#also that llama was annoying as hell

[drcalvin]

Update from Hell-Month:

• Most Important work is proceeding decently so far! First I was worried I was lagging behind, but then I looked over the guidelines again, and hey that's p much as directed

• Most Boring, But Neccessary work is super bleh. Admin issues cause more stress, and a ridiculously annoying and we-are-all-about-me-drama-llama person in class has made it a massive energy drain

• Frivolous, But Potentially Useful, evening class is (thank everything) not as hefty as it looked on paper. Still barely managing to do the readings, but I can hopefully catch up in December

Exhausted every day, but also way too busy to fret about the state of the world which tbh I don't mind right now

[blueberryinko]

Guardians of the Galaxy PS5: Zen-Whoberi Gestation

It had been a month since Magus, and Nikki was settling in well with the team. Having a thirteen-year old girl hanging around was a new dynamic for the team, but Gamora and Peter had slipped right into the parental roles. Peter, while still immature was a good father, attentive and fun. Gamora was the one who Nikki came to for talks and cuddles, girl things.

Gamora groaned, she’d woken up that sol with an aching heat deep in her belly and stiffened, realising what it was. Her Heat was up, and she bit her lip. She usually hid in her room during her Heats, but she didn’t have that opportunity right now, it was being used as Nikki’s room for now. She was just lucky none of the guys were around at that moment.

She stumbled from the cockpit onto the sofa. Kammy was laid there, and if sensing her owner’s stress, the space-llama rested her head on Gamora’s belly.

“I know baby,” Gamora huffed, she needed a heat pack or something to soothe the aching, but she also didn’t wanna get up. Her belly gurgled, she felt it working its magic.

“Oh, fuck, now?” She didn’t wanna do this now, but she had no choice.

She unbuttoned her jeans and swore at the mass gaining in her belly. “Oooh fuck.” She eased herself up, biting her lip. Why was this happening to her today of all days?

She presumed it was because her heat had flared up, but she watched in frustration as her gut slowly blew rounder, fuller.

“Hey Gamora, you up right now- what the HELL!” Gamora froze. Peter was back early, whipping around and showing off her expanding green belly. “Peter, get the fuck out!” She swore, but Peter slammed the door back open.

“No Gamora, explain, what the hell is this?” Peter watched his girlfriend’s belly gaining fat at an alarming rate, but all she seemed was annoyed. “Can we not do this right now?” She demanded.

“Not when you’re blowing up like a balloon!”

Gamora growled, and sat her fat ass back down on the couch. “It’s a thing my people used to be able to do.” She explained, hoping that would get him to go away. “Okay, explain.” Peter told her.

“Can you just go the fuck away?” Gamora begged. Peter crossed his arms. “Are you gonna keep blowing up? Then no!”

“Fuck sake Peter, I’m just pregnant, go away!”

“Pregnant!” Peter’s heart dropped into his gut and he mentally counted up how much they’d had sex in the past few weeks.

“Not like that idiot!” She retorted, her jeans button finally banging off of her, split in two, burning a hole in the wall from the sheer force it snapped off at. Her gut continued to balloon and she held it gingerly. “Zen-Whoberi women get pregnant with a gigantic amount of babies whenever we subconsciously desire!”

“That’s even worse!” Peter argued back. Gamora rolled her eyes. “Fuck off, I’m not explaining myself to you.”

“Uh, I think you are, because you’re my girlfriend!”

“And in a few years I’m gonna be your wife but I still prefer you stay out of my business!”

Peter’s heart skipped another beat and he was about sure he was gonna have an aneurysm. “How am I not supposed to worry about this?” He scowled.

Gamora sniffled, tears welling up. “I-I don’t know! Peter, I- look.”

Peter sat down and watched her rubbing her belly nervously. “These aren’t really babies per se, it’s more like a type of slime if anything. On my homeworld we had these creatures called Vuaran, who upon our heats would gestate their babies inside our wombs, bloating us up into these big, slime filled balloons. We had the power to gestate them whenever we wanted. Their lifespans are short, so we can give birth to as many as we want.”

Okay, that at least sounded better than what he’d originally been thinking. Gamora’s breasts ballooned another size up and his eyes almost bugged out, swallowing as blood ran south very quickly. “Okay, right, that’s uh, a lot better.” Part of him was a little sad that he wasn’t about to be a dad again however, and he tried his best to shake that feeling. Gamora knew he was feeling it and leaned over.

“We have Nicki, and when we want, we will have more.” She promised. They were Guardians, but she was sure they could make it work. “Can you uh, get pregnant with babies as well?”

Gamora gave a wry smirk. “We have been known to self-fertilise from time to time.” Peter saw her belly-button pop, and suddenly marvelled at how fucking hot she looked like this. “Gamora, oh, my God, you’re..” She leaned forward, kissing his jaw. “Come fuck your big, pregnant wife.” She teased. He raced forward and started tearing her jeans, her hands already working his zipper.

“You’re gonna be my big sexy whale aren’t you.” He demanded, her belly pressing into his chest as his cock grew to full size, blood raging through his hard-on, her jeans splitting apart as green, pregnant flesh grew bigger, tauter, fatter. “I am, gonna be a huge fucking ball, just for you. Empty your balls into me, make me your fat pregnant cumdump.” She agreed. She was fully giving into her heat, which old her would have hated, but new her was hopelessly addicted to.

She was hopelessly fat, Gamora thought, a whale beached on a shore on Earth, needing to be rolled back into water like the breeding blimp she was. “Peter!” He was more than willing to oblige her, bucking his hips into her puffy green cunt.

Peter bit his lip, his cock hard and rigid, pumping into her with all the lacking inhibition of a horny teenager after prom night, getting faster as he watched her belly swell rounder. Her top had so many holes in she didn’t know if it could really be called a top anymore.

More of a very ill-fitting bra really. Her nipples spilled out of her top, darkened green and leaking milk. Peter gasped, feeling them up. “Oh my god, you’re like a big, pregnant cow.” He groaned. The image of her in a cow bikini came to mind and the image was enough for his cock to harden further, brushing her cervix.

“Your big pregnant cow.” She urged, she needed him to be possessive, needed him to own her YESTERDAY.

Gamora’s belly reached a precipice where it hung over her knees, her fat thighs separated by the bloated mass that spilled forth from her hips. Her bunk was getting too small but they wouldn’t dare move her to the living room, Peter taking in the sight of her pretty green cunt leaking his cum, like she was made for filling up into his balloon.

“My pretty pregnant Gamora, so ripe, so fat. You want me to feed you later baby?”

Her breath hitched. “Yes! Yes, I wanna be stuffed so bad!” She wanted to gain weight. Wanted to see her hardened, athletic form be forced into a plush, permanently fattened state, to be made into a big green blimp-like pig even when she wasn’t round, fat enough that a whole bariatrics team would be needed to roll her anywhere.

“Good girl. Very good girl. Wanna cum for me pup? I wanna hear you cum.” She squealed as she came around his cock, her tongue lolling out for a second, panting.

“Peter, s-stop-!” She didn’t want him to stop, she didn’t. So Peter continued, despite all the mixed messaging. “My Gamora loves it when she’s treated like my puppy, don’t you.” He stated, not asked.

“I do! I’m your puppygirl! I’m your fat, swollen breeder wife!” She agreed desperately as he flicked her nipples, tearing apart the torn remainders of her top with little more than a brush of his hands, now entirely nude just for him as he fucked her raw. Her cunt was so swollen, so hot and used she was surprised it wasn’t bruised, his cock slapping against her underside and driving her wild.

“Good girl!” He growled, imagining their future. His plump, overly swollen whale of a wife, and him, surrounded by a dozen kids, and another brood well on the way. “You’re no Guardian now Gamora, you’re my pregnant wife, and that means making our home.” He insisted.

“Our home, our babies!” She was addicted to his cock, drunk off of the virile ravaging of her womb, her mind addled with sex to the point she’d agree to anything, and Peter grinned. “What will the galaxy say, when they find out I tamed Gamora, daughter of The Mad Titan?” He teased.

Gamora’s tears trailed down her face. Happy tears. “Peter!” She gasped between breaths. “I really want this! I wanna stop fighting! I don’t wanna hurt people anymore! I wanna be yours!” She was so sick of the constant war. Sick of the constant death and destruction she left in her wake.

“I know baby,” Peter murmured, easing up his thrusts as he attempted to draw her closer to orgasm. “I know. And you can do whatever you want,” It was a sobering moment for both of them, and as Gamora’s thighs swelled to a frankly ridiculous circumference she damn near broke the couch.

“I-“ She couldn’t think about that right now, once again lost in a haze of sex. “Dammit Peter, I gotta cum again!”

“I gotcha sweetheart!” He fucked her faster and watched as she came around him again, unloading another knot-full of heavy, thick cum into her womb as she howled. “Ready babe? I’m gonna go all out now.” He told her.

She laid back and let him do all the work. Her entire tonnage jiggled as his cock hammered her pussy, sloshing her juices around at such a pace that her head bobbed and bucked without rhythm. “Peter, Peter, Peter!” She whimpered, but she was so close, so close to cumming her brains out she couldn’t form any other words.

“I gotcha, I gotcha, I GOTCHA!”

“OOHHH FUUUUUUUUCK!” She wailed, his knot plugging up her womb as Peter ensured it stuck, her body ballooning to full as her limbs met her enlarged sphericality, a full ton in weight now that she was full. Her breasts spewed milk and Gamora couldnkt be happier.

Peter rested for a moment before sliding off of Gamora, watching her cum-crammed body struggle to hold its capacity. “Oohhhhhh…” Came Gamora’s intense whimper from over her diameter and he chuckled, satisfied.

“So, what happens now?” He asked. Then promptly wished he hadn’t.

“What happens now- oooh, Peter! Contractions!” Oh fuck, already?

“Okay, okay, what do I do?” He questioned, her waters had obviously broken during her orgasm. “Just wait! I gotta dilate for a bit!” She urged. He watched as her vagina began to stretch, flowering gently, strangely erotic.

“How’s it feel?” He asked, rolling her slightly forward so she could see him easier. “Weird, but good. Fuck.” She hiccuped, “On my belly, on my belly.” She urged. Obediently, he rolled her over so she was set on her lower belly, now face to face.

“You done this before?”

“A few times,” Gamora admitted. “After we broke up that first time, then the night after we got back together.” Peter swallowed. He’d heard her that first night they’d broken up, he thought she’d been crying, but if she’d been moaning then- he groaned, his cock erect once again. “Jesus G, you can’t just say that to a guy-“

“That Daddy teasing Mommy made her gush like a big, fertile water balloon?” Gamora moaned through another contraction. She was dilating incredibly fast, her body trembling as she hit eight centimetres. “Fuck, Pete, baby wants out, baby wants out!” She urged.

Peter crouched down and watched as she hit full dilation, swallowing. “What do I do?”

“Just help me breathe and keep me pushing!” Gamora directed. She could do this, she realised. She felt powerful in the way only a mother could, and she felt an uncanny strength burning through her diameter. She was going to do this.

Gamora bore down from the first time, breathing slowly. “Ooooohhhh…”

She tried again, inching her body, encouraging it. “That’s it,” She murmured to herself. “Slow bursts.” She felt out what was coming out of her and as she felt something solid passing into her birth canal, tears pricked her eyes. “Oh, Pete! We’re having a baby!”

