#Most importantly thank you all for the kindness. I means a ton!

[ray-elgatodormido]

Recently acquired might I add.

Back at it with memes.

Would honestly be hilarious if Lü Bu accidentally set Luoyang on fire with this divine smites I mean weapon enchants. Or he just left the oven on.

[sindar-princeling]

LOTR Newsletter update - this time final

Hi everyone!

Thank you very much for your patience as I figured out how to organise the rest of the newsletter this year. There will have to be changes, but I tried to make my solution as convenient for all of us as I could.

Long story short: we are still reading - with changes that I hope will be okay with you.

Long story long:

It seemed that TinyLetter was genuinely the last of its kind; after many hours of searching I have to say the platforms I found were either expensive, or the free plans were too small for the size of the newsletter, or they had many social features which made it impossible to keep the newsletter under the radar (believe me, I tried, and I failed).

To keep the newsletter going and keep it under the radar, I had to come to terms with the fact that without TinyLetter, it can't take the form of e-mails - so here's what I came up with.

I have set up a MEGA folder that's available to everyone who has this link. Inside it, there is the whole newsletter - September 15th to May 26th - as an .odt file, as a .pdf file, and most importantly as an .epub file, because I assume most of you are reading on your phones (if you don't already have an .epub reader, I use FBReader, and everything worked fine on my phone). At the beginning you'll find the whole table of contents with hyperlinks, so the navigation inside the document should be easy! Grab yourself a copy and keep reading from tomorrow on!

I am aware that not all of you will want to continue reading this way - and I'm sorry I couldn't continue the newsletter in the old way. I had tons of fun sending you all the e-mails, but TinyLetter closing forced me to try to find a different platform, and when I couldn't do that - a different way to continue. Ensuring everyone who wants to keep reading has means to do that was the priority here - I didn't want there to be any breaks. And with everyone having their own copy of the whole thing on their phone or computer I hope it isn't much less convenient than e-mails.

I hope you continue reading and talking about LOTR in the tag! I'm really going to miss sending e-mails, but I'm still here coordinating everything and talking about current entries and available if you want to contact me about anything.

BIG thank you to everyone who sent their support and advice over the past few days, it has been quite a frantic almost-week, and being able to talk and consult you here and on Discord helped a lot.

[fuckyeahizzyhands]

Con O'Neill interview with Awards Radar's Steven Prusakowski 😭😭😭❤❤❤

SP: Busy time of year, but, you know, starting to slow down in just enough to hang out with the family and do all the cooking for, like 48 hours and then.

Con: Are you the main cook in the house?

SP: I am the main cook.

Con: Yeah. So am I. I love it.

SP: I love it, too.

Con: It's my go to place.

SP: Yeah.

Con: Because when I left school, I trained to be a chef.

SP: Oh, wow.

Con: Briefly. Another story.Okay, let's rock and roll.

SP: Well, that passion never leaves you, I think. I think once you start, especially when someone enjoys and says, hey, I really liked your food.I hear from my daughter's friends or their parents, she loved your pasta or whatever it was, I'm like, okay, now I'm...

Con: It's the best feeling, isn't it?

SP: It is. It's wonderful.

Con: And just that kind of inherent, nurturing thing of just going into the kitchen empty handed and coming out with a meal for people is really rewarding. And I love it. It's intoxicating. I absolutely love it.

SP: Same here.

Con: Because I travel so much, I don't always get a place with a kitchen. And that's why I always try and get an apartment when I'm filming because it just gives me a place to be in my head that isn't about work.

SP: Yeah. Yeah. Well, I can talk cooking forever, but-

Con: But we should.

SP: I know we're short on time and I have a ton of questions and I won't get to all of them. So let's just jump into the series and maybe we could pick it back up. Sorry to interrupt, but I love the series. I love your character and your performance.

Con: Thank you.

SP: It's a stellar, and there's so much to Izzy that we see on the surface, but there's so much more to him beneath. How was this character originally pitched you and what did you initially want to bring to him?

Con: The thing about this character was he wasn't in the pilot. So when I spoke to David about it, there was nothing written. So he explained it in very broad terms. But then I quite like specifics when I'm choosing projects. And kind of... he brought up Salieri from Amadeus, and I really hooked into that. Now, I don't know whether we went that way with it in the end, but it was a really good hook for me because Salieri is that guy with a mission who is on the surface wanting, but is underneath something else. And I think initially, Izzy was that, but then we exploded him in several other ways and Salieri diminished to something else. But it was a good hook for me

initially to get in by thinking about Salieri.

SP: Yeah, I like it. I could see that for sure. And to start the season two. So going into that, he's a shadow of himself from this feared, intense, strong man to a broken man. And what was it like taking this character and exposing that humanity and starting to peel away some of that shield.

Con: I mean... David had spoken to me before we started shooting and explained most of the hulk to me, and I'd always played Izzy as a man who was in love but didn't know he was in love. And for me, the key into this season was a. the design, but more importantly, was the Taika's performance. To see a man that I love to be that broken and to be that vicious because of the heartbreak, it was profound for me to see what he did with Blackbeard, and it did break my heart a little bit. So the emotional journey was quite clear that at the end of the day, all hatred of Stede had left him, and all he wanted to do is fix Blackbeard, and he risks his life to do that. He literally puts himself on the line for that because, like always. And what I loved about what David and the writers did was they didn't remove Izzy from season one in season two, he's still there. And what Izzy does is about the crew. He puts his life on the line because Blackbeard is killing his crew, and he risks it all for that. But it breaks him seeing the the man he loves so fragile and broken and angry, it breaks him. So, It wasn't an easy job. It was quite a lonely job. It was quite a difficult job because it was going down that path that I knew inevitably we were going to go down. But I thought it was beautifully written. So most of what I needed to do was on the page, to be honest-

SP: -I'm sorry-

Con: I just had to throw myself into it.

SP: Excellent. And then with Izzy being broken and literally broken, he loses his leg, which is symbolic of much more. It leads to one of the most touching moments of the series, a note with four words: For The New Unicorn. What did that mean to you, and what does that mean to the character?

