#a thief's overture

[lady-redhaired]

Since it’s been so long and it’s still my favorite fic I’ve ever read, I’m wondering how A Thief’s Overture would have ended had it been continued? If you don’t mind answering of course

I've always known the ending, but I've also always wanted to finish the fic. It has been years now, I know that. Though funnily enough I'm playing through Uncharted again right now, so a continuation might very well happen in the near future. It's still my favorite fic I've ever written and I think about it a surprising amount considering that it's been almost a decade since I left it hahaha.

I'll keep the ending a secret for now, but promise to finish it or reveal it if I don't. How's that? UvU

[bell-swamp-fitzjames]

Oops all Captains! for the Terror (2018) playlists

Well, I was thinking of putting the two playlist posts I made last night back together for ease of everything but if Dave K can release two hickey playlists (which are killing me btw) I think I can keep my posts seperate. Oops all women! will be coming at you all later today!! I'm adding a secret tasty little playlist to that post and want to give it one more look over. For now, here is Sir John Franklin, James Fitzjames, and Francis Crozier!!!

I had such a blast making these playlists <3 thank u for coming along with me in this journey & shout out to those who've helped me bounce ideas off of, ur help is invaluable to me & im immensely grateful to everyone <3 yippee! Especially for Crozier's on this one, not only would it not be done, two ppl directly helped me by sharing their thoughts on what a crozier playlist might look like. And a happy davechella!!

Sir John Franklin [LINK]

I Guess The Lord Must Be In New York City by Harry Nilsson || Dear God- Remastered 2001 by XTC || I Started A Joke by Bee Gees || I Fall Pieces - Single Version by Patsy Cline, The Jordanaires || You Must Meet My Wife by Terry Trotter || Let's Move To The Country by Smog || Golden Boy by The Mountain Goats || Crying by Roy Orbison || Never On Sunday by Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons || Daydream by The Lovin' Spoonful || Overture to Die Fleidermaus Op. 362 by Royal Philharmonic Orchestra || Miss You So Badly by Jimmy Buffet || Fly me To The Moon by Tom Jones || Who Could Ever Doubt My Love by Diana Ross & The Supremes || Hallelujah I Love Her So by The Animals || (Ummmm, Oh Yeah) Dearest by Buddy Holly || The Crooked Kind by Radical Face || Miles From Nowhere by Yusuf / Cat Stevens || Love Is All Around by The Troggs || I'm in Love With A Big Blue Frog by Peter, Paul and Mary

FRM Crozier [LINK]

Depression by Human Zoo, Pandapaws, Bobby Doc || Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now by The Smiths || Put Me Down by The Cranberries || Sucker's Prayer by The Decemberists || I Luv The Valley OH! by Xiu Xiu || Don't Depend On Me by James Hand || Not Your Prey by Squirrel Flower || Dark & Stormy by Broes || Is There Anyone Home by Gordon Lightfoot || Man Like You by Tom Misch || The Fight Is Over (feat. Patrick McHale) by Over The Garden Wall, The Blasting Company, Patrick McHale || No Children- Ska by Sad Snack || Sorrow by The National || Just Wait Til Next Year by John Maus || Guilty Cocker Spaniels by Modest Mouse || DENIAL IS A RIVER by Doechii || Death Machine by AJJ || The Loneliest Moments by The Tumbling Wheels || Oro Mo Bhaidin by Mary O'Hara || Lonely People by America

James Fitzjames [LINK]

Merry Happy Kate Nash || Babooshka - 2018 Remaster by Kate Bush || Cut Yr Teeth by Kississippi || Skin Marika Hackman || Crimson & Clover by The Shacks || Paul- 2023 Remaster by Big Thief || The Winning Side - Bonus Track by The Airborne Toxic Event || The Poodle by Kabaret Sybarit || Remember My Name by Mitski || Rough by VIAL || Fit As A Fiddle (And Ready For Love) by Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor || Pop It by Anamanaguchi, meesh || Shampain by MARINA || Puttin' on the Ritz by Taco || I Go To Sleep by Anika || Rapture by Emily Axford || How I Get Myself Killed by Indigo De Souza || The Dress Looks Nice On You by Sufjan Stevens || Grace Kelly by MIKA || W.U.G. by Chris Fleming

[pineapplefulfillseveryneed]

Playlist with all my footage of this show! (Yes, there's a lot. It is a testament of how special this show was to me, it still is :))

Two Hands One Mouth Overture & The Rhythm Thief (includes Russell's entrance)

Metaphor [tumblr post]

Propaganda & At Home, At Work, At Play

Sherlock Holmes [tumblr post]

Angst In My Pants

Under The Table With Her

My Baby's Taking Me Home

The Wedding Of Jacqueline Kennedy To Russell Mael [tumblr post]

Excerpts from The Seduction Of Ingmar Bergman ("Je suis Ingmar Bergman", "Mr. Bergman How Are You?", "We've Got To Turn Him 'Round", "He's Home") [tumblr post]

Dick Around (only the start of the song)

Never Turn Your Back On Mother Earth [tumblr post]

Suburban Homeboy [tumblr post]

applause

Singing In The Shower (with Catherine Ringer)

The Number One Song In Heaven [tumblr post 1] [tumblr post 2]

Beat The Clock [tumblr post]

Two Hands One Mouth [tumblr post]

the t-shirt :) [tumblr post]

Ron speaking at the end & praising Catherine Ringer

(My write-up about this concert can be found under the read more of this post.)

