#The Terrific 12

[trickiwooao3]

12 Days of Fandom, Day 8 on Day 9

The text above is from google, not this fic. It's just the kind of thing I (person in the blue) might do. It turns out that 12 days of fandom on 12 separate days is too much of a stretch with all the merriment prep, including hosting a party. There will be 12 days, but which 12 days?

The text fic Patrick, It's David by the summerstars is still one of my all-time favorites. Despite having almost 1300 kudos, I rarely see it recommended. Don't let the ? chapters deter you. Each chapter can be read as a standalone.

I left several comments. Among them:

“That’s TV’s hateful human being to you.”

I’ll be chuckling about that for days. The way you combine the banter and the deep emotional content is spot on. I have reread your series thrice now—you are such a gifted writer. I feel guilty getting these stories for free! I hope someone IRL pays you well for your talent.

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“Joke free by Christmas.”

Ha!

You take the ideas that sort of wallow around in my mind and sculpt them into something clear, charming, and clever. I too think Patrick’s repetition of the word “oscillating” was a tell. I too think “Oh, I’m gonna get the money” was more than a declaration about financing. I went back to rewatch that scene and was amused to see I had paused the episode at that exact moment. Shamelessly tagging @demora00, @a-noble-dragon, @characterassassination-at-9am, @chelle-68, @ramonaflow, @tyfinn, @leofdaeg-sand, @jettestar, @stargazer56, @smallumbrella369

[animeshon-anime-by-blbambeyond]

CHERRY MAGIC! THIRTY YEARS OF VIRGINITY CAN MAKE YOU A WIZARD (2024, JAPAN)

Taking on more stressful responsibilities at work Adachi is changing his life.

And more than anything, he is ready to give himself completely to Kurosawa and vice versa.

Culminating in coming out to friends and family alike by making their relationship official as wedding bells rings loudly for the husbands.

@pose4photoml

[mewhenifreakit]

have been convinced to get a dating app

[womanofwords]

Everybody's Favourite (Part 4)

The more the rogues' gallery learns about your treatment at the hands of your family, the more they dislike the Waynes. "I honestly think I misjudged my friend Bruce," Two-Face said. "He really let that happen?"

"I have the scars to prove it," you said, rolling up your sleeves to show everyone the bite marks left on their arms. "Damian wanted me to help test Titus' abilities by giving him a target. Well, I was the target."

"Well, I'll have to re-evaluate my policy on hurting children," Riddler said.

"What. The. Hell?!" Ivy's anger was palpable. "This little sweetheart has been theirs for over ten years, and they can't even bother to pay a simple ransom?!"

"They seem about as delightful as gum on a shoe," Joker said. "If you need a certain mansion blown to pieces, say the word."

You whimpered at the thought of such violence, clutching a throw pillow for comfort. "I don't want them to be injured or killed. I want distance from all of them, metaphorical and literal. I don't want to see them again."

"Such a precious gem," Harley sniffed.

"And a terrific businessperson," Oswald said. "Designed an ice cream franchise with me in less than a week. The kid'll go far."

"Honestly, I don't want them to go," Riddler said.

"I don't want to go! I like it here!" you said.

"Great!" Joker clapped his hands with glee. "Because if you're staying, then we'll need to put a few things on the agenda. Like self-defence. Bane and Selina can teach you all about that."

You gasped with joy. "So I can kick butt while wearing heels?"

"Of course, kitten," Selina cooed.

"You shall have all the resources you need," Bane rumbled. "I'll even let you use Venom."

"NO!" everyone yelled.

"As a psychology professor, they will not even look at your patented steroid," Crane scolded.

"You dose people with fear gas, and steroids is where you draw the line?" Bane scoffed.

"Yes! Why would I want to tamper with Y/N's sweet disposition with nasty roid rage?"

"It'll ruin them, Bane. You might want a sparring partner, but I will lose a business partner," Penguin said. "An incredibly smart one, if I might add."

"Really? Me?" you spluttered.

"Oh, little dove, who else could I be speaking about?" Penguin retorted. You squeaked and hugged the pillow tighter. "Oh, little dove, I was just complimenting you, I promise! I didn't mean to fluster you!"

"Normally, the only people who call me smart are my teachers," you admit. "My folks barely notice my grades or skills."

"Well, it would be a shame to let that go to waste. You must have worked hard to obtain them." Penguin paused to adjust his monocle. "Now, how about we get you a nice new routine to help you settle into your new home?"

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Part 2

Part 3

Part 4 <- You are here

Part 5

Part 6

Part 7

Part 8

Part 9

Part 10

Part 11

Part 12

Part 13

Part 14

Taglist: @tinybrie, @enchantingarcadecreation, @hopingtoclearmedschool, @sh4rk-k1d, @prorpy, angelicbear, @sulleha, @sirenetheblogger

[dreamwritesimagines]

Declassified 12 - Sneak Peek

Series Masterlist

“Birdie.”

You heaved a dramatic sigh at his teasing tone and looked up at him. “Hm?”

“Let’s have lunch.”

“You literally came back from lunch.”

“I can eat again.” He started tilting the screen of your laptop down but you batted his hand away, then fixed the screen again. “It’s a metabolism thing.”

“Super soldier metabolism?”

“Mm hm.”

“Good for you, I’m too busy,” you said. “I already spent enough time doing nothing with my mom yesterday when I was supposed to go over this, so…”

“You were with your mom?” he asked. “How did that go?”

“Dad wasn’t home so it was fine. Ish.”

“Fine-ish?”

“My mom doesn’t really know much about me but the parts she knows, she loves to dismiss,” you said. “They make a terrific couple with my dad, terrible parents though.”

“I’m sorry.”

“Don’t be,” you said. “Without them, my old therapist wouldn’t have been able to buy her second Ferrari, so I guess it wasn’t a total disaster.”

“And you can tell me all about it while we’re having lunch.”

You turned to your laptop. “Take a powder, Barnes.”

Out of the corner of your eye, you could see the clear confusion on his face but it turned into an amused smile, a chuckle escaping his lips.

“How did you…?”

“Hey, I could have an extensive vocabulary.” You grinned at him. “You don’t know my lexicon.”

