#I'm guessing he's really leaving and september-ish...

[horangslay]

well my day is ruined, Jeonghan is going to enlist like the next 6(ish) weeks so no more ot13 until 2030...

[saruman-the-silly]

Freezing (sodo x gn!reader fluff)

tags: short and sweet fluff for sodo x gn!reader, I'm anemic so I'm cold pretty much all the time and I wish I had a personal heater like Sodo

word count: about 400

You were just freezing. Autumn was just around the corner, and the weather was getting colder. Your favourite was all the beautifully coloured leaves, all in many different shades of orange, red and yellow.

The Abbey was quite beautiful around September, with the almost Halloween-ish atmosphere. The Clergy was big on Halloween celebrations, and it was your favourite time of the year.

You sneezed, the cold wind tickling your hair lightly, and decided to head back inside. You wrapped your scarf tighter around yourseld and walked back inside towards your room. Or, no, it was your and Sodo's room really since you had made things official a year ago. He was a bit touch-starved (as were you) so you had decided to move in together.

You got your keys and opened the door, shivering from the cold. Even though you were wearing multiple layers of clothing, the cold always seemed to find a way through. You put away your things and walked in, smelling hot chocolate. You walked into the living room and found Sodo sitting there, waiting for you with two mugs of hot chocolate.

"Aw-w b-babe, you did-didn't h-have to do this," You smiled, despite shivering and gratefully taking the mug which he offered. "I know but I wanted to. The shop had the pumpkin shaped marshmallows which you love so I obviously had to restock." Sodo grinned, taking a sip.

You sat down on the couch next to him and snuggled up close. He smiled, put his arm around you and the two of you enjoyed your hot chocolate in silence. After you had finished your drink, you shivered. The cold still hadn't left your body. Sodo noticed, and after setting his empty cup on the table, got up, swooping you up in his arms and carrying you to the bedroom.

"Still cold, huh? I knew it was bad but didn't know it could get so intense." Sodo frowned, swiping a hair gently from your face. You replied, shivering: "Y-yeah, I t-thought the m-meds w-were gonna help, b-but I guess n-not."

He frowned, and warmed up his hands, pulling you under the covers with him. Sodo wrapped himself tightly around you and rubbed his warm hands on yours' comfortingly. The cold began to slowly melt off from your bones and you stopped shivering. You sighed contently, turning around and pressing a kiss to his jaw.

"Thanks, radiator." Sodo chuckled, and kissed your nose.

"Love you too, you cold frog."

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As always, thanks for reading <3

[bacchanaliae]

BABY, YOU MAKE ARMAGEDDON LOOK SO EASY ⸻ introducing yoon eunseok, d7.

wait till you hear about this next nominee: YOON EUNSEOK, born on the 8th of SEPTEMBER, 1993 and bears a striking resemblance to SONG KANG. they’re a FOURTH year BACHELOR OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION student and ACED EVERY COURSE WITHOUT AN ATTENDANCE COMPONENT — impressed yet? rumor has it they’re hoping to be the COO OF THE YOON GROUP, but personally, i think they should aim a little higher — something like the king’s club, for one. now, that suits them a little more, don’t you think? guess we’ll just have to see if they’ve got the talent for it in our upcoming recruitment round.

hello!! i'm shrimps, (25, she/they) like the fried rice, and i'm very excited to terrorize your lovely muses with my lil guy eunseokkie! i'm hoping to get around to my dms soon-ish (i'm kissing your foreheads, btw), but feel free to leave a like and i'll appear in your walls! if you'd rather plot on disco, just lmk.

BACKGROUND

pretentious nonsense full bio

tl;dr : guy who's a supporting character in his own story suffers a minor existential crisis in deciding between (a) wanting to do his own thing and (b) fulfilling the role he was quite literally created to play. unfortunately, he's made this everyone else's problem.

this is subject to change if needed to fit with e2, but i imagined the yoon family to run a silicon mining business that skyrocketed in no small part due to eunseok's father marrying into a family that manufactures semiconductors.

eunseok's father . . . now there's a real schemer. everything he did was designed to gain control of the family company, and eunseok was no exception. eunseok has grown up acutely aware of this, and is completely normal and unaffected as a result.

eunseok wasn't always a menace!! eunseok always had a predilection for mischief, but genuinely tried to be the perfect heir as a child — though he soon realized that nothing he did really mattered. if he did everything he was supposed to do, fine. that was the minimum expectation. if he acted out, the consequences would just be swept away like the trouble never happened. yoon eunseok had a very particular role to fulfill, you see, and something like proper parenting wasn't going to get in the way of eunseok's father's plan to take over the family company.

and so a monster was born.

2013 (+ 2016) : invited to the club to terrorize the other initiates. wish i was joking about this one. driven to succeed because (a) he plays to win and this is the sort of environment he thrives in, unfortunately, and (b) as a fuck you to the other initiates in his class. interestingly, the actual benefits of being in the king's club are at most a tertiary motivation to eunseok — i guess one of the weaknesses of never concocting your own schemes is that you aren't great at long-term planning. throws notorious parties. kinda notorious, period — there are rumors that he'll hook up with anyone tall and beautiful, regardless of gender (this is true); that he races mclarens on the weekends (this is false); and that he bribed (true), slept with (false), and physically threatened (technically false) his way to the top end of the class. endlessly ambitious and seemingly insatiable, you might be wondering: what's the point, if eunseok's whole deal is that he'll trot obediently back to daddy's side when the man calls?

well, i'm not saying that it's the painful crash at the end. but i'm not not saying that, either. i don't think eunseok really knows, himself.