[linkons-most-wanted]

WIP Snippet - Book Thief

Literally will never get enough of this dynamic. I loved in the Tomorrow's Catch 22 / Savage Overture event how we got to see Sylus reading mystery and thriller novels, and he's always suggesting horror movies, so it only seemed right to give him a book of small-town horror short stories.

~*~*~

After a soothing shower in a luxurious, marble-lined bathroom, I sit on the porch of Sylus’s cabin, letting the sun dry my hair. There’s signal here, so I’m catching up on messages on my phone. I tell Xavier I’m not dead. He asks for pictures. I only send the ones of the landscapes and the little squirrel that stopped by our campsite.

With that accomplished, I steal Sylus’s paperback again.

As he steps out onto the porch, setting two iced teas on the table in front of us, he tries to take it back. I quickly snatch it out of his reach.

“I thought you didn’t like horror,” he says dryly.

“I’m interested in what you’re interested in. Besides, these monsters aren’t so scary.”

“Oh?”

“Yeah… I kinda feel bad for this thing in the swamp. The townspeople clearly keep invading its territory. Everyone who died deserved it. It was just trying to survive.”

A knowing smile crosses Sylus’s face, with a depth I can’t quite decode. He sits next to me, and doesn’t repeat his attempt to take the book back. “You might be the only person who feels that way.”

I shrug. “Everyone else can be wrong. That tracks.”

He leans over and ruffles my hair.

“Hey!”

As his fingers curl around behind my ear, rubbing the base of my skull, my irritation fades and I lean into the pleasant touch, eyes sliding shut.

Sylus’s voice comes from near my ear. “Just… like… a cat.”

My eyes flash open, glaring at him, and I go to hit him over the head with his own book—and he easily catches me by the wrist, having anticipated my attempt at revenge.

He easily plucks the book from my grasp, flipping away from the page I was on and back to the dog-eared corner where he left off.

Understanding dawns on me and I realize just how many steps he planned ahead. 

“You…!” Glare intensifying, I lean over and pick up my tea. The cool taste of jasmine spills across my tongue. “Hmph. You’re lucky you brought a peace offering. I’ll let you off the hook this time.”

“I’m lucky? You stole my book. I was just getting it back.”

“Whatever.” I turn away to hide my smile as I tuck my pencil back into my pocket. Better if he finds out later that I added my own notes to his book—marks to remind him of me next time he re-reads it, which he seems to do often.

[gnostichymns]

Maybe your fight was at its end, or maybe it felt as though it had only began. It doesn't matter– your story's end comes in an everywhere of nothingness and an all consuming void, like you are being pulled through space and time by a string tied to your very soul. It is an eternity, or maybe it is only a moment, and then you are right back where you began it all: an empty set, your castmates waking up all around you, unharmed and untouched by all you had seen in another world. Your skin has already forgotten its wounds, or perhaps they were never yours to begin with... Your "Director" is nowhere to be found, and all his strange assistants have vanished without a trace. At the very least, it seems as though the world is just as you left it. And yet you can't quite shake that something has changed...

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Part 1; MK Music HCs These have been haunting me for a while so enjoy!

Note: All these characters listed are MK11 versions, although I might make another one of these for MK1 later. Characters included are Johnny, Sonya, Jax, Liu Kang, Kung Lao, Raiden, and Kenshi. I will be posting other parts, this one was just getting reeeally long.

Johnny

He listens to a mix of 2010’s pop music and sad dad rock. You’ll hear him go from California Girls(Katy Perry) to Headstrong(TRAPT) to The Diary Of Jane(Breaking Benjamin) right back to Party In The USA(Miley Cyrus) and he will have no visible whiplash whatsoever. 

I think he’ll listen to whatever’s on as long as it sounds good, but he generally sticks to the aforementioned genres.

Sonya

She’s a Dolly Parton fan at heart, but she thinks it’s embarrassing and would rather be shot point blank than have anyone else find out. She doesn’t strike me as someone who would listen to much music in public, unless she needed to ignore outside noise to focus- in which case she would blare Breakcore music.

Jax

I don’t think he listens to music too much, but I can see him listening to club music to try and hype himself up. I think he would also enjoy a bit of classic rock(think Nirvana or Oasis), but probably wouldn’t seek it out other than changing the radio station. He seems like the guy who would rather let the radio play whatever for background noise than actually create a whole playlist.

Not technically music but it still kinda counts, I think he would listen to those ASMR videos where they pretend to do your hair or makeup- He has no urge to get his hair or makeup done but he finds them relaxing when he’s struggling to sleep.

Kenshi

He doesn’t like listening to music much, it distracts his senses and somewhat disorients him. The only time he really listens to music is when someone else is listening to it nearby. He won’t really complain, but he doesn’t care too much about it. He really dislikes heavy metal, above any other genre, although it's only because they tend to mess with his senses in a way he isn't comfortable with.

