#I promise the next one will be more fun

[lcs-scar]

ELTINGTOBER Days 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 & 6!

BILL - NERD RAGE - NIGHT OF THE BODY SNATCHERS - BOBA FETT - JOSH - DND

Thanks to @/robbysgop and @/rebelgubble for making the prompt list! and also thanks to @/p3ppermnt for making this rendition.

[ NEXT ]

[l-in-the-light]

Trafalgar Law and his rare friendships (Law and closeness series part 4)

Let's venture into less explored territory. And we will start with no one else but our beloved Kinemon!

They met at Punk Hazard, Kinemon doing some rampage and Law was sent by Caesar to stop him. At first he cut him up into three pieces apparently, but I think Kin is colorizing here a lot.

Because let's take a look at his awesome feats. He might be cut into pieces, but he's still a decent threat despite that! I think Law started by cutting Kinemon in half, then got surprised he still tried to fight him, and then he cut off his head as well only to realize that even the head alone is probably bouncing around as well! So he caught it, but in the meantime the legs already run somewhere else and the torso escaped Law on his way back to lab somehow which is where Brook finds it later. And Law was probably like "screw it, I don't have time for this" and left it be for now. But I bet it wasn't "letting his torso to rot, and feed legs to wild beasts" like Kinemon claims. After all his legs turned out to be just fine lol. And we know by now that Kin's legs just run off on their own aimlessly, so this is probably what actually happened.

And this is how Strawhats find Kin. I guess Kinemon was still causing a lot of trouble despite being only a head. Maybe he tried to bite Law? Anyway, he must have been really *mad* to cut him up into that many tiny pieces. I think Kinemon was behaving like a little shit. It's important to mention Law never did that to anyone else before.

And he attempts to do the same to Tashigi who is also trying to bounce around while being cut in half.

Yeah, Kinemon and Law started off on a great note there. But I think Kin earned Law's respect for that, because this is probably what Kin shouted at him while being cut into smaller and smaller pieces:

And Law shoved his head into some closed off room, instead of giving it to Caesar. I think he was trying to spare him and hoping he can restore him back later on.

As soon as they both end up on Strawhats ship, Kinemon already treats Law with respect! It's no longer "that warlord" but "Law-dono".

It seems that despite what Kinemon says, Law actually earned his respect back there already. He even tried to catch his name or the title to know who he is.

It's so sweet he's already asking Law to give him a ride to Zou and before he can get an answer Luffy butts-in haha.

He's always listening carefully to Law's plan in Dressrosa and keeps closely with his assigned group. And yes, it's implied that Law was the one who strategically seperated the groups.

Kin is the first one to raise a concern to stick to the plan and not waste any time. He understands the stakes but won't venture off on his own, instead making sure the whole group knows what to do. That's because they left before Law finished going over the plan again. Kinemon took it on himself to make sure "they got the memo", so to speak.

Kin's also the one who seems most worried about Law, probably because when he almost rescued him he realized in what kind of terrible state he was. "Answer me!!" there is a lot of concern there he didn't show for any of the Strawhats yet, but he did for Law.

His idea to distract and cause some chaos by disguising himself was also something Law would approve of.

On Barto's ship Kin is already taking care of the dangers ahead of others, because he's aware his friends are still recoving from their injuries.

Kinemon never forgets that Strawhats and Law are in alliance and are two seperate crews. He asks Law specifically for help as well, clearly surprising him with that request. Kin's amazement seems to be very genuine and he is very polite in how he asks for help.

And then alliance happens, they bump fists together I bet Law must have braced himself for it and Luffy declares "Being in alliance means we're friends!". This is the moment Luffy defines what Kinemon and Law's relationship is supposed to be from now on: friendship. And of course Law is annoyed about that, it should be up to him to decide stuff like that! Luffy doesn't care though, pushing Law's boundaries further for him.

Law already takes on his role in the alliance, assuring Kin they will be safe in his submarine and no one will be able to suddenly attack them on his watch. Now this is a turn of 180 degrees, Law takes them as his own personal responsibility from now on, gives emotional reassurance and basically saying "count on me" but with different words. He already succumbed to the fate Luffy bestowed upon him.

And take a look at this. There is team Luffy, team Nekomamushi, Team Inuarashi and Team Kinemon. Do you know what that means? Yes, Law handed the leadership over the group to Kinemon! Meanwhile himself taking the role of a support and protection. And this trend will continue all the way in Wano as well.

Apparently he visited Kinemon at the castle ruins every single day. Most likely worried about his health condition.

Law apologized immediately to Kinemon the moment the other asks what's going on. Even takes the blame for himself, but also takes extra time to reassure Kin that his part of the plan is unaffected and no one knows about the samurais. I think it's implied again that it was Law who seperated the tasks in each group meanwhile taking a supervisor role himself. He told Kinemon to find Akazaya samurais and they had a whole operation going on in the background with gathering supplies of weapons and food, bit by bit, while officially putting the blame on some third party. Knowing Kinemon he wouldn't be smart enough to think of it this way, so Law at the very least helped him organize stuff. Besides we don't see Kinemon running around and making sure everything works out: that's Law actually, checking up with all the groups and resolving any potential crisis situations (like when he warned Sanji of trouble and took it on himself to lead the whole group to safety). Besides we have Sanji's words for proof when Law apologized to Kinemon: "What kind of shoddy operation are you running, Law?!" which is pretty direct in pointing out who the actual mastermind is behind the Wano's battle.

