#SIGNING OFF

[the-decadence-system]

random hc

Nico likes to offer people his arm while walking. he doesn't really understand why he does it but it makes him happy.

Hazel loves it. Can often see the two of them walking together with their arms linked together

Reyna doesn't get it at first, thinks he's being a dick until Nico tells her that he's gay and from the 1930's. Finds it to be a gesture of affection at this point

Percy doesn't get it at first either, thinks that Nico is being silly til Jason explains it. Still blushes bright red every time Nico offers his arm but loves the feeling of hanging off his boyfriend's arm while holding his other boyfriend's hand

Jason feels warm when he walks with his boyfriend, arms linked together

Leo knows that Nico does it to make sure that he doesn't get lost because every time he tries to separate from him, Nico will lead him away, a gentle hand on his arm

Clarisse feels so badass. Like she's strong as shit on her own but death and war together makes people uncomfortable and they both know that. neither cares. She walks into the great hall on Nico's arm, teeth bared in a mockery of a smile

[hd-hurtcomfort-fest]

***FEST STATS & SPECIAL CALLOUTS***

Hello y'all! We give you our last official post for HD Hurt/Comfort Fest 2024 - a breakdown of fest numbers and special callouts. We've also got the answer key for the crossword (under the cut).

***FEST NUMBERS***

We had a total of 34 submissions [LISTED HERE] distrubuted amongst our three tropes thus:

Angst - 6 [LISTED HERE]

Fluff - 12 [LISTED HERE]

Hurt/Comfort - 16 [LISTED HERE]

We had three varieties of submissions:

PODFIC - 2 total; 1 hurt/comfort & 1 fluff ranging in time from 10-20mins to 4-4.5hrs

ART - 3 total; 2 hurt/comfort & 1 fluff, all gorgeous

FANFIC - 29 total with a combined word count of 510,966!! The shortest fic is 1044 words; the longest is 59,474 words

A breakdown of major archive warnings:

Creator Chose Not to Use: 4

Graphic Depictions of Violence: 2

MCD: 2

No Archive Warnings: 26

Underage: 1

A breakdown of ratings:

E: 19

M: 10

T: 6

G: 4

A visual representation of the most used tags

***FEST CALLOUTS***

Thank you to @basiatlu for creating all the banners and the icon for our fest. Your work is phenomenal and we are delighted still. You are a gem!

A special shout out to our all-star AO3 commenters! All fest works have recieved many wonderful comments, but these four indivduals commented on nearly every submission during the fest run - logging at least 20(+) comments each (a little over 100 comments in total): blueheart_V, @acanadianmuggle, @lizziedrip, and @daydreamingfoxglove!

We have been blown away by the support for our fest, and one contributing factor we'd like to highlight is visibility. We wanted to give a huge thanks to @loves-to-read-fanfic & @lizziedrip for reblogging nearly every one of our fest posts. There are many others liking and reblogging - we see you and appreciate you! We also want to mention @drarryspecificrecsdaily for including our fest works in their daily roundups during posting. Thank you all! Mwah!

***GUESSING GAME WINNER!***

AND THE WINNER(S) ARE...

🥇 ✨ @kamaela ✨

🥈 @rainjulyx

🥉 @mallstars

@kamaela matched the most creators with their works with 14! You win first pick of prompts should you choose to participate as a creator in the fest in 2025! Thank you to everyone who participated!

And that's a wrap!

Thanks again for an amazing first year! See you in 2025!

Your HD Hurt/Comfort Fest Mods, @orangepellets, @peachpety, @vukovich

CROSSWORD ANSWER KEY BELOW THE CUT

[tales-from-systok]

Got fakeclaimed because we signed off our comments LMAO

HELP WHAT LMAO

[rainebasillovesbyler]

I just wanna say bye everyone, my parents are removing safari off of all my devices. I’m so happy to experience these past couple months with you Byler nation. This was definitely an era I’ll never forget :3

Love, Rainebasillovesbyler

[mikaleialt]

Goodbye.

