#TAKE A GUESS BABEYYYYYY

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

Since the new update is out and we were able to see Howdy's family, which family member is your favorite so far?? :D

[pjsk-headcanons]

*deep breath pt 3*

VIIIIIIIVIIIIIDDDDD BADDDDD SQUAAAAADDDD BABEYYYYYY

or should i say...

vbs: emu (unit leader), haruka, honami, minori

vbs -> PASSION P♤NIC (my brain is out of juice have you noticed)

-emu and haruka both attended RAD WEEKEND, it is still the end goal lol

-haruka quitted ASRUN earlier and thrn picked up singing after RAD WEEKEND. rad weekend was a lot later this time around i guess nagi you have to wait to die/j

-thought this would be funny that the event pp♤ had equivalent to Light Up the Fire would be haruka finding out about nagi with an (mixed event key story other than the anni ones hear me out)

-emu finds honami (i dont know how, maybe just a school-related thing happened) they become the P♤NIC part of the group name. honami is very cautious at first (because iykyk x2) but slowly gets into it

-haruka finds minori still trying to spread hope through being an idol (65+ attempts rejected this time) is impressed, they become PASSION.

-their sekai is called city SEKAI. (shoot btw s•s is still stage sekai i forgot to add that last time)

TRUST RANKS

emu - honami -> "P♤NIC!", "faith in you", "to keep that smile warm" (cried i didnt think id be this attached to this group this is the one i liked the least)

haruka - minori -> "PASSION!", "my idol...a street artist?!" (minori originally only join bc "i cant miss a chance to work with THE HARUKA KIRITANI!! not knowing shes gonna be a street artist), "understanding that hope" (minori o7 our true goat)

minori - emu -> "pure smiles☆~", "always cheering up!", "more than surpassing" (again- up to interpretation hehe)

honami - haruka -> "getting back into it", (they both are recovering from...something iykyk yahaha) "calmer smiles☆~", "so that i can be myself again"

minori - honami -> "dog walk pals!", "brought in by friends", "with hope, with fear" (hahhdhdjshahdhsjhd *sobs*)

haruka - emu -> "bright hair...!", "that night", "setting a spark for that tomorrow" (emu and haruka dream of being able to make songs that makr people hope for the "next day" - kind of equivalent to vbs want to "take over the world" for nagi because she couldnt? parallels sigh)

asking mod for some things:

1. should i make group songs (like a list of some sorts) after im done with loreposting? or focus on sekais? ill get to both eventually but i want to see what you mod and maybe others think

2. forgot to mention that i was not the one who spun the wheel. these groups were made as an april fools for a unit swap fic called reCYCLE. hehe

anyways. wxs next, eight characters left! any guesses for next time?

🌐 anon

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[minileena]

Part four babeyyyyyy

Layna

We're far enough away from the action that I can comfortably sit on Evelyn's shoulder without drawing eyes. It's not abnormal for two differently statured friends to be walking about together, right? Just two gals walking around downtown.

On the inside, though... I'm struggling to keep from trembling.

I'm missing something. I'm sure of it. Just because I can't see the angle Evelyn's playing at doesn't mean she doesn't have one. Maybe she's waiting for me to take her to my fence where she'll double cross me and leave me a smear on the sidewalk before pawning the diamond off. Maybe she needs me to be next to her when we enter the hotel so no one thinks twice about a single girl renting a motel, for one night, for no reason, within walking distance to the scene of a recent theft. Maybe it's something else I just can't think of. But she must be onto something.

Suffice to say, this walk is tense for me.

For Evelyn, though...

"So," she begins, cutting through the silence. "What would you do if you were a millionaire?"

The question is clearly phrased as a hypothetical because we're in public and we don't want any eyewitnesses to two weirdly dressed women discussing an incoming large influx of cash so close to a crime scene. As for why shass asking it... I don't know. Trying to look normal? Still keeping up cover? I can keep up cover a while longer. What's something that normal people say to a question like this?

"I dunno. Something fun, obviously. I've always wondered what yacht life would be like." I say this with a casual cloak over my tone.

Evelyn juts her jaw out to the side, effectively nudging my shoulder in a playful way.

"That's a lie," she says without hesitation. Her voice lowers a bit, just quiet enough for me to hear without the passersby being privy to our conversation. "I don't want a cover story. What are you really gonna do?"

Another gambit? Maybe I'm being recorded? She wants to frame me, maybe? get me in jail so she can take the diamond for herself? That would just draw attention to her, though.

What the hell is her angle???

I lean forward a touch, trying to gauge her expression for hints.

I just see a smile. A genuine, encouraging smile.

"Housing," I find myself answering honestly. "Proper apartments for parvi that actually meet government code are really hard to manufacture, and full-on houses even more so. I think plumbing specifically is such a nightmare that typical pricing is insane, so most of us just... find workarounds. A shoebox in a human friend's apartment, stuff like that. I've never lived in a place where I didn't have to DIY hackney some kind of basic necessity."

Evelyn's smile doesn't waver, but does manage to take on a more sympathetic quality. "I... I'm sorry about that. I hadn't really ever thought about issues like that. I guess I'm not super well-informed."

"Most humans aren't," I say in reassurance. "Why... why are you asking?"

She cocks an eyebrow.

"Do I need a reason? Is curiosity not enough?"