2024 : the pawn is put in play; the dog is leashed. placed as an evp somewhere, then named coo upon his father's ascension to ceo/chairman/whatever. appears to have chilled out dramatically, but time will tell whether this is maturity, resignation, or mere suppression. :)))))))

PERSONALITY

entj. waffles between chaotic neutral and chaotic evil.

character inspo/parallels include roman roy, sylvain gautier, dorian gray, the cuntier end of taemin's solo discography (stream eternal out aug 19!!!!), the weeknd's trilogy album, nero, and lestat de lioncourt. also my uni roommate's various finance-bro exes. lmao.

all of this to say: think of the most annoying guy you know. think of a shark in the water. think of a poorly-trained bloodhound let off the leash. think of blood, generally — something slick and thrumming and visceral. if eunseok wants something, he will take it, because honestly? eight times out of ten, the taking is what he really wants, in the end.

weirdly intense but deeply unserious lol.

he's no master manipulator . . . moreso a cudgel lol. does very little plotting for how often he seems to be Making Moves(tm). how things never really come back to bite him should be studied in a lab, or maybe made into a hbs case study, but he's smarter than most people give him credit for, particularly in actual business management (unironically i think he would thrive as a logistics guy), but he cares little for mind games and saving face and also likes baiting fights for fun so. yeah.

thinks everyone playing nice is a hypocrite and a dummy! comes across as super arrogant but like in his mind . . . he's just being honest? like, yeah. he's rich. he wins a lot. by virtue of him winning, someone else, e.g., you, are a loser. life is short so why are we wasting time pretending otherwise?

ooough i wanna punch eunseok just reading this back. ironically i'd still absolutely go to the club with him because despite it all you know our boy is good fun. also you'll probably leave with an insane story. but i digress.

WANTED CONNECTIONS

these r. rough but! i'm really very open to brainstorming!!

a childhood friend — someone who witnessed eunseok's various metamorphoses and who is probably the only person, other than eunseok's father, who was unsurprised when eunseok fell in line after graduation. i'm flexible re: the exact contours of the relationship (ride or dies for life! drifted apart! bitter enemies), but i like the idea of someone knowing eunseok better than he knows himself.

2024 : if yr muse is involved with electronics: i present to u the (pending) heir of korea's largest semiconductor manufacturer. mwah ok.

2016 : love, hate, whatever — the point is that eunseok is used to evoking strong reactions. your muse, however, doesn't seem to care at all, nonreactive to flirtation and fury, and that really doesn't sit well with eunseok. tensions are high; maybe this volatility comes to a head.

2016 : alternately, maybe an initiate who has gotten the idea of gaining eunseok's approval into their head (get well soon!). get ready to have your time supremely wasted, buddy.

2016 : another envelope-pusher. yeah, the king's club parties, but you two party, making recklessness a game.

2016 (+2024, maybe!) : the person whose door eunseok finds himself stumbling to when the party's over. in the haze between intoxication and sobriety, you get to see a eunseok that even eunseok doesn't get to see — one that voices insecurities and worries. it's a weird sense of trust, and not even one necessarily tied to fondness (though it could be!). it could also be fun, i think, if they didn't keep in touch but for eunseok drunk-dialing your muse. that'll make the reunion exciting, eh!!

friends. enemies. flings. i don't necessarily know that eunseok's capable of holding down a relationship but i think it could be funny to see him try. in 2024 his family's probably trying to set him up with someone, so that could be something, maybe?

[skywalking-through-life]

20 Questions Writer Meme

I was tagged by @60sec400 ! Thanks friend, this is such a fun thing to be tagged in! 🥳

1. How many works do you have on ao3?

13! I've only been posting for a little over a year, so I'm pretty pleased with that.

2. What's your total ao3 word count?

111,651 words! Another number I'm really, really pleased with. I had a tentative goal of trying to publish 100k words between September 2022-September 2023, and I met it! 🥳

3. What fandoms do you write for?

At the moment just Percy Jackson, though I have written for a bunch of fandoms over the years - Harry Potter as a kid, Star Wars pretty much always, some Tamora Pierce, etc etc etc - I just never posted any of it publically until this past year, lol.

4. What are your top five fics by kudos?

'Is it blasphemy if he's my dad?' (2,517)

'some have entertained angels unaware' (1,462)

'it's how you swing it' (1,177)

'more things in heaven and earth' (1,054)

'a thin barrier between two worlds' (1,021)

5. Do you respond to comments? Why or why not?

Yes! I am so incredibly grateful that people take the time to leave me comments that it feels like the least I can do to respond kindly to them. Sometimes I get so busy that it can take me a few weeks to get to them, but I always respond to every initial comment that someone chooses to leave me! I also try to continue to respond to folks who want to have a conversation about plot, or characterization, or what might be coming next, but I don't always continue those conversations indefinitely. So I encourage those folks to come talk to me here! ☺️

6. What's the fic you wrote that has the angstiest ending?

I tend to not write angsty endings, lol, because I make myself too sad if I don't end a story on a hopeful, or at least more ambiguous, note. But that being said, I guess it would probably be 'to sleep, perchance to dream?' That ended on an anxious note, since it was a prelude to a dangerous moment.

7. What's the fic you wrote that has the happiest ending?

I hope that almost all of my fics have happy-ish endings, lol! But if I had to pick...the most clear-cut happy endings are probably in 'some have entertained angels unaware' and 'come wash my war paint away.' They are two VERY different types of happy endings though, one meant more ah, euphemistically. 💀💀💀)

8. Do you get hate on fics?

So far, no. I've had a few comments where folks have let me know that they've disagreed with creative decisions that I've made, and even though those can sometimes sting a little bit, that's more of a 'me and my overly sensitive soul' problem than anything else. It definitely hasn't been hateful! I admit, I sort of live in fear for the day when I get my first one, since I don't imagine I'll be able to avoid haters altogether. Especially because I have some very, very dark fics planned, that are going to tackle some pretty ugly topics. 😬

9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind?

Yes, lol, something that has honestly really taken me by surprise, since I never thought I'd write it! So far I've only written very sweet and fairly vanillla canon compliant percabeth smut - and one very experimental fic where Aphrodite essentially propositions Annabeth (and also Percy, through Annabeth 💀) - but I actually have a lot of plans to write more, lol! I have a sequel to 'to burn and to boil' in the works, and 3-5 smutty wips at least, in outline form. It's mainly percabeth, though a few are potentially percabeth + friends. 💀

10. Do you write crossovers?

No, not yet, but I'm open to the right idea! I love a good crossover.

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

I don't think so? I've had folks write fics inspired by mine, but they have used the 'inspired by' feature in ao3 and tagged me. Which I find incredibly flattering, so I welcome that! 💙

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

I don't think so? If you want to do that though, please feel free! I'd love it if you let me know, but you don't have to. 💙

13. Have you ever co-written a fic before?

No, but I'd LOVE to! I think collabs are so interesting, and I'm curious to see how my writing practices/style/etc. would mesh with someone else's. So if anyone wants to do that, let me know! I'm not 100% sure I currently have the time, but I'd love to chat about it.

