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National Surf and Turf Day
We always feel that February 29 should be celebrated: A bonus day in the year is certainly not something that should be disregarded. Thankfully, one intelligent food-lover once decided that this special day should also be National Surf and Turf Day. Today, we’ll be celebrating these extra 24 hours of 2016 with the decadent dish of steak and lobster.
Sadly, it is still a Monday, not a magical extra day which postpones the start of the week, so you still have to go through your normal routine of getting up, going to work, sitting through meetings, and going home. But once you’re working day is done, it’s time to let National Surf and Turf Day take over.
Although it seems a shame to celebrate the ostentatious surf and turf dish only once every four years, our wallets are somewhat grateful. This dish’s name is said to have been coined on the East Coast in the 1960s, and is now considered one of the must culinary kitsch dishes that it is still acceptable still to serve. We don’t know who created it, but he or she certainly had very ostentatious taste, deciding to combine the two most expensive menu items: steak and lobster. Since the ‘60s, the meat and seafood dish has become a steakhouse standby, and although it may not be as fashionable today as it once was, it is still wonderfully popular.
It seems apt to celebrate this rare, special day of February 29, with a fairly obnoxious meal, which is probably not your regular order. Make the most of the leap day, which hopefully you’ve been saving up for over the last four years, and make a dinner reservation at your favorite steakhouse, or go home via the butcher and fishmonger to pick up everything you need for your evening meal.
Just in case you’re not a fan of this traditional, and perhaps a little outdated surf and turf combination, experiment with your own modern takes on this old-school dish. As long as you combine meat and seafood on the same plate, it counts as surf and turf, or “reef and beef” as the Australians would say. We love the idea of swapping the fancy steak and grilled lobster tail for a lobster roll and a hot dog. Or, why not combine the land and the sea in a more subtle way, with these delicious scallops wrapped in bacon? However you choose to celebrate National Surf and Turf Day, make sure you make the most of it. You won’t have the excuse to indulge again for another 1460 days.
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Unfortunately for you all, I have NOT died.
I HAVE, however, spent two straight months rotting in bed with my mandatory bi-annual sinus infection. 😎
i miss making sims stuff tho and working on patterns is actually pretty easy to do from my laptop while in bed, and it gives me something to do that isn't just fartin around through the entire Yakuza series while fucking zooted on medical grade anti-histamines, so here we go. The set's called The Jump Off Collection because [i've been gone for a minute and now i'm back.]
INFO:
275 Fully Recolorable, Seamless Patterns!
There's like 10 or so patterns included in the file that aren’t in the preview image. I couldn't make them fit
Most patterns have 2 channels, a few have 3 and a couple have 4.
Patterns are mostly located in theme, geometric and abstract but there are a couple stragglers in various other categories
Comes in two flavors: Merged and Individuals
Both types contain the exact same type of stuff (package file and preview images) except version one is one big merged file and the version has individual files.
Tagging: @pis3update, @kpccfinds, @sssvitlanz,
[DOWNLOAD MERGED]
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#TS3#TS3CC#sims 3 cc#S3CC#TS3 Pattern#TS3 CC pattern#SIMS 3#The Sims 3#[MINE]#i'm not doing the drop down/pick and choose thing that i've been doing for all my cc sets. not for this. i'd simply go insane.#yes I know 275 patterns is A LOT. I know. im sorry if it's overwhelming but ya'll should know i'm extra at this point#i did get it down to 275 from 350 so there's thatt#also tbh idk when I'll be back next the sinus infection is clearing up and I plan to be outside hoeing and cutting up all summer
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Some of my favourite 'not fan art' pieces I did this year! Hope to draw even more original work in the coming one
#It's been really freeing to draw my own silly little ideas or OCs this year#I do love fan art and drawing characters I love but it's nice to have a choice#Maybe next year I'll draw even more original stuff. Even if it's vent art or maybe a zine idk#I really miss the spring/summer I was in a cowboy mood tbh. Can't wait for warmer weather to come back#art#sketch#character art#horror#gore#original character#original art
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As someone who's been a Team Starkid fan since the beginning, since 2009... do the young fans who only know hatchetfield know the old lore?? Do you know about crying in the choir room?? Do you know the door gag? Do you know Liam's got a phone call? Do you know about the iconic accidental sing along SanFran Con appearance? This isn't me being elitist or anything, I genuinely want to know! I just feel so very much older than all of you, all the time. Does anyone remember Tanya and her gay little blonde bob???
#starkid#team starkid#I remember every year during the summer I used to rewatch all their shows in order of upload#it didn't used to take so long#I can't remember the last time I did it#part of me misses pre Twisted Starkid#but then I realize I don't actually miss it#I miss being a kid and a teenager and not having to worry about bills and taxes and my next car insurance bill and next meal#Starkid is such a actual company but it has been for a while#I feel like people only take it seriously niw that they don't do blatant parody musicals#anyway I'm so excited for Cinderella's Castle#as number 1 fan and defender of Cinderella and her story I am pumped and excited to see what Starkid does with it#I pledged 25 dollars to the kickstarter cause that's all I had to give last month I was the 1964th pledger#I know new fandom always finds old fandom cringe and stupid but there was a simplicity back in 2009 that I'll always miss
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Diabolik Lovers Grand Edition Tokuten Special Booklet Short Stories ☽ Mukami ver. ☽ The Rainy School Night Mystery
Original title: 雨降る夜の学校の怪 English translation by @otomehonyaku Click here for the scans (special thanks to @karleksmumskladdkaka!) Sakamaki ver. ☽ Year-End Pandemonium (coming soon)
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This short story booklet was part of the limited edition release of Grand Edition! Keep reading below the cut for the second short story, featuring the Mukami brothers. I will translate the Sakamaki one at a later date!
