#I misspelt her name my bad

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A happy little family who sometimes does some blasting! pew pew!

[erinnkenobi]

Dark horse |chapter two

chapter one - chapter three

Pairing | Spencer Reid x fem!reader

Warning | friends to lovers!swearing!trust issues! Spencer is a boobs simp, you can't say otherwise.

Summary | set on season two of Criminal minds

author's note | sorry for the bad English, English is not my mother tongue, I apologise for the misspelt words and beyond.

"In vain I have struggled, it will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you." — Jane Austen, pride and prejudice

x

Rebecca Bryant's case closed — it was her own father with mental problems, you guessed right yet not even knowing his name yet.

P911 case closed - you guessed it right again, it was the supposed father's boy, you thought to yourself, how could a "dad" sell his baby? After this case, you went to the gym and punched uncountable times.

The perfect storm - oh honey! You're the one that couldn't stop cross-looking at the blonde girl, she was BAU unsub, they've let her alone, you talked with Spencer and for less than minutes he linked the dots and told the others who were their dominant, you went for the loo but in a blink of an eye, she ran away this was the same time everyone went crazy. You guessed it right, again.

"So how did you do it? Right about our unsub?"-Hotch questioned and you were all smiley.

"She didn't even was bothered by the victim's pictures behind her and was always looking at her husband, a demanding staring if she was afraid of him after he beat her ass up, she would be trembling and she wasn't."

"That's my child.-Morgan hugged you by the side shoulders making you laugh.

"Doctor Reid will be jealous, that you called me child while it's you who calls him kid".

"Nah, I have now a couple of nerds prodigious kids"

...

When you were left alone with Reid in a room, he seemed stressed as usual as he was thinking about something due to his stressing thoughts.

"What's up to your mind, jealous of me becoming also Morgan's kid? Don't be, I'm a girl and I'll never be the wandering Wikipedia"

"What? No no! Ain't about any of it, but about just one thing, you got the answer before me and nobody agreed on that, even though I should have, sorry."-he awkwardly says.

"No need of any of this mate, but I know you have another doubt, go on."

"It was your paranoia again saying to not believe the supposed victim because of the bruise on her face?"-You chuckle agreeing with his statement.

"Woah, you know me well, yes, we can't just believe in someone just because appears to us as a lost little lamb, but she knew damn well what she was doing, so what's the answer to our riddle today?"

"Beware of a wolf in sheep's clothing – Aesop and Matthew 7:15"-you playfully blinked at him.

"Right, and...?"

"Believe in y/n paranoia, she's 99% right, 1% just in case of minimum doubt"

"That's what friends are for."-you give him a sheepishly grin hugging him givi around his chest, getting him in shock, he didn't hugged ye back, you didn't care at all, the hug sustained for les than 1min.-"Betta go".

And you left him in the room with an astonished state.

Psychodrama case closed – and you nailed it again, although they took time to believe in you, people were killed but now case solved and others survived.

The aftermath – You hates this with all of your heart, you saw agent Elle suffering and you couldn't do anything, you even talked with Morgan and Garcia "She's not right, there's something inside her mind..", yet they told you she would be okay.

Your paranoia disagreed, then you talked alone with Spencer about Elle and he confessed he spoke alone with Elle and he agrees with ye, she wasn't in her right mind, however his statement you told him "No, she's not only at her good mental state Spence, she's hurt, she has a recent wound that hasn't been healed yet, she's traumatised and within this case, she'll have a burnout, she's... Please, I know that everybody doubt and she fake it right, but she can't trick me, I find hard to stare through people's eye, but Elle, I saw something, an anger misty filled with thunderous fear".

No sooner said than done, Elle left without saying goodbye, well, she sent to you a letter explained everything and even apologise for not being able to come, hug you and say goodbye, it would be harder for her if she saw the team.

The Boogeyman case closed – After finding the dairy products inside the refrigerator, the magic lamp above your head popped up like magic. It isn't an adult due to the EpPen found on the table, that person also didn't eat its spinach which you thought to yourself:"only a child would ignore its vegetables, I'd do the same", plus with a clue what you guys found inside the refrigerator,someone else is lactose intolerant and must be..A child, a boy It's a checkmate, you ran to warn the others, Spencer, Gideon and Morgan, but when you walked in Gideon left to attend a call with Hotchner and Spencer was talking with Morgan about Elle, their talk back in Ohio, you knew it.

Now you four were talking about your fears, you laughed when Spencer answers came and you also didn't even flinched with JJ story, you did not believed making her roll her eyes. Then it was your time to tell, what are you fears? What are you afraid about? You answered unbothered:- Dying alone, without no one caring about your death, simple and honest.

Morgan hugged you by your side denying it:-"Oh poor kid! Don't ever think about it."

Spencer says:-"I wouldn't let you, we, we wouldn't let you die alone I-I mean, we care, then it will never happen."— JJ grins sneaky towards Morgan:-"Oh yeah, don't ever think about this, if you died, I think someone would have an heart attack."-Morgan understood her leave, Garcia called so the subject was substituted for another. JJ left the room, so you quickly sat next to Spencer and muttered while Morgan was on his call:–"What do you think? Who's our unsub?"-He look at your face, making you hold off averting his gaze.–"Do you have one already?"-he smiles.—"Yeah, I think...It's a kid, not a grown up man".

Spencer seems so chill about it:-I don't doubt you, but let's Morgan finish his call and tell him what you think.

–Do you really think he will.. Believe me? When I always say my guess, the team always tell me to hold on until we've got all the right clues and answers.

– I do, I do believe in you, your guesses lead my way of thinking, you let the knots freely flying on the air and then I...-Morgan interrupts Spencer.

–Call Gideon, we just found our unsub.-Morgan glares is darker.

So you all take your leave, you're the one calling Gideon, Spencer asks who's the unsub.

– The school counselor, right above my nose, were heading to his house.

Then Spencer realised, when Morgan arrest the unSub, he might not be the one, his son, easy to way to win the other children trust.

The following step you guys catched the school counselor, he had the red cap in his hold, yet you stood with your mindset, checkmate baby, it isn't the father, its his son and you guys would waste time with his interrogation.

You were around a corner thinking about your team next move, when you tried to alert 'em they were already wasting their time with the father, you didn't wanted to bother Gideon's call, Morgan was in the interrogation room, when JJ appeared all worried followed by Spencer, okay, a hint of jealousy.

– The boy never went to school.

Ok, now you'll leave, you'll bring your dog, Nala and in this case you begged Hotch to bring it with you, right decision girl.

Before your leave, Spencer holds your wrist.

–Where are you going??-he quickly says with a curious and worried countenance.

–Find them, you can they the others, I heard about the school bus route, I'll just bring something or..-you widen your smile.- Someone, I'll catch you up.

– Can I go with...-Gideon call you two, Spencer grunts letting go of your wrist gently.–Go on, I'll tell him.

– You deserve another hug.-you leave him without thinking twice, you did not saw his face but his cheeks were reddening.

So as you thought you all were at the playground, Nala was with you and after finding a girl's backpack, Nala smelled it you guys waste no time running after your girl, from a distance with wide eyes the ginger boy was ready to whack the girl with a baseball bat!

Thanks god your dog jumped right at the boy's hand that holds the bat.

–Nala!-your dog is unwilling to let go of the boy arm,

if wasn't for Gideon's hold, for godforsaken, the boy wouldn't have his right hand anymore.

The little girl hops on your arms, gripping hands tightening around your shoulders and neck, she was scared to death. You gently pat her backs.

Nala right next to ye leg, sitting as a well behaved princess.

The Boogeyman case is closed. Unfortunately Spencer and all your teammates seems sad, its about Elle, and you heard Morgan giving Spence a advice also heard Gideon's call with Hotchner, Elle did mot admitted anything and you mentally agreed with Elle actions, might be wrong? According to this country laws, yes, according with your humans being guts? No.

After all this mess, you're with your dog at home when you hear a knock-knock.

You did not open, until Reid voice came out.

– It's me, It's Spencer Reid, Doctor Spencer Reid and I work at BAU with you, you told me we're best friends.- he means "best-friends" with a strange tone, hm. You open the door.

– Come in please, you know, if you weren't Spencer, Nala would jump on you and destroy your pretty face, is momma wrong sweetie?-you say the last part with a baby talk tone, making Spencer smile, Nala barked as a reply.-Told ya.-you close the door.– So, why such illustrious presence is doing at my house, to whom do I owe the honour? Did Gideon or Hotchner send you to warn me to not bring Nala into anymore cases?

– Oh no, otherwise, they're okay with Nala and she did a great work, besides the bite, a win is a win,but hm, you know, I'm not here for this.-he wags his hands that were carrying supermarket bags, he bought and brought things, but for what reason?

Straight to the epidural point, he's here because he wanted to see you again, since the last visit he wasn't able to come any longer thanks to BAU's cases, an alert and all of you need to leave your houses and fly away to wherever you need.

Howbeit he wouldn't tell the truth reason of his visit.

– What are those?

– Food?-he says with a confused look, which makes you grin.

– Okay, but for what? It's past dinnertime and I see that you're, how can I tell..-you stare with no shame at his figure.-You don't seem to eat much, mainly at night.

He scoffs at your statement, seriously, are you profiling him right now?

– Aren't you profiling me, are you?-He puts the bags on your isle kitchen table with only two seats, he notices that you ain't a huge fan of inviting people in, he can't really judge your.

– Sorry not sorry.-you follow him standing by his side with curious eyes.– What have you bought?

– Hm, coffee bags, noodles, two sodas, chips and yogurt, I didn't bought any ice cream because the distance from the supermarket until your house would melt it

–Thanks, but you will eat all these snacks with me? Right?

– Sure, if I weren't I wouldn't brought a pair and...- be says naturally, you snoop inside the bag and see a good dog brand of treats.- Sorry if it sounded rude.-you wave your hand denying with a smile.

– Nah, it's okay, nothing against the literal obviousness.-he doesn't know where else to look, besides your face, people in his university class would ignore him as soon as he open his mouth, he's not used to it, kindliness.-Go on mate, we've been in a hurry all these days with sleep deprivation and lack of basic nourishment, I can't even believe all of us don't eat what is sustainable, so when I'm back home I make sure to cook my dinner and packed lunch for the next day if we don't get a call for the next case outside town, obviously.-woah, while you were speaking out your mind he's amazed, so you know how to cook and care for everybody health, that's the reason why you leave on everybody's table a coffee or tea plus a treat, before the Boogeyman case you left on his table a brownie.

His forearm was bolstering on the table in front of you while his eyes were upon focusing on you, yo unlike you, you couldn't stand eye contact from more than seconds, but the entire talking his eyes landed on you.

– So... That's why you put on our tables coffee and treats? Even on Gideon's and Hotchner's.-you feel your cheeks warm-up, you thought coming 30min early before everyone arrivals, so they didn't knew that was you doing it.

– How do you know it?

– We're profilers, everybody knows but they made me promise I wouldn't tell so you could still surprising us.

– Wow, when you say like this, make me feel ashamed of meself.-you laugh uncomfortably, but not in a bad way.

But he doesn't know it.

– No no, we like it, I mean.. -he panics shaking negatively his hands.-I like, don't stop with it, but I'd like you to show up, I know when you come earlier than us, even over me, you don't sleep well.-you finally breath soon opening a smile.

– Okay, I'll make sure to take your advice, then let's stop talking and let's eat.

He awkwardly agrees while rubbing his scruff.

[Break time]

00h21a.m

You were laughing all giggly while he was explaining you with all of his patient about scientific facts even when you were making dumb designed question just to make him talk more and more about stuff that makes him comfortable around you and happy.