Liu Kang

He won't complain about any music that’s playing, but he only really listens to music on his own when he needs to focus. He’s partial to Vivaldi when it comes to classical music, but isn’t really picky when it comes to what he’s listening to as long as it aids him in focus.

Out of all the music that’s been played for him, he’s more drawn to music that has a sort of ‘hopeful in the face of hopelessness’ feeling to it. Songs similar to Let Go(Frou Frou) would probably be the type of music he prefers. He has a personal hatred against math rock, but he refuses to share it with anyone because he has no reason to dislike it other than thinking the time signatures are stupid.

Kung Lao

He also won’t openly complain about whatever music is playing, but he tends to gravitate towards a strange mix of sappy love songs and deceitfully cheerful suicidal songs. This Charming Man(The Smiths) and Vampire Empire(Big Thief) are definitely on his playlist, but I think he would also listen to Red Hot Chilli Peppers and Third Eye Blind, maybe even some Hollywood Undead if he was in a certain mood.

I don’t see him liking classical music too much, but he thinks the 1812 Overture is cool because of the canons. Tchaikovsky is the only classical music composer he respects.

Raiden

He pretends to not like modern music, staring off into the distance disapprovingly whenever Johnny tries to show him some of his music. I think he secretly likes 90s club music, but refuses to admit this to anyone. Unlike Sonya, he doesn’t even indulge in this he just balls it up inside because he thinks it’s ‘unbefitting’ of a god.

[telaraneas]

I desperately need SOME sort of explanation for the hussie proposal in the horse void so start there please lol

ok yes cool! this is probably gonna be very half baked because like i said all of these things intersect but ill try to explain myself here

as a thief of light, vriska is a child of void who desperately wants to grasp light and wield it for her own (ive talked about this in the past in more detail). her death was a failure in doing so, because death in homestuck doesnt remove a character from the comic, it removes them from the plot. characters in the dreambubbles are tangential, they are not /the main story/. vriska was introduced with the gaggle of side characters who were never going to escape this fate and make it onto the main cast post act5, and if anything her struggles to avoid this fate and claw her way into the main cast only succeeded in dragging tavros down with her, but not in supplanting his original position as fated for the main cast (see what i meant when i said all of these things are connected)

anyways.

vriska ultimately dies and is denied access to the "relevant" and "real" parts of the story, relevated to the dreambubbles, the place where all the offshoots and side characters who only exist tangentially to the main cast dwell. in fact, the ONLY reason we get to see her in this scene- the only reason this scene happens- is as a conclusion and punchline to hussie's preceding scene (the one where he dies via LE).

hussie represents at once the pinnacle of void (shit that doesnt matter and doesnt make sense, and exists just to be funny and is mostly entirely detached from "canon" events in the plot at least nominally), and also the author and thus an avatar of light (he's literally writing the plot, in charge of what is and isn't relevant).

from what i understand, the immediate surface level meaning of the proposal scene here is as a dig at the common reader interpretation, both joking and serious, that the reason vriska outgrew her role as a side character and started dwarfing other characters in relevance to the plot across both halves of arc 5 is because hussie is in love with her, either as a character on in a waifu sense. hussie proposing to vriska and then continuing to stalk her is a jokey confirmation of this.

however, importantly, we later learn that what hussie was trying to give to her was, in fact, EXACTLY WHAT VRISKA WANTED: a ticket back to the world of the living- the world of relevant characters. this scene was a literalization of hussie as an author supposedly giving vriska more screentime and relevance than warranted purely because he likes her.

however, this ticket to relevance is delivered wrapped in void. vriska is wandering a random dreambubble in the literal void (and even when you read it youre clicking through a void in a unique sequence only repeated during callbacks to this exact scene), we're surrounded by horses (signifiers of void due to the fact that they're funny and have dubious relevance to the story despite how often they pop up- a manifestation of void as things that exist in the story but are irrelevant to the "important" things in it). most importantly accepting this ring would have been tantamount to accepting a romantic overture from hussie which vriska literally does not want, but also symbolically refuses- vriska desires light and abhors void even when her own means are grounded in void, and hussie as a character is planted squarely in the domain of void, his intermissions being silly and fourth wall breaking and not in line with the light-filled aspects of the story that vriska desperately aspires towards.

as such she rejects it, and only realizes her mistake several sub acts later. instead, it is tavros and john, two breath players, who pick up the ring and, by acknowledging it as a tangible object they squabble about, accept it into the comic's actual story

i have talked about breath being the domain of plot contrivances in the past and as such its the best possible way to take this inherently silly object from the story's void and bring it into the realm of the rest of homestuck, where it can later be imbued with light to the degree it becomes the object several plotlines circle around near the end of the comic

notable in this is also that vriska's active attempts at seizing relevance end up failing, but the actual ways to (nominally) bring her back to the realm of the living are 1. bequeathed onto her in forms she sure as hell would not know to be grateful for in the moment (see also john punching her in retcon), and 2. doom her to retain irrelevance even while living (id have to go more in depth into the retcon as a whole to explain what i mean, but needless to say if vriska had accepted hussies marriage proposal she would have been stuck in the realm of silly half-canon void nonsense with him even if she had nominally ceased to exist in the dreambubbles)