Seeing how Kin also wasn't the smartest at reading the coded picture message about the raid, I think it was originally Law's idea as well that the message should be some sort of code only people involved would understand. The raid picture also mentions meeting up at a port specifically, and that seems to be a reoccuring point plan in every of Law's plans ever since Rocky PORT Incident. Even in Dressrosa and Punk Hazard the chosen meeting points for all seperated groups were told to be specific ports.

When it turns out there was a traitor in the midst of their core team, it's Law who seems to have taken it on himself to dig up information from Hawkins. Interestingly enough every last samurai arrives for the raid despite that every single bridge in the country had been destroyed. I have no evidence but I think it's likely Law helped all those people travel to the "true" meeting spot. After all we didn't see him for days before the raid, and while many fans believed Law turned into a snitch, the raid itself denies it: Law was from the very beginning to the very end on the alliance's side. But then why didn't he take credit for what he did to make the raid a success? Well, he didn't take any credit at all before either, giving it all to Kinemon, so why would he start to take it for himself suddenly?

Here Law rescues the samurais, scolding them for underestimating the sea. Doesn't it look similar to you? Law is rising them up just like Oden did on his execution day. This symbolically proves Law is the actual person carrying the whole battle operation on his back. Just like his full name, Trafalgar Waterloo, should have hinted us all along. His reactions to all the others discussing what's happening are also very telling - Law's the only one not surprised that samurais aren't there yet, that there is a traitor, not even surprised that Kid is there. But he is taken aback about news of Big Mom and Jinbei, because that's some wild cards he didn't know anything about before.

Even though Law protests his submarine isn't samurais garrison, it's pretty clear who samurais themselves think runs their plan in reality. And worthy to notice here: Law no longer calls Kinemon by his full name. It's "Kin" from now on. And how many people did we ever see Law using such an affectionate name for before? With him you're either "something-ya" or a full name basis. Kin is literally the only exception. You can't see it as anything else but affectionate. Throughout Wano they became really close friends.

And of course Law saves Kinemon's skin by coming up with a backup plan on the fly and even decides he will carry the samurais to the back entrance of the island on his submarine. He also allows Kinemon to take the full credit, not really expecting any gratitude. He just sits there in the background, letting others take the spotlight.

And this is a good moment to remind us of what Sengoku told Law about love. It should be unconditional, which means you don't expect anything in return for your help. Law usually operates on "favour for a favour" basis or impersonal alliance level. But in this "alliance" he doesn't even want the credit, doesn't expect anything in return, and breaks his own rule of not calling people in affectionate ways. And does he even get anything for himself from this alliance besides the rise in his own bounty?

Imo there's only one possible conclusion here: Law accepted the condition of the alliance Luffy set up all the way back in Zou, it's supposed to be a friendship. Law indeed fullfilled that condition, he truly became friends with Kin. Of course he still wouldn't admit openly that they're friends, but like always with Law, we need to actually look at his actions and subtext. This friendship wouldn't have happened if friendship with Luffy didn't happen first! After the raid Law doesn't stay at the shogun's palace and instead stays with the ships at the port, but I bet you anything Kinemon ran to him at least once to tell him how grateful he was for his help.

So that's one confirmed friendship of Law we see in the series (besides the one he has with Luffy, but I elaborated on that one all the way back in part 2). The other friendships we can see in the series is that with Bepo, Penguin and Shachi, and Wolf in Law's novel. We know that Law created Hearts Pirates together with them, he doesn't consider Hearts to be his own creation, it's theirs as much as it's Law's. That friendship started off on a sour ground, Penguin and Shachi were bullying Bepo and Law saved him. But they quickly became friends and Law's strength and attitude earned their deepest respect. Penguin and Shachi sometimes allow themselves very cheeky comments ("Captain! You're so sexy now!"), they're also slightly older than him, but despite that they have really big respect for Law and always listen to him, despite sometimes complaining ("Captain got carried away" or "stop him Bepo!!"). They know each other well and as teens they spent a lot of late nights just talking together. They would sacrifice their lives for Law and Law would do the same for them, but he's also not beyond sending them to safety instead and taking all the risk on himself. They often shower Law in compliments, almost like they know he has low self-esteem, but then they know him for 13 years already, of course they would be best friends at this point and know that stuff about him (about his touching trauma probably as well).