14. What's your all-time favorite ship?

Oh God, this one is REALLY hard! I think it might actually be a tie between Percabeth and Luke×Mara, from the Star Wars Legends-verse. They are the two that have made me feral for the longest, because I fell into the brainrot for them both when I was about 12 or so? And now I'm 30, so, lol. 💀I'm not currently writing Star Wars because PJO has me in a chokehold, but whenever that loosens, I'll probably try posting some of my many, many Luke×Mara ideas.

15. What's a wip you want to finish, but don't think you ever will?

I really want to finish all of my wips, and AM actively moving towards that goal, but I have one that I am really, really nervous to finish and post, because it's SO DAMN dark. The working title is 'still half-perfect,' and it is a mash up of a fic I tried and failed to write while sick with COVID - some of whose plot points I reused for world-building - and a majorly fucked up dream I had earlier this year. I think it's going to be a compelling story, but I also think I will get hate comments if I post it, because it is SO DAMN dark. So I'm still working on my courage with that one.

16. What are your writing strengths?

Folks pretty regularly tell me that my characterization is really good, and I've gotten some amazing comments saying that my works really feel like a part of the PJO world! I cherish those. 😍 I've also been told my descriptions and imagery are evocative, and that my technical writing skills are good. I tend to think that I am good at contextualizing and synthesizing information, and am pretty good at foreshadowing!

17. What are your writing weaknesses?

Sticking to any type of writing schedule, RIP. 😭 My ADHD genuinely makes it so hard for me to predict when I'm going to be able to focus long enough to make progress, and I haven't developed really any disciplines that help. I also think I am inclined to be too wordy, and I have spent a long time trying to work on being clear and concise. And, I'm definitely just very sensitive about my writing! I get sort of panicky if folks tell me they don't like what I've written, cause I feel like I've let them down/am a failure/other unhelpful and untrue things that I know about myself that am working on.

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language for a fic?

I'm open to it, but most of my language skills aren't really good enough to entertain the possibility, lol. I could probably finagle something in Spanish, but I'd be leery of using others without help.

19. First fandom you wrote for?

Harry Potter, LMAO. I was maybe...10? the first time I decided to try to write fic, obsessed with HP, and the results were both very short and very hilarious. It was also handwritten in a Lisa Frank notebook that I am certain that I no longer have. 😂 But definitely PJO after that!

20. Favorite fic you've written?

This is a hard one, because I don't publish fic I'm not satisfied with? I like all my fics for different reasons! I think that some of my best writing is in 'to burn and to boil,' but that's such a weird, horny story that I know most people probably won't read it. 😂 But probably the story I am most happy with all around- plot, dialogue, pacing, tone, characterization, etc - is 'some have entertained angels unaware.' I genuinely, truly, love that story, and I re-read it whenever I'm trying to get myself back in the writing groove. 💙

Thanks glockness! 💙🫂💙 This was super fun! Let me know if you have any questions, y'all! I'll tag @ashilrak ❤️

[transhawks]

Well, that’s 57 chapters since s6 ended off, and I’d say within the next 15 or so chapters, we’d be well into wrapping things up? So I guess you can say s6 started with JinKei, and s7 will end with JinKei. And that leaves a hefty number of ShigDeku and post-war content to throw into s8, I don’t think we resolved the Todo issue yet either. Hori’s got a lot on his plate still. I really thought this next season would be the last, but it seems the manga may continue into next year at this rate.

Aside from Horikoshi's health issues, I think we're going into 420-430 with chapters. 15 isn't enough. It feels like we're only halfway-ish done with this war arc. We still have so much ground to cover: Tododrama (which I'm betting will take 10 chaps at least especially if Iida and Stain and Shouto need to talk, and ESPECIALLY if Keigo figures in somehow) Deku vs Shigaraki will probably be the largest with AFO interference, a lot of vestige-y plot thing, I'm sure All Might will involve somehow, and you know, AFO backstory eventually and also the whole weather thing that keeps cropping up. Aizawa/Kurogiri/Mic should have like upwards of two or three chapters at the LEAST. Tochako & Twice: I foresee this taking the least but also being very scattered, I suppose? Anyway, a lot of people are just really willing to believe Horikoshi, wanting to end this manga ASAP, is going to sacrifice quality to do so. To that I say "no". Ultimately he's over a year late in ending this manga. He's had health issues and knows he can't likely end it this year either. I also don't think he'll be able to live with himself not doing his best and the manga is currently very high quality.

I know people want this manga to end sooner than later, but I foresee Horikoshi ending spring 24 at the earliest. TBH I think he might eventually just aim to hit the ten year anniversary in July '24. Remember in a normal year/issue run we tend to get around 46-48-ish chapters. We're up to issue 20 of WSJ as of this Sunday, and excluding two weeks issues are combined, which puts it at 18 releases, horikoshi has essentially release 10 chapters in 18 (officially 20) issues of WSJ. I don't think his rate will continue this badly (at 55% I mean), but I do think we're not going to see chapter 400 until September.

[allthemusic]

Week ending: 17th September

A bit of culture for us today! I wonder if we're going to bump into many more songs inspired by paintings? I can think of one that's inspired by a painter, and that's just off the top of my head...

Mona Lisa - Conway Twitty (peaked at Number 5)

I kind of know this song - or at least, I know the Nat King Cole version of it? I'm a bit baffled as to why I know the Nat King Cole version - it's hardly my normal style of music, and it's from 1950, so it's not a song that's come up earlier in this blog - but there you have it. I know the Nat King Cole version, which meant I came into this song primed for a soft, gentle love song - which is kind of what you get here, filtered through Conway's more rockabilly sensibilities in a way that's unexpected but does kind of work, despite its rather incongruous mix of high art references and country-ish wailing.

It's all about a lady nicknamed "Mona Lisa", for her ambivalent, strange smile. And indeed, throughout the song, Conway suggests various reasons for his Mona Lisa's smile: is your smile to tempt a lover, Mona Lisa? / Or is this your way to hide a broken heart? So far, so good. Unfortunately, the song then does take a bit of a nose-dive into basically complaining that this "Mona Lisa" is a bit of a tease with her smile, smiling at men pleasantly but not really meaning it or returning their affections: are you warm, are you real, Mona Lisa? Or just a cold and lonely, lovely work of art? To which I say, why is this any of your business, Conway? She's allowed to smile however she wants to, she doesn't need you speculating about it one way or the other!