My fingers tap irritatedly against my thigh. I can't see through this. I'm usually really good at reading through acts like this, but Evelyn... she has me stumped. I'm still at a complete loss.

"I've always wanted a pet octopus," Evelyn says suddenly.

I fail to stifle a snort in time.

"Wh... What?" I ask, visibly incredulous.

"They're probably the third most intelligent species on the planet, next to the two of ours," she continues with a wide grin. "I've always thought they were neat. But I've also always thought it's cruel to keep one as a pet. They're too smart to be kept in tiny tanks. So, as a millionaire, I could buy a tank that spans through a whole house. Maybe hire some people to help me keep it fed and healthy."

"You can't actually be serious, though," I cut in.

Her gaze breaks away from mine and she goes back to staring at the road ahead of her. "Semi-serious. It would be cool, but I think that's billionaire rich, not... forty million dollars in the bank rich. Someday, maybe.”

At this point I've nearly forgotten the situation we're in together. I'm completely immersed in the conversation.

"Uh, left here," I stammer out.

Evelyn reaches up to pat my head with a finger. "Thanks, Siri."

I scoff. "As if I haven't heard that joke a million times before."

A few minutes later we're still talking, discussing dream houses and swiping through amazon for fun things to impulse-buy. Not planning or making cover. Just... talking.

It almost manages to make me feel at ease.

Eventually we turn into the motel, a decent quality establishment; they actually have some parvus necessities, though they are, of course, a tad overpriced because of it. Not that we're gonna care once we cash in the diamond.

"Room for two?" The clerk asks as we walk in and ring the service bell.

Evelyn turns to glance down at me for my approval.

"Room for two," I confirm. Neither of us is going to separate from the diamond, so we're kind of forced to sleep together tonight.

As the clerk starts typing away at his computer, he tries to make casual conversation.

"So," he says, "you two finishing up a date?"

I nearly choke on my own saliva.

"No, just friends passing by and in need of a bed for the night," Evelyn replies smoothly as I try to recover from the comment.

"Gotcha," the clerk replies with what I can only assume to be his best customer service smile. We all have our masks, I suppose.

We get checked in and head to our room for the night. I freshen up in a parvus half-bathroom, a little annoyed at the lack of a shower. We find a cot my size in one of the drawers, though, and we promptly set it up on the nightstand.

"Are you tired?" Evelyn asks as we finish settling the mattress onto the frame. "Like, at all?"

"No," I say honestly. "Too much adrenaline. I can calm down, though."

"Wanna throw on the TV before the endorphins inevitably pass through and leave us to crash?" She says with a giggle.

I smile, knowing the exact feeling she's describing.

"I, uh... sure.”

The TV isn't signed into any streaming services, and neither of us want our login information on a random motel near the sight of a robbery, so we settle for cable, which is, of course, horrible. We find something somewhat inoffensive and throw it on in the background while we settle down from the chase.

Through the dull jokes and canned laughter playing through the TV speakers, I take a moment to fully process my situation.

"You really don't have an angle, do you?" I ask after a while of silence.

Evelyn shakes her head. "Even split. Cross my heart."

I clench my jaw and tap my fingers nervously against the mattress. "Why?"

She sighs and leans her head against the wall, staring up at the popcorn ceiling for a few moments before answering.

"Jade was my tech girl for this job," she says. "We needed to work together in order to pull this off. No one can do this kind of job lone-wolf. Hell, even a team of two is stretching it, but... I didn't bother finding anyone else. Because it's so fucking hard to get someone you know won't screw you over."

The human's gaze moves back down to me, expression forlorn as she continues. "Jade and I were going to sleep in her van tonight. But if either of us fell asleep, the other could steal the diamond before morning. So the solution was to put the diamond in a briefcase and handcuff ourselves to it before passing out. The handcuff key was in a timer vault. All because we couldn't trust each other.”

She rolls over onto her side, resting her chin on her palm. "It's so... god, it's fucking annoying, isn't it? Setting up safeguards so we don't screw each other over a few hundred thousand dollars on the millions we'd both make if we could just chill the fuck out? It makes the job more complicated, it makes all of our dealings tense and tedious... If we could all just agree to fucking get over ourselves and trust each other, these types of jobs could be cakewalks. But we always need to make sure no one has even the slightest incentive to screw each other over, otherwise... we will. Because we're assholes."

Evelyn turns back over to lay on her back, staring up at the ceiling again. "I promised you we'd split. Why is it so absurd that I refuse to go back on that after you lost your leverage over me? Everything would be so much easier if we could just... trust each other, y'know?"

The room is quiet for a few moments, save for the sound of the boring sitcom droning in the background. I'm eventually the one to break the silence, though probably not with the reaction Evelyn was expecting.

"Fuck you," I utter, voice trembling with anger.

Evelyn turns to look at me with wide eyes and furrowed brows. Tears are welling in my eyes.

"Wh... what?" She asks in genuine shock.

"Fuck you!" I say again, gripping my bedsheets so hard I edge on tearing a few seams. "Don't you fucking talk about trust like you can hand it out like candy on Halloween. Like... like we're all selfish, greedy assholes looking to milk a few extra bucks out of a job no matter who it fucks over. Like we're beneath you for not letting our lives hinge on the whims of some rando you do a job with.

"Do you think I like this? This fucking game of leverage and incentive? Do you think anyone actually wants to be playing? You think I don't hate every fucking second I have to blackmail and steal and cheat people over a pittance?

