#Cheshire the cat has healed me

[dannybobany]

come and join the party!

[derpy-thebdayclown]

oh btw i have an oc loop . ha ha ha

they are mainly separate from canon story, however they do have a plotline that also follows the events! millie & fritz are the only ones who really directly interact with the main cast - millie being introduced in hollow city, she has major cheshire cat vibes tbh, and fritz being introduced in devils acre in wight captivity during library of souls.

they both share how their loop was raided, millie being the only one who escaped and has been swimming for god knows how long to god knows where! she pesters the cairnholm gang after spotting them from the water, and seems to appear everytime they pass a body of it to everyones annoyed dismay. fritz is being used by wights for his healing ability, and is rescued by emma and jacob. he is present during the fall of abaton because he cant catch a break i guess

originally, i made hester & freddie (formerly stevie) as part of miss peregrines loop! but i had trouble meshing them with the story and they didnt fit very well so i decided to make my own separate loop. i love ocs and have a habit of making Way Too Many so this was a fun task for me

Ok enough yapping from me good day gang

[jujumin-translates]

Sakuya Sakuma | [SSR] MANKAI Feature | Today’s Star: The Cheshire Cat - Part 1

Muku: So cute…

Sakuya: Yeah, they’re super cute…

Sakuya: Wah, that little guy is so friendly.

Muku: Right! And his face is really cute too. That cat’s the mascot cat there…

*Door opens*

Tsuzuru: …What are you two up to?

Muku: Ah, Tsuzuru-san! We’re just watching cat videos.

Sakuya: There’s a streamer that posted a video of them visiting a cat cafe…

Sakuya: And Muku-kun saw it and said I should watch it too.

Muku: Each cat has their own personality, and they’re all really really cute!

Muku: If you’d like, do you want to join us, Tsuzuru-san?

Tsuzuru: Ah, could you actually just send me the video’s link then?

Muku: Of course! I’ll send it to you on LIME.

Tsuzuru: Thanks. I don’t usually watch videos that much, but animal videos are pretty healing.

Sakuya: They really do make you smile and feel relaxed when you watch them!

*Door opens*

Izumi: Sakuya-kun, there you are.

Izumi: I’m here to let you know that the results for the supporting role survey that you were looking forward to are finally in!

Sakuya: …!

Tsuzuru: Right, the project where each troupe member does a spin-off short story about one of their supporting characters during a stream.

Muku: And which of the supporting characters you’ll be playing is based on a survey our fans took.

Sakuya: So the results are finally in!

Tsuzuru: Which supporting character is it?

Izumi: Sakuya-kun will be… the Cheshire Cat!

Sakuya: The Cheshire Cat…!

Muku: Waah…!

Tsuzuru: Gotcha. That tracks.

Tsuzuru: Nice timing, too. We were just talking about cats.

Muku: I really like your Cheshire Cat, Sakuya-kun, so I can’t wait to see your performance!

Sakuya: Thanks! I’ll do my best to make it a charming spin-off story.

Tsuzuru: I’ll be working on the script soon, so think about if you’ve got any requests for me.

Sakuya: R-Right!

· • —– ٠ ✤ ٠ —– • ·

Tsuzuru: Alright then, let’s start discussing the script for your spin-off.

Sakuya: Let’s do it!

Tsuzuru: Like I said before, I’ve been mostly listening to the requests of the person performing, but… are there any that you have, Sakuya?

Sakuya: Requests…

Sakuya: I’ve thought about it a lot, but… I just want to play the Cheshire Cat for a script that you’ve thought up, Tsuzuru-kun!

Tsuzuru: A script that I’ve thought up?

Sakuya: It’s not like I don’t want to think of something for myself or anything.

Sakuya: It’s just that so far, so many of MANKAI Company’s stories have come from the scriptwriter, Tsuzuru Minagi…

Sakuya: That’s why I want to act out a new story for the Cheshire Cat that you’ve come up with, Tsuzuru-kun.

Tsuzuru: …Gotcha.

Tsuzuru: …Got it. If that’s what you, then I guess I have no choice but to meet your demands, Sakuya.

Sakuya: Thank you so much! I’m really looking forward to seeing how it turns out, too.

Tsuzuru: But, I’m still going to need your cooperation.

[ Next Part ⇢ ]

[merakiui]

MERA, THAT NEW TREY FIC HAS TICKLED MY BRAIN SO GOOD LIKE AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!! ヾ(≧▽≦*)oヾ(≧▽≦*)oヾ(≧▽≦*)o

Surreal horror has always been one of my favorite types of horror because of the unsettling atmosphere and the reality-bending and you wrote it so well! You did amazing when you wrote the dream sequences in DRU, and now to actually read a whole dang fic with the theme?? With Trey of all people???? OTZ OTZ OTZ You've unlocked so many new possibilities with his Doodle Suit, truly the Gaslighting King of all time 👑👑👑

AND THE SYMBOLISM!!!!! please please please please ramble about them if you want-- I'm having so much fun rereading this fic again and again. The Violet Butterwort caught my attention cause isn't that a carnivorous plant? 👀👀 Trapping insects in its leaves like a certain grass-haired man??? 👀👀👀

Anyway, all I'm saying is, Trey is not the only chef around cause you definitely COOKED with this one 🔥🔥✨✨

( ≧ᗜ≦) AAAAA OMG OMG THANK YOUUUUUU!!!!!! ✨ ✨

I'm so happy it tickled your brain! I adore surreal horror in film and writing. There's just so much potential for the craziest of things to happen! Dream sequences or sequences that feel like dreams are some of my favorite things to write. The ones in DRU are also just as surreal. <3 I originally wanted to write this concept with Jade (Kalim was second on my list), but I decided upon Trey in the end because I think he suits the surreal horror vibes so well! Doodle Suit + the power of seamless gaslighting........ what a terrifying combination.

