there's a rainout I may cry.

Alright, that's enough silliness from me for one night. I don't expect you to share my passion for baseball or my love of Bull Durham. I do hope that you can share a bit of my excitement for something fun on the horizon. When we don't have things to look forward to, life becomes drudgery. It doesn't have to be anything big - for me it can be a trip to a garden center or a shopping trip with my sister. Life needs to be sprinkled with occasional treats. So send good juju out to the universe for fair weather on June 9th, then tune in to the Braves game. I'll be the wackadoodle in the red shirt (that should narrow it down). Sending out heaps of love tonight, take what you need and pass it on. Stay safe, stay well. XOXO, Nancy P.S. Go watch Bull Durham. You're welcome.

[threemoonwatchers]

So I went to a bookstore and got Thunder…

-Starting out the book believing Splashtail attacked her because let’s be honest he was the only one she told and the Erins are here for the drama

-“SHE WAS NEVER MEANT TO BE A MEDICINE CAT” OKAY WOW STRAIGHT UP

-Okay alright everyone’s suddenly respecting Nightheart something’s wrong

-REEEEEE IVYPOOL AS DEPUTY IM SO HAPPY ABOUT THIS ACTUALLY

-i forgot Spotfur named her kits after dead people zycjvjgufyvu

- (p. 76) wow sunbeam really said “language, Cap”

-(p. 92) not Whistlepaw being the entire Ninjago fandom to Frostpaw’s Lloyd

-(p. 98) please let the companion be Shadowsight please let the companion be Shadowsight

-(p. 102)oh come on please tell me it’s not Nightheart can it be Shadowsight just this once I wanna see them interact and become besties

-(p. 107) “They’d be kind of famous?”Like one of the lights in the mist??? Meaning IT COULD STILL BE SHADOWSIGHT???

-(p. 108-109) …crap it’s not Shadowsight

-(p. 114) I actually panicked for a second about Nightheart being gone and then I realized. Oh yeah. He’s with Frostpaw. Whoops.

-(p. 118) I just remembered the scene in Squirrelflight’s Hope where she and Leafpool were talking about Squirrelflight (or I guess Squirrelstar now this feels so surreal) being clan leader and Leafpool being her medicine cat and I just realized that they were sO CLOSE TO HAVING IT BUT THEY ACHIEVED THEIR DREAM AT TWO DIFFERENT TIMES and I’m sad now

-(p. 136-137) Rootspring: That’s my dad! :D

-(p. 141) Look at it, it’s got anxiety 🩵

-(p. 161) Nightheart I swear if you pull a Cinderpelt-

-(p. 171) I’m sorry WHO IS SPEAKING FOR RIVERCLAN???

-(p. 172) I keep forgetting there’s canonically a cat named Icewing and every time she’s mentioned my brain immediately goes to Winter from Wings of Fire-

-(p. 179) nope this plan of Berryheart’s has to be somehow connected to Frostpaw’s attempted murder

-(p. 207) hold on Cherryfall’s OLD??? Where the heck did the time go-

-(p. 221) hold on how do these two random dudes know about Riverstar???

-(p. 221) calling it now at least a few of em are gonna be taken into RiverClan

-(p. 224) Nightheart and Frostpaw: *casually infodumping about life*

-(p. 228) Oh HeY tHe MeDiTaTiOn WoRkEd WhAdDaYa KnOw

-(p. 230) haha yes think about Splashtail it’s gotta be him

-(p. 237) I WAS RIGHT LETS GOOO I WAS RIGHT FROM THE BEGINNING

-(p. 237) Frostpaw 🤝 Lloyd: getting a love interest that ends up being the main villian of the arc said love interest appears in

-(p. 259) nOPE NOPE DUSKFUR’S GONNA DIE CALLING IT NOW.

