#MC jobs

[allieebobo]

Nooo don't get rid of the athlete/soccer player option!! ;___; It's my favorite!

I like the whole "This is a fine hobby but not stable/viable as a profession" theme going on with it and the musician route, with stakes much higher in soccer route due to possibility of injuries/wear and tear and age working against you.

And even if you have a college degree, your time to obtain "experience" gets limited and your chances to land a "proper (read: well-paying)" job gets smaller in the post-athlete era.

And let's face it: it doesn't have much wealth in social currency as far as where your family is concerned so you have family pressure on that frontier too (as seen with the auntie at the dinner).

With music, it takes connections but mostly luck and right timing: fame can happen at any age, especially in today's world. But sports have a bit of a time limit for reasons mentioned above.

MC does it all in a different country, away from their family too. So it all adds a different dimension to their struggles.

It's a headcanon but I also see both soccer/music routes MCs as struggling with feeling like a financial and emotional burden on their loved ones. They are constantly on the move, going from gig/match to another, photo ops/training camps/studio time, dealing with media, not much money earned due to amateur status which is also an issue when you are living in New York City, which is notoriously expensive to live in. So there is a lot of relying on Nat financially while not being able to return it equally, causing the relationship to fall apart regardless of how you feel.

If you play as queer, there is also that specifically in the soccer route. You are also canonically POC and an immigrant which is another thing that would make your path to success difficult in those (if not all) fields in the USA.

I like the whole "This is a fine hobby but not stable/viable as a profession" theme going on with it and the musician route, with stakes much higher in soccer route due to possibility of injuries/wear and tear and age working against you.

Ooh, I agree with the first one (and I think that vibe is paralleled with the "goddamn you became the wrong kind of doctor of the PhD student" and the "why do you have to be CEO of a shitty start-up (your own shitty start-up) instead of just work for a legit big company with iron-clad legitimacy".) And I really love the idea of 'wear and tear'/injuries and "you're not young anymore, and if you're not yet established, you might as well give up" (which adds an extra layer to MC's existential late-20s crisis and pressure to have a stable relationship too).

I also see both soccer/music routes MCs as struggling with feeling like a financial and emotional burden on their loved ones [...] So there is a lot of relying on Nat financially while not being able to return it equally. If you play as queer, there is also that specifically in the soccer route.

OK these two points I didn't think of, and I especially love the Nat part. I might add that in as a reason why y'all drifted apart when I next have the time to do some edits. It definitely is exactly the sort of 'adult' problem that... while Nat would never voice out loud / explicitly say is a problem, it does, as you say, put strain / pressure on the relationship and on MC esp. for MCs who feel like they need to pull their own weight.

But yes thank you for batting hard for the soccer player option.

I will consider keeping all the options in so long as you guys are OK that PhD student and singer will get significantly more extra scenes with Nat and Shay respectively.

[destined-if]

hi guys!

what jobs would you like added ?? mc can have had a job before the fire happened, and i wanted to know if you guys wanted any specific ones.

the choices so far are: a baker a librarian a barista a waitress/waiter/server a bouncer a cashier a bartender a worker at the same pet store your sister works at unemployed, looking unemployed, not looking

also, mc hasn't gone to college! so no doctor, teacher, etc.

lmk!

[choccy-milky]

congrats on baby #2!🥰👍 part 2 to this post bc seb is a smug ass bitch when it comes to getting clora pregnant. and ty @rednite-dork for sending me the original pic ages ago LMFAO... i knew as soon as i saw it that i had to redraw it eventually 👼

[ryllen]

fhsf just for fun , this is how i imagine it would be if sebek got transported to yuu's world via her coffin

[phreia]

ART BY @boozye thank you so much!

"Hey how do you play this?"

[myokk]

The first five illustrations are done for my little project - a full illustration for each chapter of my fic🥹🫶

Which one is your favorite???

I really only started drawing fanart back in April because I wanted to be able to do this eventually🤭💓 I remember the first time I tried to draw in a more illustration style back in March, I was like🤨😐🤔 how do they (the amazing artist here) do it😔😔😔 (IT WAS REALLY BAD OKAY). I started drawing all of the HL characters like crazy and posting my progress here, eventually working up the courage to post about Eloise, and then eventually bits and pieces of my writing🥹

IM JUST SO SO HONORED YOU LIKE MY YAPPING ABOUT THESE TWO…MY THOUGHTS ON THEM…MY ART…all of my interactions here really make my day so THANK YOU!!!🙏🙏🙏🙏

[python-nebula]

Do you see the vision

[occasionalsnippets]

I'm only a lurker but I really love the fd au so far so thank you for making it!!