I wanted the story to feel obscure and almost like a trip with the imagery and descriptions. Sort of like the vibes in Alice in Wonderland. Just,,,,, utterly bonkers.

👀 you are very right about the butterwort hehehe!!! As for other symbolisms/details, these are the main ones in the story! I left out some of the symbolisms of various lines or words because that would make for such a long analysis of my own work. ^^;;;

It is under the cut due to length (forgive me)! A warning for mentions of sexual assault and drugging!

✧ the binary can be translated into messages. :)

✧ the feeling of itchiness - feeling as if you don't fit in your body after it's been violated. Feeling like something (trauma/blocked memories) is beneath your skin and you can't get it out no matter what you do. Also, itchy as in discomfort.

✧ grass - this is meant to be Trey. It's how Reader views him throughout the story.

✧ violet butterwort - as you noted, it's a carnivorous plant that traps insects! It's also a symbol of resilience and a common charm used to ward off supernatural evils.

✧ birthday cake with 20 candles - the plot is that Reader and Trey are/were in a relationship and on Reader's twentieth birthday Trey drugged their tea (chamomile) and had his way with them when they were half-conscious. Thus, Reader was never able to indulge in their birthday cake because Trey took it all. Cake can also be a metaphor for Reader's body.

✧ the line "it will take twenty more..." is in reference to the healing process and how it's going to take Reader time to heal from everything.

✧ xylophone chimes/broken glass - the juxtaposition of something sweet-sounding with something jarring.

✧ the white rabbit - a sense of innocence/comfort lost.

✧ "Soups are easy to eat. Easy to slip special sentiments in." - a reference to drugging.

✧ "Soup is what becomes of your brain when your body is too itchy." - disassociation during something traumatic (in this case, sexual assault).

✧ the hedge maze that never has a true exit - the feeling of being lost and trapped and never having a real escape.

✧ the grass bow around the white rabbit's neck - the obsessive and unhealthy hold Trey has on Reader. How he can't let them go.

✧ static - lots of noise and amidst the noise there's Trey, whose own voice is sometimes static and other times soothing enough to cut through the static.

✧ the sequence of "it's here and then there and then here again..." - an allusion to the Cheshire Cat from Alice in Wonderland when he's giving Alice directions, but they're all over the place.

✧ every time the grass whispers or speaks - things Trey told Reader when he assaulted them.

✧ "In and out. Out and in. In and out. Out. Out. Out. Incessant itchiness. Get it out." - double meaning for breathing but also the act of sex (thrusting).

✧ the questioning of "that didn't just happen, did it?" - how Reader feels in the aftermath. But also just a general question in response to gaslighting. A consistent questioning of one's reality.

✧ Reader's association of the word "gross" with cake (especially birthday/confetti cake) - it ties into the above and also the part in the story about favorite foods and memories.

✧ teeth falling out - usually, in dream interpretation, this symbolizes a recent loss or mourning of something lost.

✧ hyperdontia - the horror of having a mouth and a voice but never being able to use it because it's so clogged with teeth, so no one will ever listen to or hear the things Reader desperately wants and needs to say.

✧ Frozen Charlotte dolls - Victorian era dolls that could float in the bath. They were also baked into cakes. They're called Frozen Charlottes based on a folk ballad called "Fair Charlotte," which tells the tale of a young girl (Charlotte) on her way to a ball with her lover (Charlie). It's dreadfully cold out, but she frets over the fact that wearing a coat will prevent everyone from seeing her pretty dress. She freezes to death on her way to the ball and arrives in her carriage as a frozen corpse. I think these dolls are fascinating and so cute, so I just wanted to compare teeth to Frozen Charlottes. The description of having a dozen tiny dolls stuck in your throat made for unpleasant imagery, so I wanted to write it!

✧ "A black rabbit blinks up at you with its milky-white eyes. Its nose twitches. Once. Twice. Thrice. A loud gust slithers through the field in which you currently observe, surrounded by decaying greenery and wilted wildflowers. They sprawl endlessly, clawing at the horizon beyond with broken fingers. You watch monochrome tones sway, dried petals flaking off like scabs against a battered, bloodless sky." - this is the same paragraph as seen in the beginning, only certain details have been changed. It's a hint at some sort of cycle that Reader's just only beginning to see. Idyllic beauty is no longer so blinding now that Reader sees what they didn't notice before.

[pleasedontghostus]

"Welcome to XY. What do you need? Drugs? Firearms? Weapons? Fake IDs? A extra man for support? We got it for you."

(lf you want to send a ask to a specific character, please address which character you want me to respond as. Ex: "Hey_______" or /this is for _____/)

Owner @paintedgrilledcheese

Character designs and info are below

ShadowKeeper

Ability: Welcome to Wonderland

When someone stares into his eyes when his ability is activated, the victim will have Alice in Wonderland like hallucinations.