-(p. 294) hOLD ON W H A T??? CURLFEATHER TOO??? Dude this girl is gonna have some serious trauma when this all blows over

-(p. 294) also was the vision of the curled feathers in the earlier books supposed to be a warning??? Or was it just her mind begging for a response to the need for a new leader??? Or is someone in StarClan working against them??? That whole vision just doesn’t make sense-

-(p. 313) “Curlfeather must be heartbroken that Frostpaw followed her to StarClan so soon.” Ahaha yeah about that-

-(p. 319) OH GAWSH ITS A FULL SCALE MUTINY

-(p. 321) how dare you make it seem like Shadowsight’s gonna be important when he’s not :(

-(p. 322) YESSS SLAYYY PUDDLESHINE

-(p. 334) OH MY GOODNESS WE’VE FINALLY DONE IT WE’VE FINALLY GOT AN EVIL MEDICINE CAT even if Podlight isn’t technically a medicine cat but shhhh

-(p. 338) UH YOU CANT JUST END A BOOK LIKE THAT ARE YOU KIDDING ME RIGHT NOW??? NOW I HAVE TO WAIT LIKE SIX MONTHS A G A I N ? ?

[floripire]

✨ I want validation 🥺

sparkle positivity time // @antisupe

you: i want validation 🥺 me: guess what silver? you came to the right place!

because leon hiram marshall (probably no relation to hayley marshall, unless you know something i don't ;P) aka captain vought is literally canon for me. like he was there all along, he told me himself. he was there, just in cryo.

everything aside, though, you thought about everything: the timeline, his teammates, his medical record, the universes. the way he reacts to everything that's going on around him.

it is all just so (inter)connected which is something that i immensely enjoy and can't wait to see more of.

and honestly i need five spin off shows and three audio drama's and six books of him right now immediately, please. because this dude? this dude right here? he is so interesting. he is a gold mine. he is literally 108 years old! there is so much to explore with him!

also his ships? love 'em. love him and annie together. i ship it a lot, i do.

(also the etymology of his names scratch the language and name loving parts of my brain because all of them harken back to kings in one way or another and i can't help but wonder whether that was vought's intention for him even if they weren't the ones to give him those names: leon was the first person to be injected with compound v, after all, technically making him the quote-unquote 'king' of the proverbial supe kingdom. please correct me if i'm wrong on this, though. seriously. this part of my glowing review / recommendation is probably just lopsided vibes but my brain didn't want to let this go so here it is.)

my own the boys / gen v verses are still in development across the board so thank you from the bottom of my heart for putting up with me being a snail.

i can't wait to see what's gonna happen in (your version of) s4 because i'm invested now. i'm along for the ride and i want to see where it ends.

[britesparc]

Weekend Top Ten #591

Top Ten Moments in Indiana Jones Movies

I don’t know if you’ve noticed but there’s a new Indiana Jones movie. Directed by James Mangold – who made Cop Land, Walk the Line, and Logan – it stars the 108-year-old Harrison Ford, Fleabag, and that bloke who always plays baddies playing a baddie. It’s called The Dial of Destiny and based on nothing but my own assumptions (and the fact that it seems as if Mads Mikkelsen’s Nazi ne’er-do-well might not have aged between 1944 and 1969) that it’s gonna have something to do with time travel. I reckon Karen Allen’s Marion Ravenwood – last seen marrying Dr. Henry Jones Jr – has died (sniff) and when he gets his hand on this “Dial of Destiny”, Indy’s gonna have a moral moment a bit like at the end of Last Crusade, where he could put this immense power out of enemy hands for good, or use it himself to bring his wife back.

Or maybe I’m completely wrong.

Anyway, to celebrate the release of Dial of Destiny I actually re-watched all four prior Indy films this year. I could rank them, but there’s, like, four, so it’s not really a top ten. But then I thought, well, what are the best moments in the movies? Because these are films just built on moments. Even the lesser ones have some tremendous action scenes, fight scenes, stuntwork, and prolonged chases. Crystal Skull – the much-maligned fourth outing – is at its best when it’s on the hoof, with a great warehouse escape in the opening sequence, a bike chase through a university, and a chase through the jungle that ends up going down a waterfall. These are excellent moments of action cinema that really showcase just how adept at this sort of stuff Spielberg is.

And Crystal Skull isn’t even the best film! I mean, it’s not the worst either, but it’s down there a little bit.