This (rather minor) annoyance aside, I mostly like this song. Rockabilly's a genre that I've definitely got a soft spot for - there's something about the mix of country-flavoured bluesiness, the steel guitar and the dirty rock and roll chord progressions that's just delightful to me. And Conway can sing. I don't think this song shows that off quite as well as It's Only Make Believe did, but he still does a good job selling me on his mix of admiration for and frutration with this woman. Plus, he also makes the yodelling details on hea-ea-eart sound credible, and that's quite the feat - yodelling's one of those things that I think sounds silly in, like, 90% of cases. And he sticks the ending, ramping it up enough to sound final, without veering into overblown territory. So yeah, not bad at all.

And yet, I still feel like I've not quite warmed to this song. Partly, like I've said, this is down to the lyrics, which just seem vaguely unfair on this poor woman, who's apparently not able to smile ambiguosly in public without a whole host of men making comments! But also, beyond this, I think there's also a sort of slightly empty earnestness to the lyrics, more generally - they're trying to be deep and make a point by referencing this absoluteing iconic painting, but I'm just not sure they're actually saying that much, anyway. Not about Conway's mystery woman, and certainly not about the Mona Lisa. So what's the point? It leaves me feeling decidedly underhwelmed. Which, to be fair, is what I hear a lot of people say who have been to see the actual Mona Lisa, so the song has that going for it, I guess...

Okay, before wrapping up, not knowing why I knew the Nat King Cole original was nagging at me, so I googled it. Turns out it was used - very appropriately - in the film Glass Onion. I enjoyed it there, but mostly because it fit the scene it was with well - as a song to listen to on its own, I could take or leave this one, otherwise.

Favourite song of the arty-farty bunch: Mona Lisa

[warandpussy]

fic authors self rec! when you get this, reply with your favourite five fics that you've written, then pass on to at least five other writers. let’s spread the self-love 🤍✨

Omg 🥺 thank you friend... this is so hard (difficult) because I never read anything back!! But here is my list:

Multiphonics, AKA orchestra au, AKA the tortoise of slorchestra The Untamed 63k This is my longest fic ever and the first time I ever finished anything truly novel-length. It's sooooo personal and it's about music and duets and falling in love and writing it was very cathartic. It's also fundamentally very silly. I really loved writing it and the comments I've got on it have been so nice and heartwarming (almost wrote heartworming there). It's really my magnum opus I think.

All Alone (More or Less), AKA red dwarf au, AKA missy fic Doctor Who 39k My second longest fic ever and I wrote it like 3 months after the last one (remember when I could write... lol...) It's MY version of a Missy redemption arc and I guess sort of musing on what that would mean for her, because soooo many redemption arcs just leave me cold. You do not have to walk a hundred miles on your knees through the desert repenting et cetera. I just wanted to approach it from a perspective that wasn't so catholic and awful, so it's about change and what that means for her, and what her future would look like after that change. Missy is so mean and broken in the head!! Also there's a lot of Gender in there. I think it's probably my most complete character arc. It was a lot of fun to write this one too.

Buried in Hallowed Ground, AKA doncaster fic Doctor Who 13k The experience of writing this one was very strange - I started it in March 2020 ish and then had a hellish few months and picked it up again in September and finished the whole thing. Which is not something I'm usually able to do - once I lose interest I lose interest! But this was about my hometown which I love and missed so much, for obvious reasons. Like, Doncaster is a shithole... but it's MY shithole, you know? And writing this was almost like getting to go back again.

Spare Hearts, AKA the twissydole, AKA the inception of spare head nardole Doctor Who 11k I don't really have any excuses for this one. It's sort of also inspired by red dwarf in that there's an episode where the robot butler in that show takes of his head and replaces it with a spare head, and he keeps all his heads in a cupboard. And I did the same thing with Nardole and then made the Doctor practice kissing with one of the spare heads. And now I have a whole universe of headcanons where Nardole has spare heads and sometimes I forget that's not actually in the show.

Reach for the Stars, AKA liverpool fic, AKA climbing fic The Untamed 3.5k I just like this one because I think it's funny!! I wrote it in a 2 or 3 hour session from start to finish and then edited and posted it the next day. I haven't read it back, so it might not be the most technically proficient (I bet there's spelling errors in there) but I really made myself laugh and that's what matters to me the most I think. I'm in a fallow period at the moment (I've been saying that for like 5 months now) where writing is just so fucking difficult and every time I sit down I get in my own head about it and I can't get any words out. Contrasting where I am now with where I was when I wrote this, it's night and day. I'd like to get this energy back honestly!!!!

There we go that's my list :) I'm mostly thinking about the experience of writing things here, rather than saying I think these are the best things I've written; I honestly don't really think that's for me to judge! But as the writer I think the experience of creation is the most important part for me, and the part that sticks with me.

Looking back it's pretty obvious to me that the ones that made it on here are almost all comedies, or at least have an element of farce to them. Maybe red dwarf au is the most serious out of all of them - but it's based on a sitcom and I do think it has comedic notes to it, though it gets darker than most of my other stuff. I think for me the way that I like to explore themes is through comedy / jokes! And that makes the process of writing it more fun, and then I want to write it, and when I want to write something I think I have a better time doing so and make a better end result. And then the fics where I was just trying to write Serious Writing and Take Myself Seriously are the ones that end up being a slog and I don't like the way they turn out. I'm not trying to say I'm mega funny... I mostly write to make myself laugh more than anything.