Age: 35

Birthday: April 15th

Height: 5'9

Likes: Messing with people, gambling, RPGs.

Dislikes: Water.

Cheshire

Ability: Rumors spread like wildlife

His ability allows their shadow to carry Rumers about people or things and haunt people. Also, he can turn into a cat at will.

Age: 14

Birthday: April 15th

Height: 5'4

Likes: Video games, juice and sodas, pulling pranks, committing arson.

Dislikes: Water and coffee, being called kid

Dr. Nightshade

Ability: Blood, Sweat, and Tears"

Their ability allows them to heal any injury as long as the person who inflicted it has the same or worse injury.

Age: 37

Birthday: March 15th

Height: 5'7

Likes: Pens, math, pineapple juice, aliens.

Dislikes: Pencils, Temu, dry hands.

Checkmate

Ability: Pawns in our game

His ability transports them and everyone near to a dimension where everyone are the living cheese pieces. Whoever loses the game dies, along with the pieces on their side.

Age: 36

Birthday: December 15th

Height: 5'11

Likes: Chess, cats, tea.

Dislikes: People who dare hurt his sister, being called a clown.

Marinette

Ability: [later]

Age: 27

Birthday: January 15th

Height: 5'6

Likes: [later]

Dislikes: [later]

Puppeteer

Ability: [later]

Age: 27

Birthday: January 15th

Height: 5'7

Likes: [later]

Dislikes: [later]

[envihellbender]

Michael as a killer, Gerry as a survivor

I was going to do bios but they were too similar to the original canon so I didn’t bother including them, basically original canon happens but instead of their stories in Archives their taken in by the fog.

Michael Shelly - The Distortion

Appearance:

Michael is the tallest killer chosen by the Entiry, making him fast with a longer vision scope, but also means survivors who are crouched are a little harder for him to spot and he takes longer to get through doors. He has two forms. The first is almost respectable looking. He seems like a gentle young man, if somewhat unsettling. He’s extremely tall with curly blond hair. He is always wearing what appears to be a work suit. The moment one of his abilities triggers however he changes drastically. He becomes taller, much taller. His hair grows in length and becomes a mass of blond curls that spiral and twist, seemingly disappearing into the background at the ends. His placid smile becoming a wide grin with regular teeth becoming sharp fangs. The only thing that stays the same is his fingers, regardless of his appearance his fingers are distorted. They are extremely long, so much so the tips of his fingers brush his knees, and look almost broken in several places.

Weapons:

Voice - his laugh can stun within a ten metre radius.

Hands - his fingers and nails are long, distorted, and sharp. Perfect for slashing.

Mori:

The world around the victim morphs. The sky becomes colourful spirals and the ground and landmarks all twist into each other. Suddenly a smile appears from above like the Cheshire Cat, wide with sharp teeth. It opens, laughing his high pitched shriek, a cackle that seems to cause your body to twist in on itself grotesquely until you are an unrecognisable pile of flesh.

Perks:

Twisted Souls

If you catch a survivor unhooking someone in time, you cause them both to twist around each other. This means the second survivor will be added to the first survivor’s hook.

The House

If you are in the same building as a victim they are exposed. They receive a tally mark similar to the one they receive upon being hooked. If in the second hook state the survivor is unable to leave the building as for them doors and windows keep changing, moving, and disappearing.

Jack-In-The-Box

The doors are your world, if a survivor enters a locker they become exposed to you for 15/30/45 seconds.

—

Gerard Keay

Appearance:

Thick, messy long hair, dyed black with a hint of ginger roots coming through at the top. He’s short, chubby, and his tattoos have been changed by the Entity. Instead of symbols relating to the Fears they related to the different killers that have been chosen.

Perks:

The Motherload

I can hear what the spirits are telling you

You have learned to understand the Entity and can hear what it is telling the killer with 15/30/45% clarity.

Raining Blood

Raining blood from a lacerated sky

When bleeding your blood splatters in different directions making it extremely difficult for the killer to follow.

Duality

Leave me all the pieces, then you can leave me alone

When you heal someone without a med kit you are given the option adopt one of their perks at random until the end of the trial. This can only be used once per trial. The icon for the perk will appear in Gerard’s skin almost like a warm, glowing tattoo.

—

Location associated with both: The Tunnels

There are four different areas within this location each corresponding with the directions on a compass. Their complex mazes with ceilings that get higher and lower seemingly at random. Some doors require you to crouch through, some are gigantic. The basement works a little different here, in that since the tunnels are a basement this room with its special hooks is in the centre of the map. The exits are on the ceiling with a ladder that falls down when they open.

[resident-cake-anon]

hi luna !! do u have any ideas/info abt golden petals in other aus, like modern aus? 🤔 id love to hear abt them!!

HIHI CLARA!! I HAVE SO MANY IDEAS <33 this ended up being a really long post im sorry.. im a professional yapper

MODERN/COLLEGE AU

❦. i see them as being college kids w their academy selves

❦. catalina is always really pushing herself in her studies, maybe she would even be double majored so she ends up doing LONG study sessions in the library

❦. claude is there to check up on her though ofc, ryan put the idea in my head that he would come see her in the library between classes to give her food and a kiss and it rotates in my mind CONSTANTLY

❦. claude’s always posting cati on his socials, ppl are kind of sick of it but they’re too cute for them to say anything

❦. BUILD LEGO FLOWER SETS TOGETHER.. not a doubt in my mind that they do that as a sleepover activity while watching a movie they take an hour to decide on

❦. i see claude as being involved in a lot of clubs maybe a leader of one (my gut says chess) and catalina always makes time in her busy schedule to show up at their events to support him!!