“Right. Why do I feel like you googled 40s slang?”

“I once saw you google if lavender is edible, so how about we stop pointing fingers?” you asked and he shook his head vigorously.

“In my defense, Kelsey got me a lavender latte and insisted I had to try it.”

“And what did you think? Your assistant was trying to poison you?”

He shot you a look as if you were asking him a question with a very obvious answer. “It’s Kelsey.”

You thought for a moment, then shrugged your shoulders.

“Fair enough,” you said. “But come on, she—”

You stopped talking when your phone started buzzing, making both you and Bucky turn your eyes to the screen, and you both frowned at the same time.

“He’s still calling you?”

[curiouspupsicle]

Good Omens Fan Fiction Recommendations - Pinned Post

Thought it might be helpful to save links to my weekly fan fic recommendations. Organized by theme, each post gives you the rating and enough information to give you an idea of whether it's a good choice for you to read. And you'll find more great suggestions in the comments and reblogs. Just one more option for a fan fic reference desk. Scroll down for links--oldest first. Recommended WIPs at the bottom.

2024

11/8/24 - Fics that Made Me LOL - These are the funniest fics; the ones that actually had me laughing out loud. I'll definitely need to revisit this theme. So many to add to the list.

11/15/24 - Current Best of the Best - Snapshot of my absolute favorite fics at this moment in time. Fics I loved and can't imagine ever forgetting.

11/22/24 - Human AUs - These are the fics that finally convinced me to read our ineffable pair depicted as humans. And I've never looked back.

11/28/24 - Banter - Who doesn't love saucy banter? Here are my fave stories with witty dialogue.

12/6/24 - Illustrated Stories - It's in the name. These include comics and traditional fics with illustrations.

12/13/24 - Smooth Criminals - Fics that involve criminal undertakings.

12/20/24 - Christmas - I limit myself to one, very special Christmas fic. Hard to imagine any story better than this one.

12/27/24 - Through the Ages - Do you really need an explanation? My fave fics that show our ineffable pair in different time periods.

2025

1/3/25 - The Bentley - Fics in which our favorite sentient car gets her due.

1/10/25 - "Mixed" AUs - Stories in which one of the ineffable pair is mortal and the other is supernatural.

1/17/25 - Animal Shenanigans, pt 1 - Fics in which animals play an important role.

1/24/25 - Animal Shenanigans, pt 2 - One week was not enough to contain so many charming, animal-centric fics.

1/31/25 - Resistance - My favorite fics centered around resistance against powerful forces and nasty people.

2/7/25 - Read the Footnotes, pt 1 - I highlight two writers who write particularly clever and fascinating footnotes for their fics, in the style of Terry Pratchett. More to come in a future post.

2/14/25 - Be My Valentine - Recommending 3 Valentine's Day fics and 3 more that are about wooing, but not necessarily in February.

2/21/25 - Read the Footnotes, pt 2 - I share more favorite fics with clever footnotes.

2/28/25 - Alt Season 3 Speculations - These are my favorite post-season 2 fics that aren't what you might expect.

3/7/25 - Timey-Wimey - Some of the best fics that deal with time being weird. The first on the list is a unique treat.

3/14/2025 - Magic in the Air - My favorite fics featuring Fell the Marvelous (and yes, Crowley too) as magicians.

3/21/2025 - Ineffable Reality TV - Our ineffable pair end up on reality tv. Amazingly, three of them are not human AUs. Does not include any dating/marriage shows.

3/28/2025 - Spies in Disguise - Fics in which spying is a major part of the story. Lots of fun.

4/4/25 - Epistolary - Stories in which hand written letters are the centerpiece. Does not include texts, diaries, or emails.

4/11/25 - Top-Rated One-Shots - These are the single chapter works that get my highest ratings. Some will make you laugh. Some will make you cry. But they're all terrific.

4/18/25 - Texting - These fics center on texts. They range from the silly to the spicy with a sweet, tender love story in between.

4/25/25 - Sexy (but not explicit) - Focusing on moments in fics that are sexy but not explicit. Note: some of the fics themselves are explicit, even if the moment I highlight is not.

5/2/25 - Demon Summoning - These fics, both sweet and funny, center on Crowley being summoned by humans. See reblogs for even more recs.

5/9/25 - Muriel - Fics that feature everyone's 2nd favorite cinnamon roll.

5/16/25 - Heaven & Hell - In which we enjoy the shenanigans of The Bad Place and The Other Bad Place.

5/23/25 - Sea Creatures (Mixed AU 2) - Check out a great selection of fics where at least one of the ineffable pair is a creature of the sea. Check out reblogs for even more great suggestions.

5/30/25 - Characters with Disabilities - My recs for fics featuring characters dealing with disabilities. A little bit of sweet, a little bit of spice, and a bunch of great reads.

6/6/25 - Aspec Omens - A small selection of Good Omens fics with aspec characters showing the diversity along this spectrum.

6/13/25 - Queer Guardians - Notable fics in which humans (or human-shaped beings) provide safe spaces for queer people.

6/20/25 - Acceptance - Fics in which someone doubts they'll be accepted when they reveal their true self and are happily wrong.

6/27/25 - Let's Hear it for the Girls - A small selection of spicy and sweet Sapphic fics.

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And finally, I've started recommending WIPs. Listing them here and marking them complete as they finish.

2/2/25 - Cayuga Blush (M) by asparkofgoodness/@thetunewillcome - Human AU with amazing link to canon in which Crowley and Aziraphale operate competing vineyards. COMPLETE

2/5/25 - Pages About You; Pages About Me (T) by D_Cocca/@dcocca - Aziraphale the bookstore owner and Crowley the comic shop owner become close while recommending reading material for each other. COMPLETE

2/19/25 - You Can Have It (E) by @voluptatiscausa - Aziraphale gets unwanted flowers from an ex. An empathetic delivery person helps him realize he's worth more than he's settled for in the past. COMPLETE

2/26/25 - Moonstruck (E) by @foolishlovers - Crowley is a single dad struggling with his responsibilities when the angelic bartender at his monthly stop shows him he deserves to take care of himself as well. COMPLETE

3/5/25 - Bonded (E) by AppleSeeds - Aziraphale travels to his grandfather's quarry to suggest how things can improve. He's entranced by the worker, Crowley, who has a mysterious secret. COMPLETE

3/12/25 - Chef's Kiss (E) by @joyandotherstories - Aziraphale is a positive, YouTube chef who appears on Crowley's food network show famous for nasty treatment of the guests. Human AU but well integrated into Good Omens canon.