– Okay okay, now you understood how the suppose fire we see coming from the sun is not really fire.

– Yeah, because in space there's no oxygen and within it, fire cannot be produced, sun is made up of hydrogen arpund 70% and 28% of helium. Carbon, nitrogen and oxygen make up 1.5% and the other 0.5% iiisss..-much information, too much and with a pout on your face he continues.

–Is made up of small amounts of many other elements like neon, iron, silicon, magnesium and sulfur.-he proudly smiles.

– You know I might forget it soon, don't you?-he eat his yogurt while shaking positively his head.

–And I'll remind you of it.

One o'clock a.m

You didn't let Spencer get out of your house at this hour, it's not even a possibility.

– You stay here tonight till we left to go to work and don't make up any excuses.

– I wasn't going to though.-he leaves his guard down while having a wide smile, which makes you giggle awkwardly.

– Okey dokey, I wasn't waiting for it... I'll bring you a pillow, a soft blanket and when you wake up, you don't need to leave as soon as you wake up, there's an extra toothbrush and after this you can go.

– Is this an order?-He stands up with his hands on his hips.

– Yes and no! No because I can't control you and yes because I'm just saying because isn't safe to walk past home at this hour, as far as I can reckon, you're a FBI agent, then yup, you can't leave, not now.

– though I wasn't going anyway but you gave me more reasons to stay.-he shows off a smirk

This silly danny boy.

[On the next morning]

08h11 a.m

Nala sniffs Reid's face waking him up, in a huff he complains while getting up, when he headed to the loo he sees you getting out with loosen hair but all already brushed, yet his eyes automatically landed on your chest, you weren't wearing a bra, what is wrong with him, why does his stomach churns when you're around? Not in a bad way, but in a good...

–Spencer? Spencer Reid??? Reeid? Earth calling Spencer Reid!?-you snap him out of his mind.

– What, What happened?

– Nothing, you just stared at me, do I have something on my face?-you suggest and he quickly denies.

– No no, I just, I'm just sleppy, sorry, can I use the bathroom?

– Sure, I'll make us breakfast before you go to your house and change clothes.

He agrees only moving his head getting inside, Jesus Christ, "did she noticed, that I wasn't staring at her pretty face yet her other beautiful pair of eyes?" Spencer needed to wash his face so he could fully wakes up.

You're not dumb, you noticed, however you wouldn't say a thing, you changed clothes and tied your hair.

Acouple of minutes after the coffee and the rest of the breakfast fast is set on the table, Spencer come out wearing his clothes, opening a shy smile.

– I could smell everything from the loo and you didn't burnt anything.

– So you thought I would burn everything?

– Not exactly, I mean...

– To tell you the truth, my first period living alone I did burnt things without mom or grandma tutoring me, but now I'm a good chief.

– Sure you do, the smell is hella good.-you ended laughing.

– Hella good? I think me and Morgan are an awful influence on you,

– Don't think I'm all saint, I reas a lot of books.-you give him a cocky smirk.

– Oh fine, I can't forget that ma boy isn't naive, he kissed an actress months ago and I still waiting my Prince on a dark horse will come.

Idiot, why did you said that? What you meant with it? When he told you this and what he said Morgan told him right after, you kind not liked it, yet you hide this feeling pretty well. Spencer seemed surprised by your statement, he notices your body language change.

– Hmm, yeah, you know, I thought my "first" kiss would be special, but it wasn't, but when I kiss someone else in the future again, I hope that time will be with a special, smart, kind and funny person.

Well, you're all this, but too naive to understand he LITERALLY dropped a straight hint towards you, heaven help the fool who falls in love but can't show it properly.

–But why the Prince on a dark horse and not a white one, as usual?

– Because of it, I want something unusual, different yet magical, the life we are living is not simple, it's tough and dangerous, so I'd like to someone, somehow, become my only special place, when I feel fear, happy, sad and even angry so I'd run to his arm's and when he holds me I can..-he complete your sentence.

– Feel safe.-he says with a tender-hearted tone, as his heart and mind spoke by itselves and you shyly open a wide grin.

– Yeah, now you understood why, what do you think about it?

– I just can think that your mind is unbelievable as your skill while we're working.- what he really wanted to say is: "I'd like someone like that too, so when I have nightmares, this person would be my refuge, you amazes me."

[Break time]

North mammon case closed - since Elle left BAU, Hotchner started putting you to work with him and Morgan, you didn't complained, but you wanted to be set with Spencer as you used to be with, however when Aaron Hotchner say it's an order.

Nevertheless Spencer was not pleased, sometimes he'd ask to Gideon:-"Will agent y/n come with us?" then when a no is following by, he's not happy and it didn't go unoticed by neither Morgan, JJ and Garcia. Morgan would slip sometimes to Garcia "The boy does a funny face when Hotch says y/n will work in camp with me, babygirl, I'm starting to think he might be fond of her, what do you think?" And she would say:-" I dunno, you know, he sees like a person that don't enjoy abruptly changes, they're the same age and intelligent as well, he found someone like him". Morgan:–"That what I'm saying, doll, she's the other half of his orange, they match!". Garcia would laugh:–"Do you wanna bet?"–"Woman, my money's is on them."

Empty planet – Yeah, Spencer is different(than his usually difference)the atmosphere when you're near each other when coming forth and back cases is juat like chalk and cheese. He either calm or super spirited while solving profiles, then when you're paired withour each other company he is all centred and reticent, not mentioning when he's worried when you have to run alongside Morgan chasing mad killers, offenders and suspects.

The last word – when the killer of women came inside the BAU department aiming at a police colleague everybody draw out their guns, however you were pulled behind Spencer by himself, not even managing to draw your gun, he pulled you behind him as if it was possible to protect both of you, since you were next to a pillar, you were taken by surprise and your face stupefied was, you were ready to say something about this action but his hand in front of your body almost touching your arm to stay behind him shush ye.

Glad that Morgan were able to stop the unsub and save the police officer.

Spencer is relieved that nobody got hurt, he now turns his feet to you.

–Are you okay?-and you just confirm with a head wave.

– Thanks for being my "wall" protector, but I'd be the one protecting your arse, since I'm with a gun and you don't have one.-you laugh at his petty defensive face.

– Someone has been told to me to just believe sometimes in your guts even if they sound unbelievable.-you scoff giving him a tap on his arm.

– I was there when it was spoken.-he got the reference (obs: The lion, the witch and the wardrobe).

– What do you think, after we put these men behind bars, do you mind going with me to grab a coffee and brownies?

– Without hesitation, payment is on you.

Would it be funny if you were the one that fell first but he fell harder?

The first time you saw and listened to what Dr.Spencer Reid had to say, you already fell for him, but what about him? Should he feel the same?

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[notalexhorne]

I nearly got in trouble at work for it, back when I had a Real Job™️, because my last name is one of those ones that doesn’t really exist outside of the US. It’s one of those funky misspellings that happened when people came over from Europe. And what’s funny about it is that it’s really fucking obvious. Like, it was very clearly meant to be something else, because it’s one letter off of something very common, but that one letter difference makes the name it became actually hilarious.

I worked at a phone company in the billing department, and they had a policy where for obvious reasons, you couldn’t take calls from family members. If a call came in, you had to pass it off to someone else. But to reduce the chances of that happening, we took calls from the midwest, while we were on the west coast.

Well. I’m from the midwest, so that complicates things. But my last name comes from my husband, whose family is also from the midwest. (By pure coincidence, his dad and my mother are from the same town.)

And wouldn’t you know, I get a call from someone with my fucking last name. My weird-ass, misspelt immigrant last name. But here’s the thing. Somehow, and I already knew this going in, there are two families in the same county with this same misspelt name that have nothing to do with one another, and it’s been a running joke for as long as they’ve been aware of one another. There’s a fake jokey feud on and everything over who the superior family is.

So this call pops up, and I see my own fucking name, and I’ve already been let in on the joke so to cover my ass I ask if this lady is one of the good guys or the bad guys effectively, and she was one of the “bad guys,” which let me take the call, and we had a good laugh about it. I helped her out with whatever it was she needed help with, and got on with my day, and of course the call got flagged.

And my god, do you have any idea how hard it is to explain to some city boy manager with his dick up his own ass what small town midwestern Scandinavian rivalries are like? Nah, mate. I didn’t take a call from some distant auntie. This was the Fargo version of the fuckin Hatfields and McCoys, played out in painfully polite code because there’s nothing else to do out there.

[fourleaf-artlocke-tracker]

HGSS - Stream #1

Stream began on 9/11 around 5:30 CST Announcement Tumblr Post

Stream Summary below the cut :3

Starter chosen! A Cyndaquil named Kettle! +1 Pokemon!

Ethan is Forrest, how fun! :3

After a long debate and one misspelt poll name (minon -fish) the rival is named! Wallow, the evil version of Willow who is Definitely Real and Willow totally didn't just commit those crimes. Totally. Yep. Awesome.

The rival's creature is name Potodile.... cute creature with pot on head

One time, it didn't talk to it's ingame mom before leaving and it felt so bad that it reset the game. That is a canon thing that they said. honestly real and canon.

The first encounter, a Pidgey! Named Moe Wings! +1 Pokemon!

An idea was tossed around about giving her yuri wings and a lot of history was discussed during the drawing of this creature!! very cute and a v fun segment

tbh i had to go get water and missed Poke Bowl's catching, but we got Poke Bowl the Metapod with only Harden! How fun :) + 1 Pokemon!

Soon after, Willow caught a Spinarak! Between the choices Bobbin and Spindle, it chose Bobbin! Personally, this guy is my favorite thus far :) + 1 Pokemon!

Then, we arrived in the Belsprout Tower! Thing! (idk ive never played HGSS) and caught a silly Ghastly! Dimple! Well, silly sure is a word for it. Watching this thing being animated was... interesting. :) + 1 Pokemon!

Mob Psycho Ghastly. Horrible. Higher resolution image because the people need to see this.

I agree, user keyboardTennis and user Plush0fairy.

Accidental creature jumpscare.......

Zubat encounter! We catch it with general ease! This name was a chat-name, and we chose Doctor LawRent. Awesome. Perfect. Darling baby. I would kill for her. She works a solid internship and wants to move her way up the corporate ladder. Good for her. Graduated with honors. +1 Pokemon!

oh my GOD its so low quality forgive me. pleasee…

The chat enticed Wyll with the Wooper, but the false prophet himself, a rodent. The allure of life, only to discover failure itself. Fate's cruel hands have touched this creature and have hurt the people. Velvet joins the team. + 1 Pokemon!

angry creature... and transgender.... and yuri with Moe Wings

Whoopass x Pidgay yuri mention!!! woo!!!! tragedy...

Willow realizes that the level cap is 13. Oh No...

"HE IS A BALL!!! He has nothing to drop but himself! and my standards of him..." - Willow 2k24

oh!

awesome!

Dimple almost dies soon after. 4 health vs a lvl3 Belsprout. Good job, Dimple. Woo!

Velvet x LawRent arises as the new yuri ship... OH AND POLYCULE IDEA HAS BEEN TOSSED INTO THE RING! WOOOOOOOO!!!

Willow defeats the tower's Elder Li!

it just tried to teahc flash to dimple oh no oh fuck oh NO

After a quick almost-death with Moe Wings, Willow dives into the gym! Falkner makes a great show of how bird pokemon are superior and then gets his first pokemon absolutely DESTROYED by Moe Wings.

Attempting a switch, Dimple is brought down to 4hp after a single gust. Swap out into Kettle, a few close-calls, and then the first gym badge is Willow's!