Con: You know, I've been talking a lot last couple of days - because I'm allowed to now - and, you know, this season is about Izzy coming out. In many ways, he comes out, but that moment, that rest, that beautiful piece of writing again, the writing, where the crew embrace him, and it just releases him. It releases him from his own concept of who he is. It releases him from his own concept of who he has to

be to be a first mate and a brilliant first mate. It released him of concept that he's alone. None of this would have been possible to Izzy pre season one, none of it. And in many ways, it's Stede that brings this into his life. Because before Stede, Izzy never thought of his relationship with Blackbeard as a loving relationship. He never thought of it as being in love. He only realizes he's in love with Blackbeard when he sees Blackbeard lose Stede. That's the only... The reveal is he's heartbroken because the man he loves is broken, and he doesn't know what to do with any of that. He's not emotionally capable. And the crew giving him the letter and calling him the new unicorn and releasing him from all the stuff that he'd done, all that pain that he'd suffered and anger that he'd raged upon them, it's a really accepting moment. So... yeah, I'm waffling a bit now, but it meant a lot, and it was a very beautiful moment to play. And I thought Andy, who directed it, directed it so...Andy was a real shoulder for me to lean on in those scenes, because a lot of those early scenes I'm shooting on my own. And it's quite difficult to play an emotional narrative when you're on your own, because it tends to just be one tone. And he was wonderful, and Alyssa and Alex and all. They were all wonderful in helping me gauge those moments, as were the rest of the cast. But, yeah, that moment touched me enormously.

SP: You know, you have this love triangle that is never really spoken, but it's there.

Con: Yeah

SP: Then it kind of shifts - it's almost like a love square. It's Ed, Blackbeard, Izzy and Stede. And where the love, you know, crosses, it's all... or the hatred is at sometimes, but then it evolves...

Con: Absolutely.

SP: It's so complex.

Con: I mean we all're in contemporary language. We always associate love with romance. That isn't the case here. The love that Blackbeard and Izzy have for each other is deep, man. It's deep, and it's rooted in years of working together, loving each other, saving each other's lives, being constant. This is probably the only constant they both had in their lives, is Blackbeard is Izzy, Izzy is Blackbeard, and then they have this buffoon come in and steal Blackbeard's heart. It's not that Blackbeard falls in love with someone else. Blackbeard falls in love with this guy. This Izzy just can't comprehend, and it's a constant. And then once, I think once Blackbeard hands him the gun, everything changes. And Blackbeard says, kill yourself. Everything changes. And then there's an openness to Stede and Blackbeard that brings him to that place of acceptance-

SP: -It's great to watch also. I'm sorry. Go ahead.

Con: No, that. I mean, I'll waffle again. I'll waffle a lot, because that's what I do. But the more I think about that relationship, the more I go down all these different avenues of what it could have been, and what it could never have been, and what it is and what it wasn't. And as you say, it's layered and complex, and I'm honored to have been able to get to play with those actors, and especially with Taika, who's a profoundly good actor - everyone talks about Taika's director and writer - the man's a fucking great actor to work opposite, and he's... he's exquisite. So, yeah, I could only go where I went because the writers and Taika. Really.

SP: That's great. I... of course, we have to touch upon the end of the season and the end of Izzy, unfortunately, which I'm hoping is not. I'm hoping David has something up his sleeve. But what was your reaction when you learned it and how emotional was shooting that final scene? Because that final scene says a lot between...

Con: It was a... listen, I've been around a long time. The writing was on the wall when I started to read the scripts, and David had kind of hinted at it anyway when we went out for the famous dinner where he told me what the plan was, and I was gutted because I loved playing him so much. But, yeah, narratively, yeah, it makes sense. And I have complete faith, respect, love, admiration for David Jenkins, and whatever he thinks or wants to happen in season three will be the right thing if he gets season three, which I, whether I'm involved in it or not, I really hope he gets it, because he deserves it. And the show deserves it. The show deserves its triangle. It deserves it. But, yeah, it took a few days to sink in, and then I was fine. I was incredibly tired by that time. And I was lonely, as... really lonely because I was so far away from home filming all these scenes, and I tended to isolate when I was filming because of the nature of the work. So when I wasn't filming, I was sword training, or I was working out, or I was learning to walk on that fucking leg, or I was whatever whatever whatever. So I found myself isolating a lot. And in a way, it was a relief to be released from it. The final scene David had sent to me several weeks earlier. And I prepped, as I always do, and I prepped and I prepped and we were going to shoot at the beginning of the last week, and then it got shifted to the middle of the last week, and then it got shifted to the morning of the last day, and then it was shifted to the last thing we were going to shoot in the entire season. And there's always a dark cloud around those scenes because you never quite know how it's going to play. And there's a lot of pressure. And it being the last thing we were going to shoot, put more pressure on. And we were on the ship, which is a huge set, hundreds of crew members, the cast, everyone who could possibly be there was there. And I was getting quite unsettled by the amount of cacophony of noise and people. And then we rigged it all up, and it was still just [noise]. And then suddenly it was just me and Taika and just saying goodbye to a character we both fell in love with. And it was... it was a, I'm saying 'profound' a lot, but it was a profound experience doing that scene because everything else disappeared. It was just me and him. It was just Izzy and Blackbeard. And it was a lovely lovely moment.

SP: It was painful, but-

Con: It was lovely to be held by-

SP: -beautiful to watch.

Con: Yeah. Thank you. I mean, it's lovely to be held by another actor just... creatively and likewise with me to him. And David had a playlist playing and it was... elegant to do. It was nice to do. It was a nice, fitting ending to that chapter of this character. And I'll always be grateful that they shot it in that way.

SP: I do have to wrap. I just want to say before we do, I really enjoyed your rendition of La Vie En Rose. fantastic.

Con: Thank you.

SP: That's beautiful. And I appreciate all the work you did in the series, and I hope we see you again. And hopefully maybe you'll have a cooking show too, along the way, because I'd love to see what you make in that kitchen.

Con: Come on and let's bake together. Oh, I can't bake. I'll cook. It's lovely l ovely talking to you, Stephen.

SP: Great talking to you as well. Have a great day.

Con: Thank you. Bye bye.

SP: Thank you.

[year2000electronics]

OHENSBNDMDNG okokokok let me tell you a story. While thinking back on brozone's flashback at the start of band together, my mind fell on grandma Rosie Puff, and how I've come to be really intrigued in her. How did she end up having to raise all of brozone on her own? Where the hell are their parents? But most importantly, how can we make one of the only other character traits of hers that have not much to do with brozone have some sort of hidden lore to it? I'm talking about the scene where she shows to be very very enthusiastic and serious about rummy, and supposedly other gambling games.

And for a while I've been SUCKIJG AND CHEWING on that crumb of bread. LITERALLY.

What could this mean for the world of trolls? Does gambling exist within singular troll genre clans? Orrrrr is there some sort of clandestine gambling world going on outside of the old troll tree where trolls of all different backgrounds and obscured pasts come together to gamble together? What the hell am I on?

But anyway! That thought never really went anywhere. It just stood in my mind. But I had no idea what to do with it.

And then.... Your trolls Royal Flush au came out of NOWHERE.