❦. they go on dates to the closest boba shop, especially when cati needs a break from her study sessions

❦. catalina gets the same drink every time while claude always tries something new (he lets catalina have a sip hoping she can widen her palette) + he gets a snack that they can share

❦. catalina insists that she pays but claude always seems to trick her into letting him do it, she always feels guilty but claude doesn’t care, he has the money to spend

TANGLED AU

❦. rapunzel and flynn fit these two SO much there’s a reason why i see the light is on the golden petals playlist

❦. catalina basically lives the rapunzel story in fe3h, basically locked away in the monastery unable to leave all that much and wanting to explore the world

❦. also rapunzel being born from a flower??? yea. iconic. and so catalina coded..

❦. the power to heal, all the flowers in her braid, her generally excitable nature, the overwhelming GUILT of leaving home idk so much lines up

❦. also flynn rider is literally the blueprint that defines all f/os i have/will have in the future.. i have a type and it is DEEP-SEATED in my love for flynn rider

❦. fake aliases, rouge-ish but charming personality, being seen as an outsider or weak as a child and turning to putting up fences as a defense mechanism??? sign me up apparently,,

❦. but most of all i think the way the two’s relationship develops in the movie is so perfect and reflects how golden petals would grow closer, learning to trust each other and eventually willing to sacrifice themselves for the other

WONDERLAND AU

❦. IVE WANTED TO MAKE CONTENT FOR THEM FOR SO LONG..

❦. i love alice in wonderland so much and golden petals fits into the story pretty well too!!

❦. catalina is so similar to alice aaa her imagining up a whole world like wonderland bc the rules and regulations of sophisticated society bore her is just so fitting

❦. in this au ofc alice wouldn’t be a child i could definitely see catalina in wonderland as her academy self bc she uses escapism as a coping mechanism sm

❦. also catalina and the scene of alice singing w the flowers… love it sm

❦. in wonderland, catalina would then meet claude as the cheshire cat!! i think he would be more helpful than the original cheshire cat but still mischievous in his own way

❦. i think he would often mess w the others they find along their travels in wonderland to get a laugh out of cati, pulling a prank on lorenz as the mad hatter always seems to do the trick

❦. at the end of their story, i believe catalina would be woken up by her classmate, khalid, ig she dozed off during class…

SLEEPING BEAUTY AU

❦. THE SLEEPING BEAUTY AU.. RULER OF MY HEART…..

❦. this au exists only bc im an actual sicko over sleeping beauty not bc i think their roles fit, this one is just for ME

❦. i actually made sleeping beauty au art before golden petals.. was called golden petals so the love runs deep

❦. bucket assigned the three good fairies to hilda, heather, and marianne and who am i to disagree!! it think they’re quite perfect actually hehe

❦. instead of them being aunts to briar rose they would more likely be like older cousins

❦. catalina as briar rose would definitely want to explore outside the woodcutter’s cottage and the forest and so meeting claude was sort of the perfect gateway!!

❦. claude as prince philip is so nice too.. i wholeheartedly believe that he would throw away his royal title to run away to be w this girl he met in the woods over someone he’s been betrothed to since birth.. it makes sense to me

❦. also white wyvern -> white horse that he bickers with.. love it

TY FOR THE ASK CLARA I <3 YOU AND IM SORRY

[grav3yardbb92]

Glow Stick

Bruce Banner x reader

***** " Miss Stark, Dr. Banner request your assistance in the lab"

" Thank you, Friday."

I finish the papers that I was organizing for my brother, before making my way to see my fiancé.

" The fun has arrived! " I announce my presence as I enter the room, only to be met with silence.

" Bruce? " His head raises above a pile of mysterious weapons, chemicals and substances that we confiscated from two different hydra bases. He has a slight look of frustration on his face before it softens into a smile. "A little birdie said you needed help, doctor." I state, sliding up behind him to deliver a message to his tense shoulders. " I've been able to identify three of these substances, just through chemical analysis- Oh, that feels good."   A giggle escapes my lips at his relaxed demeanor. " What about that blue one?" I emphasize my question by pointing to a rather large glass jar, just to the right of the table. " Um, nothing yet. That's why I need you to..." " You want me to drink that, to see what happens?" "Well, you know, after we rescued you, your body heals itself now. So no matter what it does, it won’t be that bad." He studders through his reasoning statement, cautious at the mention of me being kidnapped and experimented on. " Yeah, nothing bad. Except being cursed with blindness for a day, or that time you turned me into a cat.... stop laughing, it wasn't funny Bruce. " my complaints are interrupted by my own laughter at the past situations. " Oh fine, but if I'm turned into anything gross, we won't make our dinner reservations. So, you're cooking dinner" I leave no room for an argument, and he nods muttering "deal", before placing his soft lips to mine. " Bottoms up" I cheer before turning the jar up to lips, taking a sizable gulp of the blue liquid. Bruce has a translucent screen in front of him waiting on results. " Remember, tell me everything, what are you feeling, seeing..." " Um, I'm cold, my tongue is tingly, do you hear buzzing?" He shakes his head, before recording everything I said into the computer. " Keep going, anything-"

" Just because I have a billion dollars, doesn't mean I want to pay to power empty r..." Tony shouts into the air, before turning the lights off.