Bepo is the only one privileaged with any physical affection, he is Law's safe haven, the last one he allowed himself to keep. The main Hearts also know of Law's past and his full name, as well as the fact he is a D. Of course they also started doing those silly power rangers-like poses when Law introduces his crew and I bet you anything it's a nod to Sora Warrior of the Sea. They're all fanboying the comics together. Law is probably slightly more affectionate with his Hearts than anyone else (which in this case means he allows himself to be a bit more open, but he still keeps some distance from them), but we can see he still acts like a leader for them, trying his best to earn the respect he received. But we also see him worrying about Bepo a lot in Wano when the mink ate a poisoned fish. He almost threw his own raid plan out of the window just because Bepo asked to not leave him alone; clearly they are his firstmost priority. Too bad we don't have that many of their interactions to analyze.

And then we have his friendship with the old man Wolf, inventor from North Blue, who took Law in (spoilers ahead for Law's novel!). At first their relations are mostly "favour for a favour" kind, something that Law knows well because he tends to operate on same basis. So, Law is allowed to stay at Wolf's place if he finds a job and helps with chores and testing the inventions. They take turns preparing the meals. Everything changes when Wolf has an unfortunate accident and Law saves his life. Wolf then asks for a friendship and Law thinks to himself that he can't really refuse a request from someone who doesn't usually do "friendships", he feels honoured with that trust. Wolf still acts as their mentor but it feels more like they became a family. Law is very grateful to Wolf for standing in defense of Penguin and Shachi. Wolf is also the one who teaches young Law how to be a captain and puts it into his head that he needs to take responsibility at all times. In general Wolf acts rather cold and rough, but always shows a kind heart when any of them needs it, and I bet Law took on his habits because that feels a lot like how Law himself acts on many occassions.

Wolf definitely became some sort of a rolemodel for him, but there were also few occassions when Law allowed himself to say some really spoiled and cheeky things to him (like: you do the dishes from now on). Law also helps Wolf make a tough decision: to resign from taking responsibility for his son's actions and not to kill him with his own hands, he literally stops his effort by saying "Family shouldn't kill each other". At the end Wolf gives them a partying gift: a yellow submarine, and encourages Law to go out to seas to look for freedom and experience life as he wants. Even 3 years later both of them think of each other fondly, implying that maybe one day Heart Pirates will return to share stories about their adventures.

That's all the canon provides us. Law generally keeps to himself, but in Law's novel he doesn't seem to have any problem to make friendships, every person he saves becomes eventually his friend, which really gives one more argument that there's no way Luffy would be the exception to that rule. But it becomes clear that the older Law gets the more reserved he becomes and doesn't seek out friendships. He probably wouldn't have perceived Kinemon as his friend if not for the condition of the alliance Luffy applied. And this begs to ask about the elephant in the room: why? Why is he that reserved and why did he allow himself to accept Kinemon as friend in the end? I think he felt it's okay to become friends with Kinemon, because he's a samurai thrugh and through. Even if they win and Kin lives, Law would leave Wano and probably never see him again. I guess that made the decision easier on him to some degree.

I have some ideas about possible reasons why Law avoids any new friendships or affectionate bonds with people and instead tries as much as he can to keep it impersonal. He clearly can be a caring and dedicated friend and I don't think his trauma is the only reason why he avoids people. Because there's no reason anymore (after defeating Doffy and Kaido) to not openly admit he made new friends. I will take a closer look at his possible reasons in the next post.

[crossbackpoke-check]

blessed be (lorscher bienensegen) | telling the bees (wiþ ymbe)

"Bees" [remixed, abridged], Claudia Emerson // "Letter to Someone Living Fifty Years from Now" [remixed. abridged], Matthew Olzmann // "Letter to my Great, Great Grandchild" [remixed, abridged], J.P. Grasser | Len Redkole, Nina Weiss, Brian Babineau, Christian Peterson, Mitchell Leff, Dave Isaac, Megan DeRuchie

[the-badger-mole]

The Big Reveal!

I had a great time participating in the Zutara Big Bang 2024. This year, I decided to follow in what seems to be my own personal tradition for this event and write a story that somehow involves spirit world shenanigans. I promise, I'm not actually doing this on purpose. It just happened.

Shout out to my amazing team! Thank you @marijayne-writing for being an amazing beta and bouncing ideas back and forth with me. Thank you to @wvatertribe and @ash-catz for making such fantastic art for my story. And finally, thanks to the mods of @zkbigbang for organizing this event. I know a lot of unpaid hard work went into this behind the scenes, and as always, it was so much more fun because of what you do. Please be sure to give everyone a shout out when you read and review...

The Sciomancy Scheme

[flufflecat]

Look out, look out, look out, look out!

[trashisstillhere]

Whooo oki oki

Yall heard of Tengu Howard..

Now, get ready for-

Kitsune Martin!!! ✨✨✨✨

Yuuuuh! That’s right! Martin is getting possessed by the Kitsune just like Howard being possessed by the Tengu!

His design was a little tricky but I think it ended up decent!