"Maybe it's easy for you to just... decide to trust someone. Worst they can do is pull a gun on you, and even then you actually have a nonzero chance of fucking defending yourself. Maybe that's how it works for you. Maybe that's your reality. But don't you dare try to use that experience to tell me to 'get over myself.' I have to be like this. I don't have the luxury of a choice. I live in a world where it's so easy to take advantage of me that you can do it with a flick of your fucking wrist. That's my reality. And the only way to make it in my world is to lie and cheat and blackmail. Because if I don't then I have nothing. The moment there's a chink in my armour, the moment I miss a detail or don't see an angle..."

I swallow down a sob, trying to look this human in the eye with my chin raised in defiance.

"I have nothing else. All I have is my fortress of exploitation. There's nothing else behind these walls. If they're breached I'm dead.

"So don't you fucking dare talk about how easy it would be to trust each other if we just 'got over ourselves,' because there is nothing, absolutely fucking nothing that I want more than the luxury of getting to trust someone."

My breaths are heavy from my rant. My jaw is clenched.

Evelyn simply gazes on in shock.

"I..." She tries to begin, but no follow up comes.

A tear streams down my cheek.

"I'm sorry," she finally manages to say. "I didn't--"

I turn over in my bed before she can finish her sentence, pulling a blanket over myself and turning my back to her. I don't have the luxury of getting to be able to storm out of the room in anger, so this is what I have to settle for.

Evelyn doesn't speak another word, and eventually turns the TV off, leaving us in silence as we both fall asleep.

Layna's rants are so funnnn i really really liked her speech to Evelyn in zookeeper where she psychoanalyzed her aloud and then also the speech with jasper in chapter 14 I think those were so fun to write anyways one more part left in this little au one shot

[cumulativechaos]

@scarrletmoon thanks for the tag! this was a fun way to make the slower hours of work pass quicker

3 ships

three ofmd ships bc the grip this show has on me is insane. three ed ships specifically bc he’s my most beloved babygirl

ed/stede (otp of all time)

ed/frenchie (rarepair white whale)

ed/the crew (not enough fics abt ed getting to be the specialest princess at the bimonthly crew orgy)

first ship

ok so im gonna be real. i think my first ship ever was simba/nala from the lion king but specifically as portrayed by me via my stuffed animals. and i had an actual child simba stuffed animal but the toy i used for nala was not actually nala. i don’t think it was even a lion like it was some sort of black and white spotted cat thing. maybe a leopard?? idk.

alternative answer: my first-ever OCs and by OCs i mean the personalities i invented these two webkinz

every time i reminisce about my childhood i get blown away by the fact that i’m not more of a furry

last song

i genuinely can’t remember when the last time i deliberately listened to music was and yes i’m aware this makes me sound insane. in my defense i get easily overstimulated if i play music while i’m tired and i’ve been exhausted for months on end.

i guess i’ve had casual by chappell roan stuck in my head for a few days so let’s go with that

last movie

deadpool & wolverine babeyyyyyy! very fun movie to see in the theaters with. My Father

currently reading

various ofmd fics and also hitchhikers guide to the galaxy and also bunny by mona awad

currently watching

ummm nothing atm but i did finish rewatching gravity falls a few weeks ago. good show 👍

currently eating

uhhhhh well i’m gargling salt water rn bc my throat feels gross but idt that counts as eating. last time i ate food was a few hours ago when i had buffalo garlic knots + a slice of cheese pizza i put some of the buffalo garlic sauce on, courtesy of my boss who ordered delivery for us for no reason. eating this at 3am was probably a mistake, i have shit like 4 times since then.

current craving

i want to go to bed. so badly. god i hope i can clock out by like 7:30 today that would be soooooo so so sexy. fingers crossed that shift change report doesn’t take 8thousanf years like it did two days ago

tagging: nobody bc it is 6am and i can’t think of people. if u want to do this u can reblog it from me i’m giving u permission even if i have no idea who you are

[mirdaniaa]

Thank you @lord-aldhelm for the tag! 💜

How many works do you have on AO3?

132!

2. What's your total AO3 word count?

Apparently it's 1,585,653.

3. What fandoms do you write for?

Currently just TLK, but every now and then HotD or whatever period drama I'm currently watching will catch my fancy.

4. What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

gonna be honest, every time this question comes up on an ask meme it makes me cringe a bit, because 3 of them i don't feel are remotely worthy of the honor and I think I just posted at the right time. anyway they're all GoT/asoiaf fics.

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

I always try to, unless the comment is like, idk, annoying or completely incomprehensible.

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

Oh man. I've written a lot of angsty endings...I think I'm just going to go with the most recent, which is The House That Godwin Built.

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

also going with the most recent here since there are too many to choose from, too tempting not to touch

8. Do you get hate on fics?

yeah 🥲

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

All kinds babeyyyyyy

10. Do you write crossovers? What's the craziest one you've written?

I have written exactly one crossover as a dumb joke and it was where Steve Harrington was Jean-Ralphio and Mona-Lisa Saperstein's biological father

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

It used to happen a lot but not so much anymore

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

A few times! It's a really nice feeling :)

13. Have you ever cowritten a fic before?

@itslaurenmae and I co-wrote Stolen Sweets together!