Rock Smash.... i want to rock smash in my skull for writing this

oh my god chills voice. what the hell. deku?

Willow uses hacker power. magic. i think. i dunno. they use their magical powers of inserting numbers into boxes to roll the Mareep egg in the word game...

oh my god it encounters a wooper after we've already got velvet... the true prophet watches our failures and laughs... laughs... laughs... on and on... but we are the fools, the jesters among the courts of man and it knows. It dances around our wishes and sets them ablaze. "No water types!" it screams and shouts.

hehe creature

they are all 5 pixels tall in his screenshot.... so tiny...

KETTLE EVOLUTION!!!! darling child baby boy.....

chills possession arc went crazy

litte creatures....

im going to be so fr rn. i did not watch the rest of the stream because i had work in the morning and did not want to stay until 12am for the HGSS anniversary... guys i have to pay my BILLS.

so if anyone was there and wants to submit a quick summary of the events then that transpired, then do tell me!!!

the stream is still ongoing if its september 11th so... :)

ADDED POKEMON: +7 LOST POKEMON: 0 NET POKEMON: +7

[allisonreader]

The Ball Again

So since I've read and reread several times the books that are out for the Lunar Chronicles I have wanted to write a story that fits into the world but I was a little lost on what to do. So when I came the discussion questions on Marissa Meyer's website and there were these three writing exercises and the third one really stood out to me.

3. You are a guest at the ball. Write about what happens between Cinder and Prince Kai from your point of view.

The view I have taken is that of a little girl somewhere between the ages of 4-6, to give it the most realistic feel I have purposely misspelt and ignored proper writing because when you are that young, you don't know how to spell nor do you have your pronunciation down pat. So I wrote it this way to give it a more child-like feel. I hope you enjoy it.

Papa and I arrived at the ball early, he carries an ummbrrella with him so we don't get wet. It was raining really, really hard when we were in our hover but its almosted stopped now. Papa says it will start again though. Rain smells so good, exspecaily up here at the palace, Papa says it's because of all the pretty plants in the garden.

The entrance is so big! Even if Papa and I were to stretch out laying on the floor we wouldn't touch. The roof is so high above our heads with crysals hanging from the lights leavinglittle rainbows all over the walls. There are guards allalong the walls on both sides. They're so tall, they scare me, they don't smile just looking straight and solam. Papa says they're paid to keep everyone safe so we don't have to be scared of them. I still am a little bit though. We get to the top of the big stair case and their aare more people standing alone them. Papa says there there for show and to not worry about them he also says we have to let a man scan our ID chips justto make sure we are who we say we are. I don't know why someone would lie about who they are. That's just silly.

I hold Papa's hand tight as we go down the stairs. We are somes of the first people here, Papa says that's because we are going to leave earlier than some, because Papa says I'm still too young to stayup too late.

We get to eat all kinds of delicices, with ginger and garlic two of my favorite flavors. The waiters have to hold their platters waaaay down low for me so I can picks what I want to eat. Papa says not to eat too much or my tummy will hurt and I won't be able to dance. I promised him I wouldn't eat too much. I have some huneygarlicpork, tunarolls that are hotandcheesy, some ooeygooey cinaminehot rolls ,gingerbeef, and greentea.

Papa dances with me while more people enter lots of the ladies smile at us and say that that's so cute or sweet, I don't like them looking at papa and me like that.

Then Prince Kai entered. Papa told me he's no longer a prince now that his father Emperor Rikan has gotten sick and died from the blue plague. Then that scary Lunar queen entered announced as Emperor Kai's personal guest. She was pretty but she didn't look right, she looked fake. Papa says that's because the queen has Lunar magics and she glammourer's herself to always look pretty.

We got to hear all kinds of music which Papa calls classical he says that there was some from the second era. Closerer to the time we were going to leave Emperor Kai had to dance with the Lunar queen, he didn't look very happy to be dancing with her. People around us didn't like that. They call her bad names that are meaniey names. Papa had to hold me up so I could sees. The music stoppeded and we all clapped as the queen and the emperor parted ways. The next song started and Papa and I went to dance about half way through the trumpets to announce people sounded Papa and I stopped dancing to see whos it would be.

They announced, "Please welcome to the 126th Annual Ball of the Eastern Commonwealth, a personal guest of His Imperial Majesty: Linh Cinder of New Beijing."

The musics all died away as everyone looked at her, she looked like she jumped in a mud puddle ruining her siliver gown. She was so wet, but pretty. I looked the prince, I mean emperor he looked happy to see her. I coulds still see because Papa was holding me up for part of our dancing.

Then Papa put me down.

"Papa, who is she? Is she someone speacial? Papa?"

"Hush Lilly I'm trying to figure it out." I couldn't see what happened after she walked down the stairs and into the crowd, I'm too short to see. Then the emperor commanded musics to play again. Papa said we had to dance again, it wouldn't be much longerer before its was time to leave. Lots of people wanted to know whos she was I could hear them askings everyone round them. After Papa and I finished our dance the girl said something I couldn't hears it but made those who did gaspeded, Papa did.

Then that ucky queen laughed it was hard and ugly sounding not like Mama's was. There's lots of talking that I don't undertand. I looks at my Papa, he knows what's wrong he's not happy about it. Some people are making upsets noises. Papa pushs me into his leg, wrapping his arm around my head. I hear more talking it soundeds like if I was under my pillow, all I knows is it's something about Lunars.

Papa doesn't want me to hear or see. Now I hear whispters of people happy? Papa is covereds my ears and hidings my eyes, not like I can sees anything. There is a big bang and Papa picks me up and moves towards the exit.

I feel peoples pushing shoveshove, shoving. Papa doesn't let me look around or answer my questions like what the noises was or where we going or why I can't look. He keeps moving 'til we get to our hover then he just sits until he is ready to leave. Papa is shaken he tells me he's scareds I don't want Papa to be scareds so until we go I curleded up in his lap, when we get home, which tooken forever, he made me get straight into my pajamas and locked all the doors and barred them. Papa came into my room and told me we weren't leaving until he was sure everything would be alright. Papa doesn't trust Lunars, they're scary with what they can do. Papa curleded up with me as I fell asleep.

For those who skipped my little blurb at the top all mistakes are not mistakes but purposely done and carefully plotted.

[nightshade-anura]

yes we all may have welcomed walker scobell w open arms but if i hear one negative word about the grover or annabeth castings (which are being announced soon!!!) i will fucking lose it. this applies twofold to annabeth after how yall treated alexandra dadadrio

[cuddlerlouis]

Wait what did you mean by mp what fucked up shit happened?

my exact tags were: #there should be criticism for mp because they’ve fucked up things or done things that dwd and its team/cast did and got shit on and yet

i can give you a few examples off the top of my head.

olivia got shit on for allowing paps to get pics around the trailers and fans near set when they were filming in palm springs. people claimed she did that so she could sell her flop movie and get tabloids involved with pap pics. yet no one ever said anything when we would get daily pap and fan pics from the mp set. no one said anything when we could literally match entire scenes from the book to pap pics and videos taken on set. the only things we didn't see were indoor scenes and yet no one claimed that michael grandage allowed paps to make up for his shit movie.

when olivia did multiple screenings for dwd, she got shit on because she did multiple, and because some reactions were apparently bad. said reactions were sent through anonymous asks on tumblr therefore with no way to actually confirm anything. when a similar thing happened with mp, people had distinctly separate reactions. first of all, the huge majority of people who attended the mp screening were harry fans, lots of harries and larries, it was all over twitter. my main point is that obviously mp would get a fantastic response if the room is full of biased harry fans. yet people tried to actively compare those two events regardless of who it was composed of and what the aim was and claimed harry would 100% be considered for an oscar with mp yet was the shittiest actor in dwd. anyway, the point of those screenings was to help the producing team develop their movie with some input from other people, and despite those anons spreading bad things, i did see other good reactions for dwd that no one considered here.

when it comes to posters, tastes and interests are different and subjectivity is important so i won't go there, but having the director's name misspelt on the first poster for mp is ridiculously unprofessional. i just checked and it still isn't changed. barely anyone has pointed that out but i just know had it been dwd people would have been LOUD about this.

people are SO ready to analyse every social media interaction or lack of when it comes to dwd, yet no one has said anything that harry doesn't follow david dawson back on ig. shouldn't there be beef between the two of them?

when articles started to come out in tabloids about harry's performance in mp, i remember people celebrating the headline that harry could be considered for the oscars with his performance, yet no one even cared that the rest of the cast was nowhere given the same credit, they didn't even get david's name right, when i have seen people go furious when other dwd cast members are not mentioned or credited right. and of course they all blamed it on olivia.

i could go on tbh. the double standards are ridiculous and yet no one points these out because they wanna hate olivia and dwd so bad and because they worship my policeman because harry plays a gay character. im obviously not saying dwd shouldn't get criticised or that mp should get ripped through shreds. im just pointing out the differences in criticism both of these movies have faced and the clear biased a lot of people have. i shouldn't need to specify but i am really excited for both movies and try to consider fair comments and criticism for both, unlike the majority of this fandom.

[battery-forgot]

Now, I come mid-week to give you all of my DSMP/MCYT headcanons because I have many

Don’t mind if these are repeated, misspelt, or has no logic, it is block game things and I am not checking over them-- and some will be organized, and some will be random, some might not have a Enter space because these are all ctrl c + ctrl v’ed from a Discord server I am in :]

Skeppy headcanons: Skeppy is 4 billion years old as scientists have thought that is how long ores and diamonds existed for

Skeppy's species is pretty rare

Every diamond that is broken or damaged causes Skeppy to feel a physical pain in his body

His species has lamp tail as they don't have night vision, some of them also have tiny wings that aren't usable, though they can kinda glide short distances with them

Because of his small height, he has taught himself magic to be able to change size, it can hurt him if he goes taller than 5'3, but he is able to get to Foolish's height if he tried

Sometimes random crystals grow on Skeppy's face, though they look different from normal crystals and can be used for things like explosives, though he doesn't know about it

Techno has seen Kristen but doesn't remember it well, though Kristen gave him his crown as a gift

Techno has a collection of skull masks that he has worn, he wears the skulls because of nostalgia now but he used to wear them because he thought they were cool and made him look threatening

Technoblade, Skeppy, Sam, Ranboo, Michael(the son- not Michaelmcchill), Phil, Bad, and some others really like shiny and golden objects

DreamSMP theme/"timeline" is kind of like a steampunk like thing

Drista is DreamXD's sister and DristaXD is Dream's "sister", though they aren't really siblings as they are robots

Drista and DreamXD are clones of DristaXD and Dream, though they actually look nothing alike

Callahan is a mute mini-god that everyone knows exists but doesn't really understand they are a mini-god. They kind of just chill and do what people ask them to do

Phil: Phil is more into traveling than anything else

Though he doesn't mind being a father figure, he doesn't think he is a good one especially after he killed Wilbur

He is able to turn into the size of a crow, though since his wings are now unusable, he doesn't do it as often as it is basically useless

Phil sometimes takes bird baths, though I guess they are always called that-

He has bird legs/talons,but they aren’t fully noticeable

joke headcanon I thought of is that Phil's handwriting is chicken-scratch because he is half-crow

Phil has really good memory, as a crow would

-DreamXD is actually pretty weak in powers, but he acts like he is the strongest person in the server

-Tommy's eye is just completely gone from when Dream killed him, but he covers it with an eyepatch

-Tubbo talks about things to Ranboo thinking he'll forget them, but some stories Ranboo remembers but doesn't speak about it because he doesn't want to make Tubbo worry too much