" TONY!!!"

" Y/N?,  sorry, I didn't know you were..." He rambles while walking into the now dark room.

" HOLY SHIT!"

"Turn the lights on... What?" His face is covered with a look of pure shock, matching the look on Bruce's face, beside me. Tony moves around the room, finding a mirror on his desk. He turns it to my face, which is...glowing? My hair, nails, skin and eyes are all glowing. My panic is interrupted by my lovely big brother, bursting into boisterous laughter. " oh my god. You're glowing, ha! Bruce, you're going to marry a glow stick."  I gasp at his outburst, looking toward my fiancé for some sort of reassurance. This better not last till next week. " the side effects should be over by then..." A bright flash stops his statement, pulling us both to look at Tony, who has his phone out, with a Cheshire cat smile on his face. " I know you didn't just take picture of me." " Now, come on y/n, would I do that? " Yes, he. fucking. would.

" Tony!" I stand from my seat as his short legs bolt him out of the lab and down the hall.

"Anthony Edward Stark, you delete that picture, or I will sick the Hulk on you!"  I shout after him, but he is long gone.

" Now what?" I question the good doctor.

" Now I guess we wait." I frown at his answer. " And I go cook dinner" he sighs out, taking my hand. " no way, you burned it last time. " " okay, how about pizza and a movie? I smile at his suggestion, heading to our bedroom. " And cuddles?” He laughs at my question. "Yeah, I guess I do owe you cuddles." "You owe me more than that, Doc.”

[witchyleehibernates]

Curtis Gang's Creature Companion's

Mrs. (Cheryl) Curtis has a Phoenix and her Magical prowess came in the form of potion making. Sodapop often sat with Cheryl when she was making her potions, her phoenix ‘playing’ with him when she didn’t need a magical plant. After she died, her Phoenix stayed close to the gang, and at night you could hear her crying for her person (Cheryl).

Mr. (Darrel) Curtis has a Hippogriff, and when his children were younger, he would take them on late night flights. When Darry’s Hippogriff was able to carry him, the two of them would go on flights, sometimes just the two of them, sometimes bringing the other two boys along too. His power was light manipulation (he could change the colors and shapes of light that he created himself).

Darry has a Gryphon, which stands just a half a foot taller than Darry when both are standing at full height. Sometimes, Darry will go on late night flights with his Gryphon. Darry’s magic is temperature manipulation. Darry’s Gryphon is a girl.

Two-Bit 100% has a basilisk that shrinks itself to wrap around his arm, the basilisk has reached majority and its life force has connected to Two-Bit’s and Two-Bit gained the ability of Sound Imitation which he absolutely uses to mess with people.

Two-Bit also has a Cheshire Cat, no one knows how. It rests across his shoulders when it’s not trying to terrorize people and not trying to steal their hats… or their rings. Sometimes, it also rests around the gang's shoulders, specifically Ponyboy’s.

Dally has a Firebird that sits perched on his shoulders. There are bits of fire that span from its wings, but it is not a phoenix. There are times were it seems like the two are communicating through whistles, and other times where Dally and the Firebird are… fighting? Dally’s ear is more often than not bleeding from a harsh peck from his firebird. Dally’s (future) power is vibrations / silent sound waves (think Rictor from ‘Logan’).

Steve has a ghost dog… or a half skeletal horse. (He takes Sodapop on horseback rides, both because it makes Sodapop ecstatic and two because he loves Sodapop holding onto him, only Ponyboy has clocked that second one). His future power lets him track people through a magic compass-like thing; he absolutely puts trackers on Ponyboy and Johnny (it tells him their health and body status too).

Sodapop has a Raiju (electric puppy as my friend explained it to me), he gets shocked on the daily with his Raiju, sometimes on accident, sometimes the Raiju is feeling spicy or he doesn’t want Sodapop to do something. His (future) power lets him grow magical plants. It breaks his heart when he learns this (through a dream of a younger him helping his mom with potions), and he becomes determined to become an amazing potion maker, like his mama was.

Johnny has a Cerberus with a size max cap of up to Johnny’s shoulder’s when Johnny is fully grown (the Cerberus shoulder’s will stand beside Johnny’s own). His (future) power is telepathy/empathy, and it lets him talk to people in their minds and read their emotions. When he’s strong with it he’ll be able to read minds and control emotions too.

Ponyboy has a type of small dragon (Wyvern) that’s really tiny upon hatching. Normally in mythology a Wyvern is massive in size, however Ponyboy’s Wyvern will have a magical cap size once it gets just bigger than Ponyboy’s torso when he himself is an adult (torso being from the top of Ponyboy’s shoulder’s to his waist). It likes to cling to Ponyboy’s back, claws digging into his waist and his shoulders and it will absolutely dive bomb out of the size to land on him. Ponyboy’s (future) power is a healing light/glow/touch manipulation (when he wants to heal someone, there is a golden light and he can change the shape of it, he often makes butterflies)

[plague-of-insomnia]

Six-Sentence Sunday: Synchronize, Ch 3

Here’s another snippet from the upcoming 3rd chapter of my newest fic, Synchronize. I had hoped to have something steamy but I haven’t had a chance to work on that part yet. So enjoy this sample of Sebastian and Claude’s brotherly reunion:

Sebastian had to force himself to breathe. In. Out. In. Out. Ignore the pain. The dizziness. How bad he wanted to close his eyes and sleep and not be himself for a little while. “Go back to Charles, oniisan.” Though Sebastian’s word was polite enough, the mocking tone he used implied how he really felt: Claude had stopped being his brother a long time ago. And by “stealing” Sebastian’s fiancé? That was the final gauntlet.