“Wh-now?” Peter was only just getting used to being a dad to Nikki, now they had a chance to get a do-over. “Now,” Gamora confirmed. Peter’s heart raced, but sensing Gamora’s conviction a paternal determination grew in his core. “C’mon baby, give us our baby.” He encouraged, helping his wife through her birth pains.

“Mmmmffff…” She almost swore when a particularly strong contraction rippled through her, but she held fast as she buried her chin in her divot, bearing down. “The head, G, I see the head!” Gamora gasped. She could feel it. “Peter, Peter, I’m pushing, I’m pushing!”

She bore down with all her strength, letting out a primal roar as she stretched to full crown within minutes.

“Oh, fuck, fuck burns!” Compared to everything else she’d gone through this was nothing. Peter dived right in, and probing his wife’s nethers slowly extracted the baby’s head, and with the baby almost out he rubbed her underside. “Come on Gamora, she’s almost here.”

Gamora found strength to give in to the maternal force willing her forward, and with one final roar she pushed the rest of their daughter into Peter’s waiting arms.

“Holy shit,” She heard as their daughter began to cry. He brought her around to Gamora’s waiting face and the once fearless warrior found herself sobbing over how beautiful she was.

“Oh my God, Peter, she’s perfect.”

“Nikki’s gonna love her.” Peter commented. “Y’know, I was shit scared when I found out Nikki was my kid, but… I think we can do this. This whole parenting thing.”

“I think we can do it too.” Gamora commented peacefully, flapping her hands. “Go clean her up, then we can figure out baby stuff.

As Peter went to bathe their daughter, Gamora thought up the perfect name. “Aurora.”

Yes, that would do quite well.

[seokolat]

15 OC questions - Shian 🦋

Are you named after anyone ? My name means « cyan » my auntie told me my mom especially loved this color. it’s probably related to her.

When was the last time you cried ? When my favorite plant died yesterday. I was a bad mom, I still feel guilty.

Do you have kids ? Oh hell no.

Do you use sarcasm ? Uh?? Never heard of that before… 🙄

What’s the first thing you notice about people ? I can see if they’re annoying or not, the face says it all.

What’s your eye color ? blue

Scary movies or happy endings ? Scary movies with happy endings?

Any special talents ? I’m good with animals, I probably get along better with them than humans. So my social skills are poor, but I love having time on my own, so that’s okay.

Where were you born ? In Willow Creek, god I’d never go back there.

What are your hobbies ? Gardening, is my favorite thing to do ever. I also love flower arranging, playing chess, watching the sky with the telescope, my job… uh, i guess I love a few things.

Have you any pets ? Our house is literally a zoo, we’ve got two cats (my only babies), a llama, chickens, bees and… a cow plant ?

What sport do you play/ have played ? I have to stay fit for my job, so I’m often at the gym, I especially love jogging tho.

How tall are you ? Bahaha, I’m super tall actually. My grandpa used to tell me this would put men off, lol, jokes on him.

Favorite subject in school ? Oh I hated school with my whole soul, so I was skipping classes most of the time, but I was always there in chemistry, biology & physics.

Dream job ? Haha, I already am working in it. I always wanted to be a mad scientist, I was already mad, I just needed to become a scientist.

I was tagged by @moonfromearth, thank you so much !!!

And I think I’ll tag ; @cozyacres @nihilismtrcit @simelune @d4isy-nukes @idyllicephemera @futurelabs @pixelbasil @noeyinthemist !

Sorry I’ve you’ve already been tagged, and as always, no pressure !

[sparrowsingsstories]

9, 14, and 15 please!

Oh Fun!

9. Lone Wanderer or always with a companion (or more)? Sooo...Mercy used to travel with just Dogmeat. Then Preston sent her out to a settlement that sent her to Corvega? And after that, she started dragging him with her. Because WTF...she sat outside of that pit for 4 DAYS. But now she travels with MacCready and Deacon. Or Deacon and Nick. Or Deacon, Nick, and Hancock. Or...you get the picture. Because Mac gets Really Mad when Mercy gets hurt - and she's been hurt A Lot More sense those meat-heads (as Nick calls them) entered her life.

Sparrow travels either with her Mama & Papa, with Darcy for jobs (if he's around), or by herself. She used to get really upset with Darcy for inviting himself along on jobs, but she has to admit it's nice to have help.

Frankie either travels with the band or with Beau. And since the band settled down in Jamaica Plains, it's all Beau. The two of them on his motorcycle? Hell yeah!

14. What are their hobbies? Mercy jokes that MacCready, Deacon, and Jake are her hobbies. Then she looks mournful because Who Has The Time My God. Or maybe annoying the BOS? Making Danse look absolutely terrified of her? But seriously, it's cooking. Mercy loves to cook and read a good book.

Sparrow...um. Stealing sandwiches from Aiden (Sim Settlements 2). Asking Bean to teach her how to read and write. Petting the llamas at the paddock. Climbing trees. Laying with Darcy and asking him questions.

Frankie - Frankie would like you to know that Beau IS her hobby, thank you very much that man is the hottest damn thing. Also cooking and then having Southern moments with Mercy, playing banjo on the porch, writing songs, watching Haywire spin around Jamaica Plains with a cat on their head and Beau...everything comes back to Beau.

15. Chems/booze/cannibalism/vices in general? Mercy - likes rum and colas. She gets two in her and she passes out cold. Also cookies. Does somehow collecting three lovers count as a vice?

Sparrow - snack cakes. SNACK. CAKES. She doesn't drink or do drugs. Because Sparrow, on a good day, is 80 pounds. So food tends to be a vice, in her mind. She does think murder is an acceptable way to deal with most problems - something her adopted mother is working on. She'd like you to know that cuddles from Bean and Darcy Kisses are better than anything, though.

Frankie - Tequila. Hard Cider. She doesn't do many drugs, but doesn't mind if Beau does. She's got a naughty streak a mile wide and likes when Beau marks her up during sex so she can flaunt it - though not when she's doing her burlesque shows cause the bruising mars the look. Fluffy clothing like ruffled panties. Beau. She says Beau is her drug of choice.

[a-calico-rabbit]

…apparently, disturbingly similar to þe llama. I can’t feel my blood flowing (usually, and þat’s by choice—it hurts like hell), but i have great night vision, am fairly silent in my steps when I try (odd, given i’m 6’4 and 245 lbs) and can move many muscles individually—at random. I just occasionally remember how and suddenly i’m in absolute control, and þen it goes away after like a minute.

I am almost identical to my faþer and grandfaþer (we do not speak of him (grandfaþer). Please pretend he does not exist) in þat I can visualize anyþing, to þe point þat I can imagine myself doing someþing after having done it once, feel how it works, and develop þe skill by imagining myself doing it, which is how I practice most þings. Also, we’re all ADHD, Autistic, dyslexic, dyscalculic, hypersensitive to pain, have clicky joints (i.e. all our joints catch when moving, and can dislocate at random), and are inherently smartasses wiþ a penchant for crafting. We also all have chronic occular migraines, delt wiþ horrible growing pains, and a hell of a lot of oþer shit I can’t remember (oh! Bad memory) þat makes me þink my bloodline is cursed. We also all (all family sons) have þe middle name “keith”.

I am addicted to finding random muscles þat I don’t know how to move and repeatedly trying out different visualizations until I can get myself to move one. It’s fun.

I have a near encyclopedic knowledge of minecraft and can tell you almost anyþing, as long as it doesn’t have to do wiþ numbers þat aren’t obvious powers of two.

I can see in extremely fine detail up close, to þe point þat I can distinguish þings on þe edge of microscopic scale. But I can’t see jack shit at a distance.

I am hypersensitive to light, and color blind. I see very well in low light.

I’ve been playing minecraft since I was 5, and almost noþing else.

I love fermented foods, and have yet to find one I didn’t like. Except for alcoholic beverages, of which I only like ciders and sours (bitters are ok, but need sour). And I can’t stand sweets, to þe point þat glazes and frosting make me puke if I taste þem too long. I am hyposensitive to flavor and smell, but my hypersensitivity to touch means I have a great sense of texture, so most of þe food I make is spiced to þe nines and has unique and strange textures.

I love writing, but am absolutely terrified of it. Þis does not extend to drawing landscapes, but absolutely does wiþ animals.

I can speak in a robot voice by inhaling as I talk and modulating þe trill.

I speak and write wiþ my signature weird combo of sophistication and crass ass wording because I am very, very dyslexic, and forget half of my vocabulary at any given moment, so I have to change it on þe fly to come across at all. I also stutter and halt often. I also cannot memorize text. If i try to say someþing verbatim it will come out wrong, and I will stutter a lot. I can spell mostly correctly because when I was little I was obsessed wiþ doing so, and practiced a metric fuck-ton to get it right. I also didn’t understand academic writing rules because I couldn’t (and still can’t) remember þe words þat refer to þe parts of þe stuff, so I just read myself to an elevenþ grade reading level at fourþ grade and figured out þe rules þey used to sound good. To þis day I can’t write an essay for shit, because everyþing comes out like a story.

I love cheese.

For some reason, no matter where I go, nor when, lights seem to flicker and burn out faster around me. Especially strange, given I usually keep þem off.

I have a gameboy, which I only use to play tetris.

I have a commodore 64 and SX-64 in my room—þe SX is my dad’s, but þe basic bitch is mine.

I, and my faþer, like many autists, can hear electricity running þrough shit, which is annoying as fuck.

I like oranges, and generally dislike beetles. Unless þey’re rolly-pollies. Love þose dudes.

Light makes me tired, but gives me bad sleep, and for good sleep I need absolute darkness, as a tiny bit of light will keep me up for hours. I also need enough noise to drown out my þoughts.

I love golf, but haven’t played in years—since my grandpa (þe good one) died, really.

I am sensitive to emotion, and can usually tell if someone is a good person or not based on vibe. Þis was best used when þe image of þe guy who was used as þe stereotypical discord mod/subredditer/neckbeard was going around. I just got þe impression he was nice, and was having fun being a dude in a suit in þose photos. Fuck all ya’ll þat gave him hate. Also, linus and mr. beast give similar, bad vibes.

I quadrice (at least) downed a þing of salt for a joke. I don’t know why I keep doing it. I hate it and it lingers but when I see a nearly-empty container of salt I judt get þis urge-

I like meat fermented and well done, or fresh and rare as þe day it was born. Þere is no inbetween.

I am in constant pain from my skin, joints, muscles, bones, eyes, head (have had one, long headache for þe past decade) etc.

I have an uncanny ability to find shit out about shit, and am very good at navigating caves. Þat comes from minecraft.

My hair color changes wiþ þe seasons, but is always some form of brown wiþ gold-red highlights, and silver strands (only ever one at a time þo).

Þat’s enough for now.

it's so weird to me that everyone on this website is a human person outside of their weird internet niche so rb this with a random bit of your lore

[alilmusebundle]

Mage drabbles, pt 1

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"Rhett, what the hell!"

Knuckles shove against his shoulder. Rhett jumps, head jerking up to see who was interrupting him before his brain fully matches the voice to the person. Loud and abrasive, the only one stationed here that really bothers to look for him... and wasn't scared of him.

"Oh, hey Judy."

Draken freezes, having surged forward to defend him from the sudden surprise 'attack'. The wraiths form ripples within his shadow, moving sort of like claws tapping against his arm in annoyance, and grumbles. Rhett gives him- well, the cold part of his chest, just at the base of his neck, where he feels their connection best- a quick pat, before he masks the motion as an itch.

'Sorry big guy; it's just Juds.'

His fellow order member leans a hip against the table, arms crossed after shoving him, with the usual unimpressed look. "Really? 'Oh hey' he says, like he hasn't been holed up in the darkest corner of the library all day. Again."