Anyway, yes! There you go 😘

[stagandsteer]

hey! i'm that annoying anon who says they're new to this, but i am! richard and froy seem to have something so intimate and lovely, is there some sort of timeline for their relationship? x

hello! obviously agree here, there’s just something lovely and unexpected about them. I think that’s what we are all drawn to. the improbability of them. 🥰

I don’t have a super formal timeline or anything but, off the top of my head:

February 12-18 ish: Richard is back in LA and goes on some hikes

February 22: paparazzi photos in Venice Beach

March - April: Froy posts some beautiful insta photos that turn out to be very important in retrospect

May 20: fandom and tabloids put together that they were living in Emilia’s house this whole time (me: loses my mind) (meaning Richard took those gorgeous photos of him, and they were together on those hikes in February) (me: loses my mind some more)

May-June: they both posted side by side from Black Lives Matter protests in LA

June 18: Richard’s birthday — there are some random paparazzi photos of friends coming by and Froy holding Richard’s birthday cake

July: wtf they’re in London surprise

mid-July: now they’re in Scotland with Gemma Chan. she posts a sweet video of them all cooing over a baby lamb and you can hear Froy and Richard losing their minds with cuteness

August-September: idk I feel like they hid really well, some people saw them at brunch in London, Froy became friends with Jenna Coleman (🥰)

September 20: new pap pictures that we all love/hate (*I personally think they were leaving London and that flat for good that day. their privacy was compromised and if paps knew they were still there we’d have seen more pics in subsequent days*)

October: cast of Froy’s tv show begins convening in Dallas for quarantine and beginning production

Halloween: Richard posts his traditional spooky Halloween content. he’s in Dallas, with Froy, at the little party with his castmates and new friends 💀

and now they’re just hanging out while Froy works I guess, unless Richard needs to go to LA for work. but travel isn’t very safe right now so I think they’re staying put for a while. Froy’s shoot is scheduled to last five months, so approximately February. which would be one year for them. 😻

[ryuuka-balaen]

bwah

I know I said I'd post abt this after 10h but uh.been real tiredddd

also I was planning to go and take ~glamour shots~ of all the armies I've got to like show off the models but. uh. tiredd,, girlsleepy,,,

anyway! gonna try my best to talk abt them as much as I can and explain why I've got all of em

so I was introduced to Warhammer by my oldest brother around 10 years ago, when he'd seen his half-brother (who I'm not related to and don't know) playing a game with a friend of his. He's thought it looked cool as hell, and so convinced his friend+roommate to split a starter box (Attack on Black Reach) with him, and my less old older brother and I joined in with each buying an army starter box. I've never liked the "good guys humans" options in games and was an enjoyer of Big Monster, so Tyranids were the obvious faction choice for me. I bought the Tyranid Battleforce Box, my brother bought the T'au Battleforce Box, and my eldest brother took the blueberries Ultramarines from the starter, leaving the Orks to his friend.

I absolutely adored my new bugs, and had a blast building and painting my new collection consisting of 3 Warriors, 5 Genestealers, 10 Termagants, 10 Hormagants, and 3 Ripper Swarms.

My brothers, unfortunately, quickly realized that this whole 'building and painting models' thing wasn't as exciting as they thought that playing toy soldiers would be, and gave up before finishing theirs. So we never actually got to play a game.

My brother gave away his blueberries to his half-brother, the Orks I don't know because I never talked to that guy, and my other brother gave his T'au to me, so I gained a Crisis Battlesuit, 3 Stealth Battlesuits, a Devilfish Transport Tank, a Cadre Fireblade, 10 Firewarriors, and 10 Kroot Carnivores to my funny little model collection. Sadly without anyone to actually use them with I had no motivation to paint the new minis, and aside from a couple I still haven't got around to giving my T'au some colour.

A few years later, in my first year of high school I met a few Guys, just real Dudes Bros even, who played warhammer and was invited to join them one weekend for some Basement Wargaming

I was super excited about the idea, and went and bought a couple new Tyranid models to use then. It was a bit of a rush to get them built and painted within just a couple days, but that added a Carnifex and a Hive Tyrant to my bugs box

Those guys were kinda jerks :(

so I didn't talk to them further, and went back to not having anyone to game with

More years pass with my beloved guys not getting touched, and in 2018?ish. I dug them up and went in to a Friendly Local Game Store with my bugs to ask for a demo game. the store employee agreed but seemed,, Unimpressed. with the request, so I got it over with quickly, bought a couple items (Tyranid Ravener x3 box, T'au Pathfinder x10 box), and left. That was discouraging but I still wanted to try, so I visited another FLGS, just to look this time, and was introduced to the game Hordes which seemed interesting. I bought a starter pack of models for it in hopes of getting to play A Wargame, but still have never gotten to use them.

this is the only photo I can be bothered rn to find of them how they were at this point, before I've started repainting them

For my birthday last year, my dad gifted me a 3d printer, and though I didn't use it for much for a long while I did test printing a squad of Necron Warriors, because my fianceé at the time had said she liked necrons in the context of Warhammer video games such as dawn of war and I guess I was trying to make them as like, an intersection of our interests or something, but she didn't care and it doesn't really matter anymore anyway.

Aside from that I gave up on getting to use my models for a time, until following some Unfortunate Events last September-January I decided I should make an effort to stop spending 100% of my free time on virtual games and with online friends, so I invited one of my few meatspace friends to take me to a new (and much closer) game store that hosts bimonthly Warhammer game nights. We brought my T'au for me to use and Tyranids for my friend to use, and hoped for a decent time. The two people that were there did accommodate us with a small scale beginner kind of game each, but one of them was sortof irritable and snappy about the fact that we had invited ourselves (supposedly this was a members-only event of a private discord server? despite being posted publicly and inviting new players on the store's Facebook page.) and about that we had outdated rulebooks, because I suppose they thought we should've spent $80 each just to try the game. The other person present didn't talk without yelling and was a little inconsiderate of personal space, so I think it's understandable that we chose not to go back.

Later, after my hip surgery in February, I spent the time I had loafing around immobile at home to start making some models with that printer I mentioned.

The first that I printed was my Grey Knights!

I had a lot of fun being able to choose proxy models that fit an aesthetic I liked, and printed proxies for a Brother-Captain, a Nemesis DreadKnight, a Paladin Squad, a Strike Squad, and a Razorback Transport Tank.

I didn't print more Tyranids or T'au because I wanted more variety in the models I had - the friend I'd visited the game store with was willing to play more but didn't have any models so I'd need to be able to supply enough options that we weren't just playing eachother with the same two armies every time. The reason I chose to print Grey Knights was purely aesthetic - I hadn't read anything of their Lore, but I've forever been a Known Enjoyer of Knights so it wasn't much of a choice.