[thevoidstaredback]

January 2025 Songs

Bummerland by AJR

So This Is Love by Ilene Woods and Mike Douglas

God Is Really Real by AJR

That's How You Know from Enchanted

Can't be Erased by JT Music

OK Overture by AJR

I Wanna Be Famous from Total Drama

The Flying Dutchman by The Jolly Rogers

Castle of Glass by Linkin Park

Into The Unknown from Frozen 2

Piano Man by Billy Joel

Don't Cry For Me Argentina from Evita

Son of Man from Tarzan

Hurts Like Hell by Fleurie

Mama I'm A Big Girl Now from Hairspray

You Didn't Know from Hazbin Hotel

If I Didn't Have You from Quest For Camelot

Real Man by Tomska

Luck Be A Lady from Guys and Dolls

It's Raining Somewhere Else by Toby Fox

Smile Like You Mean It by ParanoidDJ

Stuff Is Way by They Might Be Giants

A Gay Disney Prince by Thomas Sanders

Drama Club by Melanie Martinez

Bikini Bottom Day from Spongebob the Musical

Shine A Light (Reprise) from Heathers

I Wanna Waa by CG5

Hips Don't Lie by Shakira

Bring Me To Life by Evanescence

Cell Block Tango from Chicago

Rain Is A Good Thing by Luke Bryan

Swim by Alec Benjamin

Space Age Bachelor Man from Ride The Cyclone

Sugar Cloud from Ride The Cyclone

One Short Day from Wicked

Reflection from Mulan

listen before i go by Billie Eilish

I Wanna Be Your Slave by Måneskin

Stronger from Finding Neverland

I'm Ready by AJR

My Blanket And Me from You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown

We Own The Night from Finding Neverland

Play (acoustic) from Finding Neverland

Not Getting Married Today from Company

Son of Poseidon from The Lightning Thief: The Musical

Birthday Party by AJR

One Day More from Les Miserables

The Pirates Of Kensington from Finding Neverland

Sweet Child 'o Mine by Guns and Roses

Sexy Drug by Falling In Reverse

To Be A Princess from Barbie: Princess and the Pauper

I Can't Fix You by The Living Tombstone

Put On Your Sunday Clothes from Hello, Dolly

Main Character, Will Wood

Sarcasm by Get Scared

Troublemaker by Olly Murs

Fairytale by Alexander Rybak

7 Years by Lukas Graham

I Hear A Symphony by Cody Fry

La Seine by Matthieu Chedid and Vanessa Paradis

Revenge by XXXTENTACION

Africa by Toto

Get Along by Megumi Hayashibara

Tell Your Story by Derivakat

I See A Dreamer by CG5

It Took Me By Surprise by Maria Mena

Cowboy Casanova by Carrie Underwood

Plastic Promises by Set It Off

Tír Na Nóg by Celtic Woman

I See Fire by Ed Sheeran

Cooking By the Book (A Lil’ Bigger Mix) by Mastgrr

Skid Row from Little Shop of Horrors

Until I End Up Dead by Dream

Thneedvile from The Lorax

You And I And George by Rowlf the Dog

Lord of the Rings in 99 Seconds by John Cozart

Stick it to the Man from School of Rock

Hymn For The Weekend by Coldplay

All That Jazz from Chicago

Still Alive by Jonathan Coulton

Want You Gone by Jonathan Coulton

My First Kiss by 3OH!3

Rewritten in Stone by Amanda Fagan

Fancy Dress from The Drowsy Chaperone

My Time by Bo En

Middle Finger by Bohones

Don't Stop Me Now by Queen

I Will Wait by Mumford and Sons

Stay, I Pray You from Anastasia

Beggin’ by Måneskin

Could Have Been Me by The Struts

Daughters of Triton from The Little Mermaid

The Entertainer by Scott Joplin

Slumber Party by Ashnikko

Revolting Children from Matilda the Musical

What The Heck I Gotta Do from 21 Chump Street

MUFFIN by BadBoyHalo, CG5, and Hyper Potions

Hello from Book of Mormon the Musical

eBay by Weird Al

Fat by Weird Al

Bad by Michael Jackson

I Know It's Today from Shrek the Musical

Don't Let Me Go from Shrek the Musical

Battle Scars by Paradise Fears

Sober Up by AJR

Don't Say Goodnight by Hot Chelle Rae

Roadtrip by Dream

Let Me Be Your Wings from Thumbelina

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road by Elton John

Just The Girl by The Click

Perform This Way by Weird Al

Song of the South by Alabama

Little Wolf from Epic: The Musical

Pocket Full of Gold by American Authors

Beautiful from Heathers

Other Friends by Caleb Hyles

Go Big or Go Home by American Authors

Treehouse by Alex G and Emily Yacina

Im Too Sexy for My Shirt by Right Said Fred

City of the Dead by Eurielle

Shout by Tears for Fears

Opening Up from Waitress

Waving Through A Window from Dear Evan Hansen

Paranoia by Neoni

Art Is Dead by Bo Burnham

Another Irish Drinking Song by DaVinci's Notebook

Colonel Hathi's March from The Jungle Book

For The First Time In Forever from Frozen

Killer Queen by Queen

Rhapsody of Youth by Seishun Kyousoukyoku

What's Up, Duloc from Shrek the Musical

[gragam]

games i played this year in order (?)