3/19/25 - where the nodding violet grows (M) by @omens-for-ophelia- Crowley suspects there's a fairy living in his garden. But the fae creature only appears once Crowley offers a gift suitable for his standards. Lovely story and art.

3/26/25 - Dead Right (E) by @anatomic-girl. A cut above even the best fake marriage trope with loads of characters as charming as our ineffable pair (including two adorable cats).

4/2/25 - A shoutout to @raxacoricofallapatoriusrulez, a prolific writer with several fics in progress.

4/9/25 - In Night Blooms by @gaiaseyes451, Aziraphale is drawn to a familiar but neglected garden where he picks some blooms to brew into a tea. Soon he starts having mysterious dreams.

4/16/25 - Wavelengths & Frequencies by @shadesofecclescakes and imposterssyndrome/@maaikeatthefullmoon is a hilarious romp through the friends to enemies to friends to (?) journeys of DJs Crowley and Aziraphale. LOL funny!

4/23/25 - Parliamentary Procedure. A rare, themed WIP rec of Honourable Members (E) COMPLETE by @groovynightstrawberry and Crossing the Floor (M) by AlwaysTuesday.

4/30/25 - A Smell Can't Be Ineffable (M) by @thinkinginscripts, in which Aziraphale tries to help Crowley recover his sense of smell and taste after Covid. But Crowley responds differently to the therapy than expected. COMPLETE

5/7/25 - Of Lions and Leviathans (E) by @drconstellation, the continuation of a series that has Aziraphale and Crowley watching their backs for criminal elements in Australia.

5/14/15 - Panic at Eastgate Abbey (E) by @ezomind-the-other-one is a charming take on Wodehouse's Jeeves and Wooster story with the addition of our ineffable pair.

5/21/25 - On a Storyteller's Night (E) by harlot of god/@harlotofupdog has our ineffable pair renting the same cottage by accident. By the third chapter, we have a thrilling twist making this not your typical one-bed, forced proximity story.

5/28/25 - The Trouble with HELL (E) by @beerok23 is a tantalizing mystery wrapped in the rivals to (well, guessing from the E rating, I'm going to guess lovers)... story of podcaster and mystery writer Crowley and mystery book reviewer turned investigator Fell.

6/4/25 - No Rest for the Wicked (M) by ReinaDragon139/@dragonqueen139 has Aziraphale seeking justice his wife's murder with help from bounty hunter Crowley in the Old West. It's a taut read and the English version of a Spanish story being published concurrently.

6/11/25 - Ineffable Gravity (E) by @enderhuntresss elevates the Crowley/Aziraphale arguments to a whole new level in this human AU in which the rockstar astrophysicist has to learn to work with the creative writing prof.

6/18/25 - Still We Know Each Other So Well (E) by @paperclipninja answers the question, "what would happen if both Aziraphale and Crowley lost their memories?" Absolutely worth reading as a WIP to watch the story unfold.

6/25/25 - On this Bumpy Road to Love (M) by @hermiola is the actors AU you'll love that you never knew you needed. COMPLETE

7/2/25 - Accidentally in Love (T) by @wildespyder tells the charming story of Aziraphale advertising to meet new friends and finding more joy than he could have expected. Regular updates several times a week.

If you're seeing this as a reblog, you can find the original (most-up-to-date) version here.

And if my tastes match yours, check out my AO3 bookmarks highlighting the top 10% of all fics I've read.

[cimoris]

- ⚜︎ Our Youngest ⚜︎ -

A Cookie Run Kingdom Reader Insert Fanfiction

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Relationship: Child!Reader & Parent!Shadow Milk Cookie, Sibling!Reader & Sibling!Black Sapphire Cookie, Sibling!Candy Apple Cookie & Sibling!Reader

Summary: Shadow Milk Cookie's latest masterpiece, a child.

Series/AU: Chasing Home

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“Tadaa!!!” The Fount of Knowledge, with a puffed-up chest, waved his staff at the object. “Behold, yet another one of my masterpieces!”

Y/n blinked as she stared at the floating object on her father’s desk. An apple, larger than the usual one they ate, swayed within a bubble of magic. It glistened underneath the natural skylight with fresh syrup dribbling on its edges. In the middle of the fruit was a blue closed eye.

“And… what exactly is this?” Black Sapphire Cookie asked with a tilted head. He leaned his weight against his staff, staring incredulously at his father’s so-called masterpiece. Y/n turned her attention to her brother, waiting for their father to answer.

“Ah! A terrific question! Thank you for your eager participation, dear child of mine!” Shadow Milk Cookie twisted his way from the front of the desk to behind it, hovering his hand lovingly over the giant fruit. “This, my dear audience, is a cookie!”

Y/n and Black Sapphire Cookie blinked and glanced at each other before facing their father with an equal amount of ridicule in their eyes–their father had been lacking sleep for the last few weeks, and it seemed to have finally messed up his brain.

“Of course, grandpa. Now, let’s get you some rest–”

“Shush!” Shadow Milk Cookie huffed and crossed his arms, floating over to the siblings with a pout. “I see your distrust. And I understand that as a fellow scholar. But, would it hurt you to trust your old man just a little more?”

Y/n smiled sweetly and avoided her father’s gaze. Black Sapphire Cookie stared back with a grimace. 

With a gasp and a dramatic flair, Shadow Milk twisted in the air of his study and landed behind the desk. “I cannot believe I had raised such unfilial children! The pain, the hurt! My heart as a parent is broken!”

Y/n watched the familiar ordeal with half-lidded eyes. If she were a little less behaved, she would have rolled her eyes just as Black Sapphire Cookie did. Black Sapphire Cookie sighed and rubbed his temple. 

“Can you please just tell us what it is exactly?”