-Philza wasn't willing to kill Wilbur so Wilbur forced Phil by grabbing his arm and impaling himself

-Dream and Techno sometimes share stories about having ADHD

-Phil didn't really know about Fundy, he knew he existed but had no idea to how he acted, looked, or his actual name

-Wilbur had a letter written to Fundy about how he was sorry for what he was gonna do during November 16th, but the withers blew it up before Fundy knew about it

-Fundy doesn't let anyone hold his hand because it makes him remember the past where he would hold Wilbur's hand a lot

-Change of headcanons: Schlatt and Puffy are cousins, Tubbo was just a random kid that would follow Schlatt for hours a day, waiting for him to acknowledge him

-Dream jumps into the lava in the prison as it reminds him of Sapnap

-Bad was uncomfortable when Sapnap married Big Q and Karl because he went on a date with Quackity before but he still supported them (Yes I know Big Q basically had a divorce with Sap and Karl--)

-Skeppy knows a lot about other's pasts because of how old he is, even traumatizing facts

-Skeppy has a fear of fire (Pyrophobia) and he is kind of scared of Sapnap

-Dream used the revivebook on the cat Tommy killed, but Sam killed it thinking Dream would use the cat against Sam to escape quicker in the future

-Dream doesn't *fully* know why he is in prison, ever since Tommy and Tubbo killed him, a wire/chip broke in his body which made him forget a lot of things. Dream does get told what he had done a lot, but it makes him almost have a panic attack because he thought he was a pretty good person

-Ghostbur is Callahan, they were commanded by DreamXD to become Ghostbur so that everyone could feel like he was still there (Callahan can change who they are completely, but they don't actually know how they acted when as Ghostbur, though that doesn't mean he didn't know what happened, when Dream killed/revived Ghostbur, Callahan got to see what it felt like to die for the first time)

-Fundy has the habit of picking up things and using them at some sort of fidget (examples: knives, leaves, grass, wood, pencils, berry stems, etc.

-Ranboo will be writing/saying something about someone and use pronouns instead of their name or just with the person's name (example: "Puffy she/her was--" or "he/him writing down things") [Basically canon-]

-Tubbo used to headbutt people but stopped after around 2 years because he kept hurting people

-Phil used to squawk randomly when he was a kid, but he mainly just squawks when hiccuping now

-Even though Bad used to get really nervous picking people up because he was afraid he was gonna drop and kill them, he now just picks up everyone randomly... except Foolish and Ranboo

-Foolish is able to shrink to around 7ft, and unless he is building a big build, he will shrink so he can get around easier

-Because Ranboo is only half enderman, he isn't the full height of an enderman (He is only 8'5)

-If someone asks Charlie about his pronouns, out of confusion, he just responds with "Bones!" which sometimes leads Las Nevadas members (or just anyone really) calling him by He/it/Bones

-When Bad was being controlled by the egg, it made him get even more flashbacks about how his species was supposed to act which would end up with him panicking because that isn't who he wants to be (bonus: The more a member infected by the egg would panic, the more the egg would be able to take over the person because they can't focus)

-Kristin has taught Phil how to do makeup in their free-time of hanging out

-Kristin is insanely tall, if she shrinks then she turns more transparent, so she ends up looking more like a ghost when at average height

-Skeppy can't cry, though he still can feel sad

-Bad and Eret talk to eachother quite a lot

-When Tubbo was around 11-14, he would make redstone contraptions, though he doesn't remember how to make most of them now

Ranboo doesn't like photoshoots because he feels like everyone is staring at him, though this does mean he just doesn't have a passport photo, his alternative was to draw what he looked like on the passport but they didn't allow it, as well as Ranboo doesn't really remember what he looks like anyway because they don't like looking in mirrors--

I think this is half-canon but another headcanon is where every SMP is just an island far away from others. In this case, Hermitcraft, 30 day SMP, and other SMPs are all linked up, as for people who are in multiple SMPs, they travel around by boat for awhile, now, the thing I've just not figured out is how tf their look magically changes-like- outfit is decently obvious-- but do they magically transform like an anime girl? Idk- 

Skeppy's voice randomly glitches out, is there an actual reason for this? No.

Quackity’s outfit is similar to Sub Urban’s (In Freak)

Skeppy acts as if he is royalty, he doesn't act rude or demanding unless joking- but he does act as if he is the superior person-

-Skeppy and Slime are the only "people" that don't have steampunk styled clothing because of how old they are

-Skeppy's hair grows insanely quickly and no one knows why, he honestly hates it

-Most of Skeppy's outfits have been made by Bad or Puffy

-Skeppy knows DreamXD as if he is a brother, but he despises him because of something that has happened around 3,000 years ago

-Skeppy has a lot of different shades in their hair on the "inside"(like- the side where his neck is is what I mean, I don't remember if it has a name or not-)

-Like I've said before, Skeppy's eyes are crystallized, but they are somewhat transparent, not enough to where you'd be able to see the inside of his head, but they are still transparent

-In the past, Skeppy didn't like their name which is why they called himself "Skeppy"

-He has an attachment to caves

-When Skeppy was a kid, they had the dream of him filling cave walls with houses of their own

-Skeppy goes by it/they/he

-Skeppy joke flirts with Bad all the time to confuse everyone, Bad doesn't like it because then everyone thinks they are dating which makes him feel a little uncomfortable

-Out of boredom, in the past, Skeppy would climb on the roofs of caves, hang upside down, and try and sleep like a bat

-They have no blood in his body, it is literally just a diamond covered with a thin layer of skin and hair

-Skeppy gets stressed out easily when it comes to learning because it just reminds him of everything he had to get used to as the billion of years he lived went by

-Skeppy used to not be allowed out into the open world, the first time it experienced going outside was when it was 2 billion years old

-Skeppy has accidentally caught things on fire during the day because of the reflecting of the sun, but even then, they are nocturnal so they don't really have to worry about it

-Wilbur adapted to hanging out with Sally in the water, he has some gills, but he can only breathe underwater for a bit longer with them

-Skeppy always has the equivalent of Diamond (armor) except when he was infected by the egg, he was equivalent to the strength of a Ruby

-Infected Skeppy has a redstone glow when touched, so when hugged(or hive fived- or- yeah you get the point), he would give a subtle glow around him until let go

-The Eggpire still can be controlled, but they are able to control it unless angered/upset

-Skeppy was 6ft when infected, now he is 3′9 un-infected

-At this point, Dream likes the prison because he sometimes feels safe there, like no one can hurt him

-DristaXD is more of a ghost robot than an actual robot

-DristaXD's hobby is murdering people and has basically been in some sort of jail before, she has broken chains around their ankles and hands, it seems to have been made of a really strong material as wel

-Sapnap used to have fire wings, but when he had to get extinguished, they disappeared, they are still there, they just aren't visible until dunked in lava and Sapnap can't use them anymore

-Infected Bad still took care of Sapnap, but Sapnap never cared

-Sapnap takes the name "lava cake" too seriously... though he thinks the literal lava cakes he makes taste good

-Puffy's hair has been dyed blue by Ghostbur before because he wanted people to remember Friend if they ever disappeared

-Going with my Ghostbur as Callahan hc, when Ghostbur was killed, Callahan kind of glitched between realities and so Ghostburs body glitched from Callahan's body and Ghostbur's then just disappeared. Callahan is still alive but they randomly glitch into different realities, he has glitched into places Karl has gone, including The Inbetween.

-When Ghostbur was glitching back into Callahan after killed, it shocked and concerned Dream

There you go :]

[silkiemae]