She glances at the tabletop where several books sit open around his notebook, two more stacks off to the side. The judgmental raise of her eyebrow is honestly kind of funny. "There's even more piles this time, holly shit!"

"Come on, it's not that bad. I haven't even opened some of 'em yet." He closes his notebook as subtle as possible. No need for her to see and judge his chicken scrawl for the millionth time. "Did you track me down just to call me a nerd or..?"

"Yes, always, but also no. I'm bored." She turns to half-sit on the tabletop, and her long braid bumps against a book pile. Uncrossing her arms, she starts waving a hand around with her words.

"They have so many of us stationed around this stupid mountain, there's nothing to do. A bounty goes up and if you're not right there waiting for one, it's snatched instantly! I haven't been on an actual hunt in days!"

Uh oh, dangerous, (if not unexpected), waters. Rhett tries derailing. "What, Rudy's herd isn't cutting it anymore?"

"That's not hunting Rhett, that's basic husbandry. Rudy doesn't let his mares near human settlements or trespassing campers anyways, so he's doing half the job for me-"

"Hold on, you're saying he doesn't try to bite off peoples hands anymore?"

Judy immediately glares at him. "He hasn't done that in ages and you know it, don't even."

"Yeah, sure. Wanna test that? Cause he seems to think I'd have real tasty hands." Rhett tips his chair back to balance on two legs. The better to get a good look at the annoyed dismay blooming across Judy's face. She knew what came next.

"Cabra, for fucks sake don't-"

"Just saying, shoulda named him Carl: his stomach is always making the rumblies-"

"He isn't a llama!" She cuts in with a faintly desperate shout of someone trapped in an unwinnable argument. "He's a gods-forsaken unicorn! I'm not naming a unicorn CARL!"

"-that only hands can satisfy."

Judy opens her mouth to yell again, only to freeze. Rhett looks over his shoulder and sees this sights only librarian glaring at them. Feeling zero remorse-but lowering his chair safely back to the floor- he gives the guy a cheery wave. Still glaring, the librarian points two fingers at his eyes and then at them before disappearing behind the shelving once more.

They stay quiet a beat, just in case. Then Judy groans, slumping back against the table. Quietly, of course.

"Fucking hell, you're a nerd and meme trash and that's that." Judy tosses her head in a hilariously horse like way before soldiering on with the usual blunt force. "Anyways, you should go out with me."

"Uh, phrasing?"

"Shut up, you know what I mean. You need to get your ass out of this library, I want to get the hell out of dodge, it's a win-win all around." She flashes a toothy grin. "Maybe we'll get lucky and find a monster to slay."

Within his chest, an icy dagger of distress knocks the air from his lungs. The feeling is not his own. Rhett rubs a fist against the base of his neck and carefully breathes.

'I know buddy, I know.'

The thing was, as the lead mage in this outpost, he should be going out there. Needed to even. The monsters here were very dangerous, and he had a duty to fulfill. Even if the rest of them were snatching up every verified bounty that came in, he needed to lead by example.

But this was Mt Ebott, and he had a promise to keep.

Rhett smiles, but Judy must see something in his expression shift; her smile falls. He hates it.

"Maybe later Juds. I need to wrap some things up here first. Could go for a walk in, like... an hour maybe? I'll be at a better stopping point by then, I swear."

He won't be. There was never enough time to research, when he was stationed here, and he needed as much supporting evidence as possible. But he can't tell her no.

"...in an hour, huh?" She's quiet for a moment. Then she nudges his shoulder with her knuckles, making him sway to the side. "Alright, nerd, gonna hold you to it. I'll be back."

Rhett takes one more careful breath as she walks away. He doesn't get up to follow; he opens his notebook once more.

[entityredacted]

Do u have any headcanons for empires?? I wanna know, very curious rn :D

Cuz one of my most important headcanons that i will hold onto till the end of the season is that Scott's a llama :3

Oh I am beyond delighted that you asked

Some of these contradict themselves and don't work together but hey I do what I want

I also like the llama thingy you mentioned, however to add to that i like to think he got Emperor’s new grooved by that witch he keeps mentioning when talking about his backstory (I stole this from someone, don't remember who)

Skeletron (Joeys main enemy) is his ex who got killed and was then reanimated and promptly tried to murder Joey which is why they're enemies now

Everyone is the reincarnations of the emperors of the previous season

To add to the previous hc, Xornoth also got reincarnated (de-eviled tho) and is literally just hanging out in Chromia. One thing that's different about him tho is that he remembers all his past lives and still sees Scott as his brother and spends the majority of his time messing with him (stealing/moving items, replacing his toothpaste with mayonnaise etc)

Scott has a lot of very colourful tattoos, specifically one of the enderdragon on his back with flowers around it that sprawl out over his whole back and arms

Shubble from s1 accidentally got doubly reincarnated (so there's both a witch Shelby and a gnome Shelby) and she hangs out in Chromia with Xornoth (they're besties)

Sausage is buff. I mean it makes sense, he's an apprentice blacksmith and a lumberjack there's no way he's not absolutely ripped

Hermes keeps a diary, in it he writes everything from what he and his dads have been doing to how the totally discreet and secret (/s) romance between Sausage and Scott is going

Scott occasionally grows flowers from his scalp, he has no clue what the hell causes it and its a bit annoying but at least it's cute. What kind of flower happens to start growing depends on how he's doing mentally (he grew a cactus once when he was really pissed off)

Another hc for Joeys and Skeletrons relationship: They literally only hate eachother because both think the other is coming for their brand ("I'm the king of the sea!" "No I am!" "No!") Just real fucking petty

Hermes was born out of a golden waterlily in the lake under stratos and he keeps that lily behind their left ear at all times, it's magic so it never dies

Katherine is, not unlike Sausage, also really buff. It's one of the reasons Joey likes her so much (come on who doesn't like a very pretty super buff woman)

Jimmy is a centaur

Fwhip has sensory issues, he hears so well but many noises hurts his ears and brain :(

Scott's yellow eye is a magical prosthetic, he can see out of it and move it as if it was a regular eye but he also needs to take it out every now and then for maintenance (and to freak out anyone nearby)

I think that's all!

[marvel-fanfic-writer-8675]

The Flowing River

Steve x reader

Warnings: fluff, reader on her period so all the pain and blood that occurs with that, Steve being a sweetheart

Summary: back in the 40s people didn’t talk about these things so now your boyfriend is being adorable trying to help you with your period

“Doll what’s wrong?” Steve said, as he was seeing you curled into the fetal position, in pain, “where are ya hurt?” You just mumbled for him to go ask Natasha and Wanda. Steve was confused but did so. “She’s on her period idiot!” Nat, annoyed, told Steve. “Her what?” Steve be was confused, that was the thing at the end of a sentence. “Her time of the month, Steve, where she’s bleeding and in pain for a week? I know the 40s were different but did you seriously not learn about that?” Steve shyly shook his head. Nat and Wanda then sat him down and explained everything, immediately after Steve ran to get he keys and he went to the store.

Steve came back into the room, holding about 15 bags, “I wasn’t sure exactly what you used so I, kinda bought it all….” He added a small, cute and embarrassed smile to the end, you chuckled at your boyfriend but then held your stomach in pain, “ahhh, god, don’t make me laugh, it hurts to laugh.” Steve dropped the bags and rushed to your side, “I gotcha doll, you’re so strong, I love you so much.” You mumbled out for Steve to get a heating pad, “on it doll,” Steve went over to his many bags, he stood for a minute, figuring out which bag they were in. He finally found one that was shaped like a llama and brought it over. “Here ya go doll, you want some chocolate and cuddles, or anything else?” You agreed to some cuddles and chocolate later when you were hungry. Steve laid down and you cuddled up into his embrace. You fell asleep finally, you hadn’t gotten good sleep last night.

For dinner Steve convinced Bucky to go get your favorite takeout while he sat cuddling you. You were very adamant that he wasn’t allowed to move, he was very comfy to lay on. Steve chuckled and relented to his life of being a pillow. It took promising Bucky that Steve would do his laundry for a week to go get the food, but it was worth it when your face lit up at the taste of your favorite takeout. “Love you,” you mumbled, mouth full of food, “are ya talkin’ to me or the food?” Steve joked, you looked at him slightly annoyed, “both.” Steve smiled at you and continued eating.

Steve woke up to you whimpering in bed at 1:00am. “Doll are you okay?” You glared at him, “doing peachy Steve, you know, just feels like 1000 tiny knives are stabbing me.” Steve didn’t take the glaring to heart, remembering Nat and Wanda said it can cause mood swings. He just got up, grabbed some pain medication with a glass of water and handed it to you, “here ya go doll, it’ll make you feel better.” “Thanks Stevie,” you whimpered and took the medicine.

Once your week of hell was over with, you were relieved. The rest of the team were either on a mission, or out doing errands. You and Sam were the only ones home. Sam was down training and you decided to bake some desserts, partially as an apology to Steve for having to deal with you. You blasted your favorite Spotify playlist, it was one you shared with Steve, with both of your music tastes on it. You decided on Steve’s favorite cookies, they were a recipe his ma had, and Steve found the recipe book she kept it in after getting unfrozen. They also happened to be Bucky’s favorites and were incredibly hard to make, and time consuming, but you had the time and the gumption.

About 3 hours later you had perfect cookies, and it was right in time. The team had just come in from their errands, and Sam came up from training for a snack. “Oh my, doll….. are those?” You nodded your head at your boyfriend’s question. “Buck! Y/N made ma’s cookies! And I’m not sharing!” Steve grabbed the plate and ran off with them, leaving you with a kiss. Bucky was now running after him. You stopped Bucky as he was running through the kitchen, “calm yourself, I knew he would do that, here,” you pulled out another plate that had more cookies on it. Bucky sat down, “thanks Y/N,” he bit into one, “these are perfect, just like Sarah used to make.” You smiled and thanked him for the compliment. “Now, don’t eat them all, I’m going to go find Steve,” you walked off to find your rascal of a boyfriend. You found him in your closet, “Steven… whatcha doin’?” He looked up at you guilty, “nothing,” he said, stuffing another cookie in his mouth. “Uh huh, and what’s that in your mouth.” Steve looked down at the plate, “sorry,” “no you’re not,” you teased, Steve shook his head, “love youuuu,” “and I love you too, but you gotta share.” You gave him a kiss and took the plate while he was distracted, he looked up at you shocked, “doll?” His face switched to one of a sad puppy. You handed him one last cookie, “one more, and I’ll make you your own batch on your birthday, deal?” Steve agreed and ate his cookie. The rest of the team got back from their mission and you all enjoyed the cookies while having a team movie night

[kate66s]

Let's be honest, if Jax was given ANY opportunity to kill, he would do it. It doesn't even need to be a lord of the flies situation. I bet he would be like Deadpool if given the chance, only he wouldn't care about killing baby Hitler he'd probably just kill the whole nursery if it had no consequences.....and even if it did he'd mostly shrug it off. People are constantly like "uwu Jax would be sweet to me, I can change him, I'll be his partner in crime, he has a soft side" my fellow clowns and carnies, this man is a menace for a reason, he understands he is in a game and that there are practically no consequences to what he does besides possibly being the one to degrade everyone's mental state but that's just him keeping them on edge. He knows dame well if he ever did get out he is most likely not gonna remember anyone in there and they won't remember him along with the fact that if they ever do get out they definitely aren't gonna find him or recognize him, so if anything he is a menace became that is what will allow him to thrive in this kind of environment.....also did yall forget WHO he was based on? HE IS BASED ON GOD DAME POPEE

Not just from a design point but most likely from a personality point too, and despite us only having a pilot and a couple of adds it's clear to see Jax is into thrills and violence, hell that knife thrown at Ragitha was most likely him especially considering Ragitha's response to the whole thing and how she reacts to Jax on a usual basis. This bunny gonna be on the levels of absolute menace as Carl, and I mean that as both the cupcake and the llama. Goose said Jax is gonna to do soo much more worse things later on if the show gets greenlit and my guess is that he is gonna be pulling the kind of shit Popee would pull, being more than just a jackass who bullies and annoys anyone and is gonna be doing things that would either cause bodly harm or could have killed a person in a real world. Jax is that one person in GTA who does nothing but drive around recklessly, gets full stars and runs over EVERYONE.