The Fount grinned–sharp-toothed and warm–before hovering over the apple again. Blue hands gently reached toward the apple. The magic that protects the apple bends and makes way for its creator, allowing him to touch its surface. 

“As I said before, this is a cookie. They are still developing within this capsule… it will take another 9 to 12 months before they’re ready.” Shadow Milk Cookie’s eyes softened as he continued his affectionate touches. “They will be a glorious little creature, beautiful and shiny like this apple. Another member of the family.”

Y/n tilted her head. “Another member?”

Shadow Milk snapped his head to the other siblings, grinning. “Yes! A new little sibling! I noticed that the two of you are getting a little lonely. So, why not spice up our life with a cute little one?”

Y/n placed a hand under her chin, eyes wandering to the ceiling while her mind pondered the possibility of a new little sibling. Well, a younger sibling will be nice. They would be a fine replacement for Black Sapphire Cookie’s prank victim. Or even better, the new little sibling can be her partner in crime. 

If they are going to be a little brother, then maybe Y/n can introduce him to some of her favourite bugs. It would be nice to have somebody else than her father to share her interest with. Oh, the many beautiful things she can introduce them to–praying mantis, centipedes, arachnids, and many more.

If they are going to be a little sister, then no doubt that Y/n will spoil them rotten. Share her favourite sweets, her favourite clothes, and accessories… It will be nice to have another girl in the family. As much as she loves her father and her brother, they would never truly relate to her like a sister would. 

“A quick question, Shadow Milk.” Black Sapphire took a deep breath. He tucked his staff under his armpit before clapping his hands and pointing it at his father. “Why did you not make a newly baked cookie using… a natural way? Like the way the witches intended us to do?”

Shadow Milk Cookie rolled his eyes, waving his hands in a circular motion, “Pfft, and complicate things with romance and mortals? No, thank you!” Shadow Milk floated behind the two younger cookies and cradled them from behind, huddling them like a bird around their unborn sibling. “All I need is right here.”

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The apple jostled in her grasp, cradled within loving hands as Y/n rushed through the Spire. From a distance, she could hear the shouts of angered cookies rushing to climb up the Spire. Their pitchforks clanged against marbled flooring, and their torch burned through silk tapestries. Nothing in this Spire will remain standing once those greedy, foolish, idiotic, and blind cookies are satisfied. 

Nothing should be standing, but it will remain untouched. And in that object, Y/n bet all her cards on.

Y/n wiped her tears and smeared syrup all over her face, continuing her hurried steps toward her father’s study. Yes, she knew her father had told her to run with her little sister–oh, her sweet little sister that would never know how much Y/n and Shadow Milk Cookie loved her. But,..

There are too many of them. 

Too many angered cookies, too many pitchforks, and too many torches. 

All aimed at her. 

And the big red apple will only be a great target on her back. 

“At the very least, your brother will love you enough for both of us.” Y/n slammed her whole body through the wooden door, opening it just enough for her to slip in. “I know,” Y/n gasped, “I know he will. That’s just how your brother is.”

High on adrenaline, Y/n walked swiftly to her father’s desk, tearing the desk’s cabinet open. Her tired eyes lit up as she saw the familiar dark gem. One that shimmers within its confines with the overflowing magic only she, her brother, and her father could sense–the magic that belongs to the fallen Virtue of Knowledge. Y/n smiled and cradled the apple in her grasp tightly. 

“Dear sister, I might never have the chance to see you again, but I hope you know this.” Y/n kissed the top of the capsule, tasting the sweet syrup on its surface. “I love you. Your father loves you. Always and forever.” 

The young cookie crawled and touched the dark blue gem, summoning a small crystal-like dome that fits the capsule. Y/n gently placed the apple inside the dome and tried to ignore the impending doom of the crumbling spire. 

Her touch lingered on the apple, “Stay safe. May fate bring us together.” Y/n let go and watched as the dome sealed her sister in its protective embrace. “If … fate ever favour us again.”

With that final whisper, Y/n closed the cabinet and left the study. 

And she ran, and ran, and ran, leaving the apple of her eye behind. 

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Black Sapphire Cookie slammed through the door, coughing from the ashes that lingered in the air. His purple eyes scanned the empty room, swiftly glancing from left to right, up and down, then back to left and right. With increasing desperation, the cookie grasped his staff tightly, then left the empty room. 

His stepped echoed through the empty hallways, covered in soot and lingering resentment of the mob. Remains of tapestries littered on the ground along with the memories woven into them–and the sight made him wish to drop down and cry, despite him never shedding any tears over the last decades and a half of his life. But he could not cry, not just yet.

Not until Black Sapphire Cookie searched through this Spire. Searched through the crumbling buildings' nooks and secret places. 

Not until he truly confirmed that his sisters were not in the building. His father was imprisoned within silver roots already.

Gritting his teeth, Black Sapphire aimed his staff at the final door and blasted the burned-down wood with a great show of firepower. He huffed and walked into the room, one that used to be his father’s study. 

Again, it was void of life. 

Black Sapphire Cookie stood in the middle of the room, breathing heavily as he took in the smell of burnt wood and papers. Black mist seeped through his footings, spreading over the small study. In that moment of numbness, Black Sapphire Cookie closed his eyes. 

He could see the figure of his father sitting in his study, with a cup of warm Butterfly Pea Tea on his side. Its subtle floral scent brought a smile to Black Sapphire’s face as he walked in through the door, Y/n following close behind. His father, eyes warm and full of glee at their presence, grinned and abandoned his paperwork to attend to his dear children. 

And they would chat in the sunlit study, talking about everything from the stupid things to the greatest things. 

A family of scholars. Of geniuses. 

Their family.

Black Sapphire Cookie opened his eyes to dark rooms and ashes. 

He gritted his teeth, raised his staff, and slammed it onto his spreading pool of magic, summoning a mighty force of hurricanes. Bookshelves, desks, papers, and curtains–all ripped and shredded away. And when Black Sapphire Cookie’s mind cleared of the storm of emotions, the room no longer resembled the study he remembered.

“Aha..hah…,” Black Sapphire Cookie crumbled to his knees, still clutching his staff tightly onto the burnt marbles. “Haha… hah…” He laughed in tears, visions blurring from the anguish that leaked from his eyes. 