Please do not reuse or post my translations elsewhere or translate my work into other languages without my permission.
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Droplets of rain tapped against the window panes and quickly converged into small streams, drawing curved lines on the glass on their way down. The rain had started the day before yesterday and showed no signs of stopping anytime soon. Maybe that might have been why, by the time the oppressive humidity began to make everyone feel uneasy…
“Hey, Kitten. I need to talk to you. Do you have a minute?”
With a smile bright enough to wipe away any worries caused by the weather, Mukami Kou—the idol with a household name—approached Komori Yui in a friendly manner. His presence caused a stir among the other students around them.
Yui grabbed Kou by the sleeve of his uniform jacket and quietly uttered, “Kou, we’ll stand out if we talk here…”
“Alright!”
Yui was puzzled by Kou’s unusually good mood, but followed him to a spot that would keep them away from prying eyes.
“Kou… Did something happen?”
“I heard a very interesting rumour. I thought I’d ask you about it, too.”
“A rumour?”
“Yes! It’s a little strange for this time of year, but it’s about a ghost story. Apparently, most of the students and teachers are familiar with it. Have you heard about it?”
“No… What’s it about?”
As soon as he realised Yui was completely oblivious, Kou gleefully talked away..
“Apparently, when it’s very late on a night of endless rain, when most people have left the school… strange sounds start coming from one of the classrooms.” Kou lowered his voice in an attempt to stoke her fear. “Nobody knows exactly where the sounds are coming from. It could be an empty classroom, the art room… You can hear it from various places depending on the day.”
“And… it couldn’t just be a burglar?”
“That’s what I thought, too, but I haven’t heard anything about things going missing, and even if that were the case, wouldn’t the police have been involved already? There’s also rumours going around about it being the students’ own doing, but apparently there are scratch marks in the rooms where the sound came from. Like, in places higher up than the curtains, so people generally wouldn’t be able to reach that high.”
With the odds of it being a student prank getting smaller by the minute, Yui’s throat grew dry. She swallowed loudly.
There shouldn’t be any sounds coming from an unoccupied room. The first thing that came to Yui’s mind was an unscientific explanation—something she would rather not think about.
“So, you mean… it’s a ghost?”
“Yes, yes, exactly! People are saying it might be a ghost.”
“But couldn’t the sounds be coming from the building itself (1)? I heard that ‘strange sounds’ people hear inside their houses are usually just the rattling of the building.”
“But that’s so boring, Kitten! Ghosts are way more interesting than rattling houses! Besides, people think it’s a ghost for good reason.”
“W-what reason…?!”
The way Kou purposefully explained it to her with such kindness, patience, and in such detail, made Yui shiver. A broad grin spread across the vampire’s face as he pulled Yui’s body closer while surveying their surroundings as if he was afraid of being caught, and started whispering into her ear.
“Some students have already snuck into the building at night as a test of courage, and apparently they saw dark shadows along with the strange sounds they heard. If it had been only one or two students spreading the rumour, it wouldn’t be a very credible story, but when so many people have had the exact same encounter, it’s difficult to still call it a trick of the mind, right? There’s also some students who claim they saw arms wrapped in bandages emerge from the darkness, at the exact timing that the lightning struck outside.”
“Oh…”
“Hm? What’s wrong, Kitten? You look a bit pale.”
“It’s because of your strange story…”
“Hehe! How cute. It’s going to be alright, Kitten. I’ll be by your side, after all.” Kou met Yui’s frightened eyes and shot her a sweet smile to put her at ease. “I’ll protect you. So… it has been a bit boring with all this rain lately. Shall we do some nightly exploration of the school for ourselves so we can figure out the truth behind the rumours?”
“What?!”
“Come on, let’s go!”
“W-wait a minute! Where are we going?”
Kou, who would not have taken ‘no’ for an answer either way, grabbed Yui’s hand and hurried pulled her along, down the hall. He swiftly dodged the students who were already starting to head home at this hour.
“W-wait! Slow down…”
“But there’s no time like the present, right? Besides, if we don’t hurry, my fans will only try to pull me aside. Let’s go to the others quickly!”
Kou led her in the direction of a far-away third-year classroom.
When the two of them walked through the door, the other Mukami brothers were already there. Yuma was straddling a chair, Azusa lingered by the window, and Ruki stood leaning with his back against the wall, his arms crossed.
“Hi, everyone! Sorry to keep you waiting. I brought our little Kitten!”
“You’re late, Kou. I was this close to goin’ home, even though you urged us to stay here ‘n wait.”
The discontent was plain on Yuma’s face. Kou muttered a half-serious apology to him and let go of Yui’s hand.
“Eve… did you run on your way here? You sound… out of breath…” Azusa tilted his head slightly to the side in concern for Yui.
“I’m okay, Azusa. Thank you.”
“Kou… If you need something from us, why gather us on campus?”
“Hehe. That’s because I need you all to be at school for this, ” Kou said, still beating around the bush.
Ruki glared daggers at his brother. Knowing he could not hold it off much longer, Kou decided to explain the situation.
“I was talking with Kitten about this earlier, but I heard an interesting story and I’d like you to know about it too! Have you heard the rumour that a ghost is haunting the school?”
“The one that’s making strange noises at night? I heard my classmates talkin’ ‘bout it.” Yuma clearly just wanted to know what mischief Kou was up to, making the blonde’s shoulders droop in disappointment.
“Oh, so you already know. Word certainly travels fast among the third-years.”
Ruki had a glaring suspicion about Kou’s intentions and decided to drive the point home before his brother could do it himself. “I suppose you weren’t going to ask us to look for the ghost with you, were you?”
“Hehe, bullseye!” Kou smiled broadly.
“Seriously? It’s just a rumour, though,” Yuma replied, sounding exasperated.