But hey, that's just my opinion so see ya

Who in the circus would be the first to become hostile and kill in a lord of the flies scenario.

Congrats on the views and internet fame btw

the rabbit one

[findingjoynweirdstuff]

Dream SMP Recap (December 6/2020) - End of Week

What started as a sad but calm day ended with a revolution where morality was questioned and blood was shed. The server’s first canon death since the three lives rule was implemented occurred, and all hell broke loose.

Dream’s motivations have started to be laid bare, but whether or not he’s in the wrong or right remains foggy as ever in a world where everyone’s morals are gray.

Also, the prison’s construction continues and some strange red corruptions called “Blood Vines” have sprouted up on the server.

A short summary of the week’s total events is at the end of the post.

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- HBomb hosts Niki and Wilbur’s L’Cast

- Fundy continues work on the chess board

- Ranboo is leaving a book with messages to communicate with Tommy

- Fundy and Ranboo visit Tommy and help him through the Nether to find blaze rods. It’s a very...interesting...time... Fundy fills Tommy in on the fact that Dream is officially recognizing L’manburg as a country.

- Tommy falls in lava and loses all his stuff

- Then he burns to death

- Then he falls in lava and loses all his stuff again

- He FINALLY gets an ender chest

- Lazar asks him for help since he’d fallen in lava and needed help getting out. As Tommy does so, Lazar questions why Tommy hasn’t turned against L’manburg. Tommy says it’s because Tubbo is there, but Lazar points out that Tubbo was the one who exiled him.

- Ghostbur comes on and says he has a gift.

- Tommy attempts to rescue Lazar from the depths of the lava pit. Techno starts arguing with him.

- Tommy falls in lava and loses all his stuff again. He gives up on helping Lazar, who is understandably annoyed at him.

- Philza joins the call wondering wtf is happening and why Tommy keeps dying, but Tommy just ends stream

- Psyche! After credits scene. Ghostbur asks Tommy to return to Logstedshire so he dies in lava to fast-travel back. Ghostbur gives Tommy a lodestone compass named “Your Tubbo” that points back to L’manburg at all times. Tommy puts the compass in his ender chest right next to the discs, saying he’ll keep it close to his heart.

- Thunder’s frustrated that Tommy got exiled exiled because the Prank War he was setting up between Dream and Tommy can no longer happen and Thunder’s great villain arc has been cancelled - he is no longer a villain now.

- Now, he wants to do the clay prank to George instead to try and get Dream and George to turn on each other as revenge for Dream burning his house.

- Puffy builds Tommy a second Christmas Tree.

--- Note: From this point on I tried to include more specific details than normal since it’s an important and confusing event ---

- Quackity declares war on the Dream SMP from Mexican L’manburg. He gets George, Sapnap and Karl on to help. He’s rigged TNT under Eret’s castle bridge and wants to invoke the same ideas as the Mexican Revolution. He wants to put M.L. on the map by staging an assassination and using George’s dethronement as an excuse to start a political movement.

- Sapnap wants to take on Technoblade but Quackity tells him that they have to take things step by step and that it’s an extremely bad idea to do it now.

- Eret asks Hbomb to be one of his knights. HBomb agrees.

- George wants his kingship back 

The explosion goes to plan with H and Puffy as witnesses.

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CANON DEATH: KARL 

Cause: Death by explosion and falling

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- George distracts Eret while Quackity, Sapnap and Karl steal his throne. Punz joins Eret’s side as one of his other knights.

 - The M.L. side reconvenes in L’manburg and drink invisibility potions. Dream is in Mexican L’manburg. He is tearing the dirt to shreds. Meanwhile, Eret gives a speech to his Knights as they head to Party Island. Dream, alone, is invisible in Boomerville.

- Sapnap gets Dream to log (he says it’s lag). The Dream SMP faction blows up M.L. with TNT. The Mexican L’manburgians kill Puffy. 

- They want to head to the Holy Land. Dream says he wants to talk. They collect at the Church.

- They argue. Dream threatens to kill Quackity permanently and make sure Mexican L’manburg can never rise again. (Also Karl’s acting is genuinely good holy shit)

- Sapnap tells George that he thinks Dream has completely turned against them, and that they’re better off disowning him.

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Dream: “You’re painting me as this tyrant when I’m just trying to maintain peace.”

He refers to it as his castle, his throne. He calls the people of M.L. “terrorists.”

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He says that in his eyes, Mexican L’manburg does not even exist, and that he’ll speak to Tubbo about making sure he sees that it doesn’t exist as well.

M.L. argues that putting a human life above a few blocks of gold is more important.

Dream refers to himself as the “ruler” of the Dream SMP, the “leader,” letting it slip that “king” is a meaningless title.

He says that Quackity is causing the most problems, the number one “enemy” of the SMP right now. Similar to how he referred to Tommy defying him.

He says that Quackity is not like Tubbo, who is a “fair, just ruler” and that is why New L’manburg is recognized and Mexican L’manburg is not. Tubbo would never do what Quackity did. Wilbur and Jschlatt and Tommy would. He says that he waited until New L’manburg had a reasonable leader to recognize it.

- “Un-killing” is implied to be a thing, where the person who gave you your canon death can take it back. 

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 Dream: “The king is a figurehead and he knows that!”

Eret: “I do.”

Quackity: “So that’s what you are Eret -- a puppet--”

Dream: “Yes! -- no he’s not a puppet-- h-he has no power and I have - and - it’s the same thing and--”

(Dream proceeds to deny Eret being a “puppet”)

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- Quackity decides to dissolve Mexican L’manburg for a clean slate and call it something else. He wants the server to have a precedent of establishing new countries without having to go to Dream for recognition every time.

- Eret agrees to recognize Quackity’s new country if they apologize and return the throne.

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CANON UNDEATHING: KARL (?)*

* Dream says that the death is still canon later since plot was based around it. I don’t know what Karl considers his death count to be? 

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- Sapnap declares that he no longer wants to fight Techno but Dream instead. He says he wants to slay Dream in front of everyone.

- Overall, Dream and Eret declare it a “failed coup” and say that the destruction is just a consequence of “what happens when you don’t plan anything” but Quackity is satisfied that his new country has been “put on the map.” 

- Quackity declares the country to be named “El Rapids” in honor of Cedar Rapids.

- Punz no longer wants to be an official Knight.

- Quackity misses Ghostbur and wants to speak with him. He tells Ghostbur about the war. Ghostbur asks if it was a revolution - Quackity says yes! Ghostbur also informs Quackity that he burnt the sacred texts - How to Sex 2 - in lava.

- Karl streams with the intention of rebuilding and preparing for Pokimane’s visit

- Karl steals Eret’s Museum Llamas and gets caught in the act. Fortunately this doesn’t spark up the war again. They take a llama to Party Island.

- They get into trouble at Boomerville and Lazar joins.

- Dream comes online and asks Sam about the prison’s progress. Bad gets annoyed at Sam for destroying the beachfront property value, and he didn’t authorize the seizure of the land. Dream is there helping to shovel but Bad wants him to stop. Bad is angry about the prison being built and starts shouting at Sam.

- Bad tries to negotiate with Dream. Dream refers to the prison as containing a “prisoner.” Singular. And that the prisoner would have nothing, and Bad would be in charge of helping to guard it. There are going to be multiple “layers.”

- The prison will be in the middle of the ocean bit, and Bad would have a terraformed beachfront property. All of the land would be considered property of the Badlands - including the prison.

- People are going to have to go through PORTALS to escape the prison.

- Bad starts to come around to the prison idea. Dream tells Sam he thinks they need more hands to help, potentially Ant and Eret.

- A strange, giant red “egg” has appeared in the corner of Bad’s statue room. He feels a strange aura coming from it, and he’s unable to bring himself to break it.

- Dream says Eret can’t help with the prison but he can help make the beach nicer. Bad says he might want to put Tommy in the prison but Dream says no, Tommy’s already exiled. So the prison isn’t for Tommy.

- Once the prisoner is in there, Dream says they would only be able to be let out “by the server.” It’s got certain secrets that only Dream and Sam know about. Sam says that he could potentially escape from it, but it will be so impenetrable that even if you know the secrets it would still be difficult to escape from.

- Bad shows Dream the Egg. Dream gets creeped out by it.

- Another Red Corruption has appeared near Hutt’s Pizza, and another at the Mansion. Everyone swears that it wasn’t there before, and there wasn’t enough time for someone to place all of it manually in the time that they were down there.

- Bad stabs Dream for trying to “hurt it.” He likes it for some reason.

- Bad asks Dream about who the prison’s for. Dream says “if you can’t kill somebody, you need to lock them up.” He mentions that it’s one of the more powerful people on the server, someone who either provides a threat now or in the future. He has someone in mind.

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Dream explains to Bad and Sam that the reason he switched sides in the Manberg-Pogtopia War was because Schlatt gave him something.

And that thing is “a card up his sleeve” until he needs it.

A book of great value.

It puts Dream in danger if people know of it, but also gives Dream power.

The “most valuable thing on the server.”

Something pertaining to the prison.

Something where they wouldn’t believe Dream if he told them what he was given.

--- ---

- The corruption grows AGAIN despite Dream, Sam and Bad all being in the middle of the ocean

- Another corruption appears on Tommy’s Power Tower

- The water level in New L’manburg has risen again, covering George and Quackity’s mushroom house

- The prison is going to be as tall as a MOUNTAIN

- Dream proposes the idea of Bad giving him the disc to piss off Tommy. Bad says that Skeppy has it so he’ll have to ask some other time. He might trade some information about Schlatt’s book in return for the disc.

- Bad says he likes the name a dono came up with for the corruption -- “Blood Vines”

- Dream and Sam removed the Blood Vines on the Mansion to Bad’s dismay. Sam burns the Vines and Bad goes on a murderous rampage against him.

- Technoblade got a “Bee our guest” achievement

- Dream burns down the Eiffel Tower again.

- The prison will be reinforced with 15 layers of obsidian, and the guards will have Ender Pearl Stasis Chambers that are alarm-activated.

- The Blood Vines have sprouted up from Schlatt’s Grave.

The prison’s unofficial name as of right now is “Pandora’s Vault,” but it is subject to change.

Upcoming events:

- Karl will be touring Pokimane around soon

Potentially Scrapped:

- Elytra Challenge

- Bad and Skeppy’s plan to burn the disc *

* Bad mentioned it on stream, but it’s unclear if it’ll still happen

END OF WEEK RECAP:

11/30: Fundy bonds with Wilbur, Cursed Lore Day

12/01: Creation of Mexican L’manburg, Girl Dream visits, Mexican Manhunt

Note: not sure what’s up with 12/02. Probably messed up the dates? Whoops.