“Cursed the witches…” Black Sapphire clutched on the staff tightlly, not noticing how it begans to change following the shapes of his corrupting heart. “curse their desires…their powers… swines, hoes, whores, bitches, curse them ALL!”

And as he was about to continue cursing Earthbread and their witches, a flicker of light caught the corner of his eyes. He blinked away his tears, wiping them, before glancing at the shine again. 

Within the rubble of destruction, a small light flickered through cracks. Pulsing like heartbeats of a living being. It took a moment longer before Black Sapphire Cookie sensed the faint magic that the light emitted. 

Familiar magic. 

Like one of his father’s.

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Staff abandoned in the middle of the room, Black Sapphire rushed to the flickering light. Crawling on scratched knees and cut hands, he reached the mounds of jagged marbles. Ignoring his wounded hands, Black Sapphire Cookie began moving aside rubble and splintered wood. And when he finally saw the object, he laughed. 

“Y/n… you…swine.” He grinned with tears dribbling from his eyes as he reached to cradle the apple within the flickering dome. “You smart swine… why would you do this…” 

The apple looked exactly as it was the last time he saw it. Unschated and pristine. The one thing that remains clear on the remains of their home. The only thing that was untouched by the greed of those foolish cookies. 

“Ah, dear little sister… I am so sorry you have to see your older brother like that…” Black Sapphire Cookie brought the apple closer to his chest, kissing it and tasting its sweet syrup. “You must’ve been so scared… Our youngest sister… It’s alright now…”

Black Sapphire Cookie curled around the apple. The only bright thing in this gloomy world. 

“I’m here. Big brother is here.”

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A/n: And here is another instance of the series! Hope you all enjoy it!

And yeah, Shadow Milk Cookie makes his children using magic and science, like creating a homunculus. So no, no canon lovers. At least not for now~

[donteverblameash]

Stucky headcanons because I might as well do every ship at this point. Multishipping is terrific.

Hcs under the cut :)

-When they first met, Steve would sit all alone in the school yard, drawing in the dirt so Bucky would sit with him and share his carrot sticks. Steve doesn't like carrot sticks, but he ate them anyways.

-The two used to get chronic scraped knees, honestly still do, so at night they take the time to compare new bruises and those that are healing. Normal dude things.

-Growing up, they didn't understand the concept of two boys being so intimate was "wrong" so they didn't understand why people would give them weird looks when they kissed each other on the cheek.

-But now that they're grown, living in the 21st century, they have decided to not give a single fuck and kiss as often as they want when they want.

-In the mornings, Steve takes morning runs, and Bucky makes breakfast because it is considered an Avengers level threat when Steven Grant Rogers is within 12 yards of a cooking apliance.

-Then Steve takes his morning shower...

-"Would you like me to join you, Mister Rogers?" Steve throws a towel at him. It means yes.

-Bucky's therapist recommended he take up a calming hobby, so he decided on knitting. So he spends hours making Steve stuff that he doesn't really need.

-Steve accepts it with a grateful smile regardless.

-Bucky is often Steve muse for drawings, sometimes more reluctantly than others.

-"Buck, stop your wiggling. You're gonna make me mess up!" "Stevie, these stupid ass jeans you put me in are itchin'!"

-Watch out because Bucky and Steve's playful banter can turn into impromptu wrestling matches real quick.

-"Just like Brooklyn 1938, huh?" "Yeah, and just like then, I plan on winning!"

-It usually ends with Bucky smashing kisses into Steve's neck until the latter is a pink and laughing mess. Steve claims he let's Bucky win. No one believes it.

-When Steve gets stressed, he braids and unbraids Bucky's hair over and over until he's calm.

-When Bucky started getting into politics and he would get home after a long day at work, Steve wouldn't usually get a hello right away, more like a: "LOOK AT THIS GODDAMN BULLSHIT!"

-It's become a common occurance for Bucky to text Steve Onion articles and not understand that they are jokes like "What the fuck" and Steve sometimes laughs at them so hard he snorts.

-Bucky till this DAY is STILL trying to teach Steve how to dance, and it is STILL not looking too hot

-He learned how to take video, so he takes time recording this poor man "dancing" and sending it in the GC they have with Sam and Joaquin

-Bucky is the type of mf to say, "Damn, that Steve guy is so hot, wish he was mine" (They've been married for 9 years)

-Steve is almost always holding one of Bucky's hands to stop him from chewing on his fingers.

-Bucky is always waking up in the middle of the night asking Steve the most random things because Steve has been around these parts.

-Steve spent a long time trying to figure out his identity and looking up the specific terms for how he felt before officially coming out.

-Bucky just always knew he liked boys. He doesn't have a lable, just love him, ragged heart and all.

-Steve could write a whole 7 paragraph essay with a thesis over text, and Bucky will still stubbornly respond with the "👍" and it's driving Steve up a wall.

-Bucky forgets that Steve is a little bit taller than him now like all the time so he instinctively goes to looks down to talk to him which prompts Steve, ever the asshole to quip "Eyes up here James Barnes." And it's driving Bucky up a wall.

RAHHH I MAY MAKE MORE ABT THESE WEIRDOS

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Jack Jenkins at RNS:

(RNS) — In a striking move that ends a nearly four-decades-old relationship between the federal government and the Episcopal Church, the denomination announced on Monday (May 12) that it is terminating its partnership with the government to resettle refugees, citing moral opposition to resettling white Afrikaners from South Africa who have been classified as refugees by President Donald Trump’s administration. In a letter sent to members of the church, the Most Rev. Sean W. Rowe — the presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church — said that two weeks ago the government “informed Episcopal Migration Ministries that under the terms of our federal grant, we are expected to resettle white Afrikaners from South Africa whom the U.S. government has classified as refugees.” The request, Rowe said, crossed a moral line for the Episcopal Church, which is part of the global Anglican Communion that boasts among its leaders the late Archbishop Desmond Tutu, a celebrated and vocal opponent of apartheid in South Africa. “In light of our church’s steadfast commitment to racial justice and reconciliation and our historic ties with the Anglican Church of Southern Africa, we are not able to take this step,” Rowe wrote. “Accordingly, we have determined that, by the end of the federal fiscal year, we will conclude our refugee resettlement grant agreements with the U.S. federal government.” Rowe stressed that while Episcopal Migration Ministries will seek to “wind down all federally funded services by the end of the federal fiscal year in September,” the denomination will continue to support immigrants and refugees in other ways, such as offering aid to refugees who have already been resettled. The announcement came just as flights with Afrikaners were scheduled to arrive at Dulles International Airport outside of Washington, D.C., the first batch of entries after Trump declared via a February executive order that the U.S. would take in “Afrikaners in South Africa who are victims of unjust racial discrimination.” The South African government has stridently denied allegations of systemic racial animus, as has a coalition of white religious leaders in the region that includes many Anglicans. [...] Rowe noted his announcement comes as the Trump administration has otherwise all but frozen the refugee program, with Afrikaners among the few — and possibly only — people granted entry as refugees since January. Shortly after he was sworn in, Trump signed an executive order that essentially halted the refugee program and stopped payments to organizations that assist with refugee resettlement — including, according to one group, payments for work already performed. That change has left refugees — including Christians fleeing religious persecution — without a clear path forward and forced the 10 refugee resettlement groups, seven of which are faith-based, to lay off scores of workers while still trying to support refugees who had recently arrived. Four of the faith groups have since filed two separate lawsuits, one of which recently resulted in a ruling that should have restarted the program. However, refugee groups have accused the government of “delaying compliance” with the court order.

The Episcopal Church (TEC) has terminated an agreement with the federal government to assist in refugee resettlement over Donald Trump’s resettlement of White Afrikaner refugees from South Africa while otherwise shutting off refugee resettlement.

See Also:

Daily Kos: Trump is doing a terrific job pissing off religious groups

The Guardian: Episcopal church says it won’t help resettle white South Africans granted refugee status

[keksikart]

- Name! Give me a name! The bastard's name!

- Barty Crouch…Junior!

A terrific character and very underrated.

A smart and capable student who passed 12 exams with an "Excellent"

A remarkably loyal associate of the Dark Lord.

Defeat turned out to be the imprisonment his own father condemned him to. The old man got him out of Azkaban, but imprisoned him in a worse prison. In his own family's manor. His father kept him under the Imperius for several years, and Barty learned how to throw it off after a while. And when the Imperius haze loosened the jaws of his mind, he escaped.

A skillful occlumency. After all, he was able to fool Dumbledore himself. And Mad-Eye. And in all that time, not giving himself away to anyone when he was in disguise. Imitated Moody's every behavior, the way he spoke. Not to mention his amazing ability to lead people and teach children. Masterful.

Even though he brought Neville to tears, he helped him, taught him, and even became a good professor for him.

Gave us... A ferret 🐍

And the whole plan to resurrect the Dark Lord was his! And the plan was awesome and successful.

[danandphilupdates]

all videos:

DIP AND PIP USA TRIP PART 2 PHREEDOM BOOGALOO

THANK YOU EVERYONE THAT CAME TO OUR TOUR IT WAS A TRULY TERRIFIC TIME YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL AND SO IS YOUR LAND GL FOR THE NEXT FOUR YEARS WE'RE GONNA BOUNCE DOWN UNDER

dan and phil instagram post

1/12/24

[storymaker14]

Bizzaro Right Triangles

Okay, we all know that, if you have a right triangle with sides a and b and hypotenuse c, that means a^2 + b^2 = c^2, right?

So you can have 3-4-5 right triangles, and 5-12-13, and 7-24-25, etc.

And technically, a 1-i-0 right triangle follows this pattern, too, which has made the rounds in the math meme community.

But I found something better and weirder. I found a whole family of better and weirder.

I'm gonna skip a bit of the beginning and start here:

cos x = (e^ix + e^-ix) / 2

That follows from Euler's formula; if you need a walkthrough, I can provide, but I want to start with the above. So then, it follows that:

cos (i*lnx) = (x + 1/x)/2 = (x^2 + 1)/2x

Which means that an angle of (i*lnx) radians in a right triangle will have an adjacent side of (x^2 + 1) and a hypotenuse of 2x. By Pythagoras, then, the opposite side must be (x^2 - 1)*i.

But please note: if x is odd, then the lengths of all three sides will be even, and thus can be divided by 2.

Which means -- are you holding onto your hats and shoes?!? -- means that the proportions of the right triangle with angle i*ln(3) radians... are 5-4i-3.

And for i*ln(5) radians, they are 13-12i-5.

And so forth, with all the familiar Pythagorean triplets sqrt(2n+1)-n-(n+1) showing up, just with one side imaginary and the hypotenuse and remaining side swapped -- so, (n+1)-n*i-sqrt(2n+1). They still fulfill Pythagoras, every single one.

Which I think is, pardon my directness, fucking terrific. But just as a little bonus, please note that this means the triangle with angle i*ln(2) radians, the proportions are 5-3i-4, which is just delightful IMHO.

[ywpd-translations]

Ride 822: Water Dive!!

Pag 1

2: I didn't see it because of the audience and the banner!!

3: There's a huge puddle on the course!!

5: “Press the brakes”? “Make a big change to your route to avoid the puddle”?

Pag 2

1: Oh, damn it, we're at 1km left, “right before the finish line”

4: The option I should take is to

Pag 3

1: “Be resolute”!!

2: Three people are accelerating!!

3: Yon!!

4: -oss!!

5: With no hesitation at all....

Woaaah

Pag 5

1: The three of them are plunging right into the puddle!!

Pag 6

1: Kyaaaa

They're not avoiding it!!

Seriously!?

2: Usually, plunging right into a puddle with a bike isn't that big of a problem

3: But they're in the middle of taking a curve at full speed!

So they're still tilting their bikes!!

Pag 7

1: The weight on the tire is diagonal, so if they lose their grip on the water surface even just a little bit....

2: There's the risk of having a terrible fall!!

3: Always...

Pag 8

1: People's actions are based on risk

2: Whatever path you take, there's risk

It can be reduced but not eliminated

3: The simplest way to keep a brand new pair of shoes sparkling...

4: is to not put them on!!