“How old are you? Don’t get so excited about this, Kou. Ghosts do not exist.” Ruki was referring to the fact that when someone dies and the moment their body perishes, a peculiar thing called the ‘soul’ perishes along with it. Ghosts were merely ridiculous fantasies; illusions invented by humans. Only ignorant children would be afraid of them… right?
However, Kou had already expected this reaction from Ruki and did not back down.
“Heh… I don’t think it’s good to decide that ghosts aren’t real without confirming anything ourselves. Right, Kitten?”
“Huh…? M-me?”
“Do you really believe this nonsense?” When Ruki turned to her, Yui instinctively straightened her spine.
“Not necessarily, but… It sounds a little scary, I think, but whether they’re actually real is another thing…”
“Kou, do you… really think the ghost… will appear? It might have just been… a trick of the mind, you know?”
“Of course I don’t believe the ghost actually exists.I don’t sense any other supernatural presences around here either, besides ourselves and the Sakamakis. Doesn’t that make you all the more interested in the hype around this ghost story?”
Ruki’s curiosity was piqued, if only a little, at Kou’s words. “Hm… You do have a point.”
It was easy to dismiss urban legends like this right away, but if there was a reality to this particular ghost story, that would change things.
“And what if people besides us are purposefully stirring up a ruckus at the academy? We can’t let that slide, right? So, I want to expose the truth behind these rumours! It won’t be fun if it’s just the four of us, though, so that’s why I brought Kitten with me.”
“I-I’m not going! Walking around the empty building at night sounds scary enough already, let alone when an actual ghost shows up…”
If the Mukami brothers could barely even make sense of the situation, didn’t that mean there was an actual chance a ghost was haunting the premises? When Yui thought of it like that, a chill ran down her spine.
“Heh, sounds fun!” Yuma put a hand on the back of the chair he’d been straddling and stood up with great vigour. “If she’s coming, I’m in, too!”
Yui was taken aback by his enthusiasm. “Yuma?!”
“I knew you’d come around, Yuma! Hey, Ruki. Please join us!”
“Alright. I do not care for ghosts, but I agree that we have to find out who’s causing all this trouble.”
“Right? Azusa, you’re coming too, aren’t you…? Azusa? Hello—?
“...”
Even as Kou’s eyes intently watched Azusa’s puzzled expression, the younger brother still didn’t answer. He raised a hand to his mouth as if in deep thought. Thinking it strange, Yui instinctively called out.
“Azusa?”
“Huh? Ah, I’m sorry… If you’re all going… then I will join you.”
“Great, that settles it! Let’s wait here for a bit until the school empties out.”
“H-hold on a second… Don’t I get a say in this?”
“Your opinion does not matter. Were you thinking of going home all by yourself, then?” Ruki said.
“Oh…” Met with four stares that left little room for protest, Yui reluctantly went along with their plans.
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Several hours passed.
By the time all lights in the academy had been turned off and the emergency exit signs were the only source of light in the halls, the five began their search. The building had fallen completely silent. Only their footsteps and the distant sound of the rain outside could be heard.
Kou pulled Yui along by her hand and walked slightly ahead of the others.
“Hey, Kou… I don’t like going first.”
“Why?”
“Because it’ll be even scarier if something appears…”
“It’s okay, really! You can lag behind if you want, but something might creep up behind you.”
“L-like what?”
“Who knows? But I’m right in front of you and Ruki and the others are right behind you. Don’t you think this is the safest position for you to be in?
Though Kou encouraged Yui to move to whatever position she wanted, she felt unable to do so. She decided to quietly follow behind Kou. They had been walking around the school for a little while now, but had not noticed anything out of the ordinary yet.
Fed up with their aimlessly walking around, Yuma began to complain. “Hey, Kou. Nothing’s happened so far.”
“You’re too impatient, Yuma. We haven’t even been walking around for that long.”
“I feel no other presences nearby, nor have I heard that particular ‘sound’ you were talking about. Do you think it’s wary of us?” Ruki whispered, frowning as he surveyed his surroundings.
“Hey… If this really is a ghost’s doing, what do we even do? It probably won’t worship us or anything…”
Ignoring Yui’s worries completely, Yuma clutched his stomach and could not keep from bursting into laughter. “Pff, haha! You dummy. Why’d it worship us?”
“Because—isn’t that what they say about ghosts? That they worship people?
“Then they’d only worship you.”
“What…?”
“They only worship people, right?”
Yui tilted her head to the side, not quite understanding what Yuma was saying right away, but Ruki filled her in.
“Because we are vampires, after all. Besides, I don’t understand why you would be afraid of something as abstract as ghosts.”
“But… You never know! They might worship vampires too!”
While Yui desperately clung to her theory, Azusa and Kou decided to rub salt in the wound.
“I think… we’re stronger than ghosts, though...”
“I know, right? I think they’d be repulsed rather than worship us.”
“Ah…” With nobody agreeing with her, Yui felt her position becoming more and more vulnerable. On top of being forced into this situation, she was the only one who was actually scared.
Kou watched her intently, an almost reproachful expression on his face. “Oh, this won’t do. Even if you pout at me that way, I’ll just think you’re cute. But hey, I’ll protect you whatever happens, so stay calm, alright?” He winked at her in a way only an experienced idol could.
When Yui thought about it, being surrounded by four vampires—former humans, but still—probably was the safest position for her to be in, oddly enough. There was no way vampires would lose to an intangible ghost.
However, precisely because they were dealing with something intangible made it difficult for Yui to suppress her nerves. She desperately fought to keep the fear from overtaking.
The five walked around for a little while longer, Yui securely in the middle, but nothing happened.
“This is weird… Maybe it really is wary of us, like Ruki said. I wonder if it doesn’t like being ganged up on by a large group of people.”