12/03: Sleepy Bois Family splits in half, dethroning of George

12/04: Day of the Exile, Badlands start to divide

12/05: Tommy’s first full day in Logsted, Sean’s visit

12/06: The Mexican L’manburg Revolution, end of M.L., start of El Rapids

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!!! SPOILERS AHEAD !!! 

- Wilbur had two special lodestone compasses in his inventory. He didn’t want HBomb to see, but H looked anyway.

[random-writing-shit]

The Hazmat Suit

(A/N: If you've read my Wylie and Glimmer hc, you'd know that Wylie has a Hazmat suit. But little did you know, there's a backstory behind that)

Lloyd knew he was going to terrorize all of Solreef, but being the annoying little ass he was, he couldn't disappoint the expectations

Lately, Wylie had been interested in cleaning, and his inception date was coming up, so Lloyd had been looking for the perfect gift.

And he found it.

Without a doubt, he grabbed it, paid for it, and left.

The cashier gave him a weird side-eye when he squealed as she bagged, but that didn't matter.

What mattered was that he would terrorize everyone.

But first, he had to pick up something from Dex.

A week ago, he'd commissioned Dex to make him a machine combined with Roomba brushes and the hum.

In human terms, it sounds like 10 drills going off at the same time. Or in other words, very, very annoying.

Time skip to Wylie's inception date.

"Aaaand, time for my gift."

Everyone groaned.

His gifts were notorious for being his definition of hilarious.

"Don't worry. I wish all the best for Wylie."

Shaking, Wylie unwrapped his gift, and when he saw what it was, tears of joy came to his eyes.

"Oh, Lloyd, you- you really mean it?"

"Yup. And it's all for you. No more having to use the shared suit."

When Lloyd looked over at Tiergan, he also had tears.

Not of joy or laughter, but the very opposite of that.

It was bad enough that Wylie cleaned all day, but with this, he would do it non-stop, day and night.

"But wait, that's not all."

The tears on Tieran's face came down stronger.

"Here."

At that, Lloyd presented the Roomba brush.

Wylie's eyes gleamed with happiness.

"Is this a dream?"

"No. It's very real, buddy."

Without hesitating, Wylie left to change into the Hazmat suit and grabbed the cleaning supplies.

"Tiergan, are you okay?" Linh asked Tiergan, who was on the couch, sobbing.

"No. I will never be the same again. Lloyd. Wylie. HAZMAT SUIT!!!!!"

And so, it came to be that Wylie would clean day and night.

He didn't eat.

Didn't sleep.

Didn't do anything other than cleaning.

One day, Prentice came over.

He was fully recovered and willing to see the children that Tiergan had managed to collect over time.

When he arrived, Tiergan answered the door, eyes bloodshot and desperate.

"Help me. Wylie won't stop cleaning, and the Roomba is- no, please don't go! I'm losing my sanity!"

But it was too late.

Prentice had already leaped away.

Leaving Tiergan to suffer from his grown-ass kid.

(A/N: So there you have it, folks. The heartwarming story of Wylie's Hazmat suit. Am I sorry for this out-of-the-blue fanfic? No.)

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[astr0-n4ught]

This seems fun!

January - Gross, Penelope Scott (that’s… concerning but ok)

February-Warm Regards (OH DEAR GOD TWO IN A ROW?!)

March- I Heard Ya, Jack Stauber (I don’t know how to feel rn)

April- Bonetrousle (OH HELL YEAH)

May- Mama’s Boy, Dominic Fike (why must I be tortured in this way.)

June-It Means Everything, Omori (I just can’t get a break, can I?)

July: Beginning, Toby Fox (bit late for a beginning, but ok)

August: Spear of Justice, Toby Fox ( nice, also this is an unholy amount of Mr. Fox)

September- My Love Mine All Mine, Mitski (if this is implying what I think it is, then I am super happy)

October- My Time, Omori (I am torn here, on one hand, this is a really exciting song, but it plays during… well UH-)

November- Ghost Duet, Louie Zong (Oh god after My Time too?? I’m in danger)

December- Born2Run, Penelope Scott (WHY MORE PENELOPE GODDAMMIT)

Welp. I am not going to make it out of 2024 with an intact wellbeing (not to say that it wasn’t already obliterated).

Anyway, tags: @the-trash-eating-llama @localcanadiancryptid22 @salamander-crimes @caffeinated-and-annoying-bard @halexyon @i-eat-rusty-nails @bemused-rodent

i wanna start a tag game so: let your spotify predict your 2024!

shuffle your on repeat playlist, and the first twelve songs represent your 2024

january- guns and ships- hamilton (idek what this could represent but okay)

february- we fell in love in october- girl in red (PLEASE)

march- say no to this- hamilton (…i have nothing to say about this)

april- castles crumbling- taylor swift ft hayley williams (damnit sad month then?)

may- you’re losing me- taylor swift (FUCK TWO SAD MONTHS?? breakup songs are even worse now that im actually in a relationship. please. better not be accurate)

june- astronomy- conan gray (please stop why am i having so many sad songs)

july- stoned- ed sheeran (oh fuck this)

august- new year’s day- taylor swift (hm okay. idk what to say about this)

september- heather- conan gray (i consider heather to be a happy song AND it’s mine and my partners song so i’m taking this as a good one)

october- 18- one direction (yessss we’re going okay now)

november- king of my heart- taylor swift (YESSS)

december- all too well (ten minute version)- taylor swift (i take it back ugh)

no pressure tags!!- @autumnleavesforwinter @weeping-in-the-willows @swiftieannah @felizusnavidad @jittyjames @anixknowsnothin (please help me get this off the ground, but also if this flops you saw nothing)

[whyamiherewhosummonedme]

It's analysis time motherfuckers, because that conversation with Dream in front of the Nether Portal was INTERESTING.

So, Technoblade owes Dream a favor. We all knew that this fact would be important, and it's shaping up to be even MORE important than we thought. Let's talk about some of the most important things that could be understood from that little conversation, shall we?

First, Techno bringing up the favor in the first place, sounding very excited. This can be taken in two possible ways. One (and probably the more likely explanation) is that Technoblade the minecraft youtuber and ex-english major is extremely excited for whatever is planned to happen when that favor gets called in, and wanted to remind the audience (and Tommy) that it's a thing, which is worrying all on its own because Technoblade likes greek mythology and greek mythology is not kind. The other explanation is that Technoblade, the anarchist pigman in a world full of government, is sick and tired of Tommy constantly messing up his plans (being the opposite of stealthy when sneaking into L'manberg, dragging random violent llamas around while trying to do a mission, stealing and wasting some of the most valuable objects he has such as slowfalling potions and gapples) and wants him gone. He was excited to bring up the idea of betraying Tommy with the excuse of a favor, because it would rid him of a loud, annoying, useless thorn in his side. Remember, SBI isn't a family to Techno. Tommy isn't really a brother. Just some random kid who used him, threw him to the side after his usefulness was complete, then came running back and demanding his aid once again when he finally was forced to face some consequences. It would be a blessing for Dream to get rid of him for Techno. The pig may be manipulating him like the god before him and the musician before him, but he isn't really getting anything out of it.

Second, Dream's response. He hesitated, mulling over whether or not to do what Techno said and cash in his favor right then and there. Either he did that and brought Tommy under his grasp once more, or he saved it for later, likely to be used during or after whatever he's planning that will make everyone hate him. However, Tommy has come to realize that Dream was manipulating him, even if he hasn't really seemed to come to terms with it fully. He told Dream to his face that he was a manipulator and told the most powerful man on the server, literally God, to go fuck himself. I imagine that Dream realized that there was no way to bring Tommy back to heel - he'd gone too far in the opposite direction, intentionally not taking a damn thing seriously and being the biggest asshole he could possibly be. It would be far too much work to make this child obedient again, if he could do so at all - no, the plan had to be changed. The same trick wouldn't work twice, at least not from the same man. So, he decided to keep that favor for later, pulling on one of his backup plans. And if there's one thing Dream has shown, it's that he's never, ever unprepared. I always think back to the behind the scenes videos on Punz's channel of the Revolutionary War, and how Dream prepared for the absolute worst-case scenario and set up three separate backup plans in case something happened that he hadn't expected, none of which even needed to be used. If that's what his planning skills were like back then... Then what the hell kind of ludicrous backup plans does he have NOW?

Third, the Disc. Dream said that he got Tommy's disc Cat back from Skeppy, who's had it longer than Tommy ever did by now. This wouldn't seem to be much of something to think about, except that the last time we saw Skeppy, he'd been infected by the Crimson. He had the disc at that point, even going so far as to toss it around and threaten to burn it. And the thing is, Skeppy has not been cured. Dream didn't get the disc from Skeppy, he got it from Red Skeppy, who has declared that his only desire is for the Crimson to grow and prosper. He doesn't even care about Bad kissing other people in front of him, and burned 14 wholeass diamond blocks because he didn't care about them. How, exactly, did Dream negotiate with him? What could he have given Red Skeppy to convince him to give up Cat? And how will this affect the Crimson arc, which has been confirmed to be important to the main plotline?

And fourth, a smaller thing that still caught my interest: Dream protesting over his supposed homelessness. Now, I firmly believe that Dream is telling the truth that he does, in fact, have a base - there is no fucking way that he carries everything on him, not when he apparently has so much stuff to throw around, and also as he evidently has at least a Piglin trading farm (he gave Sam 5 or 6 stacks of enderpearls after he asked for them for the Vault construction, all the obsidian for the New L'manberg Walls, and him making it clear that he wanted to play everything legitimately in Survival Mode), likely with other farms hidden around the server (the Trident farm that he tore down after showing where it was, and the villager trading hall that Punz found under his base while cleaning out Blood Vines). There's absolutely no way that he doesn't have a hidden base, even if just to hold all his items. The only reason that he doesn't show it to Technoblade to prove that he does, in fact, have a house is because wants to keep it actually hidden, since his last hidden base was griefed constantly the moment it was found. However, while protesting and saying that he does have a base tp Techno, he stopped himself in the middle of yelling and said "you'll see, you'll see" in a much softer tone. This makes me, personally, believe that that hidden base is indeed going to be a plot point in the future, or at the very least it'll be found and explored. This then makes me wonder about what Dream hinted at before, with him having to run away after he does something that will make the entire server hate him. Will he be chased after when he runs? Will there finally be a manhunt on the SMP run by someone who grew popular for his manhunts? And if there is, will they find Dream inside of his base, or will they find it abandoned, or is it well-hidden enough that they will never find it at all, and he'll explicitly show it to someone when the time comes for a grand reveal of whatever's hidden in there? I don't know, but I look forward to whatever the plan is!

Basically, while the lore stuff was relatively short, I'm a Dream apologist and am constantly reading too much into things to try and figure out what the hell is planned in the future. No matter what, we can be certain that things will come to a head in two days. Let's watch these fireworks, shall we?

[syngoniums]

Two from Exotica's spring sale - Nepenthes truncata (squat) x nebularum and N. truncata giant x giant.

I really like truncata hybrids. They tolerate the warmth and less-than-ideal humidity of my home, and are also quite forgiving of the occasional missed watering. They will, of course, get very large, and they don't vine. These are the parents of the plant above:

Huge! But accomodating that is a problem for future syngoniums. For now, I'd like to focus on N. nebularum, because it is the heart of the nepenthes community's most passionate drama.