5: But even so, you can't completely avoid the risk of them getting dirty

6: But that doesn't mean anything, it's not a shoe anymore

Pag 9

1: Shoes are tools to move forward

2: There's always a risk, wherever you are

3: Since the start, I never thought that

4: I would make it to the finish line in perfect condition!!

Pag 10

1: I!!

Pag 11

3: Woah!! Amazing!! Midosuji-kun!!

4: He's on the edge to minimize the puddle's risk!! Delicately!! Wary!!

5: Just like an insect's....

Pag 12

1: sense of touch!!

2: While pushing on at full throttle

3: He's searching if there are any risks with everything he's got!! Boldly!! Quickly!!

Pag 13

1: Amazing

2: Uhm... one person- Gunma's cyclist is smiling?

3: … well. I

4: don't have to do something like that

My body can handle it automatically

5: In MTB, it's normal that there might be mud and grit or tree roots under puddles

6: Rather, right now

Pag 14

1: I'm pretty excited!!

Yon!!

This is fun!!

There's asphalt under the puddle, so I have so much room to move!!

Pag 15

1: ….!! Gunmaaa....!!

This guy isn't a small fry at all!!

2: Look....

Huh!?

What's that?

3: Gunma's guy...

Woah

4: He's accelerating in this situation!?

Pedaling smoothly like slipping even on water

5: He got ahead on the puddle!!

Amaziiing

His acceleration is terrific!!

Pag 16

2: Gunma got ahead here!?

3: He's incredibly good at handling the bike on a surface like this where there's no traction!!

4: Ugh!! I got a late start!!

Pag 17

1: We're right before the finish line!!

Pag 18

1: I slipped...!!

Pag 19

3: Stooop!!

4: The weight on the behind fell off

On sections like this, the basic is that the weight has to be balanced both back and in the front

5: Pukuizumi.....

I told you... earlier

Pag 20

1: That you always end up making mistakes in the important moments?

3: Gunma is in the lead!! They passed the puddle and are now heading towards the second curve!!

Yon!!

Puku!!

[yescking]

your au is pretty neat :D

shmilk being a random ass stalker w/ 12 diff accounts just to comment and simp over one person, is a fanboy, an absolute loser for Mr, "probably says fiddlesticks instead of fuck because his parents told him to not say any bad words when he was six", domestic, no friends, is Mr. "beaten up by dark enchantress for 'no apparent reason and I have no idea why she has beef w/ me'", has more internet personalities than the percentage of tax rates after the stupid ass tariffs, literally friend zoned in canon *cough cough*, stupid, amazing, beautiful, absolutely not straight, and dumbass of a person is absolutely terrifically splendidly amazing for me to eat up

erm yeah he sucks if i was in one of his streams i would promptly send hate messages to him while donating more than half of my life savings

im so normal about him can u tell

LMAOO oh ur soo right about sm... freaky milk cookie whom i Hate... the hate messages bit LOLL i think most of his fans r like this. and when someone genuienly hates on him his fans drown them w spam

[petitesmafia]

Chuuya’s gonna walk the streets on new year’s eve feeling refreshed after a drink talking about “this is gonna be a great year NOTHING can ruin it” and then the first person he sees when the clock strikes 12 is Dazai

Chuuya: what a peaceful evening...a great way to end this stressful year. next year will be even bet— Chuuya, spotting Dazai down the street: ...oh for fuck's sake Dazai, also spotting Chuuya: it's past Christmas so why's there an elf still wandering the streets 🫵 Chuuya: piss off 🖕

Dazai: ur in my sight...way to ruin my WHOLE YEAR. begone Chuuya: this is a public street plus i was here FIRST. YOU begone Dazai: and who's gonna confirm that? ppl need a microscope just to see u. i only manage to spot u bc i have terrific vision

[thinking-emoji]

While we're at it. Here's the Radio Adelaide interview!

Transcript under the cut!

Interviewer: What's been going on with me earlier today was I spoke with Dan and Phil, who are on their Terrible Influence tour at the moment. I think they're in Sydney right now. Even though I had to call them on the phone via England, they're going to be on at the Adelaide Entertainment Centre next week, Monday the 16th of December. And these guys, they're a British internet- YouTube- radio hosts. They're critics of games. They're book authors. Dan and Phil, they're currently in Australia having their Terrible Influence tour which lands in Adelaide at the Entertainment Centre next week. And it's attempting to take back what the internet took from them. So it's allegedly a screamingly hilarious live stage show. I have no doubt that it is hilarious. They're older, gayer. Phil's gone blonde evidently and nothing is off limits. Now I was brought to the attention of them by some younger folk, who asked me to ask them some certain questions and throw some sort of slightly strange questions at them. And I haven't got time to include all of those questions. And also I had a call after the interview from one of the duo suggesting that “ehh, you might get trolled if you ask a question like that and people misinterpret it” because I was asking- I believe they've become a couple. I'm not sure if they've got married but they may have got married or they may just be, like, going steady but they're a terrific pair of comic lads. In the- in the vein of Kenny Everett, sort of. They don't have a TV show as such. They were both YouTubers, which means that they had little YouTube shows and then they started guesting on each other's show and then they eventually started doing stuff together. Very interesting lads. And I just really want to play the interview now.

Dan: I've got a mullet now that I'm in Australia because apparently that's what the people do. I just think Australians have more fun. So I wanted to appropriate a bit of the culture while we’re here doing the show.

Phil: I think it's more of a micro mullet, Dan, though. You know, you haven't gone full mullet, it's more of a micro…

Dan: It's a mullet without the T. It's just a mull-e.

Interviewer: (laughs) Mull-e. All right. Just with that sort of hard...

Dan: Without the T, yeah.

Interviewer: Hard E on the end. How has your tour been going so far, gentlemen?

Dan: It's been amazing to be in Australia. No offence. We loved having a great time in America. But we're very happy to be in Australia. Although – I know it's summer. Why is it so hot? Nowhere on Earth it should be this warm.

Interviewer: You haven't reached Adelaide yet, have you?

Dan: No, God. Don't tell me it's warmer.

Interviewer: Yes, yes. We're in the middle of a very dry, arid area. Very isolated. A long way from anywhere. But there's only about maybe 30 or 40 tickets left at your gig here.