“How about we split up then?”
“Right! If we go in small groups, the ghost might be more motivated to come out.”
“What…?! I don’t like the idea of splitting up.”
“We’re not asking for your opinion. That said, you would be in trouble if we left you alone, so… Yuma?”
Yuma looked puzzled when Ruki called his name. “Huh? What, Ruki?”
“Keep her company. If one of us goes with her, we’ll be able to swiftly deal with any unforeseen situations.”
“Yeah, true… Alright, Kou. We’re switchin’.”
Kou complied with Yuma’s demand, though the displeasure was clear on his face. The blonde might have rebelled against this change if Yuma had been the one to ask, but Ruki’s orders, on the other hand, were simply to be followed.
“Ah, what a shame. I was looking forward to holding hands with Kitten for a little longer.”
Kou reluctantly let go of Yui’s hand and surrendered his spot to Yuma.
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After that, Yui and Yuma split up from the rest of the group and began exploring the school anew.
It’s so quiet when it’s just the two of us walking around… Not feeling brave enough to speak up, Yui kept quiet and followed Yuma. I hope we can meet up with the others soon… If the ghost comes out now, I wonder if we’ll make it to them if we run.
“Hey, Sow… Why’re you shufflin’ behind me the entire time? Go out in front.”
“What?! N-no! I can’t!”
“There ain’t no way in hell that ghost is real, so no need to be such a scaredy-cat. You’re only makin’ yourself look more like an idiot.”
“I-I don’t care if I look like an idiot…! Some things are meant to be feared!”
“Ha! There ya go again… If I wanna leave , I’ll leave!” As if to get the irritation out of his system, Yuma banged his fist against the wall beside him.
Yui’s eyes snapped shut for a brief moment, but she did not flinch when she returned Yuma’s gaze, his face suddenly much closer than before.
“But…”
“But what?”
“Don’t you think… if vampires exist, then ghosts might exist too?”
“Hm… Sounds pretty funny comin’ from you, but nah, they don’t exist.” One corner of Yuma’s mouth curved upwards into a mocking grin. He let out a laugh. He seemed pretty convinced that ghosts were not a thing of this world.
CLATTER—!
“...!”
A clattering sound suddenly came from one of the classrooms. It startled Yui, making her tremble. “That wasn’t… in my head, was it?”
A lick of ice-cold fear slid down Yui’s spine. She quickly hid behind Yuma.
“You… Why’re you hiding? You’ve got some guts usin’ me as a shield.”
“B-but…” She could not find the words to speak—she was simply too scared. She crouched in on herself behind Yuma in an effort to hide.
The sound seemed to have come from the empty, unused classroom near them. It was pitch-black. Nobody seemed to be inside.
“I’m gonna go look.”
“What?! W-wait, Yuma!”
Yuma ignored Yui’s pleas and opened the door to the classroom. He thoroughly inspected the room, but still, there was not a soul in sight. As though expecting someone to be hiding, Yuma set foot into the classroom.
“Y-Yuma, don’t! It’s dangerous!”
“Ha! You’re scared shitless, aren’t ya? Just wait here. I’ll only have a quick look inside.”
The only thing coming in from outside was the sound of the rain. Not even a sliver of moonlight fell into the room. The ominous darkness gradually swallowed Yuma’s form whole as he walked farther away.
Oh no… If something comes out at me, I’ll…
Yui’s heart hammered against her ribcage, and just when her eyes inadvertently fluttered closed—she felt something brushing up against her leg. Goosebumps rose on her skin. She couldn’t keep her voice from leaking.
“Eek!”
Yuma rushed back when he heard her cry out, but still found no traces of anything lurking in the shadows close to where Yui was standing, nor in the deserted classroom.
“Damn, don’t scream like that! I thought somethin’ happened!”
“B-but… something… touched my leg…”
“What?! What the hell was it?”
In the end, the two never figured out what it could have been. The sky, still clouded with heavy rain, slowly started to become brighter.
“Shit. It’s close to mornin’ already. Hey, Sow? We should get back to Ruki ‘n the others. We’re done for today.”
“For today? You don’t mean…” A heavy sense of dread fell upon Yui, but she did not need to finish her sentence.
The anxious look on her face made Yuma’s lips curl up into a sadistic smile.
“We’ll be back for round two tomorrow.”
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The next night, Yui was accompanied by Azusa on their rounds through the school hallways. Yui kept a tight grip on Azusa’s left arm and had no intention of letting him go.
“Eve… If you hold on to me like that… it’s a bit difficult to move…”
“Oh! I-I’m sorry, Azusa! I’m still not quite used to this…”
“...”
“Azusa?”
“Ah… What is it…?”
Yui was even more unsettled by Azusa’s restlessness. He’s been lost in thought the entire time, she thought.
“Hey, Azusa? Is something wrong…? You haven’t seen the… g-ghost, have you?”
“Huh? Oh, no… I haven’t.”
“Ah… That’s a relief.”
“Are you… really that scared? Then… here.”
“Huh…?”
Azusa came to a halt and pulled Yui into a hug with his other arm, gently patting her back as he whispered into her ear. “Eve… I’m here with you. Even if something comes after you… I’ll protect you. But… are you maybe worried… that it’s just me…?”
“No, not at all… Thank you. I think I might be a little less scared now.”
“I’m glad… to make myself useful.” Azusa smiled softly, but then his gaze quickly shifted to the window.
He really is worried about something… I wonder what’s gotten into him…
Once again, the night ended without them coming any closer to finding the source of the strange sound.
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Along came the third night of exploring the academy.
Carefully calculating when the building would empty out, the five once again split up and made their rounds. The never-ending rain had abated into a drizzle for a brief moment, but before long, it was pouring once again. The weather showed no signs of letting up.