metal gear solid 3, system shock 2, shadow of the colossus, silent hill 4, thief the dark project, elden ring shadow of the erdtree, parasite eve, scp containment breach, deus ex, F.E.A.R, half life 2, project firestart, penumbra overture (just started), morrowind (just started)

games i started playing a lot this year

world of warcraft classic/wrath of the lich king, space station 13, lethal company

games i replayed/continued to play a lot this year

tf2, roblox, dark souls 3

favorite: system shock 2

[dukeoftheblackstar]

Love, I Guess?

Summary: Sometimes you just need to ask the question that seems to become a staple in every relationship known to exist.

Pairing: Plo Koon / OC/Duch/ Reader (idk how this works — sorry!)

Word Count: 1.6K

Rating: (no smut) Fluff, maybe? Foolishness, high probability.

Notes: I just wanted this out of my wip box. I'm also leaning towards OC being akin to my OC, so pardon the inconsistencies.

Color thingies because I'm deranged to not use them: Orange: Plo Koon Pink: You/OC/Reader

Perfect divider by @idontgetanysleep with itty, bitty, cutie-patootie Plo Koon face ♥

“Please tell me this is not about yesterday’s discourse.”

And it was indeed about yesterday’s discourse that you’ve found yourself feeling ‘severed from cromulency’ as he had eloquently stated. It would have been apropos to succumb into ‘a mood’ had ‘cromulency’ actually existed in the books, but a play on linguistics to lighten the mood is so very and innately Plo Koon that any attempt to sour yourself failed. 

You’ve known for centuries that behind the rebreather and the goggles, he was so damn—well proud of that joke that the creases on his face were a compound of both tense and lax. He didn’t laugh, but the very overture of his symphonic voice laced with an effervescent tune was enough to give it away. 

Oh, and the elbow nudge that was always quite comical even for himself. He’s expressed his dislike towards it; how very not-Plo Koon it is for him to do and yet, here he is — nudging his elbow onto your side as if silently egging you to burst into a fit of laughter.

You would’ve — of course with all the love you hold for him and him alone, but today was the day of fuck-all because he should’ve answered it correctly. 

“It’s still me but like… In a teeny, tiny, worm’s body.” Came your bone of contention. “You know what? Okay. Okay. Okay. What if I was clean? Like lab-grown clean, hmm? Not some slimy, under-bedrock worm in dirt.” You shuddered at the thought; to be covered in filth? Death would be more promising.

“You could also just be as you are now, little love.” 

Plo emerges from the quaint room adjacent to the bed in a rarity of blue. Cerulean tunic-like robes that pooled and dragged as he walked with the grace of a true Baran Do Sage about to zap the living daylights out of a runaway thief in Dorin. Trotting like a majestic, seasoned, stallion with absolute panic in his eyes as he turns to realize that you have still not donned your custom rebreather while Dorin gas heavily permeated the air-tight quarters.

“But why not though?!” You bleated, brows congregating in complaint as Plo settles on the bed where you’ve made yourself quite comfortably sat. 

For someone as fearsome as him, having even merited high reverence from the likes of the Grand Master himself, Yoda, and a few adversaries he’d have either done battle with or have known of his prowess, Plo had never once cut you with his talons or held you in such a manner threatening to the pristine state of your skin that bruised even at the slightest of bumps. In fact, the custom rebreather has a higher chance of leaving darkened welts under the grove of the mask than Plo’s talons with how it would lock onto your skin since your anatomy provides little to attach it to. 

You watched him arduously detach and reattach the mask over your face until it was canted enough to situate over the lower chambers of your face. He’d veer his head periodically as if to address you in silence, asking if there were any discomfort in process of — to which you responded with soft ‘Nhn’.

Placated by the fact that you are now masked as he was, Plo takes his place beside you on the shared cot, draping both your legs under the covers. With a datapad in hand and his claws tapping and gliding over the screen, he pulls up a schematic of the rebreather that now clung to your face. 

His talons lingered for a moment and you swore on all things of great value to your existence, that he smiled a little too dotingly at the fact that you’ve actually done well in crafting one for yourself. It’d be an understatement to say that he even caressed the screen with such a delicate touch before closing the tab to pull up something in relation to the GAR. 

Plo had not given any comments about it, even upon close inspection that you’ve matched your self-made antiox mask against Dorin gas in the same pattern as his — his lineage, his family, his ancestors of Koons. You’d think you’d have room within your soul to wonder if your self-made rebreather is Kel Dor - approved, or at least Plo Koon - approved, but you knew it was. It probably isn’t as durable as Plo’s, but the gesture alone speaks volume — or at least that’s what you could come up with each time he’d get a chance to hold it. He’d do so with so much care that part of you believed it was shit to begin with that it’d crumble between his large hands.