I've only just started reading the Google doc and I've gotten past the adaptation of brozone's fallout and, I just gotta say that I really appreciate you giving Rosiepuff a whole lot more autonomy and control over a bad situation. Instead of just staying in one place, where she barely made any huge life decisions that affected Branch (other than sacrificing herself) and having a very vague picture of what kind of person she was, this single paragraph in your Google doc about what she and branch did after brozone disbanded has done A WHOLE TON OF HEAVY LIFTING TO CHARACTERIZE HER THAT I REALLY, REALLY HOLD DEAR.

How she probably became a beam of hope to little baby branch after realizing his brothers are never coming back.

How her bold decision to completely change her and branch's life for a better future, makes her a strong, determined, and confident person.

How... She must've been the ONLY PERSON in Branch's life he could still rely on at that point.

Its just... I've known this lady for a single paragraph but her death just means so much more, and HURTS so much more. Dying in the place she used to thrive in.

SUDDENLY THIS BEAM OF HOPE, THAT WAS THE MAIN SOURCE OF BRANCH'S STRENGTH was taken away from him. So suddenly. So unexpectedly.

I'M GONNA KILL MYSELF

Sorry I went on and on about a character who had one paragraph dedicated to her.

But she also got one paragraph

So therefore she's worth talking about.

In trolls one, we're supposed to care about Grandma Rosiepuff's death because of her assumed importance to Branch without really knowing ANYTHING about her.

But in this AU, you just painted such a clear image of her, we knew her for one paragraph but we also realized she's all that Branch had for a good portion of his lonely childhood. So much more than just one scene of her being taken by a berger, than just one paragraph.

Just!!!!!!!!!! I'm happy I'm really happy with what you did with Rosiepuff. Slay in peace, sweetheart.

BUT NOT JUST THAT-

THIS ENTIRE AU'S WORLD BUILDING.... Is really really thorough!!!!! Like!!!!! It's so well done!!!!! I loved the introduction to the world at the start of the Google doc, AND I LOVED HOW YOU INCORPORATED THIS WORLD BUILDING FOR ROSIEPUFF'S BACKSTORY.

AGHJHHHH I NEED TO CONTINUE READING

Thank you if you went this far!!!!! You deserve roses for all the amazing work you have ever put out into this world big or small, I'm excited to see where this goes.

🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹

THANK YOU SO MUCH AAA!! yeah i knew that if i was doing a big casino au i couldnt NOT give grandma rosiepuff some connection to it i mean come ON!! i think thats generally a big overarching theme of how the city of luxgoode takes advantage of vulnerable people and like, taunting them as if risk can make their dreams come true. people will ruin their own lives if they can save the ones they love, even for some of the casino owners (gristle and creek obvi but i think even chaz is a lower rung in this system, it goes up to the 1% mount rageons, especially and mostly v&v's parents)

i also just. love the idea of brozone sharing traits w their grandma. jd may have pulled a lot of the weight but she did raise them too!

[aspoonofsugar]

you wrote such a beautiful rwby analysis but unfortunately I think you put more thought into the plot than the entire writers room

Hi!

Thank you, I am happy you found my analysis beautiful!

That said, I am sorry, but I disagree with your statement. It is fine if you dislike the series and even if you criticize it, but as for me, I think the writing is rather strong.

Here are some thoughts, which aren't really directed at you, but rather are born by me seeing a tendency going around where it is somehow "cool" to outloud state RWBY is badly written. I even saw people like... "apologizing" because they enjoy the series. Newsflash...RWBY is good.

RWBY is a series with a writing that goes from decent to very good depending on the moment. I would give it from 7 to 8.5 or even 9 in some scenes. More importantly, it is a story the writers are clearly enjoying writing, as for now. This is why I like watching it. It is genuine, upfront in what it wants to say and it takes risks. Ironically, a series with limited resources shows much more freedom in execution than many other stories, which are economically backed up.

I would also add people keep talking about good writing, but never really elaborate on it... And like, trust me, I do think there is good writing and bad writing. The problem is that people just take examples of "well written series" and decide a series written differently must be bad. This isn't really the case.

First of all, let's focus only on a specific type of story, which is the kind most modern movies, books and series are. This type of story is built on 3 (4) factors:

Plot

Characters

Themes

(Worldbuilding)

I would say the first 3 are more important usually, but there are some stories where the worldbuilding is so strong it becomes its own selling point.

Now, a good story is usually strong in all these departments. The perfect story is top notch in all 3 (4). That is because a good plot usually lets you develop the characters better, which in turns helps exploring the theme.

However, here comes the amazing truth... even the most incredible stories. Even the masterpieces loved by everybody... even them... end up choosing only 1 or 2 of these aspects and sacrifice a little bit of the 3rd (and 4th) one.

Naoki Urasawa's Monster? Its focus is themes. He chooses to go all out on this department, which is why the story is so powerful and resonates so much with people. Still, to do so, he chooses to sacrifice some parts of the plot to the point... some mysteries are not really solved. Some people may be annoyed by it, but I would not call it a flaw. It is a choice. Leaving some things open enriches the themes.

Death Note? If the story has to choose between characters, themes and plot, it goes for plot. This is why despite having so many well liked characters, it is difficult to think of outstanding character arcs in it. The same goes for the themes, which are only touched superficially. This is why btw Death Note is not a fave of mine, really.

Now obviously, many examples can be done and we could discuss forever on some because there is always always always a subjective component. What I am trying to say is... there are different ways to write a story. Not all people would like the same. Luckily, we have tons of stories.

Back to RWBY. I would say RWBY shines when it comes to themes. Characters and plot are good and interesting, but what keeps the story together, despite it playing so much with genre is that it has a very strong thematic core. You can't invent it or fake it btw. See, Death Note's author tries to do it in later works (Platinum End cough cough), but fails. At the same time, there is another department RWBY is top notch and that is symbolism. RWBY has a very rich symbolic system. Again... surely there are coincidences, but like this is a little bit too much...imho.

Now, does it mean, the writers came up with all the patterns I and others find? Probably not, but here is the thing... writing has an unconscious component. If you go earnestly at it, you are bound to unconsciously create patterns. A good writer is able to recognize them (either consciously or unconciously) and to capitalize on them. So far, I think CRWBY has capitalized on the patterns they created. I also think it is clear they are very good at researching and at playing with different sources by going deep into them. Again, you can't come up with the Ever After if you have not read and even studied Alice in Wonderland. It is just impossible. You would end up with a shallow and uninteresting copy cat. The Ever After isn't that because it is used to explore themes, characters and lore in an interesting way. Hence... ladies and gentlemen... it is a fruit of... good writing.