“It really won’t stop raining. It would be nice to be able to see the moon, though…”
The night sky was covered by heavy rain clouds. Yui had been looking out of the window while she was walking down the hall, but in the meantime, Ruki—who had been right next to her only a moment earlier—had already put several steps in between them. Yui half-ran to catch up to him.
“You seem awfully careless today. Have you already overcome your fear of ghosts?”
“N-not exactly, but… This is the third day already, so it’s getting a little… Ah!”
Maybe Yui’s attention slipped because she was relieved to walk beside Ruki again, as she suddenly stumbled and nearly fell over. Ruki immediately extended his arms, swiftly catching Yui and keeping her from falling.
“T-thank you…”
“If you let down your guard like that, bad things will happen—like this, for example.”
“Huh…?”
The ominous tone of Ruki’s voice caught Yui’s attention. She tilted her face upwards to look at him.
Ruki looked pointedly somewhere behind her, nodding in the same direction as if to urge her to do the same. Yui’s hands were braced on his upper arms as he held her, and her grip only tightened at the thought of something being at her back.
“I-is something there?”
Yui was hit by an indescribable wave of anxiety. Her breath involuntarily caught in her throat, but she bolstered her resolve and gingerly looked over her shoulder.
There was nothing but the long, dark, gloomy hallway stretching out behind her.
“N-nothing’s there, right? Wait, were you… Huh…?”
“You said you’d gotten used to it, right? I figured I’d test you. It seems like you don’t have your fear under control just yet, though.”
“Ah…!”
Yui’s cheeks flushed bright red. Had Ruki really been toying with her, even though he knew she was scared?
“That’s not fair…! You can’t just play with me like that… I’ve gotten a little more used to walking through the dark hallways, but you know I’m scared of ghosts…!”
Yui crouched down on the ground, her face between her knees, both mortified and scared beyond her wits. Any regular male student might have been worried, might have tried to calm her down, but Ruki showed no signs of showing her such kindness.
“Don’t make a fuss. How long are you going to sit like that? If you don’t feel like moving, I’ll leave you here.” Quickly dismissing Yui’s worries, Ruki did not bother to cast her another glance and began walking away.
“Oh… W-wait up!”
Not knowing where to direct her fear and frustration with being ignored, Yui’s head was full of chaos. Still, she would not be able to bear being left alone like this, and so she hurried back to Ruki.
Yui felt herself grow stiff while she walked behind him. Just then, a strange sound reached her ears.
“...Did you hear that?”
“It came from that classroom. Do you want to check it out?”
It was a different sound from the one she had heard with Yuma the day before yesterday. This one clearly sounded like someone was rummaging around… and it kept going.
“Ruki…”
“There’s definitely someone here.”
Ruki opened the door to the classroom with great force.
The moonlight did not quite reach the room because of the heavy rain—it was darker than the hallway had been—and the unoccupied desks and chairs were nothing but eerie silhouettes.
When Yui’s eyes had gotten used to the darkness, though, she saw someone standing there with her back to her—someone familiar. Recognition struck her.
“Huh… Azusa?” The words just slipped out.
At Yui’s surprised voice, Azusa slowly turned around to face them. He looked just as surprised to see them. “Eve… Ruki…”
“Azusa? What are you doing here?” Ruki took a step forward and had barely finished speaking…
And then, it happened.
“Found you—!”
Yui looked in the direction of the voice reverberating through the hallway, she spotted Kou running towards them. Their eyes met. Kou raised his voice as if he’d known all along how this would end.
“Grab it, Kitten!”
“What?!”
Yui followed Kou’s finger pointing ahead. A small, black shadow darted out in front of him. Kou had clearly ordered her to catch it, but she couldn’t bring herself to do it right away. While she stood there hesitating for a moment, the black shadow collided with her chest on its own.
Out of sheer reflex, Yui wrapped her arms around it immediately. It felt heavier than she’d thought, and softer to the touch. The unexpected sensation almost made her drop it, but she regained her posture and held it tightly.
“Nice catch, Kitten!”
Kou was out of breath, having run at full speed, as he pointed at the black lump in Yui’s arms. “That’s… the cause… of the ghost story… the source of the sounds… is that cat.”
Yui suddenly realised she was holding a black cat. Its tail pointed upwards, the fur fluffed up as it eyed Kou suspiciously. In an effort to calm down the evidently upset cat, she gently stroked its back. “It’s okay… Don’t be scared…”
“Wow… Have you seen the way it’s staring at me?” Kou breathed.
“Isn’t that because you were chasing it?”
“I had to! Of course it’s going to run if someone tries to catch it.”
“Hey, hey! What’s with all the—what the fuck! What’s that black thing?”
Yuma burst into the room after having heard the commotion. Yui had only just managed to calm down the cat a little, but in response to Yuma’s voice, the black cat’s tail fluffed up again.
“Whoa, that’s a pretty rough-lookin’ cat… But wait, what’s a cat doing on campus?”
A nod from Ruki confirmed his brother’s unspoken suspicions. “If this cat is the cause of the ghost story going around, I wonder how it managed to sneak into the academy and cause such an upheaval.”
If the cat had snuck in while the students and teachers were on campus, it could not have gone unnoticed. The fact that nobody was aware of a cat on campus must mean that it had snuck in sometime late at night, when the school was already empty.
However, that still begged the question how it came in. The campus was built in such a way that it seemed unlikely for the cat to have come inside easily. If that was the case, maybe someone had purposefully lured the cat inside and hidden it from everyone…
How did this little one even get here…? Yui was at a loss as she stared at the black ball of fur in her arms, but the only response she got from it was a loud meow.
Azusa, who had been quiet up until now, suddenly joined the conversation. “I’m sorry… Actually, this cat… is here because I was… looking after it…” He apologetically raised his right hand.