The Book of Azrael by Amber Nicole

The Book of Azrael by Amber Nicole My rating: 1 of 5 stars I've done it. I finally finished this book. It only took me like a month and a half but I finally battled my way through and boy do I have a lot to say. Strap in folks. This review will be filled with spoilers. Well, we start strong with the name of one of Amber’s islands being misspelt in the book blurb. It’s Erioa, but in the book, it’s Eoria. So that right there should tell you all you need to know about the overall quality of this book. The editing is like that through all 841 pages. It took me, so long to finish this tome of a novel. I stopped it several times but my compulsion to finish things kept gripping me by the back of the neck and forcing me back. I am always wary when debut authors release an 800-page tome for their first novel. I know this book was traditionally published by Rose and Star but it reads like a first draft. It’s very watt-pad tier writing. It’s marketed like a self-published novel and reads like someone who couldn’t be bothered to take the time to edit or proofread. The first 50% of this book could have been removed, and you probably would not have missed a thing. Every flashback could have been scrapped. The first 15 chapters could’ve been condensed and combined. The whole sleepover saga with Gabby could’ve been cut. Nobody cares about the weird face masks they’re wearing or the sappy romance movies they’re watching. No one CARES. I understand she’s trying to build a relationship with the sister to show us how much she means to Dianna, but she tells us about 85 times in the span of three chapters that she never gets to see Gabby, and this is such a rare occurrence. Like, okay, I GET IT. THANK YOU. Shut up about it, for the love of god. There’s a scene where they go to a nightclub to meet up with Gabby’s current fling, and this is after Dianna has been going on and on about how she never gets to see her sister and she’s so glad to see her and blah blah blah. Some guy comes up to hit on her, and she says, and I quote, “But I was here with Gabby, the sister I rarely got to see.” I swear to god, if you tell me one more time, I’m going to lose it. So she rejects the guy because she never gets to see her sister….and then immediately leaves the bar without her sister?????? WHAT? Honestly, a majority of the book felt like filler material. Nothing actually happened that was important. Dianna and Liam banter a lot, but none of it is relevant. Most of the things we learn are in flashbacks or weird robotic conversations. I didn’t buy their relationship. Everything about it felt juvenile as well as the majority of this book. There is so much telling in this story, and I’m so tired. The writing itself is C-Grade mediocre, but I see the potential. I won’t shit on Amber entirely and say that she can’t write at all because there are some good lines, but unfortunately, all the bad ones overshadow it. Not to mention the editing issues. Some paragraphs repeat within pages of each other, word for word like she just copied and pasted them. An editor is credited, but uh…what work did they even do? Because I can’t find it. All the world-building reads like info dumpage. A review says here that all the world-building is given with ‘no info dumping at all!’ And I’m here to tell you that that’s a lie. Every bit of narration has the POV ranting and raving about their feelings, but they repeat it over and over again to the point where I could not care less. Whenever I think something is well done, it gets overdone. An editor could’ve helped with that if an editor had actually gone over this book. It reads like she was trying to fill space, but you didn’t need to write an 800-page book, Amber. You could’ve told the same story and probably a better story in 400 pages. Let’s talk about the dialogue. Everyone speaks the same, like a robot. Every conversation reads like Siri responding to you. The contractions are super awkwardly placed and never at the right moment. It would make sense for Liam to talk stiffly and for the language to be strange since he’s been living away from humanity for however long and had to learn English when he returned. But literally, EVERYONE talks like this. Here, enjoy these treats I’ve gathered. * - with obvious male interest * - his ablaze blade ( it sounds so stupid, I can’t breathe) * The hair on my legs and vagina had gotten a little out of control. — This should have been 10000% scrapped. What the hell was she thinking? * - satisfaction and male hunger flaring in his eyes * - as the aggressive male power in the room increased * I glanced at him and nearly stumbled, the male beauty of him taking my breath away. * In the logical thinking part of my consciousness, I knew it came from a place of caring, but there was so much he did not know. (AMBER JUST SAY LOGICALLY, WTF??) Amber created her own pantheon and her own world, I guess. I’m not sure what she based her pantheon on, but I can say that Unir is basically Odin. With his prophetic visions and golden spear, aka Gungnir. The whole ending part of the book reminded me of the first Thor movie where Thor goes off and kills off a bunch of frost giants, and his dad and all the gods are furious with him. Well, Liam does the same thing with the Ig’Morutthens, thinking he’s fixing a problem and doing what a king would do, but everyone is mad at him. We’re told they speak these weird old languages, but Liam randomly calls his mother ‘madre’? Ma’am, that is Spanish…you had me believing they were saying these unheard-of languages, but no…it’s Spanish. Most of the gods’ and island names read like keyboard smash to me. Ig’Morruthen, are you joking? What is that? We’re constantly told that the fall of the celestials(or gods, can’t remember for sure) destroyed the fabric of the mortal’s world, right…but we are never actually shown how it was changed. We’re never shown any dystopian world where people live in rags because the celestials destroyed everything. No, we see people going to carnivals and The Modern Grill, watching TV, talking on cellphones, and going to the International Airport. So basically, it’s our world? Nothing is different about it save for the inclusion of these creatures. That’s it. Like a plague happened but we don’t get to see any of those results aside from Dianna and Gabby being monsters or whatever now. So Dianna and her sister died or were dying in a desert at some point, and Kaden showed up to save the day. In return for saving Dianna's sister, he turned her into an Ig'Morruthen; now, she's immortal and a super-powered badass. She can wield fireballs, lick people's blood and see into their memories, change her form into whatever she wants, and have super strength! It seems like Dianna was given all her power but never earned any of it. And by that, I mean her rank at Kaden's side. Sure, he sends her to complete all these tasks for him, which she does marvelously, but as the reader knows, she was automatically given the second rank right after she was made. As a human, did Dianna ever do anything notable to prove she deserved such a position? Also, we’re told that Dianna (assumes she) cannot die unless her heart is removed and destroyed, and Amber starts the book out, trying to make her seem invulnerable. But there are several instances when she is poisoned and is supposedly close to death, so Liam has to feed her his blood?? She can eat human food to sustain herself but has to eat humans to maintain her powers? How often does she have to eat humans? Will she die if she doesn’t eat humans? Or will she just be powerless? Could she revert to a human without eating people? Why doesn’t she just….stop eating people? So if she stops eating people, she stops regenerating or something? But also, like she rips her own heart out, Liam just…puts it back in her chest. Lmfao. So Dianna just can’t die. I appreciate the apparent inner conflict regarding Dianna and Kaden's relationship. Like clearly, it's very toxic. Kaden made Dianna into an Iggy monster(I cannot be bothered to spell that out anymore, sorry) to save her sister’s life, and now she has to, like…bone him or something. I’m not sure if that was part of their deal or if that was like a thing that naturally occurred and was somehow mutual(but it would still be coerced if Dianna felt she needed to do it to keep her sister alive) or if Kaden raped Dianna. It just became a regular thing, or what? But it’s still clear that she has conflicting emotions for him. They’re decently explained so you can empathize with why she continues to humor and sleep with him, etc. But then it gets to a point where it’s overkill (sensing a theme here). It’s unnecessary to tell us what Dianna thinks and feels about every little thing. The creatures of the Otherworld are, for the most part, well done. The dream eaters sound scary as fuck. But please, for the love of god, explain to me how they can speak. Samkiel/Liam’s PTSD is well done, but it becomes overkill. Like I’ve said about a dozen times, this book is too long. We’re told information repeatedly in the same chapter; things are over-explained to the point where it becomes redundant, and it’s all for what? Filler space? You could have created a much better novel if this was 400 pages. Honestly, with the number of things that don’t happen, it would’ve been better as a 300-page book. This book was advertised as two villains who fall in love or something like that; I can't remember exactly, but I know Dianna was announced as a villain, but she's not. She's not a villain. She's doing 'evil' things as a means to an end, and that means is to protect her sister. That doesn't make her a villain. Drake and Ethan even say that she’s not evil. Amber tricks us into thinking that Dianna stooped to killing one of her only friends on Kaden’s orders; the guy even turns to ash, and Kaden catches it all on camera, yet SOMEHOW this guy didn’t die. It was all a ruse. In some convenient ass magical loophole, Dianna only killed the ‘image’ of Drake. So right there, she just erased the only ‘evil’ thing Dianna has done in this book. Threatening people without meaning the threat isn’t evil either. The romance is so poorly done. The first 400 pages involve Liam and Dianna glaring at each other every single paragraph(literally, the word glare/glared/glaring are mentioned like 72 times.) while talking like robots and Dianna making a joke that’s not funny at all and giggling. It’s so juvenile, especially for these people who are supposed to be hundreds of years old. Then one night, Liam has a nightmare, and Dianna decides to talk to him about it and comfort him, and things flip around immediately after. Suddenly, they’re flirty and have all these intense longings toward one another. And then Drake and Ethan make a gross comment about Liam sleeping with Dianna, and it just goes right back to being awkward and uncomfy. I felt like I was just reading awkward conversations between these two the whole book while having info dumps on every aspect of this world thrown at me. Also, the minute Liam insinuated Dianna was dressed like a slut and magically changed her dress for her made me mad as hell. I HATE when men won’t ‘let’ their girlfriend wear something because he deems it too revealing. First of all, Liam isn’t even her boyfriend. Second, IT’S HER BODY. Third, instead of getting mad that Liam essentially called her a slut, Dianna starts swooning over the special dress he made just for her. Kill me. I’m sick of reading about their annoying af miscommunication bullshit. Dianna is all butthurt because Liam stopped sleeping in her bed. After all, Drake and Ethan( you have no idea how hard it is not to write Drake and Josh) made a lewd joke insinuating they’re boning. Liam apologized a bunch, but Dianna continued to choose to be mad. He explained to her over and over again that she does not repulse him, and he’s mentioned he finds her attractive, yet she keeps whining about how repulsive he finds her. Like, shut up, Dianna. You are so pathetic at this point. This book was advertised as spicy, right? Like, I’m positive it was advertised as spicy and yet I am nearly 600 pages into this book and Liam and Dianna still haven’t boned. All the sex scenes have been in dreams and have been vaguely worded with gross phrases like ‘my cock was buried deep inside her’ because that’s like….the only thing these ‘spicy’ authors can think to say. Liam’s jealousy over Drake is so juvenile, as is Dianna’s jealousy over Camilla. Why shouldn’t she realize Camilla is hitting on Liam to get back at Dianna? The thing that had me ripping my hair out in frustration was that this book is about finding the Book of Azrael(aka, the cat from the Smurfs), right? Nine hundred pages of filler space, all to find a book that Liam continues to insist does not exist. Well, this witch Dianna used to bone claims to have the book; all she wants in exchange is a kiss. This is the laziest way to create tension between Dianna and Liam I have ever read in my life. First, Dianna immediately assumes Camilla meant she wanted Dianna to kiss Liam, which is the most self-centered thing ever. Like why would you just assume that? Nowhere did she say I want you, Dianna, to kiss Liam. It was obvious as hell that the kiss would have to be between Camilla and Liam since it was THEIR DEAL. And then Dianna is all possessive suddenly and like NO, YOU CANNOT KISS HIM. Like…you’ve spent all these months looking for this book, and you know Kaden plans to use it to destroy the world…and a kiss is where you draw the line? Because you’re jealous? What happened to being in an open relationship with Kaden? Wouldn’t she be used to things like that? And then Liam kisses Camilla, and they have a full-on make-out session. Like I’ve said a million times before, I’ll say it again, JUVENILE. In this make-out session, Camilla gives Liam all the answers they need magically somehow, and there’s some betrayal stuff, Dianna gets shot in the head, and then they end up shouting in the forest at each other like a bunch of high schoolers because Dianna was jealous. Then we get cockblocked by some gargoyles, excuse me, Irvikuven. I’m nearly 80% of the way through now, and still, there is no spice—oh, just kidding, right at 80% is where the magic finally happens. And the magic was only some foreplay that reminded me of the scene in ACOMAF when Rhysand and Feyre share a bed, he finger bangs her, and then they go to sleep. If you were reading this book hoping for spice, I’m here to tell you there are two chapters of ‘spice’: some finger banging and a really uncomfy blow job. And that’s it. I was just begging for the book to end at this point. I was entirely unsurprised by every single person betraying Dianna. It became repetitive after the third betrayal, like how shocking, yet another person betrayed them! Wow, I am so surprised! Dianna crying and constantly whining about being a repulsive monster was so exhausting. I was so sick of listening to her and Liam whine over one another and everything else. I wish this book was cut in half, ripped to shreds, and put back together several more times before it was released. Because, as I’ve said before, I see potential in bits and pieces, but it’s just so poorly written that I cannot give it more than one star. There’s an actual part where she says this as a sentence ‘Logan having the same deposition toward him as I.’ First of all, that’s not even a complete sentence. Second of all, DEPOSITION? Do you mean DISPOSITION? There are about a thousand more things I could say at this point, but I’m running out of space, and I want to touch on the plot twist ending that everyone was so surprised by. Please explain to me how. The whole Dianna/Gabby relationship was so heavy-handed. It was so thrown in your face how much Dianna loves her, and honestly, my thought process was, okay, this book has been advertised that Dianna is a villain. Still, she’s not, so I bet Gabby, her only reason for doing all this will get killed, which will be the catalyst for Dianna becoming an actual villain. And lo and behold, I was right! Predictable. Like good god, that was a month and a half of my life I will never get back. View all my reviews

[whirlybirdwhat]

Prompt: ASL give Dadan a father's day card. (She threatens to kill them but she keeps the card)

hehehehe this is late BUT HERE WE GOOOOOO

bear hag tiger bandit dad mom

read on ao3 here

“Hey guys.” Ace started out of nowhere, as he and his brothers laid down, staring at the sky from their usual cliffside spot. “What even… is Dadan.”

A beat of quiet.

“A hag!” Luffy said delightedly, giggling as he rolled over to stare at Ace. “An ugly one! Or even a bear! Oh she’s a bear-hag! A bear-hag-tiger-bandit!” He then gasped dramatically, stars in his eyes. “DO YOU THINK SHE CAN HAVE CLAWS! AND FANGS!”

“No! Idiot!” Sabo thumped Luffy on the head without even moving from his position on his back. “Dadan isn’t a bear. Or a tiger. She is a hag though.” He nodded, as if he had made an excellent, proper point.

Ace groaned at his brothers. “No! I mean what even is she to like… us. Not anybody else.”

“What do you mean?” Sabo rolled over as well to look at Ace, who was staunchly refusing to look at anyone else and whose face was turning a brilliant shade of red.

“I mean… like she kinda watches over us right? Does that make her kinda like a parent?”

Sabo cocked his head to the side, thinking. “I mean… maybe? She does give us food and medicine sometimes.”

“NO! THAT’S NOT DADAN! THAT’S –“ Luffy was quickly cut off by a hit to the head from Sabo.

“The Mystery Doctor isn’t real, Luffy, its just Dadan in a shitty mustache.”

Luffy looked to the side disgruntled. “Hmph.”

“GUYS! Focus!” Ace finally rolled over to face his brothers, so now they were finally all looking at each other. “What is Dadan? A Parent? A Mom?”

“I never had a mom before! Or a dad! Is Dadan a dad? Or a mom?” Luffy chattered, jumping on the possibility.

“Neither have I. That’s why I’m wondering.” Ace ignored the latter half of Luffy’s comment. Sometimes it was better to allow him to ramble than to try to make sense of it all. “Sabo you had parents right? What were they like?”

“Shitty.”

“Well, duh. No shit. What else?” Ace prompted, Luffy finally having quieted about Dadan being a tiger-bear-dad-mom beside him, and both staring attentively at Sabo.