Hello, this will be my last post on this account. I have decided to quit writing for Bada Lee and Bebe completely after weeks of contemplating. I am truly grateful for everyone who had supported me and my works, and to the friends (even the ones who betrayed and lied to me) that I met on this lovely community. Don't worry, this blog account would not be deleted so people can still come back to read my works whenever they want.

However, I will be abandoning this account and will create a new one, as I don't want to pile another content on top of the memories I made within the Bada community. We may meet each other again in another side of tumblr, don't forget to say hi if we do.

The reason for me quitting is not because of the recent issues with minors, but because I lost inspiration to write for Bada for quite a while now. I still support Bada and Team Bebe, however the time has come and I have to grow out of this phase. I had a wonderful time spending with each of you, thank you for all the wonderful memories we made together. This is Nique also known as @mikaleialt, officially signing off.

[die-a-saint]

**actively resisting the urge to say “Bad News From the Zones Tumbleweeds..” in professional emails anytime something isn’t going to work**

[cove-simp]

Happy 2024 to everyone!

I hope we all have a great year ahead!

With the conclusion of content for Our Life: Beginnings and Always, I think this is a fitting end point for this blog. It’s crazy to me how fast time has passed!

I want to thank @gb-patch for creating a game that has touched me, and so many others so deeply. And I want to thank all of my fellow simps for the amazing community that we have on our little corner of the world! I know I am looking forward to their next project- Our Life: Now and Forever, and if you enjoy OL1 I hope you’ll do the same!

Thanks for simping with me 🩵💚💙

[the5n00k]

An observation about TGAMM The End

Big big spoilers ahead, click away if you aren't caught up

This is also my first NEGATIVE TGAMM analysis post! Wowie! So if you don't want to see me bitch, also click off now

The End and how Molly McGee's character was disrespected

The End is. An episode. I have many MANY thoughts about it but it would be far too long to put in one post so I'm going to explore one of my more reoccurring opinions. This episode recontextualized a lot of things but I'm going to talk about how it recontextualized Molly as a character. Most importantly as a MAIN character. A TITLE character. A character with her own past and personality and feelings. All of which this episode completely stomped all over, handed her the check, and said "figure it out"

I want to apologize to my friend who called this so SO much earlier into the series and that he had to listen to me watch this show on lethal amounts of copium. You were right but I knew neither of us wanted you to be.

Now let's get into the meat of it, shall we?

All throughout season 1, Molly's history and relationship with the concept of friends is always treated with complete sincerity and the emotional pause it needs to sink in with the audience that she's been through it. Moving away and leaving friends is why she put so much importance on the "forever home" in the first place because she's had to leave so many people she loved. She had a rocky beginning with Scratch during the early season but quickly became on equal footing with him as they began to understand each other and their boundaries. Because she genuinely cares about him. Similarly, season 2 explores the boundaries of their friendship and shows Scratch more willing to participate in whatever Molly is doing, even begging sometimes to be included. And Molly is very patient and kind with him all throughout trying to help him regain memories of his past. And Scratch actually reciprocated a few times like helping her learn Thai and working with Libby to set her up with Ollie. They're the closest they've ever been and something I can confidently call true best friends, possibly the closest and healthiest friendship I've seen portrayed in media. Season 2 showcases how far either of them are willing to go to help each other.

Then The End happened.

Molly is the same understanding and supportive friend as she had been all season, almost to a fault. She encourages scratch to go back to his life, knowing the risks that come with it. Why did there need to be the risk of forgetting her when his spirit didn't immediately forget his living life? Don't know. Something to do with an unreleased episode although I doubt the rest of season 3 would have sweetened my opinion of this episode. Only she knew he was about to do this, she didn't talk to any of his other friends or family before he went out to Todd's house. They only found out after the fact and the next morning is when he left. None of them had any time to process that they just lost a family member, especially not Molly.