But really, since people are not commenting on it... I would like to point out that in 5 episodes of less than 20 minutes, they have managed to introduce a whole world, with its own lore, set of characters and main story (Alyx's) and to tie it to the protagonists' predicament in a way that hits really hard thematically and psychologically... To do that you need exceptionally thight writing... it is not that simple to do...

Anyway, have a nice day anon and consider watching something else. Thanks God the world is full of stories!

[getmylifetogetherwme]

9/6/24 - Hi!

Hi!

I guess I should start this whole thing by introducing myself. My name is C! I'm in my final year of college, and I'm in the process of trying to really figure out what that means.

I spent the past three years of my college experience battling a serious illness. I won't go into too much detail, but just know, it rhymed with schmancer. So yeah. I had that, a really stubborn one too - the type that just refuses to go away even after you blast it with a ton of chemo.

Anyway, so that experience culminated into an extreme effort this year to finally rid me of the darn thing, and voila. It worked. I've been in remission for a few months now. It was really hard at first. Like I said, it was a pretty extreme effort (won't go into detail here, maybe later), but it left me feeling pretty terrible. Like I-couldn't-believe-the-world-was-still-turning-because-everything-was-so-awful kind of terrible. But finally, I guess I started feeling pretty human again.

So what does this all mean? Well, I guess it really means that I experienced shit at 19-22 that most people won't experience till they're much older (if at all). And I guess it also means I didn't really get the traditional college experience most people really strive for. There were few if any "wild nights" and fun.

I did "find myself" though. And then I found myself again. And again. Etc., so at least I had that bit of "normalcy." Everyone does that in college, or so I've heard.

Anyway, so this blog. Why make it, right? Here's the truth of the matter:

I am 22, in my final year of undergrad, and I want to get my life together. I want to study effectively, take care of my body (especially after all it has been through + done for me), and I just want to be the version of myself I know I can be.

Most importantly: I want accountability. That's where this blog comes in.

My hope with this blog is that it'll keep me going. I've tried a few times to kickstart this sort of "be the best version of myself" journey, and I've only been successful once, a few years ago, but then I fell off that horse, and well - I WANNA GET BACK ON!

So this blog will be a sort of an accountability diary/journal of sorts for me. I'll tell you guys all about my week, what I did that week to achieve my goals, etc. etc.. Also share pictures of things I'm studying, my life, etc. etc.. And maybe you guys will feel comfortable enough to let me in on some of your victories too!

I haven't really used tumblr in a while, not since I was like 16-ish, so I'm not really sure if people still use it for more traditional type of blogs, but if you're interested in studying, working out, reading, writing, trying to reach life goals, I would really appreciate it if you followed my blog and gave me a chance!

My next post will probably be getting into my details about my goals and such.

Thanks for reading,

-C

[m0rbidmacabre]

KINKTOBER 2023 - DAY 26 - HANDJOBS

PHANTOM X SWISS

Summary: Swiss is taking care of the newly summoned ghoul Phantom. Phantom wants to spend the day in his pants watching movies... Swiss obliges. 

Warnings: hand job, Oral Sex, I try to be funny.

THIS IS NSFW

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It hasn’t been long since Phantom joined his new pack at the ministry, he was growing closer to them the more time they spent working together. It was easy to love Phantom, he had such a dorky character and an innocence that made you want to be his friend and more importantly, be around him. His laugh was infectious, and his quintessence magic was strong. He fit right in.

This particular day started just the same as the others, he woke up and went to look for breakfast. Peeking out of his dorm room wondering if anybody was up yet, it was quiet, and he didn’t want to disturb anyone. He tip-toed towards the kitchen as quiet as a mouse until... Boom. He tripped over the carpet landing on his nose.

“Ouch…” he expelled. “So much for being quiet...”  He thought to himself.

As he was about to pull his face out of the carpet, he could hear his pack shouting him “you alright Phantom?” They all shouted in unison as if they psychically all knew who it was who had tripped up. They were beginning to get used to him and all his quirks. Before he knew it Swiss was stood in front of him with an eyebrow lifted in intrigue, as if he was wondering how, it was possible to trip over the same carpet every day since he arrived here.

“Phantom, do you think you will ever be able to walk out of the dorms without falling on your face? I know you’ve just been summoned but, come on…” he chuckled.

Swiss pulled Phantom to his feet and taps the dirt off his pyjamas.

 “I'm sure I’ll be fine Swiss, just adjusting. My feet like to do what they want” he said making spaghetti arms at Swiss.

“Well, any injuries?” Swiss said eyeing phantoms face with huge eyes.

“I'm fine... I’m fine... Just Hungry for a bowl of cereal” Phantom said as he called on walking towards the kitchen, grabbing a bowl and the cereal box and plonking himself down on to the sofa. Swiss follows and waits to see if Phantom realises, he’s forgotten one important ingredient.  Phantom looked down at his dry cereal in the bowl “Milk...” he mouthed.

Swiss handed him the milk over his shoulder. Pouring the milk into his bowl, he looked over at Swiss and gave him a huge toothy grin.

“Thanks Swiss” he smiled.

“You're with me today Phantom, I’ll be taking care of you. We have a day off today, what would you like to do??” Swiss grinned.

“Sit in our pants and watch movies?” Phantom answered to him.

Rolling his eyes Swiss laughed “I guess we could… Netflix and chill?!” he grinned.

 Phantom lifted his eyebrows and widened his eyes “I don’t know what any of those words mean Swiss, but sounds fun”

The morning dragged on and the rest of the ghouls carried on about their day, most of them had chores or guard duty to deal with and no time to spend lounging around like Swiss and Phantom.

Phantom still being new to earth didn’t have the much knowledge of humans and hadn’t spent a lot of time around them. He was intrigued by them and their behaviours, Swiss had already let him meet a few of the siblings of the abbey. It went well, and they seemed to enjoy his goofy company, but Phantom had tons of questions after that meeting, leaving him even more confused by them. He wanted to spend the day relaxing with his kind, in the comfort of his pack... Enjoying his new hobby, Movies.

Phantom and Swiss were laying curled up in Swiss’s dorm watching movies, Phantom lay across Swiss’s chest with a blanket pulled up to his neck.

“So, what should we watch?” Swiss asked Phantom.

“What about that one? ER-O-TIC THRI-LLER” he spelt out its genre to Swiss

“What's that? What’s an erotic thriller?” he asked looking up at Swiss.

Swiss grinned “it’s a sexy movie...a bit like soft-core porn but it’s got lots of dangerous violence stuff in it...”