Now this time, I ain’t really gonna do like a whole big and kinda specific story I did a few times before mostly cause I really just want to quickly get to show this guy off already and I currently am kinda out of ‘story juice’ lol, plus writing a lot of it up could end up being a bit too much…maybe some other day. maybe when I will maybe finally start showing the whole story of the au from the very beginning!! Like maybe comics or something! (Idk when tf that will happen tho, probably never lol, who knows)

But! I will give a story about how this all started and stuff! Along with a reunion between two certain yokais… hehehe-

But yeah, this will mostly be kinda short this time! (And maybe a bit rushed even though I made sure to take my time as always, that’s just how it feels to me, oops) Hope yall still like it tho!

——-

It all started back at a field trip in the woods with the class one day just after one week has passed….

The science teacher, Mr. Arnold Hubble, thought it would be a good idea to bring the students outside for the trip to learn more about nature. It could be more fun, you know?

Well Martin didn’t really think so.

Unlike most of the students who seemed to at least focus on what Arnold was saying, the jock barely did so as he was getting bored already, he was next to NN (Randy and Howard kinda near them as well) as he just glanced all around the place instead of just paying attention to anything said. It’s what he seems to always like to do whenever he is with his short best friend, just look at stuff around him and even roam around.

Which is exactly what he did.

He ended up getting a bit too far away from the group, being distracted by some noises of crickets he had heard, he even almost saw a butterfly too! Well, at least that’s what he thought he saw!

As he kept just almost mindlessly check around, he noticed something at the corner of his eye…something that seemed to be in some grass and…glowing a little?

Taking an even closer look, he realised it was some strange gem stone.

He was both surprised and amazed by the sight, this was his first time ever seeing something like this up close and it was so…..beautiful!

“Ooooo….so shiny…..!”

He then suddenly held it in his hand.

“I’m gonna keep it!”

He said with a smile, not thinking too much about it. He was planning on leaving the area right after…

Only to hear a sudden whisper..

“COME….”

He stopped right in his tracks, looking behind him and wondering where that just came from. At first he thought it was just his imagination, thinking he just THOUGHT he heard it..

“COME….HERE….”

Only to hear it again.

This time, he fully turned around. He looked around to see if anyone was there, but there wasn’t….but even though he didn’t see anyone, he still heard those whispers…

“COME….HERE….COME….HERE…..DONT….LEAVE….”

Before he knew it, his feet were moving, like they had a mind of their own. He walked and walked as the whispers continued….until he ended up reaching a building, an abandoned temple that looked like it has been there for years, covered in cracks and some moss growing on the walls. It looked almost…haunted…the jock shouldn’t be near this place…

And yet he still kept on going.

He didn’t know why he did. Perhaps, it was his growing curiosity?

Either way, he went right in the temple. And there, he soon ended up in a strange room. A dark room that only had light from outside through the big cracks of the walls…

And something bigger that seemed to be covered in some moss as well, right at the middle of the room, making it hard to clearly see what it was….except for a spot right on the top, what seemed to be a small and deep dark hole. The shape of it seemed a bit familiar for some reason.

then it hit him, its shape looked exactly like the gemstones he had in his hand! What if?…

It was a crazy idea but the jock, without thinking twice, put the gemstone in the hole.

At first nothing happens, just silence.

But then suddenly-

“YESSSSS!!!”

The whispers were heard again but this time they were louder, not stopping as the moss covered ‘thing’ started suddenly glowing, from faint to very bright. The moss was pretty much gone now as there were also….eyes that opened on the thing?..no…a statue!

Everything went white, almost blinding Martin. Once it was all gone, he saw that the ‘statue’ wasn’t there anymore. His eyes widened, looking around. “What the juice?? Where did it go???” He wondered.

Little did he know that, that a certain fox spirit was right behind him…

And right when he turned around, the fox spirit suddenly jumped at him and immediately went all around his body, slowly taking over him.

“AAAAAAAAAH!!!”

…

Howard felt a very sudden strange feeling in his chest, it felt almost like he just got shot right at the area. Randy noticed, seeming a little concerned.

“Howard, you okay?”

“Yeah, I’m good. Just…I don’t know, felt a sudden pain in my-“

He was cut off by loud rustling around the woods, catching the attention of both the others students and Mr. Hubble. NN, who also heard it, just now realised that Martin wasn’t with them, immediately getting worried. “Martin?! Where did he go!?”

They didn’t have the time to look (and they didn’t even have to) cause soon something jumped up and landed down on the floor, a bit fire appearing and burning the grass beneath ‘it’s’ feet. And then right after, MORE fire appeared and that quickly scared everyone who saw all of that and ‘it’ before screaming and running away.

NN, who stayed behind along with the other two boys, went to look what it was. Seeing the new being for the first time shocked them, especially the familiarity ‘it’ had…that hair….

“Wait…MARTIN!!?? N-No…t-that can’t be-“

Martin, who was now currently possessed by the Kitsune itself, stood up tall with his eyes open and a sharp toothed grin on his face. “My my, we have a few brave humans here still standing…..interesting…”

His voice sounded so creepy, like an echo, the jocks voice being heard along side the fox spirits.