The scene where he's talking to her on the bench breaks my heart. Knowing your friend is no longer there and is replaced with this stranger. So much of this episode would have been fixed to just let him keep his memories. Considering how hard it was to pull his living memories out of his spirit, it's very likely that even the small fragments of her he remembers will slowly fade away. She had to do the one thing she never wanted to do again and repeat the same pain that's plagued her for the entire series. And it sucks! Why doesn't she get a happy ending? Hell, I'm not even convinced this was a "happy ending" for scratch since he can't remember any of the people he just spent the last two years with.

The biggest slap to the face is when Libby, Geoff, and the McGees come up behind Molly and just act like all of this is fine? They're treating scratch like this wild animal that deserved to be released into the wild because he could never fit in with society when he was PERFECTLY HAPPY with the McGees. He proudly displayed to the entire ghost world that he was an "honorary McGee" and told a ghost hunter to his face that him and Molly would do anything for each other despite their differences. Was all of that completely pointless? Because it sure feels that way. He had this entire new "life" he just completely abandoned because oh I guess I'm not really dead. Guess I better go reconnect with my childhood friend I haven't seen in person or had any meaningful conversations with in decades!!! See ya, chumps, hope you weren't attached to me or anything!

It's so disrespectful to the audience's investment in Molly and Scratch's friendship, the themes of friendship overcoming all odds and lasting forever, and Molly as a character. And to a lesser degree, it's even disrespectful to Scratch since most of the season he spent brooding over the fact that he didn't remember his past! Now he's forgotten a large portion of his "life" all over again. Now he's going to have to live with this nagging itch at the back of his mind that he's forgetting something until he manages to completely repress it too. And to rub salt in the wound, the credits don't have near sight nor mention of Molly McGee outside of a painted portrait of her and (spirit) scratch. All this does is tell me a LONG time has passed and neither of them have managed to successfully contact each other. The dream team is gone, this is a story about a girl and a ghost and none of it meant anything.

"he'll remember when he dies again!" Where does it say that

"he didn't forget, he said Moll! That means something!" The longer he spends away from the McGees and Brighton, the more likely he is to completely forget them altogether. The vague memories will eventually fade away and every "forever memory" will be worthless.

"it doesn't matter, this is Scratch's story" then why isn't it called 'scratch and the human girl'? Or 'the scratch show'? Why is Molly a title character if she's nothing but a plot device for his character development.

"Molly had to learn how to say goodbye." No she didn't. She's been doing that her entire life. She's pretty well aware of how to say goodbye. Making her relive 13 years of trauma from the other side of the vehicle doors is not a useful life skill. Pain is not necessary to grow up.

I don't care what the excuse is. This was a terrible ending for both characters and no amount of "he's happy now!" coping from both the fans and the writers is going to get me to see this any other way. If you enjoy the episode, great! I'm happy for you, there's a lot to love in the music and voice acting and breathtaking animation. But none of that could save me from this abysmal attempt at a series finale. I was so viscerally disgusting by this as a finale that I spent a good two days completely nauseous thinking about it. What a disaster. The sad part is I like the story potential! Him reuniting with Adia is what I've wanted for him all season so he could get closure. Molly and Scratch having to say goodbye is heartbreaking but understandable, a lot of shows nowadays end that way and I half expected it. But him completely forgetting the girl he owes his new lease on life to? My gosh it's just a deal breaker. It is such a cruel end for these characters and I cannot wrap my head around why they thought it was a good idea outside of cheap angst.

I wanted to like this episode and I still do. But they just did so much wrong when one thing could change and it would have completely flipped my opinion on the episode and series in general. But what do I know, I'm just a negative nancy.

Anyway idk how to end this off, justice for Molly McGee, Scratch deserved to be called Scratch McGee, kill Todd Mortenson, peace out

[futurenobody6]

My best boy

[the-decadence-system]

jason todd with a service dog to hepl deal with his ptsd. send tweet

[jt1674]

[bahbzxxx]

Please Read~ The End of An Era

Hi, I’m Barbz!!

I made this account a few years ago, and I can definitely say I’ve spent my fair share of time here, wether it be writing, or just being a fan.

I’ve been inactive the last few months (or really the last year to be honest) due to lifestyle changes that I am so grateful for ~ college, self~improvement, relationships, work, and so much more. I’m in a much better place than I was when I created this account.