Behold:

On the left is Nepenthes robcantleyi, endemic to the island of Mindanao and quite possibly extinct in the wild. On the right is Nepenthes nebularum, also from Mindanao, also large and dark with truncate leaves. If you're staring at them wondering what the difference is, congrats! That's the whole argument! Some believe they're the same species, whereas some agree with Geoff Mansell's assertion that nebularum is the true species, and robcantleyi is actually a hybrid of nebularum and truncata. My plant above was part of an attempt to prove that, though ngl it looks a lot like existing trunc x rob crosses.

This disagreement has been complicated by factionalism. Robcantleyi was named for Robert Cantley, who along with his wife Diana runs one of the leading carnivorous plant nurseries in the world, Borneo Exotics. Geoff Mansell, on the other hand, runs Exotica Plants, also a leading carnivorous plant nurseries. They are essentially one another's biggest competitors, though their focuses are somewhat different. BE propagates a lot of species and straightforward hybrids, and their plants are widely available from distributors around the world, usually at reasonable prices. Most carnivorous plant nurseries sell BE plants.

Exotica, on the other hand, focuses mostly on pitcher extremes - extreme color, extreme stripes, extreme size, etc., and you can only order directly from them in Australia or from a handful of approved distributors. They have produced some extremely complex hybrids. They can also be pretty pricey, though to be fair they send some huge specimens for the money. In the U.S., their exclusive distributor is Redleaf Exotics, run by evergreen drama llama Dom Gravine*. (Full disclosure: that's where I bought these from.) You might think they could coexist peacefully, but rabid Exotica fanboys exist, and they are annoying as hell, and they will fight you to the death over the nebularum debate. (Here's Dom himself getting into it with Carnivero's Drew Martinez.)

Now, you might be asking: hasn't anyone done a genetic analysis to try and resolve the question of their relationships to each other, truncata and N. veitchii, instead of staring at the handful of plants grown from wild-collected seeds and making subjective statements about them? The answer is no, of course not, you fucking nerd. We pick sides and we fight about them on social media, like men! (Or, you know, treat them as hort names with 'tbd' attached and go on with your life. That's what I'm doing.)

*There's another operator, Jerry Brady, but he stays out of trouble and there's no reason to drag him into this. He's a lowland guy anyway.

[ruddcatha]

Ok, so this is entirely inspired by @kalsies​ Let It Snow contribution today, and I’m not even sorry.

Inuyasha is planning a Christmas Surprise for Kagome.  Will everything go to plan?

Find the full story on Archive of our own or below the cut (banner by the fabulous @neutronstarchild​

The house smelled of ginger and spice, and everything nice, a tribute to the holiday dinner that was to occur the following day.  A silver-haired man stood framed in a doorway, checking his list twice to make sure everything was just right.  If anything was  messed up, he knew there would be massive trouble.

His lips slid into a lazy smile as his golden eyes took in the decorated pine tree standing in the corner, his nose twitching a little at the scent.  He wasn’t a fan of the scent—it tended to overwhelm his senses—but his girlfriend loved it, and he loved her, so there he was, with a real tree standing in the corner.  His silver hair was a stark contrast to the red that he wore as he crossed to it, reaching out to touch an ornament that hung there that proudly proclaimed, “Our First Christmas.”

“Feh.” His smile deepened.

Inuyasha Takahashi had never really celebrated Christmas, and then one Kagome Higurashi burst into his life.  It had taken him a year to convince her to go out with him, and another two years to finally, finally, move in with him.  It was their first Christmas together in their joint apartment, and Kagome had insisted that they go all out and host the annual family Christmas dinner there, rather than at her family’s shrine.

Inuyasha wasn’t a big fan of people invading his space, but this… yeah, he was fine with this, because of what it represented, what it meant.

If they were hosting the family dinner, it meant they all saw him as family, and damned if that wasn’t his one and only Christmas wish.

For Kagome Higurashi, his sweet, annoying, adorable, frustratingly perfect Kagome, to agree to be his wife.

He had planned everything: the setting, the lighting, the music that was being played.  It would be tonight, just the two of them, special in its own way, where he finally asked her, and he looked forward to celebrating the next day with her… no… their family, no longer just accepted, but as one of them.

Yeah, that he was looking forward to.

Kagome had been baking for the last two days and had made enough pies and cookies to feed an army, but she had insisted that they needed more. When she had run out to get more groceries, he had put his plan into action; it gave him the perfect alone time that he needed to get it all prepared.

He looked at the ring that he had picked out for her, the diamond picking up the twinkling of the Christmas tree, creating a kaleidoscope of colors that shone on the red velvet that held the ring.  His lips curled into a smirk, one fang peeking out over the edge of his lip.

Yeah, it was going to be perfect.

And it was going to be so... them.

An ear at the top of his head flicked towards the door; over the music he could hear movement in the stairwell, and knew it was Kagome.

It was GO time.

He approached the tree swiftly, sliding carefully into the place he prepared for himself, shifting the lights so he wouldn’t tangle in them, but not making it obvious anyone was there.

The scent of the tree enveloped him… he hadn’t been able to figure out a way to prevent that without making himself visible, and that would have stopped the surprise.  With his nose overwhelmed, he let himself pout for a moment that he wouldn’t be able to catch the sweet smell of vanilla and roses that was Kagome.   Despite how uncomfortable he was, he knew that the momentary irritation would be worth it when he saw her eyes light up and when he heard her perfect voice say “yes.”

Inuyasha settled in to wait, letting the music wash over him.  He heard the key turn in the door just as “All I want for Christmas is You” started to play… right on cue.

Damn, he was good.

“Inuyasha…?” Kagome called out, and he closed his eyes and  let the sound of her voice soothe his nerves.

The music and the insulation from the tree muffled her footsteps, but he could tell she was drawing closer, any moment now…

“Inuyasha, are you here?”  His ears shot to attention, that was from the living room… it was time.

“MERRY CHRISTMAS KAGOME!”

A nearly naked Inuyasha jumped out of the tree, wearing only a giant red bow tied low around his hips, the ring secured carefully on the knot, landing in front of Kagome…

And her mother…

“Shit,” Inuyasha whispered, his hands quickly covering himself as his face began to burn.

“Oh my god… INUYASHA!” Kagome wailed, dropping the bags she carried to cover her face with her hands.  “Mom… I… I… oh my god.”

“It is nice to see you, Inuyasha; do try and have more on tomorrow during dinner, though.”  Kagome’s head jerked up to stare at her mother as Inuyasha hid himself in the tree again.

“Dear, I was young and in love once,”  Kagome’s mother said before carefully grabbing the bags from the floor and hurried to the kitchen, calling out over her shoulder, “I will take care of these and see myself out.”

Inuyasha waited till he heard the door close behind Mama Higurashi before peeking his head out, the embarrassed scowl on his face fading as he saw Kagome’s hands covering her face again. He watched her shoulders shake as his nose caught the faint scent of salt over the damn pine.

“Ah shit, I’m sorry Kagome.” He darted to her side, his arms reaching out to hold her when he suddenly realized…

She wasn’t crying…

She was fucking laughing…

“What the fuck?” He growled.

Kagome’s hands dropped to her stomach as her laughter grew louder.

“Oh my god, Inuyasha! That was priceless… your face… her…” Kagome howled in laughter.

“Keh, yuk it up woman,” he snarled, his ears drooping… all his fucking plans… tossed out the window.

“What were you thinking?” Kagome asked, choking down her laughter to watch him, wiping tears from her eyes.

Inuyasha mumbled and turned his head away with a low growl.

Kagome took a moment to catch her breath, her eyes drinking in the sight of her tall, gorgeous boyfriend standing before her in nothing but a red bow.  Now that the embarrassment of her mother seeing her boyfriend in almost nothing, she could appreciate just how…

“Oh my god,” she gasped.

Inuyasha’s head snapped to her, an irritated glint in his eyes.

“Is that… is that a ring?”

Inuyasha’s ears fell.

“I had it all planned out,” he grumbled.

“What… what was the plan?” Kagome whispered.

“Feh, it's ruined now.”

“Inuyasha,” Kagome slowly moved forward to rest a hand on his chest, letting her fingers dance over his skin.  She looked up at him through her lashes, a look that she knew made him weak, but she had to know, “what was the plan?”

“That’s playing dirty, Kagome,” he mumbled as his breathing went erratic and the bow twitched.

“Mmmm.”  Kagome slid her hand up his chest to his neck, drawing him down for a kiss.

“Kagome…” he groaned, trying to pull away.

“What was the plan Inuyasha?”

He sighed, resting his forehead against hers.

“Damn woman… I was gonna jump out and surprise you, offer you your Christmas present early.”

“And what was that going to be?” Kagome breathed, raising her other hand to stroke his hair before brushing against his ear.

“Me.”

She went still as her brain turned to mush.

“I was gonna give you every Christmas with me for the rest of our lives.”

Kagome pulled her head back to stare at him, her chocolate eyes locked on his, seeing every emotion flickering there: the hope, the embarrassment, the fear, but above all… the love.

She smiled, tears forming in her eyes again, and Inuyasha felt his heart stutter.

“You know this is going to be one hell of an engagement story,” she said quietly, “but it’s also so you.”

“Ka… Kagome?”

She reached down, grabbing one end of the bow and tugging, feeling the velvet give way.  She took a hold of the ring as the ribbon fell from his hips, leaving him naked before her.  She lifted her  hand with the ring and slid it onto her ring finger, her eyes never leaving his as she bit her bottom lip.

Inuyasha’s eyes went wide before he lifted her into his arms, spinning her around as he let out a shout of joy before capturing her mouth with his.  He felt her legs wrap around his hips as he poured all his love into the kiss, searing her taste into his soul.

It was official. Christmas was now his favorite holiday, because it had given him his biggest wish: a life with her.

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[peachyydesires]

The YTTD Cast Playing Minecraft

genre: crack / platonic relationships

warnings: n/a 

bloopers: 🌳 [tba]

a/n: my good friend, alyson, and i wrote this as a collab together! she has an ao3 account that she recently started for both danganronpa and your turn to die! if you like either fandom, i 110% suggest to go check out her work/subscribe to her! she’s an amazing person so go show her some love if you can!! i recruited her a bit last minute and we spent all day yesterday writing, but this was definitely one of the most enjoyable things to write so far! 

Keiji Shinogi (Aka The 1st Boomer):

❏ This man has BARELY any idea how to play Minecraft at first. Hell, he even had to get Gin to help him install it on his computer. He has to learn how to even use the basic controls, and he’s constantly asking the others what certain keys do (does he do this just to be annoying? The world may never know).

❏ Once he gets the hang of the game, things go a little bit smoother, but not completely. While he may have quickly learned all of the buttons, there’s still a lot more to Minecraft such as PVP, building, mining, the bosses, crafting, etc, and that takes him an eternity to learn (don’t even get me STARTED on the Nether and the End). Without his other friends, he’d probably be stuck in the middle of the night with zero protection or tools on him to fight the mobs that spawn.

❏ He’s mostly just there for the laughs; while he’ll try to stay out of the way from his friends, he’ll show up at the most erratic times. He’ll either immediately teleport himself to someone in the middle of fighting a group of mobs or invade someone’s house and steal their stuff just for fun. 

❏ While he’s not as much of a prankster as Shin, he’ll still do some of the most random actions ever, even if it’s not to annoy others. He’ll place down a random door in the middle of a room and just leave it there, or make several holes in the ground while trying to punch some grass to clear it out. When the group is on a voice call, 90% of the call is just the others yelling at Keiji to stop planting trees on their farms. 