Dan: We're happy for the people of Adelaide. You know, they're out here in that dry, arid desert. And there's nothing to do but come to the Dan and Phil show. And we love them for that. They're all making responsible financial decisions. So we're very grateful for all the people that are coming to the show.

Phil: And if there's 40 people listening, come hang out with us. It's going to be a fun time.

Dan: Yeah. What else are you doing on that night?

Phil: We're going to be pumping the air con out.

Dan: Yeah, just come to have somewhere cool to sit in the theatre. You know what I mean?

Phil: Yeah.

Interviewer: Are you collecting things from your hangouts that you're going to discuss at the next show? Like before a show, if people hang out with you, give you a piece of artwork or a little letter or a note, something like that. Do you then discuss it in front of the next...

Dan: Oh, a big trendy thing these days. Yeah. Taylor Swift has started this trend of the bracelets that people spell out things on. So people would make like a little bracelet that says Dan or Phil in beads. And the other day I had someone that gave me a bracelet that said Vegemite on it. (Interviewer laughs) And I was like, what the heck? And they said, you don't understand. This is incredibly culturally important. So I was like, okay, thank you. I will cherish this Vegemite bracelet.

Phil: Yeah. I got one that said Koala Daddy. I'm not sure what that meant, but-

Interviewer: Koala Daddy?

Phil: Yeah. I think that's what they were calling me.

Interviewer: Have you actually dipped your tongue into any Vegemite as yet?

Phil: I have. I would have to say it was one of the most horrific experiences of my life. I'm sorry.

Dan: What, Phil, you don't like a yeast-based condiment?

Phil: No.

Dan: How dare you.

Phil: Dan loves it though. He's a bit of a…

Dan: I'm just a yeasty kind of guy.

Interviewer: Yeah. It's kind of up there with Marmite, isn't it?

Phil: It is, but I only eat sweet things, so I couldn't handle it. But Dan was eating his second portion of toast this morning. He loved it.

Interviewer: Yeah, yeah. It's good for you.

Phil: And last time we were in Adelaide, we did a vlog where we explored the town, didn't we? We got some Tim Tams. We did a Tim Tam slam.

Interviewer: Fun!

Dan: Yeah, the national sport.

Interviewer: The national sport, sucking coffee through a Tim Tam.

Dan: Hell yeah.

Phil: I can get down with that.

Interviewer: Yeah yeah. It's a lot of fun to do. You realise that our Premier is the one who started the ball rolling with the social media ban for under 16-year-olds? You're lucky that you're here now at this stage of your career rather than at the beginning of your career because there's a lot of young people who have grown with you who will be able to come and see your show.

Dan: Yeah, absolutely.

Interviewer: Are you relying on them sort of moving forward with you?

Dan: People have been with us for a long time and people tell us some things and it's very disturbing.

Phil: Yeah, we've had some people meet us that are like, I watched you 10 years ago, I'm still watching you now. I've got a whole child now and it's like, what is happening? (Interviewer laughs) Time isn’t real.

Interviewer: It's kind of a historic moment. You're probably the first English lads to have linked in to YouTube and the internet and gone off the way that you have.

Dan: No, we were, well, we come from an early generation. Phil has been doing it so long that you couldn't even make a career off YouTube yet. There was no monetisation. He was just doing it out of boredom. That's how terrifying it is.

Phil: I'm a YouTube dinosaur, so yeah, I think definitely I was one of the first ones to do it. And it's crazy that we're still doing it now, 15 years later.

Interviewer: It's basically become a career for you, hasn't it?

Dan: Absolutely. And none of it was planned. It's been a constant, you know, runaway train since day one. And the emergency brake’s gone off a long time ago.

Interviewer: What kind of experiences are you getting to have in your downtime while you're in Australia this time around?

Dan: Well, I wanted to go to the beach and then Phil said there's a high chance we're going to get eaten by a shark. And I was like, a high chance? I don't know about that. And then we asked a guy and he was like, oh, no, they're out there. I see them every week, so...

Phil: I'm hoping to look into the eyes of a wombat and have an emotional connection.

Dan: A deep spiritual moment, ok.

Phil: My favourite animal.

Interviewer: A wombat?

Phil: Yeah, I love a wombat.

Dan: Underrated.

Interviewer: Do you like the hairy-nosed wombat or just the plain old brown one?

Phil: I'm not sure of the difference. Maybe I need to find that out. Maybe that's going to be my quest in Adelaide.

Dan: You need to meet both and make a decision.

Phil: Yeah I will.

Interviewer: Yeah, if you come face-to-face or nose-to-nose even with a hairy-nosed wombat, he's more likely to roll over and let you cuddle his tummy. The other ones have got a wet nose -

Phil: Okay, good to know.

Interviewer: -and they're a little bit more aggressive.

Phil: Okay.

Dan: Sounds like me.

(Interviewer laughs)

Interviewer: Have the audiences been laughing at all the right spots so far?

Dan: Definitely. And they've been laughing at all the inappropriate spots where they're not supposed to as well. So we'll take it. You either have an audience that laughs all the time, even at inappropriate moments, or a quiet one. And I don't want a quiet one.

Phil: Also, the good thing about our show is we try to give everyone a recap of everything that's happened in the last 15 years. So if you're like, oh, I used to watch Dan and Phil a while ago, you can still come along and you're going to get right up to speed.

Dan: We know that people are dragging their husbands, their mothers, their older sisters to the show. And these people are like, what the heck is going on? So don't worry, we covered the base.

Interviewer: Sounds pretty darn good to me. I hope you have a fantastic time in Adelaide and you continue to enjoy yourselves.

Dan: Thank you.

Interviewer: Ride the wave. Don't worry about sharks.

Phil: Excellent. Well, yeah, we're looking forward to it. Thanks. Nice to speak to you.

Interviewer: You too. Cheers, lads. Dan and Phil.

Phil: Cheers!

Dan: Bye.

Interviewer: They'll be at the Adelaide Entertainment Centre next Monday coming on the 16th. So if you are keen to see them do their thing live on stage, go and join the masses that have already bought their tickets. Get in while you can.

@dnp-described