But his brother took a step closer, Cheshire Cat smile firmly in place. “Oh? But I just got here.”

Sebastian shivered, and yet his face felt so hot, his head swam. He wanted Claude gone. He didn’t want to remember everything he’d lost. He wanted to hold onto that brief moment of happiness and hope Agni had brought to his day. All of which Claude had crushed underfoot.

Claude adjusted his glasses, enjoying himself. They were fraternal, but still looked so much alike, the main difference their eye colors and sight. Claude had always resented Sebastian’s perfect vision.

“He loves me more than he ever loved you.”

“Charles only loves himself. He’d marry a mirror if the state allowed,” Sebastian spat without thinking. Once the words were out, he realized he’d always known that. But he’d cared deeply for Charles, so much he convinced himself that eventually their love would become equally strong. Once they were married, Sebastian had deluded himself they’d lived happily ever after.

He could hardly believe he’d been so naive. And yet the giant, gaping wound in his heart Charles had carved out had never properly healed. And now today, this fucking week of all weeks, here was the last person on earth Sebastian wanted to see, poking poking poking to see if he could make him bleed.

And it was working.

Reblogs are always appreciated :)

Read the first two chapters of Synchronize on AO3!

I hope to have the next chapter up soon.

Fic Summary: Agni, a home-care nurse, has had his share of difficult patients, but now he's up for his biggest challenge yet. Sebastian is young, seriously ill, and angry, but Agni is determined to help him anyway. Will the two be able to synchronize and move forward, or will Sebastian forever let his bitterness over his past trauma hold him back?

[mushroomwillow]

List 5 things that make you happy, then put this in the askbox for the last 10 people who liked or reblogged something from you! Get to know your mutuals, followers and all the wonderful people on here!!!

Oh!

1. My fiancée and my daughter, they bring me so much joy. My fiancé has shared his love of painting miniatures with her and it’s so heart warming. Every day I get to see how much she’s growing and learning and forming her own beautiful personality. My fiancée is the first person to really make me feel safe, I’ve never known a love for another person like I have for him, and like he shows me. Their relationship with each other is amazing to watch too

2. My cats Boo and Heimdall, Boo is my first black cat and she’s so small and has the sweetest tiniest meow. Heimdall is a CHONK and a tuxedo, he reminds me every day of my cat Cheshire who I lost in 2020. I have a tattoo of Cheshire on my chest, that cat went through some of the worst times of my life and I miss him so much. Heimdall brings me that “my soul cat is visiting me” and I love him and Boo very much

3. Being able to create again. Spent a few years being too stressed to focus on doing much. I started drawing again which is the first thing I learned how to do and that really makes me feel good

4. Being accepted by my fiancée’s family. My bio family sucks, and every spouse I’ve had their families have hated me for one reason or another. My fiancé’s family has welcomed me with open arms and I couldn’t ask for a better found family

5. I’m finding myself again. Or maybe for the first time idk. It feels really good to finally be able to start healing and expressing myself the way I’ve always wanted too

[threewaysdivided]

Euughhh I can’t decide between #18 or #20, so I will let you decide :)

Meta asks for writers

18. Do any of your stories have alternative versions?

(Plotlines that you abandoned, AUs of your own work, different characterisations? Tell us about them.)

I think this may have come up as a glancing mention in the past but the Deathly Weapons you know is actually a stealth-re-write starting at around Chapter 10.  When I first came up with the idea, I had enough of a detailed outline to carry me to Interference, plus some loose notes for later plot-beats.  In that initial burst of unfettered creativity I kept going and freewrote up to roughly the equivalent of Chapter 17: Assessment in DW’s canon timeline.

There was some fun stuff in there (the “And here I thought I was just a pretty face” quip from Zatanna in Chapter 18/ Mission 1 comes from the OG version of Chapter 10) but there was also a reason I didn’t release those versions, and was already wanting to go back and re-do them.  The stealth-draft was incredibly barebones/compressed in places and some now-key scenes were straight-up missing (Propositions, Constants and Roads to Safe Places were all timeskipped over).  Plus I was leaning more heavily into fanon since I hadn’t decided to go back and revisit either show yet, which meant things were more surface-level and “standard” in a few ways.  In the stealth-draft, Ghost-Obsessions were explicit lore a headcanon which is fine but that I realised didn’t interest me or serve the story that much on consideration, Danny was more of an OP Gary-Stu type the OG version of the training session was a free-for-all spar where he beat the whole Team, which… no, and Danny and Wally’s conflict was a lot more superficial/arbitrary/unsatisfying.

I’ve walked myself to the stocks over this before but in the spirit of good-natured lampooning I’m happy to rummage through the old draft some more should you want further samples to jeer and hiss at.

20. Tell us the meta about your writing that you really want to ramble to people about?

(Symbolism you’ve included, character or relationship development that you love, hidden references, callbacks or clues for future scenes?)