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

eadith x eardwulf aka flowers in mercia i am so deeply unwell about this ship i made up in my head but also it's real I'm so Pepe Silvia about it

15. What's a WIP you want to finish, but doubt you ever will?

I started this Barkskins fic literal years ago that went into the loup-garou thing that is CONSTANTLY coming up in the narrative but tbh i had no idea where to take it after "yeah they're werewolves" so I feel like. I shall never finish it.

16. What are your writing strengths?

Dialogue, I say, perhaps overconfidently. I attribute it to my theatre background but I'm always reading and, for that matter, writing dialogue with a voice in mind. I also speak a lot of the dialogue out loud to myself to make sure it sounds right, which is why I now live alone. I also know my basic editing (spelling, grammar, punctuation, tenses, etc) is almost always in good shape.

17. What are your writing weaknesses?

I am SO BAD at writing descriptions, it's something I'm actively working on. Action scenes are also something I struggle with, my eyes glaze over those scenes in books and television, and if you've ever read my fics, you'll notice I like to pull a GRRM and knock out my characters whenever possible.

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

If it's not necessary to the plot, why confuse the reader when you can just as easily say, "He said to the woman in sunglasses, this time in Russian..." or, "He didn't understand the two men, who sounded as though they were speaking in French..." Unless that dialogue is relevant to the plot, I guess I just don't see the need.

19. First fandom you wrote for?

I'm pretty sure it was Disney's Hunchback of Notre Dame

20. Favourite fic you've ever written?

The House That Godwin Built will always have a special place in my heart 💜

tagging @ivarthebadbitch, @stannisfactions, @wildwren, @wexpyke, @abnerkrill, @skatingthinandice, and anyone else who wants to play!

[spoonsbutbetter]

Roman Emperors/Historical Romans as different Barbies???

ik i'm probably so late for this but i wanted to do this because it was in my brain lol

Disclaimer: most of these guys are going to be men. like. white men with a lot of power, which kind of defeats the purpose of the barbie movie, but I think it's a little funny. Bear with me while i do normal things with my normal young adult interests.

Also, these guys would HATE me for what i'm about to do. it's so funny to me

Secondary disclaimer: i left out pulitzer prize winning barbie because i didn't know who would be it. lmk if you have any ideas :P

Augustus - Everything Barbie (Margot Robbie's)

To the Roman Empire, Augustus was everything honestly. He ushered in Pax Romana, imperial leadership, and more. Vergil wrote about the reason why he deserved such a title, and Vergil claims he is a descendant of Venus??? So, like, Everything Barbie is supposed to be super beautiful and so is Venus??? Low hanging fruit? I think so babeyyyyyy. That's what this entire post is going to be like. Also, we have to consider that, although he is not the only (good??) leader (and in Margot Robbie's Barbie's case, not the leader at all), but is often used as the example of a great leader and main character. Pretty cool honestly.

Caligula - Ken (Scott Evan's Ken - cowboy) OR Mermaid Barbie

Caligula. The guy who is named "Little Boots," declared war on the sea and took seashells as the spoil of war, and had a horse in the Senate (there are more things he did, but these are some of the funniest things). Was it the lead pipes? Was it being raised in a military setting? Or was that just how he was? We'll never know. He was pretty interesting. I initially thought he'd be cowboy ken because of his name and the horse thing, but I think Mermaid Barbie would work so well too. Big fan of him declaring war on the sea. What did the Mediterranean do to him? No clue. Big fan though.

Nero - Ken (Ncuti Gatwa's - Grand Ole Opry Ken)

i chose this guy for Nero just because he plays the guitar. Nero fiddled while Rome burned and so did this Ken while their world burned. i love Ncuti so much, so i am so sorry, but it’s funny. everything i do is for the bit

Vespasian - Supreme Court Justice Barbie

i think i just chose this for the vibes. he was known for renewing political stability. he also did a lot of like. propaganda and had a whole campaign for that. so like supreme court/government stuff i guess?? he might have been a good president barbie but i think a lot of them would have, considering they're all leaders.

Domitian - President Barbie

this guy. man. he like. man. oh boy. he was widely not liked by a lotta guys because he was so ruthless and autocratic. however, he's been described as efficient. there's a reason he was the last of the Flavians though so like. take that into account. the Senate HATED him and was assassinated by someone in Nerva's circle, so honestly, president vibes. He was the BIG leader of them all.

Trajan - Diplomat Barbie

did i do this only because his reign accounted for the geographical peak of the empire? yes. was he actually diplomatic? probably not honestly. he was real good at expanding though. diplomat barbie was played by Nicola Coughlin and i love Nicola Coughlin. she is great. Trajan was pretty cool too.

Hadrian - Physicist Barbie

i chose this for him just because of Hadrian's wall. sorry i am not smarter than that at all. this is all you're getting from me.

Marcus Aurelius - Author Barbie

he wrote a lot about Stoicism, so i had to make Marcus Aurelius be Author Barbie. he wrote so much! philosophy can be fun if you actually write about it i guess?? i'm not super into Stoicism tbh, it sounds kinda sad. but he was a pretty cool guy and he would totally be author barbie.

Caracalla - Lawyer Barbie

Caracalla isn't like the most well known for laws so i made him lawyer barbie instead of supreme court justice barbie, but he declared that all free residents of the Roman Empire should be considered citizens, which is pretty cool. he kinda sucked and he killed his brother that he was co-leader with, so like that's awesome (/sarcasm). he got away with murder a little bit.