(Because, well. They were children who never really had a home beside each other. Dadan was the closest thing Ace ever got, Luffy never had more than spare moments when the bar wasn’t busy, and both never knew anyone that could have been called dad, or mom, or anything of the sort – no one who stayed that is.

Ace hated his dad, and loved his mom (and hated himself, for all that he did,) and Luffy simply didn’t think he had any parents to feel anything about.

Still, Ace wondered, and things that his brothers wondered about, Luffy wondered about.)

Sabo placed his hand on his chin as if to think better. “Well. If we’re figuring out what Dadan was closest to, my mom was kind of like… Eh. She just cared about appearances and looking pretty and shit like that.”

Luffy and Ace nodded as one. “That’s not Dadan.” Dadan might wear make-up and beads, but she was a mountain bandit who was never really seen by people other than her clan or her victims. She didn’t really care about stuff like that. Even if she did get pissed when they stole the lipstick she kept hidden in her back closet for war paint.

“And she cared about other kids more than me, and didn’t really bother me until I did something she or someone else didn’t like.”

“Definitely not Dadan.” Luffy and Ace nodded again. Dadan didn’t have any other kids and yelled at them all the time. (Though, that may be because they never did anything they were supposed to do. What did she expect? Chores were boring! )

“What about your dad? What was he like?” Ace prompted, tossing out the idea of ‘mom.’

“Shitty. He always yelled at me and called me names. He was mean about it though. Dadan just looks like she’s about to cry.” Sabo finished, still thinking hard. “I mean… my parents aren’t what everyone else says parents are like though? At least for the kids in Edge Town.”

“Yeah… dads are supposed to protect you right? And be big and strong? And leaders?” Ace questioned, bitterness tracing into his voice.

“And moms are suppose to like take care of you and bring you stuff! Like the Mystery Doc-“

“THAT’S JUST DADAN!” Both Ace and Sabo this time hit Luffy’s head, cutting him off.

“She just comes to check on us, then trips up all our traps! It’s not a Mystery Doctor! Just! Dadan!” Ace spit out.

Luffy whined as the three of them quieted, thinking over everything that they had just said.

Then, Sabo spoke the words that would seal Dadan’s fate.

“If Dadan is kind of like a dad…” She protected them, or tried to in her own way, and was the leader of the Dadan bandits. “And kind of like a mom…” She was the Mystery Doctor, as Luffy called it, and checked up on them while cursing them out in all sorts of nasty ways. “Then… is she a mom and a dad? Is that how that works?”

“Well. We only have one of her. She can be both.” Ace decided. Jungle life left no room for society to state who could or could not be what and… well…

Besides. Maybe mom’s were the protectors sometimes and the leaders, and maybe dads were the caretakers. Ace was pretty sure that could happen. Did happen. Roles were stupid anyway. Just do whatever the fuck you wanted. That’s how Ace and his brothers lived, anyway, how everyone should live.

But…

“Why were you really asking Ace?”

Sabo knew him too well.

“Some of the kids in Edgetown were talking about how they were getting their dads’ shit for Father’s Day or something.”

And Ace wanted to know if he should be making something for anyone (or just wallow in the hatred he had for his dad.)

If he had anyone to make something for.

Luffy doesn’t even question why Ace was lurking around Edgetown kids without them, and sits up with stars in his eyes.

“WE NEED TO MAKE A CARD FOR –“

“SHUT UP!!”  Twin fist slammed into a rubber head as Ace and Sabo cut Luffy’s idea off.

“HEY!”

Or maybe…

“Maybe he has a point.” Sabo hummed, thoughtfully, as they had all settled into the ground.

“What?”

“Maybe we should make a card for Dadan.” Sabo rolled out of the way of Ace’s fist. “No! Think about it! We get to tell her thank you for all the shit she tries to do for us and maybe she’ll stop yelling at us so often!”

Luffy and Ace looked at him as if he were an idiot.

Sabo felt vaguely insulted.

“It’d be super funny to see her face when we give it to her too.”

Luffy and Ace looked at him as if he were a genius.

Now, there was only one question left.

“How the fuck do you make a card anyway?”

-

Dadan woke up peacefully that morning, which was an immediate cause for her to reach for her knife under the bed and spring into action.

She never woke up peacefully anymore. Not since those three brats had taken to crashing the hut in the morning. Either something was wrong, or those brats were playing with her.

She was going to get more gray hairs than Garp at this rate.

Fuck.

Quickly, she scanned her room for any oddities, any thing that would tip her off to whatever the fuck was going on this morning.

Dresser. Mirror. Weapons. Window. Card. Window. Wall. Wea- Wait.

Card?

Dadan stepped closer to the piece of folder thick paper, lying on her dresser, and peered at it closely.

Hapy Father’s Day! It read, in the misspelt handwriting of a child who had previously learned to write well then gave up. It was in black ink, fancy looking, with a smear along the exclamation point and drifting off into the side.

Around it was jungle trees in crayon and something that might have passed as Dadan, if not for the lack of face, and the only visual characteristics being orange curls and red beads and sharp teeth and a angry look.

Curious.

Wait.

SHE WAS A WOMAN!

Damn BRATS!

She ignored the tears at the edge of her eyes and opened the card, knife set to the side.

Dear Dadan, the same handwriting as the front said, this time in dark blue, thickly pressed crayon. Hapy Father’s day. Thank you for taking care of us. Beside the note was a scribbled jolly roger, an S surrounded by crossbones as its signature. Besides that was another scribbly orange blob, this time marginally closer to looking like a person.

Beneath that, on the same page, was careful red print, again in crayon. The words were spaced out, as were the letters, as if the writer didn’t particularly know how many letters were in the word and was waiting for someone to tell them. It read Shitty Old Hag. Thank you for taking care of me. You are stupid but you are strong sometimes. Happy Fathers Day. – Ace

Besides that was some suspicious wet spots, hastily wiped away.  Dadan dabbed her own eyes as to not add to them.

Ace’s artistry skills were slightly better than Sabo’s at least. His version of her was most definitely a person, apparently sitting atop of a bear. She laughed at that, a little.

Her eyes skimmed to the next page, where a monstrosity of black and orange was red was scribbled out. She was vaguely sure it was human. Vaguely. It might have been a bear.

The yellow crayon writing had been outlined in careful strokes by someone clearly not the original writer. DADAN, it seemed to screech, YOU ARE THE BEST BEAR HAG TIGER BANDIT MOM DAD. MOUNTAIN BANDITS SUCK BUT YOUR COOL. – FUTUR KING OF THE PIRATES

Then, on the opposite side of the drawing, in bright orange, LUFFY.

These stupid, stupid kids.

Dadan wasn’t crying. She wasn’t.

Oh how she loved these kids.

She turned the card around one last time, to the message on the back.

This handwriting, graceful and in black ink, was one she recognized. Makino.

Dear Dadan,

I hope this gift doesn’t insult you too bad, the boys were so excited to do it that I just had to help them with supplies! They really do love you, even if they don’t quite grasp the difference between mom and dad. They told me they just decided you could be both. Isn’t that great?

Thank you for being there for our boys Dadan! Happy Father’s Day.

-Makino

Okay. Maybe Dadan was crying right now.

Oh, she hated the fact that she loved these boys.

“Shishishi!”

“Luffy! Shut up!”

THUNK!

Oh, she was going to kill them.

Dadan turned to the window where a top hat, a straw hat, and a quite obvious head of black hair was peeking out over the window sill.

“BOYS!” She raged, setting the card down with care before running to the window.

“RUN!” Came the terrified call, followed by laughter and joy as three boys sprinted away into the woods.

Dadan debated following them, before deciding she would rather they not see her teary-eyed face.

Ah.

She might not be the best parent, but she did alright at least. Enough to get a card on a holiday.

Dadan loved her boys.

She really did.

[lovetorn]

Iced Caramel Macchiato [Harry Styles - Coffee Shop!AU]

Harry Styles x Fem!Barista!Y/n 

Summary: Barista!Y/n has a run in with Harry; a man she hates from the moment she sees him.

Word Count: 1.8k+

Warnings: Like one curse word

A/N: Heavily based on warmau’s enemies to lovers headcannons. I wanted this to be longer but oh well lol. Hope you enjoy :)

Service has been slow. So slow, that Y/n’s sure her head will roll off her neck from the amount of times she’s looked at the clock behind her. The copper hands of the round object tick obnoxiously, making Y/n bring a hand up to her temple to rub firmly. Her other hand moves to her ponytail on her neck and loosens it slightly to release the dull tension on her scalp. 

Closing her eyes, she lolls her head back to stare at the grainy ceiling in hopes that the bell above the glass front door would chime. She moves her head back to stare blankly at the door before she runs her hands over the brown apron on her hips, the fabric harsh against her fingers. 

She then bends down to lean her head on her palm in a bored manner. Her head tilts as she watches the countless pedestrians walk past the coffee shop. Just one customer, please!

The light reflecting off of the glass is giving her a headache, but she still stares. In her state of utter boredom, anything would be exciting. 

Her gaze shifts to something on the other wall when the glass door opens and a man stalks in. He is mumbling low into his phone, telling someone named Mitch that he doesn’t know where Jeff is. Y/n silently cheers at the sight of a customer, pleased to be productive on this slow workday. 

The man has his hair pulled into a bun at the base of his neck and he looks borderline intimidating to her. His cold stare scans the shop before he stalks towards the counter. 

Y/n’s slightly concerned at the sound of him not knowing where someone is, thinking that he will simply move off to the side to finish his call before ordering; but he doesn’t. 

She seethes slightly at the blatant disrespect of the man. How is she supposed to catch someone’s order in between a string of conversation they’re having with someone else about something completely different? She doesn’t understand how someone can be that rude. 

But nonetheless, the man stands there talking aimlessly before glancing up at Y/n with an apathetic look in his eyes. Y/n furrows her brows at him before her eyes flicker back to the cash register in front of her. She chooses to pick at her mint-coloured nails before the man decides to pause his phone call to order. But, the clearing of his throat catches her off guard and then she meets the man’s hard stare. 

“Well, aren’t you going to ask me what I want?”

Y/n’s eyebrows fly to her hairline as she stutters, “W-What?” 

The man huffs as he switches his weight to his other foot whilst swapping his phone to his other ear, his eyes wide with irritation. He waves his hand in front of Y/n’s face as she stands in shock at his rudeness. The man rolls his eyes before speaking to the person on the phone again. Y/n reaches over to pluck a plastic cup from the stack and a Sharpie pen, ready for his choice. However, she’s soon got a death grip on the cup as he carries on talking to the person on the line. 

“A cold caramel whatever.” Y/n catches what he mumbles before he continues whispering into his phone, grumbling bitterly to herself that it wasn’t an order. Not wanting to have to interact with him any longer, Y/n asks for his name. 

“Harry.”

And with that, he steps to the side, laughing into his device. Y/n stands in disbelief holding the black Sharpie marker in her hand. How can his demeanour shift so quickly? Pulling herself together, she scribbles quickly, ‘H-... Henry’. Y/n cocks her head at the spelling but shrugs one shoulder, sliding it towards the metal bench next to her. 

When the barista at the other end of the bench calls ‘Henry’, the man either isn’t paying attention or doesn’t care because he takes his drink and leaves; not even sparing a glance at Y/n who had misspelt his name. 

The next day’s rush is far more fast paced. The chatter of people around the coffee shop makes it near impossible to hear the orders of customers at the counter—but it is the way Y/n likes it. The more customers, the faster the day goes. And at this pace, Y/n swears her shift is almost over. 