“What do you mean by sexy? Like… humans? Having sex?” he said with widened eyes

Swiss giggled... “Yes phantom” he said petting Phantom on the head.  “Ahhh, little Ghoul... You have much to learn” he laughed.

“Well, go on then... Put it on” Phantom shouted, scrunching up his face in annoyance at Swiss poking fun at him.

They watched and snuggled. Phantom lay there with widened eyes, Swiss just sat and watched Phantom’s reaction as he saw the movie unfold before his eyes. Him reacting to every small detail of change or bit of action the movie threw at them. The sex scene was approaching, and Swiss couldn’t wait to see what Phantom had to say, he was almost giggling internally as it unfolded.

“What…. What are they doing Swiss?” Phantom said

“She's playing with his thing, Phantom...” Swiss said looking amused by the whole thing unfolding before him.

“What do you mean, his thing?” Phantom asked...

“His dick” Swiss blurt out.

“Oh. He looks like he’s having fun... Look he likes it!” Phantom giggled.

Swiss smiled at how sweet Phantom was, his innocence of being a freshly summoned Ghoul was hard, but he always managed to make the others laugh.

“Swiss, could we? Could we do that? It looks like fun? I’d love to know what it feels like with my new earth suit …” Phantom said.

Swiss choking back a laugh looked at Phantom with his head tilted, he seemed serious. Phantom, since being on earth and getting to know the pack hadn’t engaged in any sexual activities yet with the others. Maybe it was time to pop his earth cherry Swiss thought to himself, again giggling internally

“Are you sure Phantom?” Swiss asked.

“Yes yes yes, obviously I’ve fucked ghouls before Swiss, come on... It’s not like I'm a kit”

Swiss moved in and kissed him deeply not wasting anytime and drawing Phantom up to his knees and into his kiss as Phantom writhed his hips into Swiss as he takes in his passionate kiss.

Swiss could feel all of Phantom through his tight shorts, his girth was thick and growing hard as Swiss pushed himself apart from Phantom. Desperately needing air but also desperately wanting to look at Phantom in his glory.

Swiss moved his hand to top of Phantoms shorts, skimming his claws softly over his hard cock making Phantom growl at his touch.

“Let's remove those shorts… you won’t be needing them” Swiss smiled.

Phantom stood up and dropped his shorts, leaving Swiss to take in the sight of Phantom, not only was his body ripped with pure ghoul muscle, but his form was magnificent. Swiss scooted to the edge of the bed, growled at Phantom and then grabbed his hips and pulled him in. He licked his chest, leaving a long line of wet from his stomach to his pubic bone.

Swiss looked up at Phantom and then took his penis into his mouth… taking the whole of him without a second thought. Running his tongue from the tip of his penis all the way to the base. Phantom was beginning to lose himself in Swiss, his cock going deeper and deeper into Swiss’s mouth. Phantom grabbed Swiss’s hair and tugged making Swiss moan against his cock. Phantom grunted, the feeling of Swiss becoming all too much for him. Swiss noted his urgency and slowed down to lick the tip of him, lapping at his tip with his rough tongue. Swiss grabbed his cock in his hands and began playing rough.

 He wanted Phantom to cum for him, and cum hard. He wanted Phantom to feel what it was like to explode in his earth suit, and it being with him made it all the sweeter.

Swiss tugged at his cock, making sure to keep a quick pace. Feeling the pre-cum forming on his tip, Swiss smiled and guided the slickness down his shaft. Not giving Phantom any time that would let him lose the chase that Swiss had built for him. Phantoms legs tensed, and sensing that the ghoul was about to cum. He moved his hand thick and fast, letting Phantom reach his high. He spiralled fast, grunting Swiss’s name with other ghoulish words too gruff to make out, letting himself go and spilling himself into Swiss’s warm hands.

Phantom smiled, as his high brought him back down to earth and the ghoul sat in front of him. He opened his eyes to Swiss and saw him looking back into his gaze with widened eyes that could have eaten stars. Swiss smiled back at him “So little Ghoul... How was your first time in your earth suite?”

Phantom laughed through drunk eyes “Do you think we could go again? This time I wanna play with you...”

Swiss tilted his head “So, Netflix and chill is it then?”

[missmugiwara]

Hi, everyone! I just want to say a little something as we head into 2024! 💖

If you know me then you know I am very sentimental. 😍 So get ready!

Thank you, thank you, thank you. I've never been this cool before. Your kind words and reblogs mean the world to me. Thank you so much. If just one person can find joy in my writing then I am elated, but it seems there are many who do! I am beyond thrilled!

Now let me tell you a secret. I always hoped I could get a nice little fanbase on tumblr. Sometimes I'm not sure what I want anymore. However, I do know this! I don't want to be the best writer, but I hope I can at least be a writer that makes you smile. That is my goal!

It is such an honor to provide you some joy after whatever is going on in your busy lives. If you follow me, then I hope it's also for my personality and entire blog as well. I want to be true to myself! And I don't want popularity to get to my head. I'm not cool - just a lady who is madly in love with 2D men.

I joined tumblr hoping I could make some friends through this love. I've made a ton of friends this year, and now I don't feel so lonely! You are all a blessing and make me so happy! So I am sending kisses and hugs to you all.

I am so overwhelmed by the kindness you all have shared with me. I'm really blessed to be here! To everyone, you all deserve great, beautiful things. Keep writing, keep drawing, keep creating, go start if you're afraid to, and most importantly just keep loving each other! This community is a joy to be in. Oh, and also keep loving your 2D blorbos. Love them with all the passion of the blazing sun!

Happy New Year! Love, Mugi

[fromchaostocosmos]

Attention Creatives

You need to stop with the stories, plot lines, background info, and such in your works that are things like:

The Holocaust and the Atlantic Slave Trade were not really about that it was really a cover for vampires to have a way to access to mass feeding farms found in example like The Strain and Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

The Spanish Inquisition was really about vampires trying to find witches that could control them story line thanks to True Blood.

World War 2 was because of Greeks gods fighting with each via Percy Jackson.

There are shit-ton more examples of this kind of thing and it is disgusting.

The Holocaust and the Atlantic Slave Trade specifically in regards to United States part of it all and the horrific treatment of enslaved African peoples tend the most commonly used ones, I have found.

That said it does not mean other ethnic cleansing and genocides are not used as well as other major events and tragedies for very specific marginalized and/or minority groups.

These types of stories devalue our on going pain and trauma as well as degrade the memories of both the living and the dead who suffered through those horrors and the many who did not live to see it end.

Our trauma is not a sandbox that you get to play, our history is not something you to play pretend with.