❏ He’s not one to explore, but wherever his friends are, he is. He’ll tag along with them nearly anywhere, whether they’re doing a dangerous excursion to the End or traveling across the sea, he’ll always be tagging along. He honestly doesn’t know the point of the game, but again, he’s just there for the laughs. 

Joe Tazuna (Aka The Brave One):

❏ Joe has played Minecraft before, but he doesn’t care about building a pretty mansion or planting flowers. This man will live in a tiny dirt hut and beat the game. The one thing that Joe always plans on doing whenever he starts a new world is to get a dog and name them “Sven” after he watched one of his favorite YouTuber’s playthroughs one night instead of studying. He would do anything to save his dog, even if it means sacrificing his friends’ lives.

❏ When he plays on multiplayer servers, he always insists on getting the supplies and food for everyone. It’s pretty much all he does. He isn’t afraid of caves or mobs, and he won’t hesitate to run towards a creeper to stab it repeatedly. He is, however, terrified of skeletons and endermen since they always kill him. Once, he dropped down into a cave after spotting iron on the surface, only to be ambushed by a horde of skeletons. No one came to help him. 

❏ He tends to forget about his hunger level until he actually starts taking damage. The same thing goes with drowning. It doesn’t help that he’s constantly sprinting wherever he goes. Because of this, he’s constantly falling into caves, ravines, and even little holes filled with water, yet no one ever helps him get out. They usually leave him behind, or they think that he’s simply lost. 

❏ His girlfriend, Ryoko, hasn’t yet tried Minecraft, despite him begging for her to play with him 24/7. Although constructing a fancy house isn’t his cup of tea, he’ll do anything to play with Ryoko. He even once asked Sara to help him practice with his Minecraft dates. He needed help with his wording of asking Ryoko if he could put his bed next to hers, so Sara volunteered to assist him.

❏ Joe’s always falling into lava as well, and he gets very frustrated when it happens. Whenever he falls, he starts screaming into his mic while on voice calls (he doesn’t curse because he’s cool like that), yet still, no one comes to help him. Sara only says “teleport to me!” but it’s always too late. Keiji once offered to help him, but Joe declined, saying he didn’t trust or like him since he’s creepy towards Sara. 

Q-Taro Burgerberg (Aka A Minecraft Veteran):

❏ Besides Joe and Gin, Q-Taro surprisingly knows the most about Minecraft. He used to play it a lot when he was younger before he started getting into baseball, so he knows the basics such as crafting and mining. Despite not picking up a controller in years, he still knows all of the mechanics the game has to offer as not much has changed when it comes to the controls.

❏ What HAS changed, however, is literally everything else in the game. All of the major updates over the years have nearly changed the game completely, including the Nether, the End, the villages, even the ocean became useful. He doesn’t realize this at first until he goes into the Nether and sees that it’s completely changed (He’ll stand there for a moment, wondering why the caves haven't been updated but the Nether of all things has). 

❏ He’ll have to completely relearn the game, having Gin teach him all of the new mechanics such as elytras, banners, shields, etc, and all of the new structures including ruined portals, pillager towers, shipwrecks, etc. He’s always confused on call, constantly asking what a certain block is or yelling into his mic, “Uhh, I found something!!” 

❏ One thing about Q-Taro is that he loves to mine. It’s the one useful thing that hasn’t changed all too much, so he can still help out and gather ores for everyone else. Although, he has to have the best armor out of the rest of the group or he might just commit theft. When he learns about Netherite, however, he refuses to wear it; he doesn’t want to admit that diamond isn’t the best in the game anymore, although no matter how many enchantments he puts on it, his armor will never be as good as netherite.

❏ In all honesty, he forgets the majority of the information that Gin tells him. Even after all of the warnings that Gin gives him to ‘not punch everything he sees’, he still punches everything he sees. He’ll run up to something new and whisper vaguely into the mic, “I’m gonna punch it.” And before Gin can scream for him not to, he’ll give the new block or mob a nice good smack. Beehives, llamas, polar bears, and pandas are prime causes of Q-Taro’s many deaths in the game. Regarding the new mobs, he encounters hostile ones a lot. He’ll often forget to sleep (despite everyone else yelling at him to go to bed) when he’s down in the caves, and he’ll emerge from his hole at night only to see 5 different phantoms flying in the air trying to murder him. 

Alice Yabusame (Aka The Sailor):

❏ Alice is a rather frustrated player. Nothing ever goes his way when he plays, and he’s constantly cursing on voice calls. His sister, Reko, sometimes kicks him from the calls to keep Kanna and Gin as innocent as possible (although they don’t really care, and Gin sometimes picks up on Alice’s bad behavior himself when he gets mad). 

❏ Similar to Joe, he’s an explorer. He loves exploring the ocean (especially the water temples), but his cheerful vibe suddenly switches into a pure, satanic rage once he starts drowning. He gets too cocky sometimes, though. Once while he was looking for an End City in the End, he lost control of his Elytra and flew into the void, cursing and screaming in fury the entire way down. The same exact thing happens whenever he falls into lava and loses all of his belongings; if anyone were to make fun of him when he died, he would craft a sword and kill them without any hesitation out of pure spite. 

❏ He would try building a house next to Reko to get a bit closer with her, but once, he went out mining, and when he came back, his house was on fire. He then discovered that Shin was the one who set his house ablaze, so whenever Alice sees the troller, he grabs a stone sword and attempts to kill him (since he’s poor), but Shin is almost always in creative mode, which angers him more and only causes him to scream swear words into his microphone. He begs Sara, the one who created the server, to ban him, but Sara’s excuse is always, “he’s just having fun, which is the whole point of this server.”

❏ Since his house is always being destroyed, he usually makes small bases inside of caves or mountains to avoid Shin, but somehow, the troller always finds them and burns them down or blows them up, so he’s constantly on the run from him. He also does stuff alone since he doesn’t have any friends on the server (besides Nao who sometimes gives him food and supplies). 

❏ Due to having to relocate nearly every time he joins the server, he rarely keeps chests on him. He has nowhere to store the treasures that he often finds in shipwrecks, sea temples, etc so whenever he runs out of inventory space he gives his materials away as gifts to his other friends, especially to Reko. Despite always giving out free resources and ores, nearly everyone in the server finds him odd, especially when he’s quiet for one moment only to be throwing a tantrum the next on the voice calls.  

Shin Tsukimi (Aka The Troller): 

❏ It’s no big surprise that Shin is just as chaotic as he is in-game, if not more, than IRL. Despite being over 20, he often lurks around on the Minecraft forums, always learning new hacks and ways to troll the others in the shared server. For some reason, everyone has server operator on the server, so Shin’s able to switch between Creative and Survival as he pleases, although he rarely goes into Survival.

❏ His only goal in the server is to create mayhem and confusion rather than to actually be productive; he’s always quiet on voice calls (except when he giggles loudly while he’s blowing something up or creeping behind someone), listening in on the other conversations so he knows who he can terrorize next. 

❏ Since he’s in Creative, the minute he joined the game he automatically spawned himself netherite armor and tools while everyone else was running off to go trample the forests for wood. He builds a secret hut, making sure no one else could find it (in the side of a mountain, underwater in the sand using a conduit, really anywhere he can hide). He has chests full of TnT, flint and steel, potions, mob spawn eggs, and redstone in case someone forces him into survival. 

❏ He’s played a prank on nearly everyone in the server; his favorite target is Alice, as he rages the hardest and tries to murder him despite him always being in Creative. He constantly will throw down an invisibility potion and follow Alice into a cave whenever he goes on a mining trip, waiting until he’s right in front of a conveniently placed lava pool before pushing him in. He’s always heard giggling in the background during voice calls while Alice screams out strings of curses and vows of revenge, which are never followed through. 

❏ Sometimes if he’s really in the mood for some chaos he’ll switch into Survival and taunt Alice on the voice call, daring him to come and catch him and murder him now that he has a health bar. This immediately catches Alice’s attention and he literally drops everything he’s about to do just to partake in the wild goose chase that Shin ends up leading him on. He gets close a couple times, but Shin always stands still for a moment before teleporting away to someone like Kanna (“Thanks Kanna!” “SHIN GET YOUR ASS OVER HERE YOU COWARD-”) 

Gin Ibushi (Aka The Kid Leader): 

❏ As the youngest in the group, Gin obviously is the Minecraft pro compared to everyone else. It’s one of the many games that he constantly plays when he’s not playing with his toys, and it’s a good escape outlet for him. He’s been through nearly every Minecraft update, always mastering the new skills such as flying, potion-making, and new PvP tactics as soon as the game updates. 

❏ He was the original one that suggested that the rest of the group start a Minecraft server with him, although Sara was the one that managed to start it up. As soon as he spawns in, Gin’s already off doing who-knows-what to try and speedrun the game, but nearly every 10 minutes he has to stop what he’s doing and help the others out of their confusion. He doesn’t care too much about having a fancy house or not, so he usually just builds a sufficient starter house (which is actually like, 3 stories) in between his adventures.

❏ Somehow, after the first day or so, he already has the strongest armor and tools in the game: netherite. While Shin cheated and used Creative, Gin managed to find the rarest ore in the game (probably after pulling an all-nighter or two admittedly). He’s very insistent on fighting the Ender Dragon early, but everyone else is either off doing their own thing or still on iron armor and afraid of even going into the Nether despite Gin insisting he’ll ‘carry’ everyone. 

❏ Gin is always the one to lead excursions off into the other dimensions. He’s very eager to finish the game (despite having done so dozens of times), and he’s always pressuring/convincing the others to go out and explore. He knows everything about the varying structures and bosses, from the Pillgar Towers to the Ocean Monuments and the Wither to the Ravager(s). 

❏ Surprisingly, he does die quite a lot. Despite having played for years on end, he still makes careless mistakes even when he isn’t being trolled by Shin; he’s fallen into lava pits countless times and died to the occasional skeleton even with his netherite armor (sometimes he forgets to put it on as he leaves it on an armor stand at home so it doesn’t break). One time he was looking for a Woodland Mansion using an Elytra, following a map while flying over several different biomes at once without a second glance as he was focused on the chords displayed on the screen. When he finally realized he was about to fly right into a mountain, it was too late as he smacked right into the wall and fell to his death even after trying to put down a water bucket to save himself. 

Kai Satou (Aka The Quiet Fighter):

❏ Kai hates to admit it, but he’s actually quite a fan of video games, especially Minecraft, considering he played it a bit as a kid. The moment he spawns into the map, he gets wood for a crafting table and supplies for himself, Sara, and sometimes Q-Taro. He’s usually pretty quiet on voice calls since he doesn’t really want to bother anyone, and he logs on sometimes on his own to build a fancy wood house or to get some extra supplies. Once, he logged on and saw that his house was on fire with Shin standing by it, saying taunting things in chat just to piss the loner off. Kai didn’t really care, though, since his houses don’t take him very long to build. Shin is annoyed by this, but still, he just goes after Alice instead. 

❏ Similar to Joe, he’s always out hunting for food or seeds. Every time he plays, Kai starts a farm by a river, pond, or even near the ocean. Whenever someone walks on their/his own crops, Kai silently rages inside his head, but he never tells them anything.

❏ He usually goes on mining trips by himself, and he isn’t afraid of mobs or hostile surroundings. Unless Gin is off helping the others, Kai is always the first one to build a Nether portal or travel to the End.