In reality, this is a really good thing for me, and it’s likely going to stay this way. As of July 2024, I will no longer be writing for this account, specifically genshin content or oneshot content. I will still keep posts up as I know that there are people out there who have smiled at the things I’ve put out, but it is time to hang this hat on the shelf.

One thing I’m grateful for about this account is, when I started writing, it helped me at least start the foundations of a creative outlet, and know what it is like to at least put yourself out there in some way, even if it’s behind a screen. I never knew that I could apply this IRL, and now that I do…its so cool. And to those who write full on fanfics…you guys have truly mastered and art I’m still working on today (trying to find the motivation to keep practicing music lol I’m a music student).

This is gonna sound sappy but to writers who see this (I mean fandom writers and all), keep writing. Keep working on it. It is worth it. You are talented, even if it’s just smut, it’s still writing. Keep writing.

Ty for everything, Tumblr and Genshin and Venti nation.

This is Barbz, signing off.

May the Anemo Archon protect you.🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️

[tightjeansjavi]

This is exactly what I imagined pornstar!joel looking like when he meets the reader for the first time 🥵

I just wanna take a big ole CHOMP outta his bicep and then kiss the patches in his beard!!

@itsokbbygrl and I have been screaming at eachother all evening about him and all the nasty, filthy things he and the reader are going to do in the next part 😵‍💫

goodnight kisses ;)

-Gi

[dollyhoon]

Hey everyone !

Just wanted to come out here and be honest with you all ! I've been busy with a lot of stuff latley and to put it simply...i will be leaving enhablr for a while. I've been feeling pretty overwhelmed with a lot of things in my life,its tough trying to balance my life and running a tumblr blog and in summary im just burnt out. Writing was truly something i enjoyed and i still do,but as the school year started it kind of felt like a job for me to come up with ideas and post them. So im going to be taking a bit of a breather to come back refreshed and my brain full of ideas ! I really appreciate all of ur support and the love i have for this community is immense !! I'll be around to interact && chat with my mooties ! I dont know when i'll be back or if,but i wont deactivate my acc incase anyone wants to read my works. Thank you to all of you for understanding ♡ navigation

[pompadorbz]

Saying this away from the characters poll's tags since i imagine running them is tiring enough as is, but i'll still put it in the tags for the respective characters that I saw this behavior under the polls of regardless; Obviously I have my preferences and I have biases for characters but I sincerely love all four characters in the last round that were under the very aggressive campaigns (notably Kiyotaka, Mondo, Ibuki, and Chihiro), and while I've not been in the fandom since the fan translation days or anything like that (I'm sure the use of first names makes that much clear, lol), I've been in here long enough and have been open enough to recognize that there isn't really such thing as a "nothing character" in this series. The casts of these games just aren't designed that way. Sure, some characters may propel the plot along further than others but each character has this baseline amount of effort put into them for those who choose to go looking, so to act as if that isn't there for any handful of characters is a little regressive of the whole "every character can be the protagonist of their own story" writing philosophy DGRP has going on. It gets very tiring watching people confuse their personal distaste for certain characters as gospel, and then most notably, going to attack those who DO like those characters because said characters are not "enough", and are therefore not deserving of higher analysis. And that leads into the main problem here. There is absolutely NO excuse WHATSOEVER for calling people bigoted when they don't vote for the character that you like. There is NO possible justification for pushing the faults of the original writing of a story onto the fanbase for the crime of doing and seeing more with less-than-tactfully written character. If you feel as if you need to use harassment of others as a fear tactic to make them vote for a fictional character in a tumblr poll with absolutely no jurisdiction on anything, then I hate to say it, but maybe this fandom activity was just not made for you. If you truly feel that the collective voting for character A vs. character B in a tumblr poll is a personal attack against you or an entire group of people as a whole, then you need to reassess why exactly you feel that way and whether or not causing an uproar is necessary.

[sowhatifiliveinfukuoka]

UB40 (1980)