“Huh? Azusa, you’ve been taking care of this cat…?”
“Yeah… I’ll talk you through what happened…” Azusa began explaining the origins of the ghost story and how the cat had infiltrated the school. “About a month ago… I found this cat in the school courtyard, but…”
Azusa’s story went something like this: one day, he had found a weakened black kitten. He had given it something to eat and soon began to look after it. Even after it had mostly recovered, the heavy rain continued to fall, and Azusa had felt the need to keep checking in on it out of sheer worry.
As he suspected, the cat had fallen ill again after a while. Azusa had pitied the little black cat and made sure to gently stroke it and talk to it. Eventually, he brought it to this classroom so he could take better care of it.
“Oh, Azusa, you’re too kind,” Kou said, carefully approaching the cat so as to not startle it, and petted it. The cat seemed to have gotten a little more used to him. It was more docile now, allowing Kou’s gentle touch.
“That’s not… true… In the end, I only… ended up scaring the cat…”
“What do you mean?”
“When the cat became healthier… I got a little careless… After it escaped from this classroom where I’d been taking care of it… I lost track of where it went…”
“So that means this cat roamed the school at night, and the kids mistook the sounds it made for a ghost… and that led to the ghost story?”
Azusa nodded in response to Yuma’s question. “I think those sounds… must have been the cat running away or playing around… and when I couldn’t find it for a while… it must have been hiding somewhere… because it was scared…”
“Yeah, that’s fair… It’s pretty scary to be chased around, after all.”
Kou nodded exaggeratedly, but the brothers’ reactions were pretty mild overall, as though these kinds of things happened on the regular. Yui thought it strange, but tried to gloss over it by shooting Azusa one more question.
“The students were talking about an ‘arm wrapped in bandages’ poking out from the darkness… So that was…”
“Yeah… They must have seen… me. As soon as I heard the rumours about the ghost… and knowing about the cat, it just clicked… so, lately… I’ve been looking for it by myself…”
“Ha… so that’s it. That ghost story was brought to life just ‘cause of Azusa and this black cat.”
“Good grief… You certainly caused trouble.”
With all questions answered, Yuma and Ruki looked even more exasperated than before.
“Azusa… Of all places to take care of a cat, you should not have done it at school. If you’d just taken it home, it wouldn’t have caused such a stir.” (2)
“I thought it might… bother you…”
“Well, that’s Azusa for you. But this wouldn’t have inconvenienced us at all! We’re brothers, right?” Kou said light-heartedly in an effort to cheer up Azusa, whose eyes were downcast.
“Of course. Don’t be so reserved, Azusa.”
Touched by the kindness of his brothers, Azusa smiled cheerily. “Yeah… Thank you, all of you…”
“So, uh… What do we do with the cat?” When Yui handed the cat over to Azusa, it began loudly purring in his arms.
“How about we bring it home with us?”
“I don’t mind either.”
The cat could suffer a grim fate if we leave it here like this and someone else finds it… What if it becomes weak again? What if it dies?
“Ruki… Would it be alright if we took it home?”
Everyone’s eyes naturally shifted to Ruki.
“We can’t decide that so easily. If the cat belongs to someone who lives somewhere around the campus, shouldn’t we return it to its home? Don’t they say that dogs tend to be attached to their masters, and cats are attached to their homes?”
Ruki had a point, but Kou was not yet convinced, especially seeing how Azusa felt for the cat he’d been taking care of for so long. “But look how attached it is to Azusa…”
“Thank you, Kou… I’m alright… The cat’s happiness is… the most important, after all…”
“Well, if Azusa’s fine with it, then I’m fine with it… Ah, I’m so tired from chasing the cat. Hey, Kitten. Can I lay my head in your lap (3) when we get home?”
“What?!”
The subject of the conversation shifted from the cat to something else so quickly that it almost gave Yui whiplash.
When Yuma joined in as well, it became even more confusing. “Hey, Kou. You’re not the only one who’s tired! You don’t get to keep all the fun for yourself.”
“But I worked really hard, you know? Don’t you think I deserve to ask for a small reward?”
“I don’t. I ran pretty damn hard myself! Hell, I was the only one who actually ran.”
“What? How do you know? I definitely ran the hardest!”
“Nah, I did!”
“I’m telling you, I did!”
Kou and Yuma’s bickering escalated quickly, neither of them realising their fight was getting farther and farther away from the issue at hand.
“Christ, this is not worth fighting over.”
“But… it’s kind of fun, isn’t it?”
Ruki averted his eyes, clearly fed up with his brothers’ antics, while Azusa warmly watched over the two.
It would be nice if they forgot about the laying–his-head-in-my-lap thing, too… Yui thought. When her gaze flicked to the window, she noticed that the rain that had plagued the city, pouring incessantly for days on end, had let up.
─── ・ 。゚☆: *.☽ .* :☆゚. ───
A little while later, the black cat left the campus, and the ghost story that had haunted the academy quickly receded into the students’ and teachers’ memories.
THE END
─── ・ 。゚☆: *.☽ .* :☆゚. ───
家鳴(やな)り:Lit. the ‘rattling of a house,’ meaning things like creaking windows, the air vents, the sounds you sometimes hear when the walls or window panes expand due to moisture or heat, things like that.
Not a translation note but Ruki, sir, with your history of ‘taking care’ of cats, I’m not sure if that’s a good idea…
膝枕(ひざまくら): Lit. ‘knee/lap pillow,’ meaning to use someone’s lap as a pillow, laying your head in someone’s lap.