At times he’d remind you to clean it, not that he needed to. He’d talk about certain parts of the rebreather native to himself at random as if dropping hints on how to further upgrade your own mask without overstepping as you have ‘vehemently’ insisted that this was your personal project to perfect. Even so, you appreciate every obvious hint that included a hand-written note on where to find it, tucked in pockets of your clothing.

“That’s just mean, Plo.” Huffing as you folded yourself onto the bed, back turned as you hauled the covers over your frame angrily. You began grumbling, only to squirm under the weight of his touch along the contours of your side and defensively toss yourself away. 

“Why must you always torment yourself with queries you already know the answers to?” Resigned, Plo leaned firmly against the headboard and left the datapad idle over his lap. “Are we not past that at this point, my sweet?” 

You continue to grumble under your breath, rolling your eyes even and standing on a defiant ground —taking a moment before your cheeks have turned to cerise hue.  

“It’s a thing that you’re supposed to ask someone… y…you like.” And before Plo could put a word in, you pulled the magazine from under the bed and showed him the marked page of two earthling lovers and their 1000 questions of professed love.

“My darling, what we have is not something undercut as ‘like’. Am I loved less today than yesterday?” 

You wanted badly to say ‘yes’ to that for the sake of banter, but the genuine worry in his voice reminded of the peculiar situation that you and Plo have; a not-quite lovers, not-quite exclusive, not-quite looking for someone else, and not-quite permitted but somehow accepted kind of setup. Evenly perturbed that he might take it to heart, you thought well of your next response — the make or break of all responses. 

And with a steady heart determined to not only preserve love that transcends beyond realms of tradition and normalcy, unbridled by any word of law or doctrine, you scour the depths of your existence to offer yourself in complete surrender — to bear him words that would solidify the unbreakable connection that spanned the entirety of your respective lives. 

“Yes. You are loved less today than yesterday.” And so you speak, now propped on your elbows.

“Quite a dilemma.” Replied the ever-resigned Plo Koon, gaze scanning the contents of the magazine and nodding curiously before turning back to his datapad. 

Sensing your disappointment as you slowly lowered the magazine and dropped it onto the floor by your side of the bed, Plo turned his head to address your tantrum-stricken visage with a palm that had engulfed the entirety of your face. 

You utter a lengthy whine with apologetic and impatient undertones that did very little to deter him from having his attention drawn once more to the device. 

“So you really won’t love me if I was a worm, then?” 

You’ve started to take this little game of ribbing to heart given that you’ve had a long day and sometimes, all you need is for Plo to be a little less unhinged on the proper side and more clement to silly whims of the heart.

You hear a daunted sigh as the massive hand of your beloved Kel Dor retracts to his person; as if you were so much in the wrong you’ve upset Plo Koon to a degree that is most unfavorable for you both.

“My little wonder, just as I would tread the path of the Jedi once more in another life, I would not indulge in the slightest of change, for it is that consistency and restraint that had led our courses to cross. It is that same resilience to the unearthly call of pleasure and attachment that has allowed me to not only bear my heart and soul to you, my sweet, but to shake the very core of my devotion for the Order and its teachings. I do not just ‘like’ or ‘love’ you, my precious one — I simply am one that is yours as I am in the Force. I can only hope that is more than enough.”

Plo takes your hand into his with an attempt to reassure your worries with a gentle squeeze. And even behind the protective goggles, you knew within you that those silver eyes of his bore so much gratitude for not only the presence of your company, but the existence of you in his life as he would often remind you of.

You smile, reaching up to his face with a freehand, tracing the intricacies of the metallic contraption that sustained his life outside Mother Dorin’s familiar embrace. And in that moment with such tenderness in your voice, you simply could not help yourself but bestow upon him the honesty that burns with your heart — and you so you speak.

“So you would still love me if I was worm, Plo?”

And with unmatchable enthusiasm, he replies.

“No. I will most certainly not.”

~ Fin

This is a tribute to my favorite meme of all time because idk what it is with that picture that beckons me to live another day, but it does. And also, it's the worm question. Icky, icky, worm question. Thank you for reading ♥ - Duch

[an-aura-about-you]

ok so I know I'm a Flambeau/Lady Felicia shipper deep down, BUT it would probably do Mrs. Devine a lot of good to go for him instead and get off her fixation on Inspector Sullivan because Sullivan is either clueless to her overtures or pretending to be to try sparing her feelings. surely a fling with an international thief is exactly the sort of thing a widow who's properly out of the grieving stage and ready to mingle again needs, right?

[socialmediasocrates]

with pace and a fury defiant- intro and links

hindsight being what it is i really should have posted this sooner but i am very prone to getting excited about a project and forgetting that nobody but me actually knows what in the fuck i'm going on about anyway pretty picture and info below

with pace and a fury defiant is a (mostly) canon-complaint Baldur's Gate 3 fanfiction centered on the relationship between Astarion Ancunin and drow paladin Balafay alean'Arabani. What happens when two deeply wounded people fall in love? They dance around it for a few (tens of) thousand words and maybe require external intervention before one of them starts being honest--it's not even Astarion, this time! Novelties, lengthy diversions about the little miscellaneous details of life, and the mortification of being known abound.