What I’m trying to say is that the whole Indy saga is just a phenomenally well-constructed series of breakneck, nail-biting, expertly choreographed action scenes. I’m not really sure why Spielberg isn’t talked about more as an action director, because he stages the heck out of these things, and is capable of not only giving us exciting cinema, not only framing it in such a way as to be decipherable and easy to follow, but also injects a huge amount of humour and heart and character into these things. From the very first moments of Raiders, we have the core tenants defined: yes, it’s a great, exciting, action set piece; but it’s also inventive (the idol, the arrows, the boulder!). It shows Indy’s ingenuity and knowledge but also his fallibility; he cocks up by mistaking the weight of the idol and so triggering the booby traps. He runs hell for leather, appears knackered and beaten down (we also have that sublime moment where grabs a vine, thinks he’s safe, cracks a relieved smile, and then the vine starts to tear away and he panics again). Then he’s captured, taunted, has the idol taken from him, but manages to escape anyway with arrows raining down around him. And he hates snakes! He hates ‘em!

The boulder scene hasn’t made this list, shockingly; yes, I’m even angry with myself. But bloody hell fire, there’s just so much in these films. Almost every one of them has at least three or four simply phenomenal action scenes. There are absolute all-time iconic scenes here. Any list of the best action scenes of all time ever that didn’t include at least one Indiana Jones sequence is not to be trusted. And yeah, okay, whilst there may have been a little bit of trying to give every film a fair shake here, I do think that all of them have their merits and then some. Even the really stupid bit in Temple of Doom when they jump out of an aeroplane in a dingy is still a cool stunt.

All this said and still I think the best thing about Indy is the heart and humanity of the series. Yeah, okay, I guess he’s a cad and a bit of a graverobber and all that, but the whole franchise is about how, deep down, he cares so damn much. He believes in stuff. He loves people. He gets hurt but he keeps getting back up again. And again, and again, and again, long after he probably, realistically, should have stopped making these films. Which is why not all of these moments are really action – some of them are drama and some of them are comedy. But we still have that propulsive excellence that defines these movies.

Indiana. Let it go.

The truck chase (Raiders of the Lost Ark, 1981): one of the greatest stunts in history as far as I’m concerned. It’s a great car chase which features clambering over and around trucks, people getting punched out of windows, and – oh my god – the classic Stagecoach-riffing moment where Vic Armstrong crawls underneath a moving truck and edges his way to the rear before climbing up the back of the vehicle. It’s stunning. And, again, it’s a sequence that features so many great Ford reaction shots and instances of him getting battered.

The tank chase (The Last Crusade, 1989): another excellent chase through the sand, with Indy once more going on and around a large moving vehicle. Here, though, we have multiple things going on, with Henry and Marcus in the tank, and Sallah helping out on horseback. There’s great ingenuity – the rock in the gun barrel – and ups and downs as our heroes score minor victories and then get clonked on the head. And then the tension of Indy trapped on the barrel, about to hit a rock, and then the glorious gag of the tank going over the cliff and a bedraggled Indy joining his companions as they stare over the edge.

The Brody cut (Crusade): yep, not really an action beat, but I did just say “moments”! This is such a funny bit and one of the best jump cut edits of all time. We slowly track in on Indy as he taunts the Nazis with Marcus Brody’s skills and accomplishments; “with a little luck, he’s found the Grail already.” Smash cut: Brody walking through a market loudly asking if anyone speaks English. What more is there to say? He got lost in his own museum.

“Let it go” (Crusade): still on Crusade, a film that’s one percent not quite as amazing as Raiders but is still just so damn good. This is almost an action scene as it’s a tense bit of stuntwork and effects as Indy falls into a crevice and stretches out to retrieve the Grail, his fingers touching it. The simplicity of his dad calling him “Indiana” for the one and only time in the movie – acknowledging his son’s choices, having grown to understand and accept them – is so touching it kicks Indy out of his Grail-mania and allows him to be saved, choosing life – and therefore death – over the Grail’s promise of immortality.