Elagabalus - Weird Barbie

if you wanted queer history, here's a good place to look. Elagabalus was reportedly involved in many sex scandals, including but not limited to being trans. they are now referred to as a trans woman, which is cool!!! they didn't have a label for that back then, it was just. she was a promiscuous person and they didn't know what to do with her. she would kinda just exist around her home and also sought gender affirming surgery. she was pretty cool. people think she's the worst emperor but she's just different in my opinion. SHE ALSO EXPLICITLY STATED WHAT PRONOUNS SHE WANTED USED FOR HERSELF SO PRONOUNS ARE AN OLD DEBATE (explosion noises)

Vetranio - Midge

i chose Vetranio as Midge because he served for 9 months (ish) and a pregnancy is 9 months (ish) :P

[my-lunaberg]

Guess who found a class test babeyyyyyy :D before I decided class based on vibes but now I can deduce it by simply taking a 40 question quotev quiz. heres ya boi Sapnap

Your name is SAPNAP ??????. You're a HEIR of LIGHT (PROSPIT). You like PRANKS and CHAOS. You're HOT-HEADED but LOYAL.

[thetomorrowshow]

sent to help

esh au masterlist (i'll update it soon i swear)

IT'S NORMAN TIME BABEYYYYYY! this part is set 6-8 months after 'poisoned rats'.

cw: references to past abuse

~

“Maybe you should get a cat.”

The suggestion comes from his therapist Nora one day, after an emotional session of beginning to unpack why Jimmy won’t let anyone touch his hair. He’d been running his hand on one of those pillows with the reversible sequins during the conversation, and he can imagine that petting a cat would be more comforting.

There’s Elle, of course. But Elle doesn’t really care much for being pet, and prefers being alone to Jimmy’s company, so that won’t work. He thinks about a service dog for a while (they certainly have the money for one and Jimmy has diagnoses that would make him eligible), but Scott’s allergic to dogs and it’s just not worth it.

He’d had a dog as a child. He doesn’t remember her very well.

The more he thinks about it, the more he wants a cat. A young cat, maybe, a little baby of a cat for him to raise and train himself.

He’s scared, though. He’s very scared.

“I’m scared,” he admits to Scott one evening, on their way home from the animal shelter (Scott had leapt on the idea of another cat, had enthusiastically looked up shelters and volunteered to go with Jimmy to check things out).

Scott doesn’t answer immediately, checking his mirrors and over his shoulder as he merges into a busy lane. “Of what, love?”

Jimmy sighs, slumps in his seat. “Of. . . .” he breaks off, a little ashamed of his thoughts. “Never mind.”

“Why don’t you want to tell me?”

“Because you’ll think I’m stupid,” he mutters.

Scott tsks. “I promise I won’t.”

Scott hasn’t made a joke about something important to Jimmy in a long time. He probably won’t about this.

“I’m afraid,” he says slowly, “that I will mistreat a cat.”

Scott doesn’t laugh, but there’s humor in his voice when he replies, “Jimmy, I don’t think you would ever mistreat any living thing on purpose.”

That’s the problem, though, because Jimmy has mistreated living things. Jimmy’s killed people, he’s hurt people, he’s done it accidentally and on purpose.

And more importantly. . . .

“I was a pet,” he says quietly, so quietly that he thinks Scott won’t hear him. He knows he does hear by the way his spine stiffens, by the way his fingers tighten on the steering wheel. He continues, louder now. “I was a pet, and I was mistreated. And—it’s all I know, I guess. I’m afraid that if I get a cat, it’ll be like . . . like generational trauma. I’ll abuse it because I was abused, and I don’t know any better.”

“Oh, Jimmy. . . .”

“They beat me, and whipped me, and kept me chained to a table leg and put me in a cage when I was bad, and so much more, and I accepted that it all happened because I was a pet. Because that’s how pets are treated. And I don’t—I don’t wanna hurt an innocent little cat because my head’s so screwed up about this.”

Scott is silent. Jimmy hazards a look up, sees how stormy his face is. He looks back down to his lap, anxiety leaping into his throat.

After a few moments, Scott speaks, voice tense. “You know you aren’t a pet, right?”

“Yeah! Yes. I . . . I understand. I know that. But. . . .” He shrugs. “Conditioning, y’know?”

They’re almost home. Scott turns onto their street, pulls into their drive. Once the car is in park, Scott unbuckles his seatbelt and turns to Jimmy, taking his hands in his own.

“Jimmy, I have never once seen you mistreat Elle,” he says seriously. “I understand why you are concerned, and I’m proud of you for sharing with me. But I don’t think that you will, in any way, shape, or form, hurt a cat. I have full confidence that you will treat a cat with the utmost respect and care.”

“But what if—”

“And if you happened to do so, I would tell you immediately,” Scott finishes, “and together we would work something out about it. Would that be good?”

That settles his racing heart a little bit. Jimmy leans down, kisses Scott’s knuckle. Knowing that there’s someone keeping him accountable means all the world to him. “Yeah. That would—that would be great, actually. And,” he laughs a little sheepishly, “I’ll bring this up in therapy next week. Think I need to process this.”

Scott smiles softly, reaches up his hand but pauses. “Am I okay to touch your face?”

Jimmy shrugs. “Go for it.”

Scott rubs his thumb along Jimmy’s jawline, cradles his chin in his palm. It takes a moment, but Jimmy realizes that it’s uncomfortable. It’s not a safe touch today, so he does what his therapist has been having him rehearse and he pulls away, muttering, “Yellow.”