Considering my status as a shameless meta aficionado who can and will ramble for up to 20 pages on the barest prompting, one could say you’re playing a dangerous game here, nonnie.

For the sake of brevity I’m going to rapid-fire a bunch of meta I’d love to talk about and let anyone who’s interested take their pick:

I haven’t found a place to really dig into it in-story, but I went and read Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland etc. collection for extra Artemis material, and there’s some interesting parallels you could read into between Alice/Artemis and The Cheshire Cat/Jade, and what it suggests about their dynamic.  It could also indicate some things about how they themselves perceive their relationship given that Jade deliberately took the name Cheshire as her alias in-universe.  The Nguyen-Crock sisters are interesting.

YJ!Wally deviates from many iterations of Comics!Wally in that he canonically has a loving and functional homelife rather than an abusive one.  I have some potentially-controversial but mostly sappy thoughts about why that changed backstory is actually good for this iteration of the character and what it lets him bring to his version of the Team.

The central emotional arc of Deathly Weapons is Danny/Phantom’s journey through grief to healing.  I like how the planned scenes ended up coming together in a pattern where he initially tries to avoid talking about it with other people, then starts to reluctantly talk when asked, then starts talking freely when prompted, and eventually starts willingly volunteering information as he begins to form new bonds and move forward.  It wasn’t a conscious thing when I first set them out but it feels correct in hindsight.

There’s lots of little things that I’m either setting up on purpose to pay off later or have found ways to bring back as echoes in late-game chapters:

Danny’s appearance at Cadmus has developed into a pretty seminal point for his and Team Phantom’s journey between leaving Amity Park and joining The Team.  More information to come in Equilibrium but keep an eye out for references to the incident or things about his left shoulder.

I recently did some Martian Meta in prep for M’gann’s later focus chapter but there’s also a dynamic I’ve started setting up between her and Phantom (especially in the sparring scene) and it’s going to be interesting to see if anyone picks up on where that’s going.

There’s a very late game scene where Danny is talking to Conner about Danielle and The Clone Thing where I have Danny planned to say “but either way, she’s here and she picked our side.  The how and why… guess it just didn’t take that long to stop mattering” as an echo of Bruce’s conversation with Clark in the YJ Episode Schooled.

There’s a conversation between Wally and Dick in the final chapters whose ending parallels the end of Danny and Dick’s scene in Trade Secrets, paying off a promise that will be made in Equilibrium.

And, as you can see, there is so much Equilibrium character-meta which I am desperate to discuss about but also don’t want to talk about for spoiler reasons.  I am going to be so normal about it when publication day comes.

Thanks for playing!

[thewolfisawake]

Rules, tag 10 followers  you want to get to know better!

Tagged by: @arcxnumvitae Tagging: Go for it

Name: Destiny though I tend to go by Kirei on here. Either is fine.

Star Sign: Gemini (sun), Pieces (moon), Aries (rising)

Height: 5'4", 5'5" no one has consensus.

Middle name: Desha

Put your itunes/spotify/youtube on shuffle. What are the first 6 songs that popped up?

Dance Past Midnight - Calliope Mori feat AmaLee

Conceited (There's Something About Remy) - Remy Ma

Cheshire Game from Royal Scandal

Let Me Blow Ya Mind - Eve feat Gwen Stefani

Juicy - Doja Cat

When the World Was Mine from The Count of Monte Cristo Musical

Ever had a poem or song written about you: Once. It was super embarrassing. We found an old floppy disk (look, I am old but not that old, my school just wasn't up to date) where a boy I knew had a crush on me had written a poem about me and how my guy bestie had taken 'his girl.' idk, man, I don't even remember the rest.

When was the last time you played air guitar: Probably last week. I listen to music all the time at work and tend to pretend instruments or wiggle around on songs that happen to hit that day.

Who is your celebrity crush?: Mmm, I don't really have crushes. Sure I find many attractive but not really a crush. Maybe Maggie Q since I consistently think of her when I think hot celebs?

What’s a sound you hate; sound you love?: I hate the sound of velcro being ripped apart. It used to just give me shivers through my ears. As for sounds I like, I like the clacking sound of keys on a keyboard.

Do you believe in ghosts?: I believe just about anything could be possible. I simply do not want to be the one to fuck around and find out.

How about aliens: Definitely. I mean do you know how much space it out there? The odds for us to be the only life in the entire universe? There's no way.

Do you drive?: Yep. Can be thought of as driving enjoyer because of the antics of driving I've done. Or that I often drive for outings but I just...don't mind. I don't love but I don't hate it.

if so have you ever crashed: No and hopefully that track record continues.

What was the last book you read?: Technically I started The Spear Cuts Through Water. It hasn't gripped me yet and Pandora Hearts is calling me.

Do you like the smell of gasoline: In a weird way, yes? It's not a favorite by any means but like there's something about the scent when pull you pull up to fill up.

What was the last movie you saw?: Ponyo. I had actually never seen it and am determined to see through all of Ghibli Fest this year.

What’s the worst injury you’ve ever had?: It's a toss up between playing predator and prey (a more complicated and intense game of tag) that ended with me slamming my knee so hard it swelled the point I could not walk for several days. Or a sprain I received when I slid into bases in softball and the subsequent extended time it took for it to heal since my dad would not take me to a doctor.

