#a thing that doesn't change with time

[haveyoureadthisfanfic]

Summary: The woman in white visits his shop often. “What are you looking for today, ma’am?” Amik asks from behind the counter when the bell on the door announces her arrival. “More yarn?” (She’s been coming to him almost every morning for months, and still he doesn’t know what her name is.) “Yes, you know me so well,” her voice always has a sort of…ethereal quality to it that he can never actually describe. It’s like…It’s like if honey and sugar had a baby and named it Kindness, or something, it’s-it’s warm in a way that the sun could never be, even during the hottest of summers, and the smile she gives him wraps around his very soul and comforts it with a hug. “How is business lately?” “You’re still my only customer!” he calls as she disappears into the many shelves that are lined with every item he could find during his daily walks: string, yarn, leaves, rocks and jewels, sticks, arrows- “You’re selling bugs now?” her voice echoes from the back of his store. “So many beetles!” “They’re my favorite!” he shouts back. OR How Hyrule's greatest salesman got his start.

Author: @michpat6

[michpat6]

“I didn’t really know my father,” Rama’s daughter says, her back to him as she places the tea kettle Tove picked out because of the flowers painted on the side over an open flame, “He, um, died when I was a baby. My only memories of him, if you can even call them that, are impressions. A warm voice saying my name, the weight of hands as I’m lifted into the air…those kinds of things.”

“What is your name?” his voice creaks past his lips.

She faces him. She has brown eyes like him and dark hair like Tove. He wonders what parts of her belonged to Rama. Is it the sharpness of her cheekbones? The slope of her nose? Maybe the way she hugs herself when she says, “Amika. My mama said he picked the name, but she didn’t know where he got it from.”

OR

immortal beedle is finally complete

[bixels]

Scary Sunset.

I'm concepting things way outta order in this story, but I'm sure you can piece things together. Context is for a storybeat where, after defeating and capturing Adagio (thus having all three sirens in her possession), Sunset enacts her revenge plot to release the sirens on Canterlot as Thea discovers she's been manipulated. In a confrontation, the two scuffle and fight over the siren orbs while Sunset struggles with her conflicting wants and emotions.

[egophiliac]

Hi it's just to let you know that the official romanization of Revaan's name is Raverne ! Also they have romanized Baul's name to Baur !

Twst coming back at us again with the least expected romanization! thank you everybody (oh god my inbox) (no it's great, I literally asked for this and the reactions have been INCREDIBLE, thank you all!)

I do like Raverne though, I think it's got a nice fancy sound to it! (I had kinda suspected it was going to be an R instead of an L, so the fact that it's SO close to Laverne except for that is hilarious to me personally.) and Dragoneye Duke is honestly probably the best translation for his title, I wasn't envying the localizers that one. :') Baur instead of Baul I was NOT expecting, but in retrospect I think his name's supposed to be a reference to the Bauru crocodile, so that actually makes way more sense!

someone else also said Meleanor has become Maleanor, which is the REALLY weird one to me, because I was so surprised it was written as Mel instead of Mal in the first place?! oh god no I can't decide which one I like better. 😭 (I wonder if they might change it to Mal...they have made romanization changes before) (like I remember House of Distraction being corrected to House of Destruction in Playful Land) (I did check and she's still Mel for now, but I dunno, they might Mal her up and some point and save me from having to make a decision about which one to use) (HECK I CAN'T DECIDE)

uhhhh thank you for letting me ramble about anime names, let's just say MONOGRAMMED SWEATERS FOR EVERYONE

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Good morning, Sleepyhead.

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[knifearo]

this year my challenge for everyone is to unlearn the association between love and morality. love is not something that is inherently morally good, and the absence of love is not something that is inherently bad. sex without love isn't morally bankrupt, it's just an action. people without love aren't less kind or less good, they're just people. when we can get past this false (and often unnoticed) dichotomy of good love/evil lovelessness then i think we are going to be able to take leaps and bounds in sex positivity, aro advocacy, certain discussions of mental health...

[bacchuschucklefuck]

sometimes I think abt how the months coming up to and the prom night in freshman year must feel to class swap sklonda. your perfect kid who has literally never gotten a single reprimand for anything does what can only be described as a quad crit crime combo and becomes a nerd punisher by the end of the night

[uncanny-tranny]

Periodic reminder that unless a person specifically and clearly tells you it is okay to tell others they are trans or queer, you should err on the side of caution and assume they do not want you to tell people (especially random people!) about their transness or queerness.

You have no idea, generally, why somebody doesn't talk openly about their trans or queer status, and you have no idea, truly, how somebody might react to that information. The most progressive person out there is still capable of harbouring incredibly negative thoughts about somebody's queer status.