The Kitsune Martin’s ears slightly perked up a bit like it seemed to have sensed something and his eyes immediately looked straight at Howard who was now feeling the same strange and even more painful feeling in his chest immediately start taking over him the moment his eyes met the possessed Jock’s.

And before Randy and NN knew it, the chubby guys eyes turned red, his pupils black slits.. his body…suddenly changing so fast in a blink of an eye. A familiar bird screech in the background.

And there he was, now his Tengu self as he let out a loud demonic bird like war cry at the Kitsune Jock. Randy was quickly worried for his bff while NN was extremely shocked and confused by that sudden transformation.

“HOWARD!!!”

“H-Howard!?”

Kitsune Martin seemed surprised as well but then immediately narrowed his eyes at the possessed Howard, the grin still on but now more….insane looking.

“Well, well, well….no wonder I felt something familiar and nasty just now…long time no see, you filthy pile of feathers! Looks like I’m not the only one with a host right now!! And of course, it’s one who is just as pathetic as you!”

Tengu Howard replied with a few more angry bird noises, making the fox snarl.

“Oh shut up! My host is much better than yours!! Didn’t think it would be some tall boy with an awkward personality but it’s better than nothing!”

The two were instantly going against each other, yelling at each other, throwing insults, almost even attacking each other as they did, like they wanted to kill each other.

NN couldn’t believe what they were seeing. Their own jock friend, seemed to have been possessed by some evil fox spirit being and Howard was suddenly a big demon bird..thing??… Randy went to take them with him away from the two possessed boys so they could go ninja, it took a bit but the kid finally followed with their mentor.

Hopefully once they start taking care of ‘this’, the kid will get to know what in the world happened to Martin and Howard, and get answers for the non stopping questions popping in their head.

————-

Phewwwww! Done finallyyyyy! My fingers kinda aches from trynna write this all down tbh.

Now since Martin is being possessed by Kitsune and the Kitsune IS linked to NN’s ninja mask since it was made with its missing/chopped off part of one of its tails (which the fox spirit didn’t know of at first before until now once they started fighting. And yes, it was upset by the news), that means NN gonna have to destroy their mask like Randy had right? Of course! Does that mean that that’s how they got their own ninja rage form! Also yes! But it’s different from Randy’s!

How? Well, why don’t you take a look!

LOOKIE LOOKIE!

If you have seen the angst NN AU comic I made, this one —-> https://www.tumblr.com/trashisstillhere/772224848897474560/finally-the-comic-that-i-showed-one-wip-from (hopefully the link works, if not, fu-), you should probably already be familiar with this, especially the one on the right….hehehehe…

The colors, instead of being exactly like Randy’s that is all red with some black, it’s all white with some red! I thought it would be cool if NN’s ninja rage form looked like the opposite of their mentors or something, similar to yin and yang…. :) (if you have read the story on the Kitsune ref post, you probably will understand what I mean by this-)

Now like Randy, NN uses fire in this form. However, when feeling intense emotions (mostly negative ones), the form might change slightly… such as their scarves suddenly moving on their own…and multiplying… hmm….🤔 😏🤫

And yeah!! It’s all done now! Oh and some size comparisons ofc!

Lets goooo

[phuljari]

social media au! part 4

summary : khushi is a model and influencer; arnav just seems to stumble upon her profile one day— not so much by accident. (or what if khushi fell in love at first sight?)

warnings : lots of hindi, some english, cussing in (either) languages. deliberate typos. online stalker!shyam. text heavy.

a/n : i am...trying something new (by using the word prompts) #IPK 13th Anniversary Fiesta @arshifiesta

laxmi.ji

liked by gulabo_devyani, arnavsinghraizada, aakash_r, hari_prakash, hellohibyebye, nandiii, anjaliiiii.r, mahendrarudrapratapsinghraizada and others

laxmi.ji Tum aa gaye ho, noor aa gaya hai @/nandiii

view comments

hellohibyebye e goatwa ko postwa karna kaun sikha diya haiiiiin?

⤷gulabo_devyani Manorama. khabardaar 😠

hari_prakash Nani ji humein kyu crop kar diya?

anjaliiiii.r Laxmi ji! Kya lag rahi hai!! :)

⤷gulabo_devyani :) E. Kaa MATLAB ka. Hai. Anjali. bitya.

nandiii Arey waah, ghatiya lag rahi hai laxmiji ekdum 👌

⤷aakash_r NK bhai 😭😭😭ghatiya nahi badhiya 😭😭😭

iMessage "Raizada Group"

NK: Di mera instagram suspend ho gaya 😭

NK: Ab me kya karunga diiii

NK: It's saying that I was reported for abusive language

Anjali: Aree, ruko hum dekhte hai

Aakash: 👀

NK: Dii, mere bichaare followers kya sochenge

NK: Mai toh nadaan ho gaya di

Aakash: 😭

Aakash: Nadaan nahi, pareshaan 😭

NK: Sach sach bolo Aakash, tumne report kiya na mujhe?