Do you have any obsessions right now?: Actually nothing right now? It actually kinda sucks. I end up zoning out and don't even know what I did for time to pass as it did--Was really hoping for it to be E.lden Ring though. Either that or I slip back into G.enshin. I should be doing cosplay so I have something ready by the end of summer.

[fumifooms]

The fricking sheer autism of this man… Palpable, everywhere, so thick in the air I choke on it like dust. It’s incredible to me how I missed it when I first read his route years ago, must be the diagnosis I got in the meantime

Let’s not even talk about the masking or the trauma. The horrendeous hoarding, the picky eating due to bad tastes and textures (the vegetables having to be cooked and not cold), Cheshire the cat being his closest/most often seen pal, wanting the extreme seclusion he sees as normal while still needing some form of social contact even if it’s twisted…

His whole character arc is literally that he needs to touch grass. Eccentric neurodivergent art student weirdo, literally the trope. I love him and his crippling coping mechanisms. He has no hinges and the crumbs of sanity he still has aren’t enough for him to be even slightly hinged. No hinges in sight

It’s so funny too because it’s truly written in the era typical fashion of “this character is so autistic but we’re not gonna say it”. Him being a mess, head in the clouds and living in his own fantasy world from a young age, has sensory issues and fidgets and dreads social events… But oh, the queen of hearts said it’s pathetic for the son of a duke to be so “timid”.

I gotta say… I have to tip my hat off to the writers for being so bold and brave, like, they could have written a story about accepting a terribly lonely and delusional autistic character’s special interest that was like, idk, cars or maths. No! They wrote one about a rich guy whose sole interest always was being a clown secluding himself in a basement that he decorates and Larps to be Wonderland who also hosts black market auctions. The most crack concept possible, and yet they made it good representation and have actual good lessons about healing and opening yourself to the world?? What a gigachad power move.

[deesfanfictionkin]

CHARACTER INTRODUCTION

NAME: Cat

ALIAS: The Cheshire Cat

PRONOUNS: She/Her

NATURAL ABILITY: Cat was born with both feline features - ears and a tail - along with the abilities of an actual cat, such as a more advanced sense of smell, hearing, and touch, faster than normal speed and jumping power, an innately excellent sense of balance, and increased flexibility and reflexes, though an old injury has slowed those down considerably to just below normal human levels.

ADDITIONAL ABILITIES: Throughout the story, Cat gains an additional ability, one that allows her to regenerate her cells. She can heal her own wounds and even regenerate lost body parts, if given enough time. However, to do so, she must sacrifice something, losing time off her total life-span each time it's used, with the amount of time lost depending on the extent that she needs to regenerate.

REGION: Raymyuut

FACTIONS: The Reds

FACECLAIM: Cyan Hijirikawa from Show by Rock

BIOGRAPHY

Cat was born in Raymyuut. Though her parents are part of The Blues, she's never quite fit in well there and her childhood was a lonely one. She was involved in an accident during her late youth that left her with limited mobility in her limbs and a slight speech impediment that makes her self-conscious and worried, especially when dealing with others. However, the accident could have been much worse - she knows full well that, by all rights, she should have and would have died, had it not been for her knight in shining armor that day, a member of The Reds, people she'd always believed to be her enemy. That boy saved her that day and she fell in love at that point.

That love, and that sense of needing to repay him for his kindness and bravery, led her to abandon The Blues, to seek out the boy and to make herself a home among The Reds, who have largely accepted her.

Shy, a little awkward, but with a huge heart, a romantic streak, and a quick smile, Cat does wish to avoid the war. She's fighting for love - the love for her knight, the love for her friends and found family, love for her peaceful life and the lives of everyone else who have found peace...and she hopes that love with be enough to allow her to work with La Revolucion, with her friends, with anyone she can to find another way to break the curse and to stop the need for the war right at the source.

INSPIRED BY: Cat is inspired by the cool Cathy over at @cool-catarina! A wonderfully creative, kind, supportive reader and fandom friend, my writing time on tumblr has been made better by meeting them! She's very friendly and so encouraging, always ready to talk fandom and characters and our discussions always leave me full of inspiration to write!

[polinchitis]

PSINY

(written 07/01/23)

We are eight, seven, and yet we are two,

Shunned by the house we grieve in,

Spittle forming at the mouth of my heart,

Yet I cannot rid myself of this sickness,

As it lives where I live.

It coagulates, the wound running deeper.

She, Cheshire cat, her own saviour,

She smiles down from the heavens,

From her teeth fall clots and incoherencies,

Balls of blood and nerves

Sensitive with disease and panic.

You are spineless.

You are ridden with a disease,

The spinal fluid that taps, that drains,

I am infected with an absence of love.

I am infested with fleas that bite.

You are heartless.

Your lungs are filled with water

From an ocean that no longer exists,

And we are drowning,

Yet we are drowning together.

We were not on the same boat,

Not yet in the same ocean, yet

My spinal cord is wrapped around

You neck and you choose to

Hang yourself with it.

But I am not the cause,

Not the root

Not the root canal that God

Has stolen your final nerve from,

In order to hang himself.

Are we sick? Does it belong to us?

Is it ours? Can we touch it? Can we

Hold it? The doctor said that the

Lacerations would never heal.

Family heirloom, watch of gold,

Is this what you pass down to me?

He has run back to you,

But you and I both know,

The sickness embodies your empty shell.

You must get the feeling,

Surely,

That you are being watched?