After that, and still during my three months of Surgery Loafing Time, my friend who worked at value village acquired a secondhand Recruit Edition warhammer starter box free of charge from their workplace and gave it to me. From that I got my Necrons, and unfortunately some of james workedshoppe's dearly beloved bland boring blueberries (Ultramarines).

over the last few months I've played a few matches with the one friend I have who will, including one today! And convinced my eldest brother to give the game another try and have played one game with him, in which he fielded some Imperial Guard models that he picked up cheap and already assembled/painted secondhand. I also offloaded those blueberries I didn't want on him because he's one of those people that likes playing Generic Human Faction.

Also, in that time, I've made my favourite of the models I have! my gorgeous beloved beautiful babies my Imperial Knights!

(oops those four makes the picture cap for posting from mobile)

sadly I haven't taken a Proper and Well Lit Glamour Shot of all five of them together yet but I'm super proud of them :)

finally, the last and most recent models I've gotten were the Tyranid half of the newest Value Box Set called Leviathan - financially I probably shouldn't've bought them, but they were being offered for $110, when to buy each of the kits included would've cost around $530, and there were new models included that can't be bought separately yet so I think it was a pretty good deal, and I've been having a really fun time painting them! (at least in the very little free time I'm able to find for myself right now around 20hrs/week college work and 35hrs/week dayjob work).

also I've Been Posting about a large bug I've been working on printing (a Hierodule Bio-Titan, which costs $250 individually to buy a kit), but sadly I still haven't finished building that model because I'm trying to magnetize it and that's been... challenging.

All Together, over the last decade I've accumulated 97 Tyranid models, ~30 T'au models (the kroot carnivores went missing at some point while in storage), 28 Necron models, 13 Grey Knights models, and 5 Imperial Knights models. it's been really lovely and makes me super happy that I've been able to indulge in this hobby recently, I love it a lot :)

(@catgirl-niko tag so you see the actual response to your ask)

if I have the energy for it at a later date, it might be fun to try to talk/write as much as I can about all the lore things I know about the guys I've got (especially since I've sorta made custom/ociguess? lore for my Knights), but after a six hour game today(battlereport post to come) of learning a lot of new rules, slamming out an college assignment in an hour (still handed in 15min late 😔 ), and now spending two and a half hours writing all this, my little kitty brain is right fried and I'm needs some sleepies

it's not exactly what was being asked, but I hope this is fun to read :)

I'd love to know your favorite 40k army that you've had.. I see all your cute little 'nids and they're fantastic, but do you have other army's too?

Kay so I'm just got up & headed to work rn so I can't give a Full Answer to that yet but wanted to answer this so u know that u've been Seen and Appreciated

anyway the short answer is that I've got 5 faction armies, and the bugs are my 4th favourite of them! the others, in order of which I like best, are Imperial Knights, Grey Knights, T'au, and Necrons

[minyoongisjiminie]

"i can't say i'm surprised anymore, i mean i felt it all, felt it all." (yg)

ship: yoongi x reader

genre: angst (but still has a kinda beautiful fulfilling ending to it lol)

disclaimer: none

synopsis: you weren’t a good person, because you didn’t know who you were. so you eliminate, the only person that has good intentions for you, out of your life. however, one thing you didn’t know: yoongi is way ahead of you.. breaking up with yoongi, ended up in yoongi breaking up with you. 

words: 1.4k

give me a number that has a song lyric attached to it, I'll write you a drabble with more than 800 words and that lyric in it:)

a/n: I don't know what this is.. I swear, I tried :( It's really messy.. but I also realised it’s really realistic, in a way? I don’t know lol. maybe I’m actually thinking about doing a second part for this one? :’) if anyone is interested ofc.

nevertheless, hopefully @mini-pretzel you'll like it! this is for you, hun :)

-

It was mid september. Summer was coming to an end, and you realised how the weather already switched from sticky hot days, to days where you couldn’t possibly leave the house without a thin layered jacket.

You were sitting in a lowered chair, outside of the cafe you and yoongi met for the first time. Your fingers started to play mindlessly with the strings that were attached on your sleeves of your oversized denim jacket.

Normally, Yoongi was not someone that would ignore your messages nor his extreme punctuality...

It was less than 6 months ago, where you two met for the first time.

His aura was something you were quite fascinated with. It was something so tempting, back then, to lock eyes with a beautiful boy that had plugs in his ears, grasping a pen, writing fully lost in his thoughts. But nowadays, you just realised, that you two possessed just completely different personalities.

While you enjoyed partying and living life to the fullest, he was someone who would just want to stay at home. Preferably with you, talk or show you some music he composed recently.

To put it simply. He was just a safe place for you. A place to feel secure when the escapades would escalate. Someone who will hold your hair back when you would puke the living shit out, someone who will make you tea when you’re hungover from the party from last night, just someone that will look at you and tell you ”it’s fine”.

Sadly, you didn’t realise that for him you were much more than just a break from some casual amusement.

He didn’t want to fucking give up on you.

He waited for you to come home, every single day. Even if the clock already passed 5 am. Even when you came home puking on the ground. He would grab your hand wash your face, take off your clothes and put you into the bath tub.

He would still carry you all the way to the bed and gently stroke your hair, whispering to you how much he actually cares for you, while you were already passed out.

Across the months, he was so blinded by love to you, that he ignored all these horrible actions of yours, until his friends were finally done with your bullshit.

“Yoongs... Any relationship should define giving and taking... but you are just giving.. don’t you think it’s kinda weird that she never really gives you anything back? Even if it’s just a silly little night where you guys would do something that you prefer, rather than partying.”

Namjoon’s once stated words get back into Yoongi’s mind. Even back then he didn’t gave up on you. You told him that “maybe it was just a phase, maybe it was just your way to release some pressure”. That he “exactly knew who you were, and that he was just waiting for you to open up to him”.

However... you never did. Because for you, there was never someone that loved you so much, that stayed for that long, to see something special in a nobody like you. So of course: You were scared to open up.

That was the key word.

Fear.

“There you are..”

You stood up from your chair, in too much of a hurry, when you saw Yoongi walking up to you.

Yoongi looked like.. well.. Yoongi.

He wore a grey-ish shirt and a black cardigan. The hood was sitting on his head, and just the contrast of his pale skin with the black fabric made you shiver... His hair was messy but fluffy and stood up on every side. No one would look great in that kind of clothing. But exceptions are always possible...

“I waited like..”

You avoided any eye contact. You slightly rubbed your arm and tried to think for words that would make this situation a bit less awkward. Well, you failed, there without even ending your sentence.