NK: Tumhe mere hindi sacchi nahi lagti

NK: *Acchi isiliye

Aakash: Nahi NK Bhai, mai kyu report karunga?

Anjali: Chotte 😒

NK: Nannav main tumhari paav padta hu

NK: Please mera account suspend hone se bacha lo na

NK: Nannav

NK: Nannav

NK: Nannav

Anjali added Arnav to Raizada Group

NK: Nannav

NK: Nannav

NK: Mere bhai 🙏

NK: Mujhe Khushi ji ko invite karna hai

NK: Dinner ke liye

NK: Shantivan

NK: Ab mai unko message kaise karunga? 😭

Arnav seen

Notifications (nandiii)

Your account has been cleared of suspicious activity and/or abusive language.

Thank you for your patience.

(1) new messages from nandiii

nandiii: Khushi ji!

thekhushigupta: nanhe ji!!

nandiii: Aapko bhojan ka aamantran hai aaj raat 8 baje

nandiii: Shantivan 📌

thekhushigupta: ji bilkul! 🫶

nandiii: Waise what's your fav dish?

thekhushigupta: oh i devour aloo poori, chaat, jalebi, pakore 😭 anything lucknowi also works

nandiii: Of course Khushi ji! Humari choice is same to same 😌

thekhushigupta liked a message

thekhushigupta: nanhe ji, ek question hai

thekhushigupta: hum apni jiji ko bhi laaye kya saath me?

thekhushigupta: if you don't have a problem?

nandiii: Why not Khushi ji? The more, the merrier! :)

nandiii: Aur haan Khushi ji, I forgot to tell you that this is my cousin's home

nandiii: He's most probably not going to be around but in case he is, don't mind his presence 😂

nandiii: And the rest of the family will be there too

nandiii: Hope that's okay Khushi ji?

thekhushigupta: aree kyu nahi! i'm already so excitedddd

iMessage

Preetika: What's up buttercup?

Preetika: Still in your lover era?

Khushi: OMG

Khushi: no

Khushi: yes

Khushi: maybe, idk 😭

Preetika: Ooo what's the tea?

Khushi: we went out but

Khushi: he was only trying to stay out of his home

Khushi: cos guests or sm

Preetika: Oh no, girl, I'm so sorry :((

Khushi: no you're not

Preetika: No, i'm not😂

Preetika: At least you found out early enough that he wasn't as interested as you were

Khushi: i guess 🥺

Khushi: but what do i do with all these feelings? 😭😭

Preetika: You wanna talk over coffee?

Khushi: i wish!! but i've gtg for dinner at this place

Preetika: Okay wow, I get it. I'm not even on your priority list 😔

Khushi: noooooo

Khushi: ofc you are

Khushi: he's just a friend and he's visiting from australia so can't say no na

Preetika: Oh, is he single?

Khushi: idk 😭

Khushi: i'll see tho

Preetika liked a message

titaliya_k

liked by aakash_r, shyamjha, hari_prakash, arnavsinghraizada, saritaraman, hellohibyebye, theshyamjha, usershyam, nandiii, laxmi.ji and others

titaliya_k raghbat <3

@/nandiii thank you for hosting this amazing dinner and fulfilling my 'ghar ka khana' needs 💖

and @/laxmi.ji for the wonderful company!

view comments

nandiii Anytime Khushi ji!

⤷titaliya_k 🫶

aakash_r We were delighted to host you and your jiji!

⤷titaliya_k it was lovely to meet you! 😌

⤷hellohibyebye e kaa dusra accountwa hai ka phati saree?

⤷user1 this is her personal account and @/thekhushigupta is her professional one

shyamjha Accha toh aap idhar thi Khushi ji! Hum toh pareshaan ho gaye aapko dhoondhte dhoondhte

*this user has been blocked. click here to unblock*

usershyam: Waise aaj aap khule baalon me kaafi sunder lag rahi thi

*this user has been blocked. click here to unblock*

user2 yummy!

hari_prakash humne banaya didi

(2) new messages from titaliya_k

titalilya_k: nanhe ji!!!!!!

titaliya_k: aapne bataya kyu nahi 😭😭

nandiii: Kya hua Khushi ji? Kya nahi bataya??

titaliya_k: ki aap asr ke bhai hain 😭

nandiii: Oh sorry, mai bhool gaya Khushi ji 🥺

titaliya_k: 😭😭😭

nandiii: But everything went well no? Nannav said something to you?

titaliya_k: haan par

titaliya_k: wait NANNAV?!😂😂

titaliya_k: i'm cackling! 🤣🤣🤣

titaliya_k: ek din me do do nicknames 😂😂

titaliya_k: chotte had me giggling af lol

nandiii: Di and Nani ji only call him that 😅

titaliya_k: btw naniji is soooo cute! i absolutely enjoyed spending time with her!!

nandiii: Oh? She said the same thing about you two! But especially you 😌

titaliya_k: anjali ji was pretty sweet as well

titaliya_k: nothing like her chotte 🤭

nandiii: 😂😂

(1) message from thekhushigupta

thekhushigupta: hey

arnavsinghraizada: Yeah?