All of us from the various communities that survived these atrocities, these crimes against humanity, these terrors we all each and every one us carry still the scars. Not just scars, but also still healing wounds.

We carry in us the stories of our people, the joys and the sorrows, the hopes and the fears, and we carry the dead so that they may live on in some small way.

You have no right to that, you have no right to pain, to our joy, and most importantly you have no right to recast the reason for it all.

I am so sick of it and it needs to stop.

And this is not even delving into deeper how deeply gross so many of the implications of these storylines are if you think about for just a little bit and the nasty stereotypes they help to reinforce.

[optiwashere]

I just found you on ao3 and i wish i had earlier all the recommendations were fine but your writing is the perfect mix for me. All the high kudos fics in f/f don't hit the same.

No question just appreciation for my new favorite author!

Hey anon, this is all incredibly sweet of you to say! Thank you 💜 Hope you continue to enjoy the fics.

I would just say that I'm very happy with having anyone that reads my stuff. I love hearing from anyone and everyone that comments on my fics or leaves an ask here. And holy shit, some of y'all have been coming out in force lately. The reaction to Nightsongs alone is super inspiring, and very sweet! I try to ignore my stats altogether, but that's incredibly kind of all y'all.

That said, I'm also not a doofus and I've been around fandoms for a while. So I know "the game."

I rambled a lot about pointless shit, so it's all under a break. It wound up being more directed at other fic writers than about your original sentiment, anon. Just another day on this strange planet for me.

Please don't think about this stuff too hard or too much. It will never make you happy. If you're a "big name fan" it will just be awful for you for different reasons. I wasn't a BNF, but I was very recognizable in a previous fandom. It wasn't pretty for me then either lol.

But if you're curious, it's all down to how people sort, read, and how momentum in fandoms works.

You need either a big social circle or to write for the biggest ship/trope to fit into those sorts of rec lists, or have an external social media find you. Not that those rec lists are totally irrelevant to quality! Far from it sometimes. But they are a specific type of popularity that you as the reader have to be aware of. Even you mentioned that you used rec lists, but from my understanding most people sort by word count, hits, kudos, or bookmarks.

It's the reason I tend to just sort by new and go with the flow.

That does mean that sometimes you have to wade into unknowns as the reader. Sorting by those sorts of metrics tends to perpetuate momentum rather than indicate... really, anything.

Not to say anything negative about the quality of the high kudosed femslash for BG3! I just don't read a ton of fic these days, and I have very specific things I look for (usually it's characters that aren't cis). Plus, there's one ship that's the very clear fan favorite, and there's a few tropes that are the obvious favorites. So you have to orient your perspective around those realities as a writer if you plan on keeping stats visible.

So the way I see it? I don't write a popular pairing, I write trans fics which in the smut might feature things that some readers do not want, and I don't write the biggest OC trope for Shadowheart/Tav works. Therefore, I tend not to be found by a certain subset of readers. Additionally, I write one-shots linked together by a series rather than singular longfics, so I don't "gather" additional metrics to make discoverability easier on the usual fronts listed above.

All that to say: I'm really happy that a lot of people read and comment on my fics :) Love my li'l gaggle of readers so much!

And additionally, most importantly maybe, I don't want to see in my inbox the sorts of talk I've been seeing in the fandom places I've been poking my toes in lately. That is, I don't want to see others being put down to prop anyone else up. Fandom is meant to be fun, it's meant to be a hobby.

Am I annoyed by some things in the fandom? Absolutely. Without question. But I try to avoid that stuff at all costs to save my sanity and focus on the things I do enjoy instead.

My motto is love what you love. Read what you enjoy. Fuck the rest, ignore it.

[ingo-ingoing-ingone]

Well, I cannot believe 2022 is just about through!

I had. A truly INCREDIBLE year, honestly! But you all know this, because I keep saying it lol.

Here is a brief year in review!

I went to 6 cons dressed as Emmet, as well as a handful of get togethers/parties/other events, particularly around Halloween!! I had an absolute blast EVERY single time, and met a ton of you there!!

I drew a handful of arts and shitpost comics and memes, and got over 1k notes on an original post for the first time ever! (No a screenshot of a comic that looked like loss.jpeg on another blog doesn’t count)

And

I wrote. a LOT.

In 2022, I wrote 101,198 words of submas fanfic, give or take 15-20 words.

About 34k of those words are WIPs and unreleased gift fics that I hope to share soon enough! About 25k of that is my chapter fic WIP, which will be a monster in and of itself!

And, MOST IMPORTANTLY, I made SO MANY FRIENDS both on here and on twitter. Y’all mean the WORLD TO ME!! Thank you, so verrry much, for all your kindness and help and genuine enthusiasm for everything. <3

Happy New Year, and ALL ABOARD THE 2023 TRAIN!

[tactician]

my absolute fav mythic pokemon in its shiny forme is finally here with me - shiny manaphy from pokemon ranger!!! i named mine reides after my beloved dnd oc, who is another sea prince!!! and i'm going to try to make it a 'ribbon master' as well (prob minus a few battle tower related ribbons but We Will See), so i'll be transfering lil reides up through multiple generations. i'm starting off in pearl, where it'll be part of my official storyline team!

i definitely have a lot to say about this hunt. it was absolutely CRAZY from start to finish, by far the craziest one i've ever done, so i'm gonna slide some ramblings about it under a little cut here...!!! i’m gonna try to keep it brief but i just know i’m gonna end up writing a ton LMAO

ok! so! manaphy has actually been shiny locked in every single game that it's been featured in. the pokemon ranger manaphy is no exception to this. :( the manaphy egg that you get from pokemon ranger is specifically programmed to NEVER hatch as a shiny in the game you receive it in. but thanks to a little programming oversight, you can actually hatch a shiny one if you trade the egg that you received in one game over to another one. then you hatch the egg in that other game and it has the potential to be shiny. that's how people do this hunt: by ensnaring themselves in the union room and trading over the eggs repeatedly until one hatches shiny.

but let me tell you. getting one legitimate manaphy egg alone requires sooo much preparation. you need a copy of pokemon ranger played to the point where you can transfer the egg over (aka post-game), and you can typically only get one single manaphy egg per save file of pokemon ranger. even if you select 'new game' in your copy of ranger, the manaphy egg would always be marked as claimed. so if you look into the process of this shiny hunt, you'll find out about a method involving four copies of ranger and 'reverse hunting', wherein people shuffle the same four eggs from these copies around various gen4 games for the whole hunt, restarting their games and playing through the whole opening sequence repeatedly in the hopes that their new trainer ids will eventually match up and result in the egg hatching as a shiny. luckily, though, people eventually found out that the 'one manaphy egg per cartridge' thing is actually kind of a misconception. if you have a way of wiping that cartridge's .sav file BEYOND selecting 'new game', you can actually get as many eggs from one cartridge as you like - and, most importantly, these eggs will not be clones of each other. since i only have one copy of pokemon ranger AND i had the means of doing the .sav wipe, i decided to take this approach to the hunt. i also got really lucky because the friend who gave me his copy of pokemon ranger (SHOUTOUT TO JM) had played to the point of having the manaphy egg on the cartridge but hadn’t sent it out yet, so i didn’t have to take on the pokemon ranger plot grind at all. this was a huge motivator for me when i decided to take on the hunt bc it was just so incredibly convenient! 