#this story was so fun to translate omg. azusa my BABY!!!!!#and i also want ruki to scare the living daylights out of me tbvh..... please......#i tend to take some (small) creative liberties when translating longer texts just to make the story flow better btw#so other japanese-speaking people: pls don't come for me haha#also i'm sorry for being so slow this week my summer break is over and i had to get back to work again so i've been a little tired aaa#next up is something very exciting though............. which i'll also be able to release in smaller parts!#diabolik lovers#dialovers#diabolik lovers translation#diabolik lovers translations#diahell#otomehonyaku#my translations#mukami ruki#ruki mukami#mukami kou#kou mukami#mukami yuma#mukami yuuma#yuuma mukami#yuma mukami#mukami azusa#azusa mukami#diabolik lovers grand edition
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moulin rouge is literally just gonna rotate between aaron and derek for the rest of its run huh
#moulin rouge#aaron tveit#derek klena#u know what i'm not mad about it#derek sweetie i'll see u back in the slutty v necks next summer <3
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It's supposed to end with them eating ice-cream together in peace. Then everything changed when I learned the lore friendly name.
#tes#morrowind#tes oc#oc: Acelta#oc: Sundros#nerevarine#it's supposed to be wholesome#it's supposed to be the frozen treat that warm your heart#what were they thinking?! why Nord Milk?! why?!?!?!#i make a ice-cream before basically just remember to give them a good stir once every hour#so i let Acelta made a ice sphere and rotate it once a while#but yeah Sunny were supposed to slice it open with a blade#and i was looking for cool blade and i saw the profane tool and this happened#i'll let all my ocs path cross somehow because i wanna and i can >:3#acelta was a slave rescued by sunny#sunny was teaching him how to normally hang out with friends#in exchange acelta would make her some nice treats#ah i was supposed to finish these back in june what happened? time moves so fast i think i autopilot the entire summer#the next one is still summer theme haha help#i'm so not prepare for inktober aaaaaaa
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I can't believe my dad is retired. I feel too young for this. I feel he's too young for this. I feel like I'm still 15 sometimes. I feel surprised every time I go home and he looks older. I feel surprised when I finally FaceTime home instead of call and see he's grown a beard for the first time in my life. I feel like time should really just... freeze
#I will say that I really hope he woodworks more#I'm thinking about proposing a project to him when I go home in the summer... I wanna build a TV/media console w him#all the ones I like are either a gajillion dollars or look like they're made of plywood (...sometimes both)#so I think we can make something serviceable. only downside is I'll have to drive it back to me#OOOO maybe he can drive it back with me#o m g maybe he can come over for a hockey game next year.... yeah...#okay maybe there are upsides to retirement
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Another important announcement
I'm taking a break from Tumblr. Also cuz the summer break is over?
It was pretty fun!
Hope you enjoyed my Tumblr Bumblr Stuff, and hope you'll still enjoy it!
Although try to post (almost) every Friday and weekend
But if the break from Tumblr is too long... here are some other images...
I hope to see you all next time, if that's possible.
Yours Truly, Miksy51
(Or Miksy the Emushman, Miksy the 51st, Miksy-The-51st)
#artists on tumblr#gravity falls#my oc stuff#oc#oc art#art#announcement#goodbye#i'll be back#see you next summer#see you next time
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Scout's not above letting Sniper know that she thinks she's smoking. It doesn't necessarily have to mean anything since it was just a compliment. Though, as Sniper begins to argue with her, she accidentally lets slip just how genuine she's being.
#hello hello#welcome back#this might be one of the last few for this summer btw#things have been a bit crazy here#school is about to start again#and i'm about to be a tad bit more busy#i'll see what i can do about the next two fridays#but i still wanted to thank y'all for this summer#it really has meant a lot to me#scout#sniper#tf2#team fortress 2#fem fortress#scout tf2#tf2 scout#scout team fortress 2#team fortress 2 scout#sniper tf2#sniperscout#tf2 sniper#sniper team fortress 2#team fortress 2 sniper#speeding bullet#fanfiction
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these are some strange tasting dragons....
#wip#trying to get back on my dragon challenge AND get my new pc settled#i think im doing good so far#but honestly started with these because...they are small#but also what the heck are they really#they were strange to coordinate into a single piece / so each one is going to be by themselves#i'll cut them from the main project afterwards = v =#now another shower because even sitting right next to a fan while working on this did not keep me cool#it's starting off to be a very wild summer here folks
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its so weird thinking about childhood best friends you don't know anymore. like. the girl and her siblings who lived next door for year, who I used to considered my sister, who now looking back on it was probably my first crush ever, who swore we would grow up together, who was only 'visiting' her family for a month, turns out her parents lied to us, I never saw her again. the girls I went to summer to summer camp with every year and now I can barely remember there faces.
like. how are they doing?
I still can't conceptualize that these people who mattered *so* much to me are just... gone... chances are that I will never see them again, especially my best friend who's back in Pakistan, and even if I did, so much time has passed that I would most likely not recognize them even if I did see them.
#in my mind they're frozen in time#who knows where they are or who they've become#to me we're still 8 years old playing Minecraft in her basement#or 11 and going to the beach#or 12 and im sitting next to her at the dinner table#im 10 and meeting up with all my friends at summer camp#im 13 and its my last year at camp and we all sorta know we'll never see each other but we won't say it#im 14 and scrolling through my old Instagram trying to find a sliver of hope that I'll ever talk to her again#I miss her#I miss them#im forgetting her voice#how is one of the most important parts of me. of my childhood fading away?#currently sobbing#if fatima. who loves unicorns and dogs and the color purple and popcorn and brownies and left for a wedding and never came back. Hi.#your best friend misses you. More than you could ever know.#I still have those friendships necklaces that were supposed to come in before you left. they came 3 days after. I still have them in my room#I never gave the pink one to rose. I never saw her again either#personal vent
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Would love to hear about “of pacts and oaths” 👀!