Scott’s hand drops back to Jimmy’s hands, gives them a quick squeeze. “Kisses okay?”

Jimmy nods, weird feelings dissipating. “Please!”

Scott giggles and leans over, pressing a soft kiss to his lips. Jimmy feels his cheeks heat, shakes his head back and forth rapidly once Scott pulls away. “Love you,” he says, the last knots of worry loosening in his chest.

Scott sighs contentedly. “I love you so much.”

-

Jimmy sees the way Scott’s eyes sparkle when he looks at him. He hears Scott mutter under his breath, “You’re so adorable,” when he thinks Jimmy won’t notice. Jimmy doesn’t press it, though, because he’s absolutely besotted with Norman.

Norman is his new kitten. He’s five months old and his fur is so fluffy and his eyes are so big and blue and he loves being held and cuddled and he’s lovely, he’s a lovely baby.

There are words that Jimmy avoids saying, words that he knows Scott notices. He doesn’t call Norman a good boy, he doesn’t use the word perfect, he doesn’t call him pet or obedient. He calls him Norman, and only Norman, and sometimes Big Man Norman when he’s an especially brave little kitten.

Norman isn’t just a little guy who lives with him, though. More than once, Jimmy is in the throes of a flashback and Norman hops up into his lap, purrs and nuzzles up against him, and Jimmy is brought back to reality. He goes from shaking at Xornoth’s feet to having a cuddly kitten licking his arm and meowing up at him, his own living room coming into view around him. It gets to the point that Scott drops everything to find Norman when Jimmy gets triggered, the cat rousing him quicker than any of their other tactics.

He tells his therapist of the improvement, and she’s happy for him, reminds him that this is a victory and he should celebrate. He does; he calls Lizzie and invites her over to meet his new kitten, throws a little party with him and Scott and Lizzie and Joel (he and Lizzie are a package deal) and the two cats of the house, which ends with Lizzie trying to put a party hat on Norman and Joel trying to sauvely suggest to Lizzie that they go to his house down the block and spend the night there rather than drive the whole twenty minutes to her apartment.

It feels so normal.

“You’re a keeper,” Scott declares, holding Norman up in the air and nuzzling their noses together. “Part of the family, now. We’ll get you a tag to match Elle’s and a little backpack for you so we can take you on walks. Won’t that be cute?”

That’s when it really sinks in, though. It finally hits Jimmy that Scott is treating Jimmy’s cat as a permanent fixture of the household. Scott considers Norman (and Jimmy, by extension) necessary to complete the family.

He’d known before. But he hadn’t really accepted it, maybe. And now it’s here, right in front of him, and Scott doesn’t even know that Jimmy’s four seconds away from bursting into tears because he’s home.

It can stay that way, though. There are some feelings that are just for him to process. For now, Jimmy watches as his boyfriend (his home) welcomes someone new into his life.

[thedevilstole-yourbxys]

Out Of Candy: Guess Who’s Back In The House?

TL;DR- Life is shitty but I’m feelin’ better and I’m back babeyyyyyy. Blog refresh on its way. Some characters will be made inactive.

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Hi everyone! Thank you so much for being so patient with me as of late! As of this week, I have begun to work on replies, drafting them as I finish them. Life has been crazy, so it was really nice to take a much-needed hiatus to focus on myself and my family.

My uncle had a pressing medical emergency, and while he isn’t totally out of the woods yet (he needs a few surgeries to fix something that came up)... He’s out of the most pressing danger he was in. Life has thrown a lot of shit my family’s way lately, but as Natasha Thomas said: “When life knocks you down…. calmly get back up, smile and very politely say, ‘You hit like a bitch’.”

All this to say, I will be coming back officially (and hopefully getting posts out) on Thursday! I chose Thursday, as it will be my 6-Year anniversary with this blog! To celebrate this, I plan to do a bit of a blog refresh. This will include changing the style and layout of my blog.

Additionally, I plan to make about 8 or so of my characters inactive. I’ll reveal them on Thursday, but these are characters that there really just isn’t active interest for right now. I don’t want to say that I would be “retiring” them, as that seems like an inaccurate term for me to use in this context. Rather, they’ll be put on the back burner and won’t have regular starters made when I post new batches. BUT, if someone were to really wish to play against them in a thread, I would be happy to plot with them and bring them out every once and a while.

Thanks so much for y’all’s patience, and I’m glad to make a return!

[lindleland]

20 Questions Tag

Thank you to @cremationkink for the tag, looking forward to seeing you at whatever the next con that actually goes ahead is.

name: Adam

nickname: I've been using Lind for like 13 years as a username to the point where it's bled into real life, so uh. Yeah.

zodiac: Leo

height: 5"10

language: English

nationality: English

favorite season: Definitely Autumn. Not too cold but not too warm, I can wear layers which is good for like all the clothes that actually suit me, and bugs have fucked off back to hell where they came from.

favorite flower: not a huge flower person but I've always loved how lavender flowers looked.

favorite scent: the varnish they use on trading cards and comic colour pages.

favorite colour: it fucken purple babeyyyyyy!

favorite fictional character: jesus crispy christ that's a tall order. I guess the first person who comes to mind is Yang Wenli? Also Sherlock Holmes (many versions but especially the DGS one), Pearl from Steven Universe, Apollo Justice, Griffith, Sayaka Kanamori, and like 20 MHA characters.