❏ Whenever he plays, he always gets a cat or two from either the jungle or a nearby village. He likes to give them fish, and he takes his precious pets on his less-dangerous adventures. Once when he logged onto Minecraft, he saw that one of his cats was gone. He looked around until he found Shin beating his helpless bundle of joy with a stick until it died. Kai didn’t say anything to him, but he was furious on the inside. He later blew up Shin’s house with TNT after finding his hidden shack, and being an expert with laptops/computers himself, he also got Shin temporarily banned from the server, making Alice exceptionally happy. 

❏ Sometimes, Kai invites Q-Taro to go on mining or exploring trips with him, and the athlete gladly accepts. Kai tells him about all the new updates that occurred over the years, even though Q-Taro never really pays attention. He’s pretty quiet whenever he talks on voice calls, so Q-Taro is always shouting for him to speak up.

Kazumi Mishima (Aka The 2nd Boomer): 

❏ Mishima had never even heard of Minecraft until Nao brought it up to him one day in class. When Sara made the server for all of them to play in, he jumps into the server wearing nothing but a Steve skin, but Nao quickly helps him change it by making him a skin of his own image. Surprisingly, he got used to the controls of the game rather quickly.

❏ He wouldn’t really know what to do, and he would find Nao doing everything for him, including building his houses and getting him food and ore. He would make a lot of silly mistakes, such as mining gold with a stone pickaxe, eating raw meat, digging straight down, and ignoring fall damage. Mishima isn’t really bothered whenever a hostile mob suddenly appears either and tries to attack him. 

❏ If Mishima ever stumbled upon a village, he would clap his hands in joy. He loves villagers and trading, and would even kidnap some of them via boats to experiment and test what they could do at home. Some of the others are a bit creeped out by his fascination, but Nao and Gin find it to be quite entertaining. 

❏ Despite being a polite, smart teacher in person, his online persona is the exact opposite. He’s always barging into people’s homes and examining their shelters, sometimes stealing a bit of their stuff while quietly giggling on the voice call. However, he once accidentally killed one of Kanna’s parrots, and he was extremely apologetic about his mistake. He even went out in the jungle just to get her a new one despite her constantly reassuring him that it was fine.

❏ Mishima’s favorite mob would definitely be a cow. He doesn’t really understand why, but he loves their patterns and design. He refuses to kill or eat them, but he’s always on board with the idea of capturing them and bringing them home. If he ever encounters a mineshaft, he’s scurrying around the place, trying to find a name tag for his precious cows.  

Kanna Kizuchi (Aka The One Who’s Scared of Everything):

❏ Even though she’s rather young, Kanna has strayed away from video games for a long time. Sure, she’s heard of Minecraft, but does that mean she’s ever played it? No. But she had watched several Minecraft playthroughs on YouTube before, so she was somewhat prepared when she spawned in with everyone else. She knew the basic controls and learned pretty quickly the other mechanics and new features the game had to offer. 

❏ She thought Minecraft was a rather tranquil game, and she loved all of the details and peaceful mobs that spawned around her. She loves the flowers and trees the most, constantly picking flowers and exploring the grassland excitedly on the first day. She seems to be pretty good on her own until night comes along. After spending all day flower-picking, she doesn’t realize until she starts getting attacked by the hostile mobs that its night. She’s heard frantically screaming and panicking on the voice call before her death notice appears on screen to everyone else. 

❏ After that night, Kanna is terrified of the night sequence(s). As soon as the sun starts to set over the horizon, she’s scurrying inside her house or spam-clicking her bed before she’s even allowed to sleep. Despite people like Gin always reassuring her that she has armor and a sword to defend herself with, she still refuses to go out at night no matter what. She’s also always pressuring everyone to go to bed to make sure she doesn’t have to sit through the night in her house and so that phantoms don’t spawn either (even though she’s never encountered them, she’s determined to keep it that way). She’ll be quiet one moment on the call before suddenly scolding everyone to get inside and go to bed so the server can time skip to day. 

❏ Kanna doesn’t exactly realize that not every mob is either peaceful or hostile. While she isn’t like Q-Taro who’s always punching the neutral mobs, she’s still unaware of certain hostile variants such as the Killer Bunny. One day while Kanna was out picking flowers for the outside of her house, Shin got the grand idea to spawn a bunch of rabbits inside of her house along with a Killer Bunny or two that he hid in her storage room. When she came home, she was rather confused and could be heard quietly murmuring on the call, “Where did all these bunnies come from..?”. Her usual soft and melancholic whispers quickly turned to shrill shrieks as she entered her storage room to put away the flowers and the Killer Bunnies, which looked like regular rabbits to her, began attacking her. Shin obviously began bursting out laughing when his invisibility potion ran out and he was standing in the corner of Kanna’s house watching her run away from the mob(s). Although, after she began sobbing quietly on the call everyone went silent, including Shin for once (although some of her sobs were overexaggerated just so she could guilt Shin for traumatizing her) as he silently noted to never troll her again. 

❏ It’s not very surprising that Kanna has at least a dozen pets. She has an entire pack of dogs (which she only managed to tame after stealing Gin’s collection of bones), several different colored cats, three parrots, two foxes, and even a panda bear she managed to kidnap using Mishima’s classic boat method. She has several rooms in her house that she built purely to keep her pets in, especially the untamable mobs like her foxes. She’s actually rather creative with her rooms, always adding in small details such as scratching posts for her cats and mini trees for her parrots. Her stable for her horses is also humongous and often mistaken for a second house when people run-up to her plot. She also somehow is an expert at coming up with names on the spot and she has a nametag on her 24/7 (admittedly, Shin always secretly restocks her name tag collection that she has in her chest since they’re rather rare and Kanna is too scared to go into dungeons herself).  

Nao Egokoro (Aka The Helper): 

❏ Nao has obviously played Minecraft before, and she was ecstatic when Sara announced that she would be making a server for all of them. She loves making Minecraft skins, and she made skins identical to how they really look for everyone on the server.

❏ She would totally use those Minecraft house building tutorials on YouTube and would help make houses for her friends if they were struggling. Nao would also get supplies for people (especially Alice since she pities him) out of the kindness of her heart. She really enjoys picking flowers with Kanna and getting cute pets/animals for everyone as well.

❏ However, Nao refuses to harm any animal/mob she finds. She sometimes goes on mining trips with her friends as well. Since she doesn’t want to lay a blood-thirsty finger on any of the animals, she begs Alice to go mining with her for materials since she knows he’s a good fighter, and he could fend off mobs for her as she mines. Alice obviously agrees since Nao has helped him out with Shin’s antics, and he would constantly jump up behind her to stab skeletons, zombies, creepers, and even endermen. They both left the cave even happier than before, and Alice didn’t curse once when he was mining with her.

❏ Nao invited Reko to live with her, and her friend happily agreed (Reko would do anything to move away from Alice). They would go on cute trips together, and Nao would build a stable for the horses that they found.

❏ She’s pretty nervous to play the game by herself, and she always waits until someone else is on the server with her (even Shin) before she does something a bit daring. Nao is always frightful when she has to travel to the Nether, and she has to beg people to go with her out of fear.

Sara Chidouin (Aka The “Mom” Friend):

❏ Although Gin was the one who suggested that they should make a server, Sara was the one who created it. She’s been playing Minecraft for a long time (especially with Joe) and was happy when Gin suggested the idea. 

❏ Sara is technically considered the “mom” friend on the server, yet she won’t give a crap about her friends’ issues. If they fell into a hole or were being attacked by mobs, she wouldn’t help them. She would let them die with zero regrets regarding her actions, as she doesn’t think it’s that big of a deal since players can respawn. 

❏ She likes to use Minecraft building tutorials, similar to Nao. She’s started to memorize building patterns, and she’s even gotten more comfortable with building in general. However, she doesn’t admit that she uses them, and she likes to flex her “skills” to the others (Shin always calls her out on this with a snicker or two, but he’s immediately silenced when Sara threatens to ban him from the server for terrorizing everyone else). 

❏ Even though this has already been said, she still doesn’t give a crap about the others’ issues. Alice would always come to her and beg for Shin to be banned from the server, yet Sara would shrug it off and say that he’s having fun. Deep down, she would enjoy watching Shin torment and tease Alice, even if she was annoyed when he bothered her.

❏ Sara spends most of her time on the server with Joe, Keiji, and Nao, trying her best to avoid Kai, Alice, and Shin. She isn’t scared of doing things alone, such as mining or going to the Nether, but there is one thing that she is terrified of: zombies. She hates how much damage they can do, especially when they’re crowded together in a large horde. She has to beg her friends to kill them for her since she always fails. Joe always kills them for her and taunts her, saying that she owes him back. Keiji would accidentally hit Sara, so the two of them would just run away from the zombie. Nao, of course, wouldn’t want to hurt the zombie, so the two of them would also try their best to escape the annoying mob.

Reko Yabusame (Aka The Raider):

❏ Reko is somewhere in the middle of everyone; she used to play every now and then with Alice when they were kids, but the game has updated so much that she forgot half of the mechanics at first. As soon as she spawns in, the nostalgia hits her like a truck and everything comes rushing back to her. So while the others are stumbling around, voicing their confusion into their mics, Reko’s off along with Gin to go punch some trees down. 

❏ Similar to her brother Alice, she gets easily pissed off at the game. While her rage isn’t on the same levels as him, it’s still quite strong. She’ll mutter curse words under her breath, barely audible so the kids in the call don’t hear her. The farthest she’s gone is thrown her controller across her room after falling into a lava pool in the Nether while bridging, and surprisingly it didn’t break. When it comes to her brother and his rage, she’ll often mutter, “Brb.” before leaving her room and storming into Alice’s, and often a loud slap is heard from Alice’s side with no further explanation to the others. 

❏ When it comes to her brother, Reko is one of the few people who can tolerate him. She helps him at the start of the game despite her reluctant groans into the mic but ditches him as soon as Shin starts harassing him. It’s not uncommon for her to have to rescue Alice when he’s running back from mining and is being chased by a horde of mobs. She’ll leave her house with only an iron chest plate on and still somehow manage to murder all of the hostiles while Alice runs inside with half a heart. Besides Gin, she’s probably Alice’s mentor the majority of the time, always teaching him new features that he forgot like potion-making and archery. Whenever he dies (which is very often, unfortunately) she can be heard mumbling during Alice’s screams, “I told you…” 

❏ Reko’s favorite part of the game is the Pillager raids. For some reason, she finds it an interesting challenge for her due to the different levels that raids can spawn in. She has several different strategies, some of which she made up at the last second. Some notable moments include dropping a block of TNT on a Ravager from her tower, spawning in a large group of Iron Golems at the start of the raid, and somehow shooting a Vex with a bow. She somehow hasn’t managed to die even once during the raids, and even Gin can’t believe her skill and sheer luck when it comes to fighting. She often tags along with him when he goes on adventures, especially when it involves the Pillagers (she finds them interesting, what can I say?). It’s no big surprise when she conquers a Wooden Mansion with ease one day while on a trip with Gin. 

❏ After moving in with Nao, she got to teach her pink-haired friend a lot more about the game (especially since she was away from Alice now). She often encourages Nao to step out of her comfort zone and explore, as there’s a lot more to the game than just her house. She accompanies Nao on every mining trip (except for the few times that she chooses to go with Alice when Reko isn’t on) and even takes her out to the other dimensions. She’s always watching after Nao, always standing close to her with a netherite sword in hand to murder any mob that dare come near her. Reko even ends up teaching Nao how to defeat a raid (although she was the one carrying the entire time) and it’s not too surprising when Nao joins the excursion to the End to defeat the Ender Dragon.