thekhushigupta: chotte 😂

arnavsinghraizada: 😒

thekhushigupta: istg it was so funny

arnavsinghraizada: Funny was you meeting my family on the second date itself

thekhushigupta: it wasn't a date 😒

arnavsinghraizada: You were literally staring at me the whole night

thekhushigupta: ok no need to call me out like that

thekhushigupta: so what? i like to look at pretty things

arnavsinghraizada: I'm pretty?

thekhushigupta: yessir

arnavsinghraizada seen

thekhushigupta: oh!! hello!!! don't ghost me!!!

arnavsinghraizada: Kya bolu ab?

arnavsinghraizada: I don't get it. You asked me out, we went on a date. And then YOU ghosted me.

arnavsinghraizada: And now you're flirting?

arnavsinghraizada: Tum thodi pagal ho

thekhushigupta: haan 😂😂

thekhushigupta: bua ji hume sanka devi bulati hai 😂

thekhushigupta: but you had the ghosting coming

thekhushigupta: who says on their first date that they're only there to avoid their cousin?

thekhushigupta: who btw is my friend!!

arnavsinghraizada: Wow you assumed that i was there to avoid NK

arnavsinghraizada: Okay, fair. I was actually

arnavsinghraizada: Doesn't mean that I didn't enjoy your company

thekhushigupta: oh?

TBC

<previous> | <next>

[musicalpancakes77]

Coming in on the last possible day, IT'S A STEEL CHAIR-

Except it's NOT! It's a Fanfic! :)

Hello everyone!! For the better part of the last year, I've been incredibly honored to be a part of the 2024 Professor Layton Big Bang! (@proflaytonbigbang)

It's been a wonderfully fun 10 months since I started writing for this endeavor, and today I've been extremely excited all around to share my fic, Professor Layton and the Past Rewritten! I got to partner up with two amazing artists, those being @samthecookielord and Naiah, who created some awesome chapter spotlights (and a few doodles, hehe). If you're at all interested to see what those look like, you can go check out their accounts, ORRR you can read the fic and find out there! :3c

The link is below, and I'll also be adding a short description of what you can expect for anyone a little curious! Thanks again to my partners for the awesome collaboration, and to the mods for making this happen!

Word count: 95.3K words.

Rating: Teen and Up

Category: Gen

Summary:

Luke can’t see very well with the relative darkness in the room, but that voice makes his face scrunch. Comically, it soothes the pitter-patter in his chest with how out of the situation he’s suddenly thrown. That’s not the voice of Hershel Layton, to be sure. It almost sounds like… “.... Dad?” The man stops his twisting and turning to make a horribly familiar half-choked gagging sound. The lights finally click on, illuminating their room in what should be a comforting yellow glow. Instead, it gives light to a contorted face that makes the both of them gasp. Or: The actual unwound, lost future fic.

[ssreeder]

Hi, I sent an ask like 5 minutes ago but I'm not sure if it went through for certain reasons so if it did just ignore that,

I love your fic so much. One of my favourite things is the authors note, I love hearing your rambles and thought processes behind certain scenes,

And JEE💖💖

The jee lovers in the fandom are small but dedicated, I love that man.

Any situation of an older man reluctantly and unknowingly adopting a child they hate and growing soft for them I love, I could ramble on for hours about certain headcanons I have regarding jee and zuko for hours, I need more of them (AND HIM AND BATO (please don't kill them i need AT LEAST 1 queer couple to be happy in this fic🙏🙏))

Also another thing, I do fanart and I really want to do art for this fic but I have no idea which scene to do, is there any specific ones you would want art of?

HI HI HI HI HIIII!!

I didn’t get your five minute ago ask but I got this one!! ahhhhhh my shameful authors notes haha I am very unhinged in there, I think I black out and rub my face in the keyboard honestly.

JEE LOVERS UNITED WE STAND!!!! I adore his dislike of both zuko & sokka in the beginning and now he’s falling hard for sokkas uncle and has pretty much said if anything happens to these kids I’ll burn this bitch to the ground. Unfortunately, Jees situation is going to get a bit more complicated he just doesn’t realize it yet haha.

THERE IS A HAPPY QUEER COUPLE! *gestures at liab zuko* I mean they’re happy like…. some of the time haha. Ok ok I see your point but no promises because you know when I start blowing shit up in liab I can get a little crazy :D mwahahaha.

FAN ART FOR ME?!1?27,771!37/&/ YOU KNOW HOW TO MAKE ME FERAL!!! ahhhhh honestly idk how to pick scenes im so bad at it i dont know what to choose but if you did wanna draw any scenes maybe any from ITF? Your fave or ones scenes you liked idk that’s my suggestion lol.

thanks for this amazing ask you’re a beautiful human thank you!

[incorrectfatui]

Arlecchino: Next time I'm at the pet store, I'm gonna take a hamster and drop it in the scorpion cage. I wanna see what a hamster's face looks like when it goes, "oh, fuck."