favorite animal: I feel like this won't be a surprise to anyone, but it's capybaras.

coffee, tea or hot chocolate: Good coffee above all else, but I'll take almost any tea over bad coffee. Hot chocolate is a sometimes drink.

average sleep hours: Oh, you sweet naive child. You babe swaddled in the cashmere blanket of ignorance. I have no average sleep hours.

dogs or cats?: Cats, a million times cats. I don't necessarily dislike dogs but I don't speak their language, you know? Cats, I understand.

how many blankets?: Yes.

dream trip?: Kyoto, definitely. Wanna do a full tour of all its most historic sites.

blog established: 2013! I mostly made it as a repository for JoJo memes. It's still pretty much that except now i also hate capitalism.

followers: 560. About 250 of which I gained this year despite this blog being active the whole last 7 years. I attribute this to the help of Emily Chefpyro, Eizouken, and glorious Satan.

random fact: I have seen over one thousand anime. I have many regrets.

I tag: @megamanfour , @grandemalakajeremi , @halfd3af , @cosmic-awesome , @official-kircheis , and @vgckenny .

[blondejohnny]

I was tagged by @swimming-to-infinity thank u lexie! <3

favorite season: fall

hair color: sort of a dark brown, i used to be blonde tho rip. although rn theres a mix of blue and purple in it

favorite animals: bears! esp pandas

favorite fictional characters: sailor mars, april from parks and rec, hamtaro

do you have a crush on tumblr?: no thank god

played any sports: i “played” soccer when i was kid which means i stood on the field and did nothing lol

one time i did take a ball right to the stomach from a girl on my own team and was decimated on impact so that counts for something maybe

describe yourself in aesthetic: mysterious bruises, moments that might actually be a dream, chipped nail polish, black coffee, looking at the stars and feeling like everything almost makes sense but not quite

put your playlist on shuffle and list the first five songs:

- Patience--Tame Impala

- SOHO--Jaden Smith

- Believe in Me--Flamingosis

- U Know I Know--Samantha Urbani

- They Don’t Know About Us--1D babeyyyyyy

ever had a song or poem written about you?: nope 

when was the last time you played air guitar?: literally the other day in my car by myself :/

celebrity crush?: Oscar Isaac, Zoe Kravitz, and ofc Johnny

what sounds do you love? hate?: love the sound footsteps esp over stone, waves, and when my cat mrrps at me if i wake him up

hate the sound when someone rubs their hands together, idk it just sounds rly dry, also any type of asmr

do you believe in ghosts?: yes! i love hearing ppl’s stories and going on ghost tours

do you believe in aliens?: absolutely

do you drive? if so, have you ever crashed?: yes and only once sort of, someone just side swiped me

what’s the worst injury you’ve ever had?: uh im pretty careful so i guess just when i was rly young, i loved to climb the hills of dirt behind my house (that were there due to construction) and i fell off one time and split my palm open

do you like the smell of gasoline?: nah but i get it, i like the smell of rubber, like tires and stuff

do you have any obsessions right now?: rn no

do you hold grudges? yes, i can totally forgive a person but forgetting is something i can’t do

this was fun to think about! i tag @starsliveinmytea @scissorhands1617 @seo-dude and anyone else who wants to do it!

[lunatic-fandom-space]

Okay!! Time for ep 3 babeyyyyyy

Uhhhhhhhh we're starting off w/ a flashback/shot of a woman w/ a baby in a house in the woods and then we see this sketchy hooded figure right outside the house holding a flint and steel?? I dont remember where this goes so i guess Im keeping all this the same for now

Im considering having a small timeskip here, maybe skip ahead like, a week but Im not fully sure?? I could also try to keep things more ambigious, I just really wanna avoid that thing that a lot of YA books especially do where literally everything happens in like, 2 weeks yknow (Alternatively, I could maybe do like the book/webcomic equivalent of a montage of her doing stuff to convey time passing a bit idk)

I think there should be some p deep holes in the village/the village should be build on uneven terrain and maybe Aphmau notices and decides to take her shovel and level the ground a bit so you can walk w/o tripping, again heres an opportunity for some more interacting with the villagers

She decides to take a break after a while and notices Garroth standing on the roof of a house, sort of watching everything

She figures she should maybe go up and talk to him, apologize for being kinda weird and just scurrying off like that the other day so she goes up the roof

Before she can even say anything, hes like "You've talked to Zenix I suppose?", Aphmau is kinda confused and relieved that he doesnt seem to mind her and says that No, she hasnt talked to him yet and Garroth tells her to do that, this is basically just like in the OG

So yea shes walking around, maybe she runs into Emmalyn and they chat a lil, when Zenix calls out to her like "Madam!"