As she finishes taking the order of a young girl, her mood instantly dims when the girl moves to the side. Head down, Harry stands in front of her typing on his phone, murmuring his order to Y/n who can’t hear him. She tilts her head to the side as she huffs. The plain disrespect, again. 

“Excuse me?” She says while leaning closer to him. 

He gives a quick glance towards her before sighing, “A caramel cold, no cream.” His irritated expression makes Y/n stare blankly at him. 

His bleak response earns a quick eyebrow raise from Y/n who struggles to understand his order, but grabs a cup anyway and scribbles ‘Hank’ on the side along with a whole bunch of jargon on ‘caramel cold’. She assumes he means the same drink as yesterday. And as the same as yesterday, his hair is pulled back, leaving his forehead bare and the crease in between his brows evident. Why does he always look so angry?  

—

Over the next few weeks, Y/n had continually and deliberately gotten Harry’s name wrong. She had become quite creative with ridiculous nicknames when he ordered his boring ‘cold caramel’ drink and thinks he deserves it from how rude he was to her. As much as she disliked the man, she found fun in getting his name wrong. 

Harold, Haz, haggle, harlot, and even hairy. At this point, the barista at the other end of the counter could yell ‘ham’ and he’d just accept it. 

Y/n had the luck of not running into him anywhere outside of the coffee shop, saving her the embarrassment of confessing why exactly she writes his name like that on the cups. But she can’t help it, she hates it when people are distracted whilst they order; as well as arsehole men who wave their hand in front of her face when she’s simply waiting for them to finish their call to tell her their order. 

No matter how much she despised it, Harry never failed to walk into the shop without being on his phone in some way. And he never once looked at her when he walked out with his drink, only sparing her a glance when ordering. She just didn’t understand this man! 

It’s Friday and it’s raining. The dark clouds hang in the sky like a bad smell and Y/n can’t shake the feeling in her gut. It is 15 minutes to closing time and Harry hasn’t walked in today. A weird sense of disappointment washes over her as she gazes out of the glass door. 

The bell chimed for the last time that day at 5:55 pm and as she wrote down the abbreviations of a latte on the top of a white coffee lid, Y/n felt sadness. It was subtle but it was there. And she didn’t know why it sat at the bottom of her stomach for so long, but it wasn’t pleasant. 

As Y/n reaches to close the register, the bell at the door rings. Her head shoots up from looking at the numbers on the buttons and is met with Harry. With no phone in sight. As much as she was looking forward to writing down her newly thought of nickname for him, her thought process is interrupted. 

Harry looks at her, straight in the eye, and smiles. Y/n stands in disbelief, the black sharpie hanging from her fingertips as he leans on the counter. The cup in her hands is close to falling on the floor when he nods towards it. 

“Iced caramel. And get my name right this time.” 

Y/n feels her cheeks heat before she scrunches her nose in distaste, “So you did notice.” 

The man hums in confirmation before he reaches over the register to snatch the cup from her grasp. “Of course I did. I’m gonna show you how to spell it right.” Y/n’s quick to bite back the urge to comment that she knows how to spell his fucking name, but patiently waits for him to return it back to her. 

He hands the cup back to her, holding it teasingly above her head before he drops it onto the counter. Y/n catches the cup before it rolls onto the floor and is confused at the scribble of numbers on the cup instead. She lifts her head to meet his gaze when she sees his mouth drawn into a large grin. Her features soften at the expression as she gives him a soft closed-lipped smile. She turns her head to look towards the menu behind her, the numbers next the orders catching her attention.

“Are these all of the orders you want?” She asks. She furrows her eyebrows while she looks back down at the cup. Oh. 

Harry bites back a giggle and shakes his head at her expression. “It’s my number.” As shocked as she is, Y/n manages to keep her grip on the cup, despite it nearly falling from her hand again. 

“W-Why?” She mumbles, face flushing at the thought of Harry even thinking about her in that way. 

Harry sighs, “Only the people I’m dating can call me Haz.” And then he’s spinning around and walking back towards the door. Y/n is frozen. Like literally stuck in her spot as she watches Harry throw a glance over his shoulder.

“This place closes in 5 right? I’ll wait outside while you finish up and we’ll go get dinner together.” 

His statement lingers even after he leaves. Y/n still holds the plastic cup in her hand as she stares at the spot he was last in. Her heartbeat is in her ears as she finally blinks. No… I can’t, he’s—. She shifts her eyes down to the cup and the haphazard writing and her heart skips a beat. 

And as soon as she steps out of the shop, her apron in her bag that’s on her shoulder, she spots his figure leaning against the side of the bookshop next door—typing on his phone. She scoffs out a laugh as she begins approaching him. Harry lifts his head at the sound of someone nearing and smiles when he sees her. 

“Ready?” He asks, offering her his elbow. Y/n rolls her eyes at his gesture, nods and places her hand on his bicep. 

No matter what happened in the past, she’s willing to see where this goes… with Hair- I mean Harry. 

[where-theres-smoak-2]

10 JATP Headcanons

Yeah I’m bored so I figured I’d make a post about some of the headcanon’s I have for Julie and The Phantoms. Some of these are sad but some are fun and some are defo more realistic than others. 

1) When Luke put the bands name down for the finally free performance he didn’t just have terrible handwriting he also misspelt phantoms as fantoms. It wasn’t until later when they put their band name on Alex’s drums that he realised he had been spelling it wrong the whole time but he was too embarassed to tell the band so he just stuck with bad handwriting when the annoucer prenounced it as Julie and the Fat Ones. 

2) A large part of why Bobby stole the songs from the band was because of Carrie. He had recorded a few of them and was just gaining popularity when he met Carrie’s mum. Feeling guilty about using Luke’s songs he decided to stop but then Carrie’s mum told him she was pregnant. Everything in his world became about that baby and making sure he could provide for his child which is what lead to him continuing to record Luke’s songs because he wanted to make sure he could give his little girl the best. 

3) When Luke left home he ended up living in Bobby’s garage/ the studio, that’s why he exclaimed ‘my couch’ in episode 1, it’s where he slept. Bobby stepping up when Luke really needed him is what made his later betrayal so much more painful for Luke. 

4) The reason why Luke is so against country music is because his parents used to listen to it all the time at home and so it makes him sad because it reminds him of home. It’s exactly the same reason why Reggie loves country music his family also had a love for country and although his home life wasn’t good either he still misses home and so country music is a comfort for him. 

5) Luke was so hurt when Julie said ‘the only person you think about is yourself’ because those were the last words his mother said to him when he left home that’s why the boys were so concerned and why Alex told him Julie didn’t mean it because they knew how much that would hurt him.

6) Carlos really started getting into the ghost thing when his mum got sick as a coping mechanism, he wanted to believe that even once his mum was gone she would still be here in some way. 

7) The lines ‘shout shout, let it out out’ in edge of great where suggested by Alex and were a reference to Willie and him screaming in the museum and you will never convince me otherwise. 

8) Ray was at the venue where the Finally Free performance happened because its where he first met Rose and that night he just wanted to feel close to her. 

9) Carrie’s mum left when she was really young but she pops back into their lives every few years when she wants money from Bobby. Everytime she shows up Carrie can’t help but get her hopes up that maybe this time it’ll be different and she’ll saty only to be disappointed when she inevitably leaves again. This is what has made her colder and put up alot of her walls. It’s also why Bobby/ trevor always gives her whatever she wants, he’s over compensating for her mother being gone because he thinks its his fault for not being able to make it work with Carrie’s mum. 

10) Reggie loves dogs. He always begged his parents for a puppy but they always said no. He told the boys that when sunset curve made it big the first thing he was going to do was buy a puppy to be the band’s mascot.  

[kratosaurioned]

tales of arise thoughts (careful of spoilers):

a solid tales entry on the whole! not a top tier fave like xillia, x2 or symphonia but it’s pretty damn good

ok so. the het ships.

alphen/shionne is really sweet and grows realistically

law/rinwell is obviously being set up, but it’s not forced the way some tales het ships are. it reads more like law has a crush on rinwell atm and maybe wants to confess but decides that now isn’t the right time

and the elephant in the room is dohalim/kisara which. well. it’s not as bad as SOME tales het ships but... it’s still a forced het ship. and it just doesn’t read right to me, there’s just things that are Off about it

story time

i really like that there was no main antagonist really

there were certainly antagonists but they were more incidental than the main threat

the aesthetic of the big rena reveal is just [chef kiss] the best

there’s a few things i kind of guessed beforehand like rena being hollowed and the renans and dahnans having common ancestry but there were still a few cool twists i didn’t guess

i do not think it’s my place, as a white british person, to say anything about the racial conflict between renans and dahnans

combat

i play all my tales games as the lead, whoever that is, but i tried out all the others for the colosseum

imagine my surprise when i found all of them fun!

alphen’s your standard sword guy. he has a sword. he fights with it. it’s easy

usually tales healers are like. not fun to play as imo, but shionne has a lot of flexibility and manages to do decent damage

dohalim is that usually awkward mix of mage and close combat fighter but he really makes it work! his close up attacks are really bouncy and fluid

rinwell as the party mage is still best off at a distance, but she has a few quick cast artes that work pretty good for closer quarters

law’s your standard tales punch guy + comes with an actually viable self healing move

kisara is the only one i had a bit less fun with and that’s entirely bc unlike everyone else, her ‘dodge’ is actually a ‘guard’ and i didn’t play as her enough to figure out perfect guard timings, but i think if you did she’d be great. lots of smacking things around artes

the boost artes and dual artes are honestly fantastic imo, they trigger often enough to be useful and i estimate i ended like 90% of all the battles i fought with one or the other

remember the bad old days when mystic artes were hell to activate? yeah they were bad. the good news here is that mystic artes are pretty easy to trigger, even the 2nd level ones

other things, including negatives

ok i’m sure this must have been mentioned by other people but there were a LOT of spelling and grammar mistakes in this, and not only in like, minor sidequests where you can imagine things would be overlooked, but in major plot important cutscenes. twice i saw ‘you’re’ instead of ‘your’ and that’s along with a host of other things like missing punctuation and mixing up ‘Rena’ and ‘Renans’ more often than i can count

also a character’s name was misspelt

additionally, and this was more common in battle dialogue, what the characters said was not what the subtitles read. the meaning was usually broadly similar but even so

there are a few sidequests that aren’t signposted including one that is important to the owl collecting sidequests and the game never mentions that that is even possible

speaking of owls, finding them is entirely manageable and fun! there are a couple of anti frustration features that make it a lot easier than finding cats

once again i am disappointed with the in game costumes, most of which are just recolours, while the three that aren’t are the ugliest costume i’ve ever seen, an extremely basic cooking outfit, and The Same Unisex Bath Towel

hootle doll attachment is blessed

weapon skins!!! weapon skins!!!!!!!!

[suddenly-danganronpa]

What are all your aus?

Well I looked through them, and I’m pretty sure I got them all...

(Note: I’m editing this post to add new AUs when I come up with them!)

1- I Was Reincarnated As My Hopeful Classmates Twins (Junko as Naegiri twins)

2- Leon as SDR2 MM (crack AU)

3- Junko Ikusaba AU (Nagito-Junko roleswap)

4- Rich Boy Hajime AU (Hajime-Byakuya talent+role swap)

5- Possessed Makoto AU (Makoto is sole THH survivor, everyone else is a ghost)

6- Oops! All Serial Killers AU (Every member of class 78 except Toko have killed someone)

7- Hope-Despair Swap V1 (with mastermind Chiaki)

8- Pregame/Ingame Kokichi swap (ask AU)

9- Danganroapa (Regular DR but everyone has misspelt names generated by me not using autocorrect)

10- Every variation of the ‘Sayaka tries to kill Makoto instead AU’ (Includes protag!Mukuro, despair!Makoto, and accidental therapy depending on route)

11- Non-Hope Komaeda/Nagito-Izuru personality swap (very undeveloped)

12- BNHA crossover (which I should really get back to..)