WIP Folder Game
it's my paladin!wyll fic!! all about wyll discovering that he is Enough not as the blade but as himself, and learning to draw power from the strength of his convictions & commitment to others while still caring for himself.
it also follows the progression of his relationship with ranger!cyrus & (eventually) ulder, with each chapter tied to one of the tenets of an oath of devotion: honesty (the tiefling party, wyll being honest for the first time about how his devilish transformation has affected him); courage (cyrus dying in the nere fight); compassion (talking post-moonrise about their future together once wyll breaks his pact, as well as wyll's past & his exile from baldur's gate); honor (wyrmway trials); and duty (wyll swearing his oath in a substitution for the wilden oak scene)
& here's a snippet from the compassion chapter
“Don’t do it like I did, Wyll, whatever you do with your life after Mizora, just don’t give so much of yourself that there’s no way back.”
Cyrus sounded so scared, and when he returned the embrace, it was with his nails digging into Wyll’s shoulders as if he might disappear at any moment, the last ashes of a sacrificial pyre dispersed by the wind. Even now, Wyll’s first instinct was to bristle against the concern, taking it as proof that he had not done good enough. No one was supposed to worry about the hero. But he knew what Cyrus was trying to hold onto was the man beneath.
“I…” What a ridiculous word, a single letter upon which to pin the entirety of oneself. Why refer to himself as that—an isolated sound buckling under the weight of selfhood—when he could be the Blade of Frontiers instead? “I’ll try. For you. I can’t promise anything more than that, but gods, I want to try.”
#cyrus bg3#cyrusXwyll#it's sitting pretty at 11 000 words rn with 3 of the 5 sections in 'first draft' stage#unfortunately i got distracted by the next shiny/bloody/wretched thing (durge) but over the summer i'll come back to it
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household enemy to the yyh watchthrough number one is the olympics. it's taken us a week to get two episodes into the gamemaster fight
#out of three. please the third episode's what makes it okay im fighting for my life out here#it is NOT for lack of trying on my part but theres only a brief window of time when the olympics is not happening#and as it turns out the watchthrough is Not my mom's first priority (how dare she etc)#i do feel slightly bitter that we've gotten through two eps of band o brothers in the same time#we are fighting for the same timeslots yet somehow the hour long show's gotten a leg up??#you don't have time for a 23 min ep but DO for a 60 min one?? explain the math to me please#idk how to explain the vague feeling of betrayal bc it Does Not make sense Nor matter in the slightest#but cmonnnn we were doing so well. and my little bro's starting up school again soon and my dad's gotta go back to work#sometimes eventually (<- hes on medical leave) and my grandparents are coming over next week We're Losing Time Soon#ughhh if i'd known the olympics were happening (<- somehow completely oblivious to this) i'd have accounted for#my mom getting whisked away by the land of synchronized divers and shot putters and whatever the hell#happens in the summer olympics (<- only pays attention to winter olys)#bc that always happens. and *i* have to go back to school in Some Amount Of Time Im Too Scared To Check (p sure it's late aug though) and#when that happens i'll (hopefully) be stuck across town which means we won't be able to do it any time besides the weekends#and i don't wannaaaaa#i know this is the least important problem anyone's ever had like i get that i know but#it's important to me that they sit down and watch this with me. and watching it pull apart and being#the one who's easily the most invested it makes me look all desperate when i ask them for their time and they can't give it#we can only pull this off neatly in the summer and we were so close and now we're losing it right at the finish line#i don't want life to get in the way of this little bubble i've fought so hard to make y'know#and it's childish and embarrassing and whatever but i just want them to have fun with me with this thing i care about a lot#but i can't do that bc my mom needs to watch the judo matches at Every weight class#even though she's recording a lot of them? i don't understand but whatever i know it's her thing im just moping about it ig#i want it to be as perfect an experience for them as possible and it's slipping away from me#and i don't wanna leave this project unfinished when i start school y'know. sighh#i think they might feel like i only want them around when we're watching stuff. whcih is weird bc that's like#The Singular Way we family bonded literally my whole life so idk why they wouldn't get that when reversed#but either way that IS how i wanna spend time with them. i want them to understand this thing that's become a part of me#and i wanna talk With them about it. and so far it's been fun in a way it's never been before. my mom at least seems to really like it#and i want it to Keep going well bc if we lose momentum im worried they'll start finding it tedious. sighh
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#frank.txt#also shit is FUCKED rn . im so STRESSED#my landlord had a landlord moment so we're moving. also this place is getting unbearable#we live near freedom convoy folks and ive been called all sorts of slurs just trying to walk to 7/11 so . idk#maybe the next place will at least have homophobes that aren't as shouty and angry n shit bc GOD. GOD#that one guy that followed me halfway home just yelling slurs like yeah maybe moving out is a blessing in disguise#also this house haa no insulation which is awful in summer and winter#the next place we're going to is more expensive unfortunately but like. its insulated. doesnt have squirrels in the attic. or asbestos.#so uhm yayyy#its in a very secluded farmland area. tbh maybe thats what i need rn bc my physical and mental health arent super sturdy rn#physically feeling a bit bettr tho! just having bubble baths about it <3#i only post now on my priv twit @dykefiend rn#once things are settled ill go back to posting art .#bc i RLLY want to draw my own stuff soon i just gotta work on commissions wnd then start PACKING#genuinely almost cried last night thinking abt how i'll probably be able to see stars at night again#its the outskirts of the city in a rural area. super rundown broken down house but gorgeous yard. all u can hear is wind ans birds#no sirens or yelling or cars!
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for the first time since i was four years old i'm not going back to school in the fall. i keep mentally preparing for it and then i'm like. wait. i just finished all my school
#okay not actually all my school since i'll be going back for a phd next year#but no school this september#(i started school in ontario which has junior kindergarten which is why i started school at 4 despite having a summer bday)
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