at first, i started off with two systems, but at this hunt's peak i was using four (4) systems to transfer and hatch eggs. after doing that tedious back-and-forth for a good ~700 eggs (averaging at around 45 eggs per day and using up like 90% of my free time to get them - transfer speed was SLOW, to the point that i feel like doing the reverse hunting method may actually be faster), my friend cody randomly brought up the concept of rng hunting. i'd heard about rng hunting before, but it always seemed like a really convuluted process with lots of Numbers (and, y’know, Numbers Scary) - so i stayed away from it for years. but i offhandedly looked into it again and saw that a lot of people had success with it for their manaphy hunts... so i ended up looking into the process in a way more in-depth manner than before. and i'm not gonna lie... it totally gripped me. in EXTREMELY simplistic terms, rng hunters use (external) timing programs which assist them in loading into a specific seed of their game. they then advance the frames of that seed to a targeted one with a shiny, then catch that shiny. it's a process that requires a whole lot of precision - especially if you're doing it on an actual console vs on an emulator of some sort - but the more videos i watched, the more hype i was to try it for myself. not gonna lie, attempting it seemed almost fated bc the night before i had been randomly gripped by an urge to find as many of my old consoles as i could, which included my ds lite. i ended up needing to use that for the rng process, as i needed a copy of leafgreen slotted into the ds while i tried to get the right seed. the timing of that was seriously so weird. destiny fr.

anyway, there were a lot of setbacks initially - mostly because the transferred manaphy egg is received in a mart, and, in dppt, all of the marts have moving npcs which mess with your frames SO much - but after a bunch of attempts, i ended up prevailing in the end. i was pretty sure that i messed up and advanced my frames too far but i took the egg anyway, traded it over to platinum, hatched it... and there it was. a lil brave-natured shiny manaphy!

that egg was my 713th egg, and so this manaphy took 713 eggs to get home and gained another special element of being my very first successful rng-based shiny!!!

i'm really so thrilled with how it all turned out, this is definitely a shiny hunt that i won't ever forget!! i made so many crazy memories during it with friends and i feel like i know soooo much more about pokemon as a whole now. i'm super happy to have this ribbon master challenge to focus on now, too. it's what reides deserves!!! <3

[jewishrizahawkeye]

hi! i just want to start by saying you definitely didn't miss all your opportunities in high school and college. i know lots of people who met their SO after those things, including people who hadn't dated until their mid 20s. you are very normal and things will happen for you!

other than that, my advice is pretty generic. join activities, group classes, and other hobby-based groups to meet people who share common interests with you. do the apps (i know hinge is more for long-term stuff but that's about where my expertise ends on that) if you find enough patience to wade through trash before eventually finding someone worth your time. go on blind dates and get set up by your friends. be honest with the person/people you're talking to about how you haven't had a ton of previous experience (the right person will understand and not be judgy! if it scares them off that means you warded off a red flag).

most importantly, remember that these things don't have an alarm clock attached to them. some things take time but i find that they usually fall into place when the time is right. sorry i couldn't be more helpful as far as advice goes though. best of luck out there!

hi! thank you for saying this!

it’s just kind of hard to do it but it’s always reaffirming to know that it’s normal and it takes time. i’m trying to meet people but it’s hard with work and such but i’ll try and do that more. thank you 🫶🏻

[doomxdriven]

RULES AND SO FORTH

PREFACE

This is a low-activity, independent, crossover friendly multi muse blog that houses both canon characters (or canon-divergent I should say) and oc’s related to bleach! Do note that when I say canon-divergent for my canon muses, I really, really mean it in light of my headcanon-ing for those muses. Also, while the muses on this blog are from Bleach, I do not consider myself, this blog, or my muses to be heavily affiliated with the Bleach fandom itself-- love the series, but ultimately I'm going to write these muses however I want, and write them in whatever settings/au's/etc's that I want SFJHGSFDGHJ.

With that out of the way: my name’s mark, i’m 28 years old, tired af, but most importantly, pleased to meet you! I’ve been writing on this hellsite for more than 10 years now, and here I am, finally deciding to cluster some of my muses together in the hopes of being more active DFGHSDGHJFGH but we’ll see! Thank you for checking out this page and reading this far, please continue on down below to check out the rules I’d like you to keep in mind for  this blog and it’s muses!

1. This blog is low activity, as stated above, meaning that my activity can ebb and flow but will generally be pretty sparse. I work a very time and sanity consuming job that, well, eats up about 80% of my week and my energy e.e but I will try to be here  as much as I can.

2. This blog is selective, and mutual’s only, a.k.a, I can be kinda choosy in regards to who I follow back, and I will only interact IC with those I follow back. If you follow me and I don’t follow you back in a few days, I’m probably not going to, sorry (unless i’m on hiatus or something in which case I’m not actively checking up on my blog or followers or anything sdfjhgsdfjghs). I generally follow back all types of blogs (canon’s/multi’s/oc’s/etc) provided I’m familiar with their fandoms and/or can see us interacting in some way. Deplorables please dni though.

3. This blog does practice mains, and exclusives, but the latter will only ever be used for my closest friends. The latter aside, I am definitely open to writing with multiple portrayals of a muse, though mains will get higher priority, should I have them.

4. GODMODDING/META-GAMING: Having to put this down as a rule feels so cursed in the lords year 2023 (almost 2024) like, you’d think most people would know this by now, but, for the people in the back I guess; don’t god mod or try to control my muse without my permission and all that!

5. REPLY SPEED/LENGTH: I can be the slowest writer in the known universe so please keep that in mind when you are writing with me. sometimes it can take me weeks, or even a month or more than that to get to replies. i know that isn’t ideal for some people, and if that puts you off from wanting to write with me i completely understand, but that’s just how my brain works. sometimes i can put things out relatively fast, but thanks to the various factors of my life, most of the time my writing frequency is sporadic and my muse for threads can ebb and flow, so [insert shrugging here] that just how it be.