It's mostly about learning how to be a person and how to love other people; it's a little bit about what happens when you learn to love someone only to realize that they've never learned how to accept it. It's also about drow politics, Elder Brains, and the world trying to end for the umpteenth time in the last couple hundred years.

This is the link to the series.

The parts active now:

GIRLFAILURE- local morons turned morons on an adventure dance around the mortifying ordeal of getting to know someone

GIRLBOSS- when you die and come back, wrong or right, you probably should actually address it

ah, it's more courageous to overcome- sometimes it takes a trip to the underdark and a run in with an ex to make you realize how much the people in your life mean to you (roughly following the remainder of Act I after the goblins)

Upcoming:

crowned by an overture bold and beyond- sometimes the thing you love the most is deeply and fundamentally broken, and that's alright; maybe sometimes our edges match (Astarion/Balalafay, following Acts II&III; some things could change)

there is no me without you- what happens after you save the world? you chase down the fool you saved it with (Astarion/Balalafay; post-game)

i will be your sword and shield- it starts in hell and it ends in hell, but in between there are flowers (karlach companion piece)

at worst the world will sing along- they're two of the most damaged, infuriating people she's ever met, and unfortunately she's in love with them (shadowheart companion piece)

run, run lost boy- the strange little man with mirrors for eyes has an infectious smile, and the problems only start there (gale companion piece)

call me the kintsugi kid- she never dreamed of princes on white horses until recently, but now she dreams of nothing else (lae'zel/wyll companion piece)

if we were young again- a knight and a thief married for love, but that was before the tribulations (zevlor companion piece)

no grave can hold my body down- and so the wizard fell head over heels for the knight; and so the knight stuck her foot in her mouth like seven million times (rolan companion piece)

still more glorious dawn awaits- the band gets back together (tentative sequel and epilogue for the whole party)

lmfao there's def gonna be others i'm obsessed i already have au's on the brain

Other links:

The pinterest and spotify playlist for the main fic

The pinterest and spotify playlist for sword and shield (karlach)

The pinterest and spotify playlist for run, run lost boy (gale)

[gear-project]

Annon-Guy: Alternate Costumes

In terms of Alternate Costumes in Fighting Games, what's your personal opinion on them? Does it depend on a number of factors where you prefer the default appearance, the alternate costume or both?

For example, in most Capcom Games, Chun-Li fro, Street Fighter generally has her classic outfit (except in SF6 where it's the alternate) with her getting her Alpha Outfit as an alternate.

Even in BlazBlue, Noel has both her New and NOL outfits available, plus in Guilty Gear 2 Overture, Sol has his EX Sol Costume which gives him his Classic Look. Not to mention Johnny's extra beard "accessory" in StrIVe...

Granted, there are costumes which are meant to be fanservice like. Like in SNK Heroines Tag Team Frenzy, EVERY fighter (except Skullomania and Thief Arthur due to Guest Character Status) has three costumes to equip. Barring Shermie, Terry, Jeane, Miss X(?) and Skullomania, they start off in a goofy/fanservice outfit with a second fanservice outfit as an unlockable. Their third unlockable outfit is their original outfit from the main KOF Games, which is the only time they're not embarrassed (including Mai, who's default is fanservice 😂).

This is a very huge topic, to be honest... and really it can become anything in terms of potential development ideas that have either existed or have yet to exist.

But, to keep things simple, I'll just say that my absolute favorite approach is the way games like Tekken, Soul Calibur, and Granblue Fantasy Versus Rising do it:

By giving each character "bits and pieces" of various outfits and weapons to mix and match and customize their appearance, players are able to put their own color and spin on their favorite characters and "make it personalized".

Soul Calibur and Tekken are probably the most famous for it because of their 3D DLC packages, and even Dead or Alive as a series is pretty infamous for it as well.

But games like Mortal Kombat 11, MK1, and even Melty Blood and Under Night In-Birth are doing it now!

Even Street Fighter is taking the World Tour approach and letting players create their ultimate character.

It was long ago, but Guilty Gear Isuka utilized Robo-Ky Factory, a means of letting players create their own ultimate creation for the game.

Guilty Gear Strive, while it currently does the bare minimum, is necessarily NOT going to take a more "dandy" option at some point. We can only wait and see how they approach this part of the game's development, but the more people ASK for it, the more they'll STRIVE towards such a goal!

[pineapplefulfillseveryneed]

Sparks & The Heritage Orchestra - Amateur Hour (december 19 2014)

10 years ago today! To celebrate I have finally uploaded my recordings on YouTube, you can find them all here.

Kimono My House Overture

This Town Ain't Big Enough For Both Of Us

Amateur Hour

Falling In Love With Myself Again

Here In Heaven

Thank God It's Not Christmas

Hasta Mañana, Monsieur

Talent Is An Asset

Complaints

In My Family

Equator & applause

Part 2:

The Rhythm Thief

Get In The Swing

Let The Monkey Drive

Looks, Looks, Looks

Pulling Rabbits Out Of A Hat

Excerpts from The Seduction Of Ingmar Bergman

Dick Around

When Do I Get To Sing "My Way"

The Number One Song In Heaven

Encore:

Change

[pharaohgargamel]

Топ 10 лучших музыкальных произведений 🎵😺

Top 10 best music🎵😺

Сегодня я решил написать статью о моей любимой музыке.