“Let’s just get this over with.” Yoongi said in such a harsh tone, that you needed to take a step back. It was so unfamiliar to you, that you did not know how to handle this situation. You just looked at him, his eyes radiated darkness that you've gotten intensly afraid of him.

“Oh, so you feel the same way?”

Finally, your words broke the overly heated air.

From an outside view, you guys looked so weirdly different. Of course you were, but at this point, people that were walking by would just think that you were complete strangers, maybe even meeting for the first time.

Yoongi just plainly looked at you. His lips were formed to a bitter smile and you were ready to just bring it over with. Maybe you weren’t the only one that had some things to say..

“You know. 6 months ago, right here at this cafe you told me how much you thought I was insanely attractive. I didn’t understand that someone like you, such a bomb girl with a beautiful strong mind, could like someone like me...”

Your mouth felt dry, and you realized that you fucked up. Big time.

“You are so beautiful.. So freshly different than all the other girls, I dated. But you were blinded by all those nonsense factors, like your friends, alcohol... god maybe even drugs, huh?”

His tone got sharper and sharper with every word that came out of his lips.

You sucked in your cheeks and felt so small. He was right. Maybe you were just a irrelevant follower of everything the people in your enviroment did. You just molded yourself into their way of living life. Right here after so many years.. you realised that you were disgusted. You transformed into someone that you never wanted to be. Irrelevant. Someone that did nothing in life, achieved nothing special to be proud of. There was nothing special in you.

“But I believed in you.”

His words came out sensitive and coughed out. Yoongi was never a person that was too emotional. Yet, he was always there for you showed his love fully, without feeling weird.

“After all, I can’t say I’m surprised anymore... that you didn’t feel anything.. you know I mean.. I felt it all.. felt it all..”

You nodded slightly and rubbed your eye as response. After all you wanted to break up with him, but it ended up with him destroying your heart in a way you never thought it was even possible. You were so sure of your feelings, thinking that you weren’t interested anymore, ready to just throw him away like an old used toy. Nevertheless, now you realised, you actually neeeded him more than anyone right now. Yet, it was too late. You played him, and he had enough.

“I won’t let you or any other girl do this to me.. Ever again.”

His eyes glistened fully with tears, but his bitter smile was still sitting tightly on his lips.

You shut your eyes hoping that you were just dreaming, that right now you were laying next to him. After waking up you would know to never party again! To never talk with your so called “friends” again! To be yourself, to trust this boy!

Although you wished for that so much.. it would not happen. And you needed to let him go. For him. Because he shouldn’t endure this any longer.

“Yoongi.. I’m sorry. I did not deserve you.”

You took a step closer, in front of him. He looked like he was hurting physically, as you were approaching him.

“I don’t really know who I am.”

Surprisingly, he smiled slightly. It wasn’t a big “let’s-get-back-together” smile or something. But it was a hopeful smile, that encouraged you to go on.

“I guess now I want to find myself.. And if I know the answer, I would like to call you to go back to this cafe.. To recall an old memory?”

His little smile got wider and he nodded once again. “I can forgive the old Y/N... when the new Y/N, can proof herself, not to me!”

He raised his eyebrows and aimed to himself with his pale crooked index finger, then to you.

“But to herself, that she’s one badass woman that can take over the entire world if she just wants to.”

He then shook his head, made sure that his hoddie was still sitting comfortably on his head and just left. You weren’t mad at him. He didn’t need to say goodbye. Because you did not deserve on slightly.

And maybe...

It wasn’t even one.

[ilkkijangege]

134

So after nearly 3 years, I saw him again at our work Summer Party on the 30th of September.

I really did not expect to see him there. I'm certain he saw me but I didn't say hi to him at all. It's too awkward.

Anyways, all the what ifs came back to me and man has it been a whirlwind.

I've completely moved on and I do wish him happiness, whether he's in a relationship or not.

We'll be back to the office by the 15th of December but idk how much run ins we'll have because we'll be working at opposite sides of the office, unless they change the seating arrangements haahha but oh well.

He hasn't changed one bit. I wish I had said hi but too late now ahahhah

Byeee

......

17 October

So today, I found out that he's returning back to the office on Monday, the 23rd and I honestly expected him to WFH til December. I was going to volunteer but I enjoy WFH still so I'm waiting til December.

But I keep thinking, what if I volunteer early so we can have moments while the office is quiet? 🤣

Charrrr

......

20 October

Well, guess whaaattt???

I checked our seating arrangement in the office and it looks like he is sitting beside me ☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️

I swear that seat was empty last week and I was shook, I thought I was imagining it 🤣🤣🤣

Oh gosh gonna be so awkward now will it.

I wonder what he thought when he saw me beside him?? 🤣🤣

But I am sure that the seating arrangement will change again, I just have a feeling. I should ask hahaa

But I'd be relieved if we do change ahaha

......

25 October

Update: we're moving to the other building 🙄🙄🙄

He's probably going to leave soon since the other building is way out for him.

Meaning, our seat assignment will also change 😂

......

4 November

Wow, it's been a whole minute since I last dreamt of him. I dreamt that he left the company.

Though, I honestly think he could leave cos the other office would be too far for him but we shall see.

......

13 December

So today was my first day back in the office and I did not expect to see him so casually.

He's definitely gained weight especially in his face.

We didn't say hi to each other but maybe one day.

........

19 December

So I was sick since Thursday and came back to work today.

I swear to God he kept using the toilet in our section today like fam you have one in your corner 😂 I mean to say that I probably saw him (from afar) like 3 times today. We still haven't said a word to each other 😂

But he's been such a turn off lately because his quality scores haven't been good 😂 like fam kasi if di mo ako ni-reject, tinulungan pa sana kita at naging inspiration mo ako to do well in life CHAROT ayan tuloy pinag uusapan ka sa work 😂

.......

4 Jan

Let me share something funny 😂

So we were literally inches away earlier in work but he didn't say hi, like fam if ayaw mo ako kausapin edi wag 😂

Tapos we have this community blackboard thing. 2 weeks ago, I wrote " the QAs are watching" and my sistar told me he overheard Chad tell her SME about it and how there was a response to it: NO. Like out of all the things written there, you pointed that out? Ahahah that was the work of Bianca 😂

......