The beginning of their exchange is pretty much the same, I'll need to tweak it just a little so that it fits with what Aphmau in my version has actually been doing. Maybe he says something closer to "You seem to be putting a lot of effort into helping this village even thohgh you just artived... thank you" or something. Zenix' warning about Aphmau being seen as a Lord if she keeps doing that kinda stuff is also the same and Aphmau is really weirded out but doesnt think too much of it

On her way back to Garroth she could gets0 distracted by one of the weat fields around town and how it looks like the weather really messed it up and think about how you could fix that or make it more durable or smth like that

She also sees some goats and thinks "hey those are cute and could be p useful if we rounded em up and made a farm". I dont want her to approach them though, I feel like that would be a bit too much filler

After that she finally goes back to Garroth, the exchange they have is the same again, I'll just adjust the beginning a bit to sound less npc-ey

She pretty much goes to find the clearing right away, maybe she'll hop over to Emmalyn and tell her that shes leaving for a bit or smth

Yeah thats it for now

I'll definitely have to smooth over some timeline stuff but these are just the rough notes, so I'll do all of that once ive finished the season

[666shiki]

85 Questions tag

i was tagged by @saphore love you babe MWAH

rules: answer these 85 statements about yourself, then tag 20 people

last:

1. drink: SPRITE BABEYY

2. phone call: my brother........ the call lasted for literally 17 seconds lmao

3. text message: man i get you............

4. song you listened to: NCT 2018 - Black on Black

5. time you cried: yesterday..... bc i was really soft for seungkwan.. LISTEn i saw a really cute gif of him i cant help it

ever:

6. dated someone twice: nah

7. kissed someone and regretted it: yea : D

8. been cheated on: noo

9. lost someone special: yep

10. been depressed: hasn’t everyone? (lmao caroline this is so accurate im just gonna leave it)

11. gotten drunk and thrown up: noo i usually feel like throwing up the next day

favorite colours:

12. neon red/blue/yellow

13. lilac

14. mustard yellow

in the last year have you:

15. made new friends: yea !

16. fallen out of love: yea:D

17. laughed until you cried: also yea

18. found out someone was talking about you: what.. no? what does this even mean SJODFOKSD

19. met someone who changed you: YESSSS GODD and im thankful for every single one of them

20. found out who your friends are: yeah

21. kissed someone on your facebook tumblr friends list: nope

general:

22. how many of your facebook tumblr friends do you know irl: 2

23. do you have any pets: a tortoise and two dogs !!

24. do you want to change your name: no i actually really love my name

25. What did you do for your last birthday? nothing.. went to school? dskksf i dont really care about my birthday

26. what time did you wake up today: around 10am

27. what were you doing at midnight last night: idk probably was crying at the cute seungkwan gifs

28. what is something you can’t wait for: UHH.. nothing? i never rly wait for anything since nothing happens anyway

29. what are you listening to right now: Seventeen - Oh My!

30. when was the last time you saw your mom: like 2 minutes ago she gave me french fries :]

31. have you ever talked to a person named tom: noo i dont think so

32. something that gets on your nerves: EVERYTHING LMFAOOOO im constantly mad about everything even tho i dont always realize it but most of all myself

33. most visited website: youtube and tumblr

34. hair colour: black? that kinda looks like dark brown in the sunlight

35. long or short hair: uhh.. short? medium? im like debating whether i should cut my hair or let it grow sdfkjsdf

36. do you have a crush on someone: i mean aside from idols uhh..... hmm idk kinda? kinda not.. im trying not to let my feelings grow for them ssjhsjhdhsdh

37. what do you like about yourself: my eyes and my eyebrows >:) my friend said that she likes my eye shape? and i fking died love YOU

38. want any piercings: YESSSS god PLEASE but the problem is i would forget to take care of them

39. blood type: idk dude

40. nicknames: raada and raadamus occasionally huora

41. relationship status: been living that single life for 16 years

42. zodiac: scorpio

43. pronouns: she/her

44. fave tv shows: riverdale atm i guess.. i rly love ahs and oitnb too

45. tattoos: no even tho i REEALLY want one:( or two.. or five

46. right handed or left handed: right

47. ever had surgery: nope

48. piercings: none

49. sport: that’s a silly word :) (caroline.. MOOD)

50. vacation: i want to travel to northern finland and japan ! and recently i just really want to go see caroline even tho thats unrealistic but a bitch can dream

51. trainers: the fuck are those

more general:

52. eating: FRENCH FRIES BABEYYYYY

53. drinking: SPRITE BABEYY

54. i’m about to watch: idk bitch probably gonna see if my fav youtubers have uploaded anything

55. waiting for: DEATH

56. want: ohh dude sooooooo many things.......

57. get married: unrealistic!

58. career: i want to do art idk what kind but id love to be a character designer for games or something. GAME ART! thats what id love to do but again .. unrealistic

which is better:

59. hugs or kisses: depends on who the person is

60. lips or eyes: both

61. shorter or taller: either

62. older or younger: older

63. nice arms or stomach: idk either??

64. hookup or relationship: relationship

65. troublemaker or hesitant: hesitant

have you ever:

66. kissed a stranger: no

67. drank hard liquor: noo ive drank normal liquor tho

68. lost glasses: i dont have any sdfsdf

69. turned someone down: kinda?

70. sex on first date: no

71. broken someone’s heart: i hope i havent

72. had your heart broken: idk.. kinda

73. been arrested: no

74. cried when someone died: yes

75. fallen for a friend: no? no

do you believe in:

76. yourself: man... on good days. yes

77. miracles: yes

78. love at first sight: yes

79. santa claus: he died years ago

80. kiss on first date: yeah

81. angels: yes !

other:

82. best friend’s name: Jemina and Julia..... and another Julia

83. eye colour: green babeyyyyyy

84. fave movie: it used to be As Above So Below but tbh i havent seen it in years so idk

85. fave actor: Choi Minho best actor of all time

i’m gonna just tag @jenofiles and @lukkilucas