When it comes to reply length, i’m a big quality over quantity person. I literally do not care how big or small your reply is so long as you show enthusiasm and give me enough to work with when it comes to my response. likewise, i’d ask that you don’t hold me to any certain ‘quantity’ when it comes to my writing. i’ll make an attempt to match your length, but at the end of the day, i might not always be able to do that. i will, however, make sure to give you something to work with, instead of leaving the metaphorical ‘ball’ in your court all the time.

6. NSFW?: I don’t expect a ton of sexual-esque NSFW stuff to happen on this blog, but with some muses I suppose it is more likely. NSFW of any kind will of course be tagged accordingly, and put under readmores, but as far as hard-core smut goes, I, do not see myself ever publicly writing that, so situations of that nature, if they do occur, will be taken down the ‘fade to black’ route.

7. SHIPPING? Shipping of the romantic variety is not a huge priority for me, outside of the ships I have with my GF’s muses. There are some muses on my blog that I am potentially open to shipping with in certain circumstances (with good ic chemistry, and proper ooc communication being paramount for such things) ofc, but we'll just have to see how that all goes.

8.  MUN SELF-CALLOUT: I suffer from crippling social anxiety and I’m horrible about approaching people first, so if you want to write with me, your best bet is to just hit up my inbox to talk about things! if anything i try to keep an eye out for starter calls but i dont usually keep up with the dash so, those tend to escape me unfortunately sdfkhjsdfhjksd. If I’m following you, chances are that I want to write with you, but if I haven’t approached you yet….. you know why: i’m too socially inept for my own good sdfkjhsfkhjsdfkhj

9. I prefer not to engage with callouts or drama, and would prefer to see you, as a follower of mine, not fill my dash with the latter and be wise about interacting with the former. I personally will reblog callouts if I find there is real merit in them and awareness to spread, but otherwise I will generally avoid such things if its over petty shit.

10. Please specify which of my muses you are interacting with when sending in asks or liking starter calls. I’ll of course make note of such things in the tags of things I post, but if you like a starter call or send in an ask and do not specify which muse you are aiming at, you will get RNG from yours truly!!

OTHER IMPORTANT TIDBITS

– I can understand on some level why some people prefer their new followers to send in passwords or asks or something but I’m just not comfortable doing that I’m sorry sfhjkgsdgh if i’ve followed you, you can be assured that I have read your rules, but if you absolutely require me to send something in to confirm that then uh….. sorry its not going to happen ):

– I don’t engage in fight threads TOO often but I love them and am definitely down for brawls between our muses! That said I’d prefer we as mun’s sorta talk about where we expect those fights to go, and be realistic about our muse’s capabilities and such, especially if its a fight thread that may wind up with one of our muses being seriously injured!

– Mutual’s are welcome to ask for my discord, but I don’t talk on there very much or use it often-- it is a better place to contact me for plotting or other rp related things, though SFHSGHJDF

WILL ADD MORE LATER MAYBE? THANK YOU FOR READING THUS FAR THO UR AWESOME!

[theangryjikooker]

as someone who may be a name you recognize who interacts with blogs you disagree with - I just wanted to give my two cents as to why I really appreciate the space you've carved for yourself. I think it's really important for people in these spaces to regularly challenge themselves with beliefs that run contrary to their own. These kind of things so rapidly devolve into echo chambers, and I have seen more than one blogger I previously respected go off the deep end for this reason. I may have my beliefs that a certain pair are together, but that doesn't mean that I can't be open to challenges therein, especially not from someone whose viewpoint is moderated and civil. For this same reason, I follow a ton of shippers of other ships that aren't mine. Obviously shippers of any ship who get nasty are out, but from what I can tell there are reasonable people in most of the major pairings in this fandom. Following them and thus getting a general handle on what a 'shipping narrative' looks like has actually been really good both for my understanding of RPS as a whole, but also how I view quote unquote "my pair". There are several things that all shippers of all ships claim for their pair, a kind of narrative, a kind of look, let me just say a level of intimacy that has really forced me to stare the things I think are true in the face. I don't always agree with you, but I appreciate the way that you actually make me think about the things that I do think. Even something as simple as an "I don't think that moment is important" to a moment that I do think is significant helps me to re-contextualize and hopefully not go off that end where my belief in a celebrity couple on the other side of the planet becomes the sole focus of my entire personality.

Hi, anon, thanks for chiming in! I appreciate you taking the time to let me know about you as a follower. 💜

I do, once again, want to stress to anyone following me: it is really none of my concern how you choose to ship and what content you engage in to support it. I don't mean for this to come off callously, but I just don't care about what other people do with their time. I only care and am subsequently reactive when others come into my space and start wailing on me without so much as a "how do you do?"

I am a big proponent of reading/listening to other viewpoints, not because you can or want to be convinced of something, but as a way to keep oneself in check. More importantly, as you said, you kind of develop an idea for other narratives and what makes other ships tick, which I think is interesting and can provide a deeper understanding of your own ship and/or the discussions that are being had in your own community.

[back2bluesidex]

Thank you for another lovely update!

Ngl, I am not the biggest fan of this mc. As much as I can understand her not wanting to bother anyone with her issues, it's a little annoying to witness all that self-pity. At some point, you've got to stand up for yourself and Slide mc is not very good at it. I hope she discovers her place in life and finds people to trust. Sometimes I literally want to jump through the screen and shake her because girl wyd 😭 stand upppp and tell that man you're carrying something that belongs to him. It's too late now but the right thing would be to tell him. She needs someone to grieve with, I'll actually go nuts if she goes through his alone too. Nobody is more important than yourself 😖

I understand your frustration, trust me I do. But certain things happen for certain reasons. The oc is standing up for herself in her own ways.

Taking decision of carrying a baby of a man who is still in love with his ex, that too, just right when the said ex comes back... Is a brave thing to do too.

Not everyone is good with words, good with people. And sometimes dealing with certain things alone is kind of better than fearing what will happen if you take a leap of faith.

Imagine telling Yoongi about the baby, and he realises his mistake, realises he is in love with the oc and then happy ending. Wouldn't it be too predictable?

ALSO, she was about to tell him. I mentioned that in this chapter. But yeah things went south before she could.

My sheer intention is to draw pain, suffering, anguish, animosity that we often don't get to feel. But I know.. it's not the easiest story to read, especially after this chapter.

But if you put your trust in me then I'll urge you to wait a bit for the next chapter. And then you'll see how this was important for the characters, their development, for their life to turn around.

And most importantly, for Yoongi to feel certain things.

Hope you understand what I'm trying to say.

Thanks a ton for keeping up with Slide. 😭 Means a lot to me! 💜