13- Audience Poll AU (DR but the protags have voices that represent parts of the DR fandom annoying them)

14- Evil Simp Alter Ego AU (another ask AU)

15- Determination Junko AU (Undertale but Junko is Frisk)

16- Post-THH bad end AU (involves the kids from that ending causing shenanigans, underdeveloped)

17- Tri-Game Talentswap (All characters swap talents and games, mainly in death order)

18- Actual Siblings Junko and Mukuro (folded into other AUs)

19- Ultimate Lucky Student Kokichi (Cassandra Effect!)

20- V3 variation of Oops! All Serial Killers (where Shuichi is just friends with a lot of murderers)

21- V3 AI AU (lots of acronyms. V3 cast in main DR universe but they were AIs all along)

22- Naegito AU (Nagito in SDR2 is actually Makoto but with Issues)

23- Anthropologist!Makoto (I gave him angst!)

24- SDR2 trio talentswap (underdeveloped)

25- Oops! All Serial Killers RoD variant (Junko likes her murderous friends so they become her Remnants)

26- Junko Download AU (Makoto downloads Alter Ego Junko onto his brain)

27- Assassination Classroom X DR (unfinished collab)

28- Hope Despair Swap V2 (Hope!Junko, Makoto is a nihilist with a scarf)

29- Kokichi-Makoto personality swap AU

30- Kokichi-Makoto body swap (ask AU)

31- Ultimate Protagonist Yasuhiro AU (ask AU)

32- Hope Mecha AU (the one I just did a fic for!)

33- Junko Clone AU (look! I can do fluffy stuff!)

34- DR X Kingdom Hearts AU (I just really like KH okay..)

35- XIII AU (Makoto is a subject in a branch of the Hope Cultivation Project)

36- ‘Non-Despair’ AU (Izuru and Makoto as V3 masterminds)

37- Infinity Train crossover

38- Junko/Makoto personality swap (not Hope/Despair swap)

39- Force sensitive AU

40- Zombie Chiaki AU

41- Despair Disease Makoto (why the fuck do I like despair now?!?! version, has a fic now)

42- THH Bad End AU (also known as the Bad End Gang)

43- Makoto and Nagito voice (tone) swap

44- Despair Makoto except he gets despair from not experiencing despair so he just acts exactly like canon Makoto AU

45- Mastermind Mahiru (just a sprite edit for now!)

46- Protag Despair AU

47- Genshin Impact AU (haven’t gotten through the main story yet so just a concept rn)

48- Despair Siblings AU!

49- Lucky!Kyoko + Detective!Makoto (but changing as little as possible outside the series of events to make it happen)

50- Hitman Hajime AU (possibly merged with Despair Siblings, not sure yet)

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happy sts!! (?) or maybe just a happy saturday? nonetheless, question time! since I got to read recently about the inspirations behind the wip4 main characters' names, I was wondering what the motivations were behind the names of the main characters of your other works! maybe both from your perspective as a writer and from an in-story perspective? and how do they feel about their names?

Happy?? STS?!?! Saturday is good and happy and it is STS, whoop! I like this question but it’s gonna be a very underwhelming answer and I apologize for that. 

Sonder was. Very dull, not gonna lie, it’d just be looking for mostly generic names that seemed to fit the brand haha. The most notable backstory names are probably Andy and Atlas. 

Andy came from an inside joke with a friend that no villains can be named Andy. I wanted to prove her wrong, so Andy was named Andy and now I do not trust Any Andy’s. Full name Andrew Peep, which he does not like and prefers Andy. Probably a family name, which is sad because he does not see his family. 

Atlas came from me being like ‘wait shit I haven’t named this character yet’ and asking a friend for a name. She spat out Atlas Barnabus like it wasn’t the best name in the world, and I was in awe. Definitely named after the Greek Titan, was not aware of that at all, very much likes their name. 

Collateral - hhhh okay listen. Listen Collateral and names give way to one of my dumbest Collateral stories, you’re gonna have to hear this out. 

So when I was first writing Collateral, I’d already found both Cain and Theo their names that fit - Theo cause it sounded nice, Cain named after the Caine in the Gone series. But they didn’t have last names, which was an issue, so I was looking for a last name for them. I knew I wanted Cain to have a last name starting with either C or K, cause alliteration, and pulled Kavon out of thin air. I liked it, so it stayed. 

A few weeks later, in film studies, we were learning about Kim Novak, and I liked the name Novak, so stole it and gave it to Theo. 

I did not notice their names were the same forward and backwards for a year and a half, until a friend pointed it out to me. This was not deliberate at all. It Just Happened and I plead ignorance to that tomfuckery. 

Anyway, they both are alright about their names. Theo prefers Theo to Theodore cause no-one got any time for all those syllables. Cain once found out about Biblical Cain and spent about three hours going down that rabbit hole before going ‘alright whatever’ and moving on.

Speaking of moving on - DIAS. I can talk a bit more about that cause that was recent. 

Ant comes from the word ‘antagonist’ actually - I wanted to write about someone who saw themselves as The Bad Guy, which Ant definitely does a lot of the time. It’s a nickname, and I have no idea what their real name is, nor where the nickname comes from, but they like Ant. Their last name - Carnell - is a family name. Not my surname, but someone in my family somewhere had that, and I liked it so yoinked it and gave it to Ant. 

Leon! Leon went through a lot of changes in his name - originally he was Tag, which also comes from ‘antagonist’ but I hated that, so changed it to Tad, which I also hated. So he was without a name and it was getting closer and closer to Nano and the time I’d write his story and I was like ????? what do. 

What I did was drew him a bit. A friend in film class (man, film class really helped to name my characters huh) saw the doodle and was like ‘ooo who’s that’. I told her it was a character in my book, and no, he doesn’t have a name, you should give him one, and she spat out Leon. And hey it actually really works, he can keep that, except wait, he’s Jewish, needs a Hebrew name and I’d like to give him a specifically Jewish surname. Some looking on Jewish name websites gave me Tzalka, and some more looking gave me Cohen, cool, done. 

In-universe, Leon’s name came from his grandfather - it was DIAS Leon’s middle name, and when he left home, he wanted to leave That Part Of His Life behind as well, so swapped from Tzalka to Leon, which he definitely prefers. 

Uhhh other characters - Vincent came from a fandom (which I’m about 90% sure is FNAF ngl) and I went ‘okay well I like the name so shall associate it elsewhere’ and gave it to Vinnie. Last name had the same deal - Scullary came from... 

Phew, okay, side tangent. One of my first characters I made was named Skullary, which came from the play ‘The Road’ which I watched when I was younger. The person playing that character had a really bad cold, so had to use a microphone to make her voice heard, and she fucking killed it, and the voice was so interesting I wanted a character who used it, so stole the name, except I misspelt it as Skullary instead of Scullary oops. Anyway, I wanted to re-use that name, so gave it to Vincent. He likes his name well enough but Definitely Does Not Like Going By Vinnie, so definitely don’t call him that. 

Simon came from the game Simon Says, because it is The Most Silvertongue Game and it made me laugh that his name is such an obvious pun. 

Bonus: wip4 obviously mostly came from filmmakers, because the obsession of that book is filmmaking, as you know. Buster Keaton and... Just Mika the musician, he’s the odd one out. Lynne Ramsay and George Lucas gave a lot of characters a portion of their names. 

I am, however, gonna go on a tiny tangent about Keaton’s last name because it delights me, and then also probably Percival’s name because that amuses me. 

So! Keaton is Spanish - his family comes from Spain and he speaks Spanish as well as English. I’m sure his deadname is probably something very Spanish, but it’s a deadname so we don’t talk about it. I wanted to find a Spanish surname for him, cause like... obviously it doesn’t have to be Spanish, but I wanted it to be, so I was scrolling through Spanish surnames for a while. 

Palomo is a legit Spanish surname in use, and it means pigeon. Keaton likes pigeons. So I was delighted and I always forget it but that’s his last name.

Percival! Percival’s name is actually a fill-in. In a Discord chat I’m in with my friends, I sometimes join the voice chats but cannot talk cause Anti Microphone. So I type instead, and sometimes get bored and just spam words. And the name Percival was very funny to me so I spammed that. 

So, when I needed to name the Bad Guy of wip4, I gave him the name Percival as a joke, and it. Seemed to work. I no longer spam Percival in the chat. 

Anyway there you go, the entire history of where names in my WIPs come from. Spoilers; not the most interesting, but it is long and I hope you found some bits funny or enjoyable. 

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I see your dating someone 7w7. Apologising in advance just in case this sounds off or anything, but back when you had your first mysterious crush you described what you liked abt them. Would you describe what you like about your current partner? (Don't know their pronouns so I'm just gonna say partner lol)

Honestly I kind of forgot about this ask because I was half asleep when I checked my notifs. Sorry!

And I do admit this is kind of weird,,, but @7hoe7 did already answer a question very similar to this, so I guess it’s my turn lol.

I, have no idea where to start. Everything about her is, well, perfect!

I absolutely love her voice. It’s soothing and kind and just, gorgeous. And her looks absolutely match her voice. She’s absolutely beautiful and I still can’t believe a silver dragoness such as herself decided to like me.

Seeing any message from her makes me melt immediately, because I just know it’s full of love for me and everyone else. No matter what I just love how eager she is to help. See, not everyone in the discord group knows how to draw, so when we all do something for it, no matter what she’s always there to volunteer to help.

Look, I’m no artist, but I know how much effort and time goes into making something, making anything. So seeing her volunteer to draw stuff for people? God, she’s so selfless and I love that about her.

And speaking of her skills as a artist, god she’s so good! Her art is so fucking gorgeous and when I see it my first thought is how talented she is. Her art always shimmers with emotions and just seeing the facial expressions on the people she draws? You can feel the emotions they’re feeling. And, there’s very few people that can draw like that.

Each drawing I see, whether it’s a sketch or colored in, it’s beautiful. You can always fell the characters/people’s emotions they’re feeling.

And, I’m getting into a loop. Paty is the only one that when I see her, talk to her, or even think about her, my brain just,, short circuits. It could be filled with anxiety, run away thoughts, then I’d notice she sent me a message, and then suddenly my brains blank. And when I send a message back, she never questions the blankness.

I feel horrible that I can’t pull my brain together long enough to truly tell her how I feel, but she doesn’t seem to care. She somehow knows exactly how I feel. And as someone that has a whole fuckton of issues, that somehow makes me love her even more.

One of our first interactions, was “dueling” for the use of our name, I went in fully expecting to let her take it. Then she misspelt one thing and decided to let me win. I, was having a bad day that day. Normally most of my days are filled with blankness. But for the first time that day, I just. I was happy.

Interacting with her always makes me happy, just the thought of her brings a smile to my face. Seeing her art makes me melt, seeing her interact with Mineva makes me beam, and seeing herself? Hearing her voice? That, has always made me ecstatic. And though my brain isn’t letting me let her know this, I’ll do anything to be as selfless and full of love as she is.

When my brain thinks I’m being to much, when my anxiety and depression tells me that no one loves me? Her just being here for me, just being with me, always disproves it.

Even though my brain isn’t letting me tell her that, even though it doesn’t let me string enough words together to fully tell you and her everything I love about her, I can say with absolute certainty, that I love her.

That I love her with every fiber of my being.