Anything Goes (Temple of Doom, 1984): my least-favourite of the four films (by a gnat’s wing) still has some blinding moments, including the best opening of the series. Spielberg scratches his musical itch about thirty-five years before West Side Story will a beautifully choreographed Busby Berkeley-esque dance sequence of chorus girls, and future Mrs. Spielberg Kate Capshaw singing in Mandarin. When Indy drinks poison and scrambles for an antidote there’s a knockabout, slapstick quality to the proceedings, with things getting kicked away amidst a riot and a fight, and then – and then! – they end up in a car chase through Shanghai, before the great final gag. Nice try, Lao Che!

The plane (Raiders): the story of the production of the plane fight is legendary – George Lucas snapping two wings off a model because it would be too expensive to build full-scale – but the sequence itself remains extraordinary. Another great example of Indy getting the shit kicked out of him, it’s also a great showcase for Marion as she batters a Nazi pilot with some chocks and attempts to steer the plane, its rotation – and spinning rotors – a recurring threat as Indy fights a Nazi man-mountain. After all the tension and drama of the fight, we get that great moment of gore as the spinning blades hit our adversary; just the right gruesomely funny coda to a terrific scene.

The castle escape (Crusade): the whole sequence with Indy and his dad in the Nazi castle is brilliant, with their banter just terrific right from the off, and then it evolves into another of those almost Rube Goldberg-like escalating action scenes. There’s the attempt to escape from being tied together on chairs, a rapidly escalating fire, and a secret revolving fireplace. And then, out of the castle, there’s a brilliant bike chase, with pursuing Nazis sent flying like Stormtroopers on speeder bikes. It all culminates in Henry’s brilliant speech about the Grail being life, about this being a battle against evil. So good.

Young Indiana (Crusade): prequels, eh? Whatcha gonna do? But here we see the most perfect prequel of all time – possibly because it’s only, like, fifteen minutes long or something. But in this microcosm we see every element of Indy, from the superficial to the significant. He gets his whip, he gets his hat, he gets the dinky little scar on his chin; but we also see his resolve, tenacity, his desire to preserve these ancient antiquities for the wider world… his fear of snakes. And we see the difficult relationship he had with his dad. It’s everything you need in a prequel, with a hot, charismatic, terrific actor playing the younger version of our hero. And it’s just so fun; the chase through the desert, the various train carriages… it’s an amazing opening sequence.

The mine karts (Doom): like the world’s best videogame level, this has ups, downs, and everything in between. To describe it as a rollercoaster isn’t doing it any justice; I think they actually did turn it into a rollercoaster. But this is just another one of those iconic sequences, with all the various jumps and spills, characters going in and out of different karts; so iconic, in fact, that it’s been homage and replicated time and again. Donkey Kong Country owes it a big debt, for instance. It does beg the question, though: why did the Thuggees build this crazy, impossible, multi-mile-long network of higgledy-piggledy train tracks? It makes no damn sense!

The bike chase (Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, 2008): the scenes and sequences in Crystal Skull might not be quite as iconic – although the image of Indiana Jones, a WWII-era throwback to nineteenth century adventurer-explorers, framed against a mushroom cloud is pretty dramatic – but this prolonged fight-cum-chase is an excellent example of Spielberg’s inventive direction. Tapping into its fifties milieu, we have a greasers-versus-jocks brawl, and our heroes on a Harley pursued by sinister besuited figures, Indy moving in and out of vehicles (this is a franchise staple that I don’t think I’d quite clicked on until this list), at one point dragged along on foot, before the chase enters the university itself, riding through a library to allow Indy to give some advice to Tom Hanks’ son. It’s a wild, escalating action-packed sequence full of character and comedy, and shows that even after all this time the series still had it.

Another good bit from Crystal Skull? Jim Broadbent sadly reflecting that they’ve reached the age when life “takes more than it gives”. It has quite a nice, melancholy air that film, that’s often overlooked.

And, god, what bits haven’t I mentioned? Marion’s bar! Asps! Toht’s coat hanger! The bridge! The bugs! The zeppelin! They named the dog Indiana!

Anyway: Indiana Jones. Fab, innit?