I've been wondering how does fd!reader spends (really any) holidays when they don't consider batfam their family? Do they still spend it with them since Tim is here or do they try to get through it on their own? (Do they ever get reminded of their past life?)

Side anecdote but I feel like I need to defend FD mc for not considering themselves family even though they keep going over to the Waynes for celebrations because once I was at a friend’s house and was just. There for her family dinner. Her grandparents were there. Her cousins were there. I was there for some reason and I was definitely not family.

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Before you got involved with the batfam, it was mostly just you and Tim. The two of you decorated, made a couple of dishes, and got some takeout. Invitations to dinner with the Waynes are declined the first couple of times they are offered.

The first holiday that is actually spent with them was almost a disaster. Incredibly tense and you played mediator the entire time. You and Tim went back to the Drake manor as quickly as you could after.

As things got better overtime, holidays did become more like celebrations with more decor, games, and gifts. You help Alfred out with cooking and setting the table. Sometimes you wonder if it's more of a formality to invite you alongside Tim. Well, the two of you are kind of a package deal, all or nothing with no in between.

You don’t really linger on your past life. Reminisce, sure, but you’ve already accepted that your past life is over. It’s better to live in the present with everything you’ve got than stay stuck in the way things were before.

[astrablacksworld]

Zayne: truth or dare

MC: truth

Zayne: How many hours of sleep did you get last night?

MC: can I change it a dare

Zayne: sure,go to sleep!!

MC: I don’t like this game anymore!

Zayne: Did you even eat?!

Tara: she-she did not

Zayne: IM GOING FORCE FEED YOU TILL YOU EAT!!

MC:(panicking) NO WAIT IM SORRY!!

[yinyuedijun]

hello everyone i got a comm of me and 4* danheng... we had a western style wedding and then went to the night market !!

[morelikeravenbore]

beebeeeeeesssss 😭

[untitledrockstar-if]

THE MUGSHOT AS AN ALBUM COVER HELP WTF???? YOU AND THE ANONS WORKING TOGETHER TO BRING US SUCH GOOD FOOD like wtf MC is so iconic they deserve a check from the PR team for promoting tf out of that album with their drama

no, you're so right... make them their entire marketing team bc mc will get that album sold!!!

[destined-if]

are you okay with adding bartender as a job choice?

hello!!

yess! i'll add rn, thank you for the suggestion!

[choccy-milky]

happy october!! we can pretend this is a halloween post since seb is channeling his inner vampire with all those bites ❤️🧛‍♂️

[l3viat8an]

Mammon: I got an idea!

MC: Does it involve breaking the law?

Mammon: By now don't you think that's a given?

MC: I was just trying to be optimistic.

Mammon: Don't bother, darlin’. Ya fell in love with my devilish charm and that's not changin’ so let’s go!

[rose-tinted-kalopsia]

"even if he's the worst version of all the calebs from then to now, you still want him?"

lvl 51 affinity call — i still think about this call a lot not just because i have nightmares often too and i definitely would have called him too LMAO 😭 but because. this line... there's something so heartfelt about this exchange that i just 😭 my heart feels like it's twisting but /pos 😭

you can just. you can see how much he always wants to do for her, how much he's always wanted to do for her, even through everything that he has been doing already. bec he's been doing a lot!! so much!! it's how he's been trying to show love bc that's how it used to be!!

yet... the reality remains that things aren't how they used to be. and then he calls the him now the "worst version".

he knows. he knows that the person he is in the present isn't the person she's always had in the back of her mind, isn't the person she's familiar with, isn't the person she's the most fond of... is the person that has hurt her. he knows that she's been sensitive about the way he's been doing things, knows that sometimes the things he does doesn't make her happy.... and i think he really just... he sees it, you know? it's not something he just notices and then does nothing about... he's aware. aware that he doesn't know how to do it properly, maybe not anymore... and... at the same time... he doesn't know if he even can anymore. things are different this time. he's still learning to come to terms with that... still trying to deal with the struggles of presenting this whole self that he's very much aware of—without hurting her this time. and i think that a lot of the times :( like in this call :( he really just wants a certain reassurance from mc that he's doing something a little better........

:( just :( the vulnerability jumps out so much here :( i really want to give him the biggest hug :(

it's such a myth callback... :( he makes me so ill i'm so sick to my stomach 😭 (/pos)