[cortex-rampage]

I find the way that BBC Merlin set up Merlin's powers in the first episode to be quite funny. I mean, we see this sort of lanky guy and it is established that he is Merlin and (according to our own common knowledge) therefore he is the most powerful warlock ever. Okay, cool. One might assume that he has come to Gaius to develop his powers, that maybe he's only in the beginning of his magical journey. But instead the exposition shows Merlin, in the pilot episode of this 5 series show, stop time and employ levitation to save someone's life with magic, and then it is announced that prince Arthur is essentially his soulmate, and their joint power will create the most glorious age Camelot has ever seen. Quite an exciting set-up. And then for the rest of the entire show this man who we know possesses TIME-ALTERING POWERS mostly uses them on-screen to do common chores and annoy and prank THAT SAME Arthur. Like that one post said, "All of it's destiny and all of it's his fault." :p

[pierogish]

I grew a spine

[sophsicle]

time is so fucking scary. because it does not care if you are happy. you will think I wish to stay like this, right here in this moment. i have found my place. but then time comes like a wave and pushes you forward. you cannot stay. and neither can the people you love. forward forward forward. time has ripped the claws from my hands, and the teeth from my mouth, as I have tried to cling to yesterday. but you must move forward forward forward. Forward forward forward. Forward forward forward. Forward forward forw—

[tricoufamily]

more ancient ocs i got bored and made as sims. they were doing every tired annoying romantasy trope years ahead of the curb smh i could have been making booktok bucks

[michpat6]

omg behind the scenes fic lore , , ,,,

do you have a playlist for immortal beedle, and if not, what songs do you imagine would be on said playlist?

OOOOOOO WHAT A GOOD QUESTION!!! thank you for asking!!

I don’t have a playlist for immortal beedle at the moment, but I’m probably going to once it’s all done! I’m not entirely sure what songs would go on the playlist for this fic, but the one that got me in the right vibes for chapter 2 is the song “Moondust” by Jaymes Young. The lyrics just SCREAMED beedle’s isolation and his devotion to his family despite the distance between them (and what happens once he does finally make it home 😭😭). “Goodbye John Smith” by Barns Courtney also fit that Angst for me :)

I feel like other songs on the playlist would then use that song as like a springboard, so the vibes would match, but as a peek into the in-progress chapter three, the song I would assign to it vibes/lyrics wise is “Tell Me It’s Okay” by Paramore 🥹

[peace-hunter]

tfone au where OP is created as the last of the primes but way after them, a sparkling born at what were thought to be the last days of the war against the quintessons, the beginning of a new generation of peace after eons of war. a child meant to be loved and raised knowing nothing of war nor sacrifice.

he's kept mostly out of the spotlight by his siblings, who don't wish to expose him to everyone's optics so young, and want to wait until the war is done and over to properly introduce him to their people.

except of course the primes are betrayed and murdered by sentinel, the war is lost and everyone who knows and cared for the truth is either banished or outright killed in order to suppress it.

and the high guard, the ones the primes trusted the most, the ones that were supposed to protect them, the ones who failed in their most important duty, have to make a choice. to take the last prime, their last hope, with them to the surface, a hostile environment where there's little to no supplies and where they'll be hunted down by both sentinel and the quintessons as the biggest threat to their regimen.

or hide him in plain sight. place him where sentinel won't think to look for him. one more sparkling among many. and hope it will be enough to keep him alive. pray to primus that he'll protect his last child long enough for them to come back for him when it's safer (even if most of them have already lost their faith on him when he allowed the rest of his children to be massacred like that)

they almost lose their resolve when they realize they will have to take the little one's cog away in order to make him blend in with the rest of the newborns (and oh do they burn with murderous intent when they see what sentinel has done to their people but it's not the time yet-) but in the end they decide an impaired little prime is better than a dead one.

and so in the chaos of thirteen dead primes and a sudden energon crisis, a little sparkling who very few mechs really knew about and even fewer had seen completely vanishes. and in the depths of iacon a mech in charge of a new batch of newborns scratches their helm in confusion as they realize they must have miscounted the first time.

optimus prime is quietly erased from any official records by sentinel, written off as dead when they find a sparkling's frame mangled beyond recognition after an attack on the base of those rebels that insist on being a thorn on his side. killing the sparkling hadn't been precisely in his plans, he probably could've found some use for it after all, but he's not particularly upset about it either.

and orion pax grows up with an ache on his spark that tells him he's missing something far more important than a t-cog and dreams of gentle and loving hands, cradling him against the frames of mechs he cannot recall the faces of.

[lovl3igh]

"rhaenyra should have legitimized jace if she wanted him to be heir" baby, he was her heir. and she didn't have to legitimize him because according to law he was trueborn child of laenor. laenor claimed so and so did rhaenyra. as long as these two or harwin didn't say anything velaryon boys ARE actual velaryon boys and the rest is just rumors. what more, the only people that should be concerned with jace and luke's parentage - so viserys and corlys - didn't give a fuck about whom rhaenyra fucked to give them heirs. they just didn't. so i'm sorry, random jenny from storybrooke, but you can shove "they don't have silver hair" paternity test in your ass

[her-soliloquies]

I guess this could be as simple as Jayce fulfilling his promise, ignoring the huge chunk that is act three still missing.

And I can't help but think that Viktor knew Jayce was coming to stop him. He saw Jayce's mind and knew that wasn't him, that something had changed in his mind by the touch of the arcane, that something was very wrong. He saw Jayce kill Salo to rid the world of hexcore. He must've known he would be next. And maybe deep down, in a part untouched by the hexcore, Viktor too knew it was the right thing to be done.