Это в основном классическая музыка хотя есть и просто известные композиции. В этой подборке конечно же не все мои любимые композиции а только 12 из них.

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Today I decided to write an article about my favorite music.

This is mainly classical music, although there are also well-known compositions. In this collection, of course, not all of my favorite tunes, but only 12 of them.

1. "Пляска смерти" (фр. Danse macabre) - Камиль Сен-Санс.

Красивая музыка совершенно не имеющая никакого отношения к своему названию. У многих славянских людей она ассоциируется в первую очередь с песней из мультфильма "Незнайка", однако полный её вариант совсем непохож на это. Музыка написана Французским композитором Камилем Сен - Сансом в 1874 году.

2. Влтава ((Vltava, также известная под немецким названием Moldau) - Бедржих Сметана

Композиция из цикла "Моя родина" написанная в 1874 Чешским композитором Бедржихом Сметаной.

3. "Ученик чародея" (фр. L'Apprenti sorcier) - Поль Дюка.

Композиция написана в 1897 году. Однако наиболее широкую известность принесло музыке использование в музыкальном анимационном фильме «Фантазия» (1940). Самое известное произведение Французского композитора Поля Дюка.

4."3 часть концерта для флейты с оркестром" Карла Филиппа Эммануила Баха.

Композиция написана в 1738-40 годах Немецким композитором Карлом Филиппом Эммануилом Бахом.

5. Увертюра к опере "Свадьба Фигаро"( - Вольфганга Амадея Моцарта.

Композиция к известной опере написанная в я 1786 году Австрийским композитором Вольфгангом Амадеем Моцартом.

6. Сюита из мюзикла "Вестсайдская история"(англ. West Side Story)  - Леонард Бернстайн.

Сам мюзикл добыл свою популярность именно из за мелодий. композиция написана в 1957 году, Американским композитором Леонардом Бернстайном.

7. Увертюра к опере Сорока - воровка"(итал. La gazza ladra) - Джоакино Россини.

Написанна в 1817 году Итальянским композитором Джоакино Россини.

8. 2 часть "Шотландской симфонии" - Феликса Мендельсона Бартольди .

Написана в (1830—1842) годах Немецким композитором Феликсом Мендельсоном Бартольди.

9. 5 симфония - Людвиг Ван Бетховен.

Всемирно известная композиция написанная в 1807 - 1808 годах Немецким композитором Людвигом Ван Бетховеном.

10. "Фантазия и фуга соль минор" - Иоганноа Себастьяна Баха.

Одно из всемирно известных органных произведений написанное в 1708-1717 годах.

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1. "Dance of death"(fr. Danse macabre) - Camille Saint-Saens.

Beautiful music that has absolutely nothing to do with its name. For many Slavic people, it is associated primarily with the song from the cartoon "Dunno", but its full version is completely different from this. The music was written by the French composer Camille Saint-Saens in 1874.

2. Vltava ((Vltava, also known by the German name Moldau) - Bedrich Smetana

Composition from the cycle "My Motherland" written in 1874 by the Czech composer Bedrich Smetana

3. "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" (French L'Apprenti sorcier) - Paul Dukas

The composition was written in 1897. However, the music was most widely known for its use in the animated musical film Fantasia (1940). The most famous work of the French composer Paul Duc.

4. "3rd movement of the concerto for flute and orchestra" by Carl Philipp Emanuela Bach.

The composition was written in 1738-40 by the German composer Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach.

5. Overture to the opera "The Marriage of Figaro" - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

Composition for the famous opera written in 1786 by the Austrian composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

6. Suite from the musical "West Side Story" - Leonard Bernstein.

The musical itself gained its popularity precisely because of the melodies. the composition was written in 1957 by the American composer Leonard Bernstein.

7. Overture to the opera Magpie the Thief"(Italian: La gazza ladra) - Gioachino Rossini.

Written in 1817 by the Italian composer Gioachino Rossini.

8. Part 2 of the "Scottish Symphony" - Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy.

Written in (1830-1842) by the German composer Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy.

9. 5th symphony - Ludwig van Beethoven.

World famous composition written in 1807 - 1808 by the German composer Ludwig van Beethoven.

10. "Fantasy and Fugue in G minor" - Johann Sebastian Bach

One of the world famous organ works written in 1708-1717.

На этом я кончаю свою подборку музыкальных композиций. Надеюсь вам понравиться. Это моя первая статья в таком роде, поэтому возможны кое какие неточности. Очень жду ваших комментариев! Отдельное спасибо тем кто дочитал до конца!✨😃😺🎼🎵

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This concludes my selection of musical compositions. I hope you will enjoy. This is my first article of this kind, so there may be inaccuracies. I look forward to your comments! Special thanks to those who read to the end!✨😃😺🎼🎵

[gnostichymns]

In the streets of Fontaine, the Director's sudden absence merely marks the end of celebration. With no film to display for his time, he must not have been very good at his own art. Some may complain that it had all been for nothing, but others will find rolls of film with memories pressed between them and think that perhaps it is not always the end result that makes something worthwhile.

Overture 2024: Finale

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