6 Jan

So today, I saw that Chad is going to be put on an action plan. Like damnnn di ka ba nahihiya senior analyst ka tapos your scores are shite???

Also GG told me that he thinks Chad is gay, like we were on the same team for a long time but he said it only clicked with him recently. He said like the way he talks is just so off 🤣 I told him if he could do more digging around that would be great so I can have much more of a closure like sealed in an envelope and stamped kinda thing 🤣

I mean Niel has always told me that he could be gay but he just never came across to me as one. He wasn't manly manly but he likes boy stuff like Spiderman, boy-ish video games and basketball. The usual things 🤣. Also he does hang around with straight men in work. (Which I wonder if he's ever told them that I had asked him out.) And okay, as I am writing it, I suddenly remembered his profile picture on our old workplace chat. It was Peter Griffin with long nails, so maybe he could be gay???

GG also told me he just seem non sexual/asexual to him 🤣

I mean if he is gay then I guess that's the closure I need 🤣 kasi it made me question my worth, di nya lang pala ako type 🤣

.....

16 Jan

So it's been 2 years since I got rejected by him. I'm super over him but of course I still joke about and do mention him a lot 😂 but honestly, I would feel terrible if i like him again, he's shite like ahaha buttt i don't understand why we cannot be civil with each other haist

.....

18 Jan

So I kept seeing him today (DUH) but there was a point where he literally sat beside us QAs during lunch with his friend but immediately got up and left 😂😂😂

Then he was in the kitchen with GG and I wanted to talk to GG but I couldn't

Then I went to the kitchen again a few hours later AND HE WAS THERE AGAIN LIKE FAM

I should say hi whenever he's alone the next time cos like....

.....

23 January

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA we got on the same lift today after lunch. I really wanted to say "Hi" but he went on his phone when he saw me.

I was with another QA (his QA btw) but it was still very awkward 😂

Hay Chad, let's forget the past and let's talk 😂

......

7 February

So yesterday was a bank holiday in Ireland. i was technically not supposed to be working but I did so I hid from the analysts and booked a dat office on the 5th floor.

He was on the early shift so he should have finished by 4. I went down to the our microkitchen in the 3rd floor and I saw him on one of the couches and I had to do a double take cos i was so confused as to why he was still there?? He was watching something on his phone but idk what it was ahahah

But another week, another silent treatment. 😂

........

8 February

I had a dream about him but I forgot but we were on speaking terms.

But!!! Today, for the first time, we crossed each other, like I was walking back to my desk and he was coming out of the toilet. I think we locked eyes briefly, I wanted to smile at him buy I got shy 😂

I mean sya rin naman dapat nag hello, bakit ako? 😂

Am I really over him?

AISH HI IT'S ME I'M THE PROBLEM IT'S ME

.......

13 Feb

Lol tumawa ako ng malakas and i could have sworn napatingin xa sa direction ko ahahah (he was using the standing desk feature and i can see him from like 20 feet away from my desk)

......

9 march

So I heard he applied for the SME role and today, GG told me that he interviewed for it. I'm seriously surprised that they are actually considering him for it 😂

But man, if he gets it parang wtf tlga.

(I also found out that he is now an aspiring full stack developer 😂 ok bro 😂)

[whatisshelties]

@twobigears reminded me of another dog sport challenge, mostly when you've got multiple sports. Conflicting shows. Let's expand that to include "a bunch of shows a month." I prefer 1 to 2 shows a month. I think with the one day a weekend it's I've been doing lately, it's fine to do two, as far as money/time goes.

I figured I'd check calendars again since I was looking at the ASCA one to put stuff on my calendar. There are now TWO scent work shows on the AKC event site for October that are 1.5 hour-ish drives. Two weekends in a row. One is offering one full trial a day, the other offering two full trials a day!

There are also two NADAC trials that month, one 30 minutes away, but I have to enter 4 runs minimum and the 4 runs I would enter are split between the two days. (Grounders and FEO Jumpers so I can run him at 4".) The other trial is a 1.5 hour drive, but I've trialed with that quite a few times over the years, they're p chill, they've got Jumpers and Grounders on the same day. It's the same weekend as that scent work trial that's offering two rounds of everything a day.

In that case, I could enter one day of each, but I'm not really into driving 3 hrs round trip two days in a row, lol. The scent work trial would be $200 for one day, and I have no idea what they're charging at the NADAC trial. Looks like $12/run is the rate they're using for some summer mini-trials.

I'm mostly kind of annoyed I didn't do this earlier (or that scent work trials aren't posted super early on on AKC...) because the 1st of the two shows I just entered is Sept 23-25, the second is October 8-9. I probably would have reconsidered how much I was entering at each show. Maybe not entered beginner novice at the second show. That would give me $60 towards a scent work entry. I'm hesitant to cancel my entry since I'd lose $4-$5 in nonrefundable processing fees, but might be worth it.

Both NADAC trials are probably lowest on my priority list, but the club in PHX might let me promo my art stuff down at that show. I could pick up some commissions, especially before the holidays. There is a local NADAC trial in September, if I really want an agility fix.

If I don't throw the NADAC trials into the mix, that mostly leaves figuring out the scent work trials. I think I just figured that out and I'll walk you through it, lmao. First I was intrigued by the 2 trials a day show because 1) I could do two days worth of runs in one day/trip, 2) I think this is a good time in Mud's career to do 8 runs a day. Novice searches are so quick, I think he could easily complete them. As things get more complex, I don't think I would want to do more than one round of each class a day.

However, Mud has 2 legs towards some of the classes and could finish his title at the "first trial" of the day. Premium says "day to day move ups," so I wouldn't be able to move up between "trials" if he happens to Q. While an additional run/Q in Novice will count towards some kind of extended title in that level, I'm not sure if I want $25/run to go there and float. Another factor, the club doing the show with only 1 trial worth of classes a day has brown on their ribbons, which I think would be cute because of Mud's name, lol. I wanted to title there. So I think we'll be entering one day there and skipping that other show, lol!

This was a major ramble, but I guess it's a look at how one person is trying to process all these choices/options. I have really embraced entering one day over the past few years. With some agility trials it can be difficult because they can't offer every class in one day. I know that has been a source of frustration for people who can only enter one day because of work schedules. If clubs don't mix up their run orders, those people can have trouble finishing titles. Sports/organizations with fewer classes to deal with are perfect for one day outings, though.