[kscribbs]

Witchy Lucy on/near Halloween is becoming something of a tradition, I fear.

This time she's a kind of a witch/Sally from Nightmare Before Christmas hybrid, though. The whole Presumed Unrequited But In Actuality Very Much Requited Love element of ML has always reminded me v much of Sally and Jack (Skellington's) dynamic.

After finishing both this and an alternative doodle, however, I realised that ML Luce would probably enjoy dressing as something science or medicine-related for Halloween.

I feel it incumbent on me to inform you, therefore, that, as well as going as Sally this year, for Halloweekend 2 she went as a misfolded protein. Because there's nothing more blood-curdling than prion disease. And the year before she was Plague Doctor Barbie (Barbie Summer and all). And the year before that she was False Vacuum Decay. Or maybe an Anthrax Spore. Or antibiotic resistance. Or the Hindenburg Uncertainty Principle. Or noble gas (you only need a crown and a whoopee cushion for that one).

I can also see her going as cluster of protons and neutrons and having Jack flounce around her all night as an electron. Mans will indeed do whatever the hell she wants; in fact he's content to help her bring any of the above concepts to life, no matter how convoluted or nerdy. ❤️

Trying to draw said concepts however presented something of a challenge, so for now -- witch Lusally. And also the 'my cute/hot/etc. witch/goth gf/wife' meme bc I've been itching to do it for months now! ☺️

[sysig]

Bowtie Charm! Inspired by @zarla-s​‘ super cute rendition hehe 💕 (Patreon)

Bonus collar breakdowns:

Changes depending on the doodle!

[specialagentartemis]

📂HEADCANONS

YEAH

Trying to think of ones I haven’t already talked about A Lot

Murderbot describes Preservation as "a complicated barter system" because it doesn't really have the words or concepts to parse what it's looking at: primarily a gift economy. An economy with a robust central government that does a lot of distribution of primary resources, and a social logic based more on providing than consuming. Farmers and agriculture techs don't produce food to then trade to other people, they produce food that's then re-distributed to everyone as needed by a central organization, and the farmers and ag-techs are given what they need and want by others who, y'know, eat food and express gratitude for Having Food. People don't trade for health care, doctors provide health care to whoever needs it because that's what they've trained and chosen to do and are given what they need by others for their service in providing health care.

Pin-Lee doesn't tend to have a lot to trade but she is a lawyer who keeps things functioning between Preservation and the Corporates, does the legal work that allows Preservation citizens to safely travel, and helps to maintain the contracts that prevent other more opportunistic planets fromtaking advantage of them. She provides this service to the planet and gets what she needs from other people who provide other services. Gurathin helps to maintain the university's database infrastructure, when he's getting coffee he doesn't need to offer to like, make a database for the coffeeshop, it's just understood that he's providing a service to society and partaking in another service to society. Arada and Ratthi are research biologists and their work is only tangentially productive to The Planet but I'm sure there's a public outreach or education aspect that's expected of a lot of researchers - learning without sharing what you're learning is socially unfair, even if their lectures are mostly only attended by students who are told by their teachers to go watch them. But it's kind of understood that by being an adult in the world, you are doing something that contributes to society and to others in some way, and as such are entitled to having your needs met as well.

It's a reciprocity-based logic of actions rather than commodity exchange, and honestly it works because 1) Preservation's population is relatively small, 2) there is a lot of bureaucratic organization work making sure everyone is getting what they need, the government is SO many committees 3) a whole lot of labor is done by machines (non-sentient robots) and bots (sentient robots). The reliance on bot labor is absolutely gonna be something Preservation has to think more about.

Citizens also every once in a while on rotation get called for a kind of labor tax akin to the way jury duty works, where every couple of months you have to put in a day working in the central town food court washing dishes or something. There are also Perks offered for jobs that might be a harder sell for people to do, like premium station housing.

Straight-up money that comes into the station from outsystem trade and travel mostly gets re-invested in supporting Preservation travelers off-planet into societies that do use money (like PresAux's ASR survey), or buying materials or machines that are hard to make locally (like ag-bots, or some spaceship or station parts for repairs).

However where barter comes in is on a more interpersonal one-on-one level, more similar to commissions. You grow a lot of carrots while my grapefruit tree is producing a lot more fruit than I could possibly eat, want to trade? You make ceramics as your primary Work, I'll trade you something if you make me something specific I have in mind. Can you help me fix my roof? I'll get you some good wood when the lumber trees are mature next year. Developing skills for these kind of interpersonal more-specialized trades is a significant motivation, too. And different skills and jobs inevitably attract more status and impressiveness than others. But it's not barter exactly so much as reciprocity, a strong culture of civic duty, and a highly organized government.

[moersleutelart]

he's taken over my heart and brain

[quadrantadvisor]

I'm trying so hard not to be a hater but the more I learn about other ttrpgs the more the way that people talk about dnd annoys me

[emmaspolaroid]

okay I’ve got a fun drink a fun ice cream and a fall candle LET’S WRITE